Comments for MIT CMS: The American Soap Opera

Comment on About by samford

samford — Tue, 19 May 2009 19:48:25 +0000

Thanks for stopping by, Lana. Everyone should click on her name to check out the link to her site as well. Glad that you found our class’ site as a helpful destination for you. I know we all had a great time spending a few months looking at the history, current state, and future of soaps.

Comment on About by Lana Nieves

Lana Nieves — Mon, 18 May 2009 20:07:42 +0000

I love what you’re doing here. I’ve long been a believer that soap opera is an important genre that gets thrown by the wayside. It is a distinctly American form of storytelling – at times great storytelling. It is also a piece of our social fabric.

Comment on Gendered Telvision? Says who?! by samford

samford — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 00:57:39 +0000

I agree that the gossips are so important and part of what make soaps so enjoyable; after all, we’re all gossips, and the re-telling is more important on soaps (or should be) than the event itself many times.

Comment on Gendered Telvision? Says who?! by sami

sami — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 18:03:12 +0000

however, after seen lots of arguements I have come to conclude that women like watching soaps because they are very relevant to their life and we can’t deny the fact that women lives imaginative world so they like gossips, which really exist on soaps only.

Comment on Pobol y Cwm: Operâu sebon by Nick S.

Nick S. — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 14:56:00 +0000

Hey Kevin, thanks for leaving a comment.

I’d say it’s state-sponsored because without a public-service commitment it wouldn’t be produced or broadcast. S4C (the channel the soap is broadcast on) is funded entirely by the UK government (plus advertising revenue), and Pobol y Cwm is provided to the channel for free by the BBC. The BBC itself gets no benefit from making the program, either through a split of the advertising revenue or a reimbursement of production costs.

So it’s state-sponsored in the sense the program is produced by the BBC out of a legal obligation to the state, and is broadcast on a channel that’s funded by grants from the government (with the intention of preserving the welsh language). Without the government mandating the production of Welsh language television it wouldn’t exist.

(there’s also a bit of a cultural divide – when I use ‘public-service broadcasting’ in the US it means something rather different to in Europe (I’m a Brit myself, living in Boston) – ’state sponsored’ clarifies the difference between a service such as S4C and the USA’s PBS).

Comment on Pobol y Cwm: Operâu sebon by Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 14:15:20 +0000

I wonder why you call Pobol y Cwm “state-sponsored” television. The programme is produced by the BBC and paid for, just like all other BBC productions, from viewers’ television licence fee payments. Or do you perhaps classify all European public-service broadcasting as state sponsored?

Comment on Well, in MY country…Mexican telenovelas by Sam Ford

Sam Ford — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 17:05:31 +0000

Thanks for passing along, Tosin!

Comment on Well, in MY country…Mexican telenovelas by Tosin Emmanuel

Tosin Emmanuel — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:52:41 +0000

Hi Nenye,

You can get the full story of Second Chance in English on Philomena Ojiktutu’s blog.

Enjoy the story.

You can also get the full story of ‘Yo Soy Betty, La Fea’ (Ugly Betty), the Colombian version on my blog.

Cheers

Comment on Well, in MY country…Mexican telenovelas by samford

samford — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 11:44:42 +0000

Have you looked at the Wikipedia page?

Comment on Well, in MY country…Mexican telenovelas by nenye

nenye — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:16:41 +0000

Pls can i get the summary of the Mexican Soap Opera titled Second Chance. Can i ve the site address.