I throw my 2 pence worth into this article by Industry Careers Adviser; John Byrne in The Stage News
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| (C) Tanya Vital Emmerdale |
To see how far ‘soap opera’ has developed
from its origins in 1930's American radio, where daily domestic dramas sold the
detergents and other cleaning products to a very narrowly (and patronisingly)
defined audience of ‘ordinary housewives’, one needs only to look at the four
million to eight million viewers across a very wide demographic that an average
episode of any of the top prime time UK soaps pulls in today...
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