Television soap operas

found: Moving image genre-form guide online, December 3, 2007(Soap opera: Fictional television series which focus on the events in the lives of a cast of recurring characters, presented in a serial fashion. Plots often center on romances between the characters, but can include adventure, intrigue, or the supernatural. The endings of each program are normally unresolved or only partially resolved, encouraging the viewer to anticipate what may happen in the next episode)

found: Yee, M. M. Moving image materials, 1988:p. 89 (Soap operas: Use for fictional serials broadcast on television and usually dealing with domestic themes of a highly emotional nature)