Two of the most successful program formats in the history of television have in recent years eroded to the point of near-oblivion – daytime dramas and prime-time soap operas. Those of us who have always appreciated both genres – which thrived in the Eighties and Nineties, then began to drop away with the approach of the new Millennium and the rise of the Internet – have never accepted the idea that people simply were not interested in ongoing, emotion-powered sagas about families, friends and communities.
The Women of The CW: The Top 25 Shows of 2016, No. 12
