Two years later he became editor and chief script writer for the station's long-running rural soap opera, The Riordans.

Why this long-running soap opera has reached such intensity now is open to speculation.

During her tenure, the long-running soap opera received heavy media criticism and ratings slumped to just over 6 million viewers.

In 1991, she joined the cast of the long-running soap opera The Young and the Restless.

Peru's bank nationalization plan is beginning to look less like a revolutionary act and more like a long-running soap opera.

Her stories, and the memoir that followed, turned her daughters into characters in a long-running soap opera.

It's hard to turn something that's already a long-running soap opera into something more melodramatic or lurid.

The following year, she had a recurring role in the long-running soap opera The Doctors.

It gave RTÉ its first experience of how to create a long-running soap opera.

In 1951 he created the long-running soap opera Search for Tomorrow (1951-1986).