What turns drama into a soap opera?

What turns drama into a soap opera?

What turns a drama tv show into a soap opera?

Can a soap opera be turned into drama?

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A soap opera is a drama. Soap operas are also called daytime dramas. A soap can be seen once a week in the evening too. They considered Dallas, Dynasty, Knots Landing night-time soaps.

A soap opera is an ongoing story that never seems to have an end.

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bad actors and predictable plots.
Drama is usually the ingredient of a Soap Opera.
tears. and laughs. not all cartoons and reality shows, have tears and laughs. that's what makes it a drama!
They show a new episode every day in the afternoons - the typical audience consists of housewives and the advertisers know this. That's why they are "soap operas" - check out the ads that pay for the programming.

Many soap operas are dramatic - but it's hard to put out good product on a daily basis so that's why you'll see the bad acting and cliched plot lines so often.
A drama is either a one time show or is complete episodes. A soap opera is continuous. While a drama may have continuing story lines, the main story for that episode has a beginning, middle, and end. The soap story line may run for months.
I think what turns a drama into a soap opera is twofold; first, the plausibility of the situation, and secondly, how the characters play it. They both tend to be "just over the top," and with a drama, the situation has to be real to evoke that necessary tension in the viewer.
Oh, no! She use to be married to my grandfather, my father, (I even slept with her once) and now she's marrying my brother. But what she don't knowand what I just found out, is that my brother is also HER brother. Dum,dum,dum......
In order for it to be a soap opera it has to come on daily. As in monday-friday (example Y%26amp;R). In order for it to be a drama it has to come on once a week (example Grey's Anatomy). That's the format used to determine whether it's a soap opera or drama.
Soap Operas are drams, usually better acted then night time shows. The difference is that soaps are generational, following several families over an extended period of time

Soaps can have outlandish plots, but no more so then nighttime dramas, over all the actors are better on soaps managing to do their jobs some 250 days a year and still appear on Broadway and in other media
the stuff that`s in it changes the way and yeah
I am an older person and I do know that soap operas got their name because alot of them were sponsored by soap and soap powder products. This is where the name came from. Soap operas also have continuing story lines, this is why some night sitcoms with on going story lines are called night soap operas.