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Articles tagged "soap operas"NewsFans mourn as venerable soap ‘Guiding Light’ goes darkby Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)][18.Sep.09] :. WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — This Friday, “Guiding Light,” the longest-running scripted program in broadcasting history, will go dark after 72 years when CBS pulls the plug on the daytime...  TV Review90210: Series Premiereby Marisa LaScala[4.Sep.08] :. This year's 90210 reboot comes with a Frankenstein-esque patchwork of a pedigree.  NewsA rich vein of TV storytellingby Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)][27.Aug.08] :. As a girl growing up in Brooklyn, Rina Mimoun was a big fan of the blockbuster television hit “Dallas,” with its opulent settings and its incredibly outsize main character, J.R. Ewing. So...  NewsThe Ewings have come and gone, but some still can’t get enough ‘Dallas’by Jake Batsell [The Dallas Morning News (MCT)][11.Jul.08] :. DALLAS - He hangs his hat almost 5,000 miles from Southfork, but Colin Hunter has rounded up a huge herd of fans still infatuated with “Dallas.” Never mind that the iconic television...  NewsAfghanistan seeks to clean up soaps on TVby Kim Barker [Chicago Tribune (MCT)][22.May.08] :. KABUL, Afghanistan - Almost every night, Mojtaban Ahmadi rebels against his government by merely turning on his TV. He watches a soap opera from India about the long-suffering Tulsi, a poor girl who... NewsWill the writers strike sound the death knell for soaps?by Chuck Barney [Contra Costa Times (MCT)][29.Nov.07] :. When Pam Powers began listening to radio soap operas with her grandmother in the late 1940s, she considered them to be “an island of emotional refuge.” And over the ensuing decades, the... |
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