Talk:Screening of soap operas in Australia

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message: Funny how "Sons and Daughters", "Blue Heelers", "Neighbours" and "Home and Away" are not mentioned in this page. The person who wrote this clearly thinks people outside the US do not have their own soaps. Changing the title to "Screening of US daytime soap operas on Australia" Cls14 (talk) 11:52, 7 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: "Sons and Daughters", "Blue Heelers", "Neighbours" and "Home and Away" are not considered daytime soap operas. All were originally produced for the evening - not the daytime. Blue Heelers is not even a soap opera but a police procedural. Daytime soap opera is an American term and concept. A day time soap opera has its own stylistic conventions, visual and musical grammar, and "Sons and Daughters", "Neighbours" and "Home and Away" simply do not follow this grammar. (Though S&D is close, in some ways.) Since soap opera is an American invention, and "daytime (television) soap opera" is a well-known American concept related to the concept that they invented, we really should concede to that. (Americans on WP are expected to be sensitive to spelling, culture, etc from other nations, right?) If Dynasty were to be shown during the daytime somewhere, that does not make it a "daytime soap opera". (And if Kojak were to be shown in a daytime slot somewhere, that does not make it a daytime soap opera either.) Format (talk) 03:00, 19 February 2011 (UTC)
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message: Neither show is a 'soap opera' in the sense of the others included here (most obviously because both are produced with once-a-week episodes, not multiple episodes per week). I'm planning to remove both unless someone can come up with a good argument for their inclusion here. Gusworld (talk) 09:18, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Can you provide a citation? I don't see how the concept of recurring is relevant to prime time shows, especially the Dallas reboot which has a very limited run of episodes. Nor do I think that element in itself obviates the other differences, such as frequency of production. Gusworld (talk) 10:47, 4 October 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Something else that occurs to me (some time later): it's also not true in any case that only soap operas have recurring cast members -- that also happens with sitcoms (one example that springs to mind being Dan Butler on Frasier). All in all, I still don't see the inclusion of Dallas as justified. Gusworld (talk) 05:29, 18 January 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dallas reboot and Melrose Place don't belong here 

message: Right now, this article has current Australian cast member lists for two shows: The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. This seems to me to be unsuitable content for several reasons, in rough order of importance:
* It's entirely unsourced, and hence violates the core no original research and verifiability guidelines.
* It isn't encyclopaedic -- it's excessively detailed and constantly changing.
* There are already detailed articles for both shows which list former and current cast members -- how is duplicating that information in partial and unsourced form useful here?
I recognise that there are contributors going to the effort of updating these lists quite often, but I can't help thinking that effort would be better used elsewhere. Given its topic, this article should certainly be pointing out the transmission gaps between original and Australian broadcast for these shows, but all the extra information on cast members violates guidelines and isn't sourced. Hence I think it should be removed. Thoughts? Gusworld (talk) 03:07, 5 July 2014 (UTC)
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