Soap opera

:Soap Opera redirects here. For the album by The Kinks, see Soap Opera.

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The Kinks - Soap Opera

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A soap opera is an ongoing, episodic work of fiction, usually broadcast on television or radio and most recently on mobile phones. This genre of TV and radio entertainment has been in existence long enough for audiences to recognize them simply by the term soap. What differentiates a soap from other television drama programs is their open-ended nature. Plots run concurrently, and lead into further developments: there is rarely a need to "wrap things up", although soaps that run in series for only part of the year tend to bring things to a dramatic cliffhanger.

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Fiction - Television - Radio - Mobile phones - Cliffhanger

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