Soap opera has a very vivid name, called soap opera, which means "radio or TV series with family issues as the theme" Mainly housewives, sponsoring daily necessities merchants, and taking ordinary family living environment as the stage ... Some people think that the name SoapOpera is because such a series is very casual and lengthy. In order to save time, people can watch soap operas while taking a bubble bath. But in fact, the earliest soap operas refer to long radio dramas broadcast on American radio stations in the 1930s. Because the sponsors at that time were mainly manufacturers of daily detergents, and the advertisers in the middle period were soap advertisements, the name of "soap opera" was born.
In the 1940s, the rapid rise of commercial TV had a great impact on audio broadcasting, and soap operas that could make huge profits were also absorbed by TV producers. 1947, Dumont TV Network launched the first TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember". However, American TV historians usually regard "The First Happy Years" broadcast by CBS on 1950 as the originator of TV soap operas. 195 1 year, Roy Vinson's two soap operas "Looking for Tomorrow" and "Love to Live" came out, from which TV soap operas found their own unique forms and embarked on a glorious journey.
Nowadays, the name of soap opera has spread to every corner of the world and is regarded as synonymous with almost all TV dramas by laymen.