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Soap opera

July 2024

  • Janet Andrewartha at the national television awards in London in 2002

    Janet Andrewartha was a magical actor to watch – and a beautiful, classy friend

    Elly Varrenti
    Everyone had a crush on Janet – she was a remarkable stage presence, though it was her roles in Prisoner and Neighbours that made her famous

June 2024

  • Neighbours Finale Event<br>MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - JUNE 29: Ryan Moloney attends the "Neighbours" finale event on June 29, 2022 in Melbourne, Australia. Australian soap opera "Neighbours" will air its final show after 37 years on August 1, 2022. (Photo by Sam Tabone/Getty Images)

    Neighbours star Ryan Moloney announces he is leaving soap after nearly 30 years of playing ‘Toadie’

    Actor who has played Jarrod ‘Toadfish’ Rebecchi since 1995 says he has started training to direct episodes of long-running soap opera
  • King Charles chats with a D-day veteran at the 80th anniversary commemorations in Normandy

    Brief letters
    Does Charles deserve a chestful of medals?

    Brief letters: Monarchs and medals | Sunak’s advisers | Liz Truss Toby jug | Brimful with Farage | Top job
  • Helen Worth as Gail Rodwell, formerly known as Gail Platt.

    Coronation Street star Helen Worth to leave after 50 years

    Actor, who has played Gail Platt since 1974, will step down at end of year after ‘major storyline’

May 2024

  • Johnny Wactor

    Johnny Wactor: General Hospital actor shot dead in suspected robbery

    37-year-old actor killed in Los Angeles early on Saturday after confronting three men allegedly attempting to steal from a vehicle

April 2024

  • Julie Goodyear as Bet Gilroy and Sarah Lancashire as Raquel Woltenholme in Coronation Street holding red heart and small card that says 'A friend is forever'.

    ‘It’s the closest thing my family has to religion’: Guardian readers on Coronation Street

    Is it unwatchably dark? Too stuffed with uninspiring characters? Or a humorous joy that conjures up cosy nostalgia? Your thoughts on the world’s longest-running TV soap
  • June Brown and Leonard Fenton, who played Dot Cotton and Dr Legg in EastEnders’ heyday.

    Brief letters
    Ridiculous plots are killing off our soaps

    Brief letters: Plots gone to pot | The Guardian fold | Good innings | Libel claims | April fool challenge | Best time to shower
  • The cast of Coronation Street in 1989.

    ‘People are getting murdered in knicker factories!’: how Coronation Street lost the plot

    Fans are outraged, ex-cast members think it’s drivel – even its current actors are fed up. How did the world’s longest running soap go from shaping the national conversation to thinking it’s a ropey crime drama?

March 2024

  • Derek Thompson as Charlie Fairhead in Casualty.

    The Guardian view on the end of long-running TV characters: in death there is life

  • Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Zara Carmichael, left, and Janice Connolly as Rosie Colton in Doctors.

    BBC move to axe Doctors is ‘disastrous’, says screenwriter

February 2024

  • A man in a boiler suit with a computer tablet in his right hand, apparently a technician, has his hand at the back of a woman with pink hair in a bob style and wearing a pink uniform with a logo saying "De Santo". She appears to be a robot being programmed by him, by pressing keys/buttons on her back.

    Alan Ayckbourn was ahead of the curve in predictions of AI-created TV soaps

  • ITV ARCHIVE<br>Editorial use only. Exclusive - Premium Rates Apply. Call your Account Manager for pricing. Mandatory Credit: Photo by ITV/REX/Shutterstock (801732mh) 'Coronation Street' TV - 1995 - Fred Elliott [John Savident] ITV ARCHIVE

    John Savident obituary

  • John Savident as Fred Elliott in Coronation Street in 2006, alongside fellow actor Susie Blake as Bev Unwin.

    Coronation Street actor John Savident dies aged 86

  • Eastenders’ Platinum Jubilee episode.

    TV soaps could be made by AI within three years, director warns

  • This much I know
    Himesh Patel: ‘I was still working as a paperboy when I was in EastEnders’

  • EastEnders actor, 27, laughs off criticism that he is too old to play school bully

December 2023

  • Michelle Keegan lying on her side wearing a jumper

    ‘People judge me all the time’: Corrie’s Michelle Keegan on swapping soaps for hard-hitting dramas

  • Ian Pepperell

    The Archers actor Ian Pepperell dies aged 53

  • Steve Halliwell f

    Steve Halliwell, actor who played Emmerdale’s Zak Dingle, dies aged 77

  • Sian Cain

    ‘Possibly the loudest noise I have ever made’: how I became Neighbours’ worst extra

    Sian Cain
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