Bad news, soap-opera fans: the early data suggest it might.    From Wordnik.com.  [Guilt Free TV] Reference

“He has become a daytime soap-opera star,” Mr. McCurry said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Live and Direct, Tony Snow Is the New Face���and Hair���of the White House] Reference

I LIKE my soap-opera life, much as it causes me troubles at times.    From Wordnik.com.  [jaxraven Diary Entry] Reference

The auto-sales slide is hurting even soap-opera star Susan Lucci.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Global Ambition of Attacks in India] Reference

Finally, we have a soap-opera story that the media can feel good about.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript - Reliable Sources: Election 2000 Coverage Casts Media in a New and Often Unappealing Light - November 12, 2000] Reference

We need more superhero-like moments and less drawn-out, soap-opera nonsense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Heroes Redeemed Itself?] Reference

"We need more superhero-like moments and less drawn-out, soap-opera nonsense.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Has Heroes Redeemed Itself?] Reference

The tradition continues: today Reilly, 55, is America's hottest soap-opera writer.    From Wordnik.com.  [SOAPS: THE LIVES OF REILLY] Reference

Yet even Brill acknowledges his channel delivers "incredible soap-opera material.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Your Show Of Shows] Reference

After complaints by soap-opera fans, the ABC station ended its daily coverage at noon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Providence Is Talking ...] Reference

COLLINS: He received praise for his role as the manic soap-opera producer in "Soap Dish.".    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 16, 2001] Reference

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But now her soap-opera life has turned into a heartbreaking tragedy.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 28, 2006] Reference

Claire Bennet - There was some interesting soap-opera drama regarding Claire's parentage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Spoilery Thoughts on Heroes] Reference

Controversies around his current and former wives, a soap-opera saga played out in public.    From Wordnik.com.  [Giuliani: Can hero of 9/11 win over his own party?] Reference

And with Bill Clinton, you know, it continues this sort of soap-opera - ification of politics.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2008] Reference

Not really getting it himself, interpreting it the same way one would an afternoon soap-opera.    From Wordnik.com.  [Battlestar Galactica: Watched The Finale? Still Got Questions? We’ve Got Answers!] Reference

In Rio, the epidemic took on a whole new urgency when artists and soap-opera starlets fell sick.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bug Is Back] Reference

"It's quiet here, and life is good," says Rosalina de Sa, a former television soap-opera actress.    From Wordnik.com.  [RETIREMENT HOMES: A FINAL BOW FOR AGING STARS] Reference

O to be a fly on the wall of the Brown Bunker, and watch the grim soap-opera unfold in real time.    From Wordnik.com.  [This week's Cabinet row] Reference

What place did her daughter's — her estranged daughter's — cancer have in her soap-opera universe?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Walking To Gibraltar, Chapter 3: In Which Everyone Was Wrong] Reference

TUCHMAN: It may read like a cheesy soap-opera episode, but the story of formerly dead John Darwin is real.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 10, 2007] Reference

I had told him I wanted to be a soap-opera actor, and he offered to introduce me to Kudrow the next weekend.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Night With Andrew] Reference

The Obama-Netanyahu relationship, which already had a kind of soap-opera quality to it, is under new strain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Israeli Raid Complicates U.S.'s Mideast Strategy] Reference

Eric Makori Mr. Orido, a local soap-opera star, used Mr. Obama's memoir, "Dreams from My Father," as inspiration.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kenyans Sing Obama's Praises, Then Bow] Reference

The most common criticism of the show is that such high jinks are a little too reminiscent of soap-opera plotting.    From Wordnik.com.  [Six Inches Under] Reference

Only accredited market-sellers and actors from a local television soap-opera will be allowed ot meet her directly.    From Wordnik.com.  [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference

And the Hockey Mom, with her soap-opera family and her down-home-Up-North "You betcha" s and her heart on her sleeve.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rick Horowitz: Palin & Gingrich: Enough Limelight for Two?] Reference

That was the problem confronting soap-opera star Susan Walters, who plays Diane Jenkins on "The Young and the Restless.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Botox Boom] Reference

Juggling three wives and 15 children, he headed a legendary family whose soap-opera quality rivaled the one on TV's "Dallas.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Hunt Family Rushes In] Reference

The play is about two spinsters who naively devise a plot to kidnap a soap-opera star in order to save him from a fictional danger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Diana Raznovich.] Reference

You were once a popular star in the 1980's, with a soap-opera gig, pop hits like "Jessie's Girl" and the forgotten film Hard to Hold.    From Wordnik.com.  [Michael McKean, Comedy Sideman, Gets a Special] Reference

The cancellation of the show sticks yet another fork in the dying soap-opera genre, which is attracting fewer and fewer daytime viewers.    From Wordnik.com.  [CBS Ends 'As the World Turns,' Possibly to Replace It With Something Even Cheaper] Reference

If this is true, it is soap-opera material and could well lead to her withdrawing her name in order to "spend more time with my family.".    From Wordnik.com.  [McCain Campaign: Palin's 17-Year-Old Daughter Is Pregnant] Reference

Once again, the MSM frames the events according to their need for soap-opera plots, and we follow along like sheep (that means you Eric).    From Wordnik.com.  [Black Hillary Backers In South Carolina Tried To Block Obama Invite] Reference