Though soaps have a limited audience, the names of many of the ones that have been broadcast for a long time, such as Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless, are well known. A few have been successful in the evenings, but most soaps are broadcast during the afternoon. In the US, soap operas are also called daytime dramas. Neighbours and Home and Away, both from Australia, are also popular in Britain. Other popular soaps include Emmerdale on ITV. The most popular of the television soaps are Coronation Street on ITV (first broadcast in 1960) and its main rival, EastEnders on the BBC.
The longest-running soap opera in the world is The Archers, ‘an everyday story of country folk’, which began on BBC radio in the 1950s. In Britain soap operas are usually broadcast in the early evening. Some storylines (= themes in the story) deal with sensitive social issues, such as alcoholism and racism. The most successful soaps reflect the worries and hopes of real people, though the central characters frequently have extreme personal problems in order to make the programmes more exciting. Most soap operas describe the daily lives of a small group of people who live in the same street or town or who work in the same place such as a hospital. Most soap operas have their own website and some people buy books about their favourite soap and visit the places where the stories are supposed to happen. They are called soap operas because in the US they were first paid for by companies who made soap. Episodes broadcast during the week are often repeated in a single omnibus programme at the weekend.
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