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What is the difference between TV Soap & TV Drama?

The difference is - from my own observations without googleing for the answer or checking a reputable journal that deals with this kind of topic- my answer is: A TV Soap never ends, it goes on and on like Neighbours and the Bold and the Beautiful on most days of the year for years.  I'm on and off watcher of the two soaps because the plot never ends and you can easily pick up the plot and catch up on the scriptwriters new endeavour. The time of the TV Soap is not aired at prime time, instead they are aired during the day up until 7:30pm. Also the TV Soap is 1/2 hour format with daily time slot. On the other hand TV dramas like Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, Packed to the Rafters and Offspring are one hour format with prime time air time. And usually they run for one season with less than twenty episodes to go until their next return in another season or in another year. So they give us the viewer a bit of a break. Not because they are bad TV dramas but because as

I'm back to blog

So what I've been doing since my last blog in April 2011? Reading novels, watching TV, working on that work promotion that I still did not get, studying, facebooking, tweeting and keeping indoors from the cold and rain. But the dream is still alive, I like the art of writing and the expresion of it all. My next piece to publish on this blog is to write a feature or opinion piece about three Australian TV dramas from three different Australian TV stations and comparing and contrasting them. I actually asked on twitter if someone can send me the link to their article if they write about this three Australian drama, which I won't mention the TV series' names here, however, nobody replied. They might have written this article, or not. If someone did, it could be from their own prespective. Creativefishi Swimming with Words is about swimming freely in an ocean of writerly possibilities.