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The Smithsonian Institution is adding relics from soap operas and game shows to its national entertainment collection to tell the story of daytime television.

Love, loss, breakups, makeups, murder, mayhem, backstabbing, social climbing. Forget about a lifetime, that's just an afternoon on "The Young and the Restless."...

On Monday, the Nickelodeon cable channel premieres its new nighttime soap, "Hollywood Heights," a remake of an overly dramatic Mexican telenovela about a songwriter who falls in love with a rock star. Soap veteran James Franco, star of the film "127 Hours," has a featured role.

While daytime classics “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” are still due to get the axe on ABC in the not-too-distant future, the weekday dramas are far from over.

We've been hearing rumors about All My Children being canceled for some time now. However, ABC basically assured us they had no intentions of canceling the show. But now, not only have they canceled All My Children, they canceled One Life to Live, too. Double soap shocker!

James Mitchell, who for nearly three decades played gruff patriarch Palmer Cortland on the ABC soap opera "All My Children," has died, his longtime partner said Sunday night.

Friday marked the final flicker of CBS' "Guiding Light," as that venerable daytime drama logged its farewell hour after 72 years on the air.

"Guiding Light" will go dark in September after 72 years and 16,000 episodes, CBS announced Wednesday.