Soap operas offer what ... Randall has to be one of the most memorable surprise sons in the genre. One doesn’t need a full case of amnesia for memory melodrama, and this can apply to bad guys ...

For decades, the public has been captivated by British soap operas that use dramatic portrayals of everyday events.

Tunie, whom fans will recognize from her years on “Law & Order: SVU,” has returned to her soap opera roots in CBS’s “Beyond the Gates,” the first daytime serial centered on a Black family in the ...

The soap opera is a genre older than the invention ... "Gates" may have enough melodrama in its fictional community of Fairmont Crest to go the distance. More: How 'Beyond the Gates,' network ...