Soap Operas
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Axing Days of Our Lives may not decolonise our TVs
A bittersweet moment for many as we celebrate the creation of space for locally produced content, while also mourning the loss of a nostalgic links.
Final act: Axed Generations stars go to court
Fourteen of the 16 Generations actors fired from the local soapie last year have made a final court bid to take the new series off air.
Saudi cleric hits out at ‘immoral’ soap opera
Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority has slammed Turkish soap operas, now hugely popular in the Middle East, as being ”evil” and ”un-Islamic”.