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Barbara Esensten
James Harmon Brown and Barbara Esensten are American television writers, primarily working on soap operas. The duo worked together for over 20 years, starting on the prime-time serial ''Dynasty''. Together, they created the soap opera '' The City'', a spinoff of '' Loving''. On November 14, 2012, Esensten died at the age of 75. Controversy Brown and Esensten tended to drift towards supernatural and science fiction elements in the shows they were hired for. When the two wrote for '' Guiding Light'' during the later part of the 1990s, the show's primary heroine, Reva Shayne, was cloned, and when the duo would later write for ''Port Charles'', vampires were introduced, along with other supernatural creatures. Because of the 2007-2008 Writers Guild of America strike, Brown and Esensten went financial core within the guild, allowing them to write for ''All My Children'' because of financial strains brought on by the strike. Megan McTavish, the writer they replaced at ''All My Children ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Operas
A soap opera, or ''soap'' for short, is a typically long-running radio or television serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term "soap opera" originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by "horse opera", a derogatory term for low-budget Westerns. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running radio soap opera. The longest-running current television soap is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV in 1960, with the record for the longest running soap opera in history being held by ''Guiding Light'', which began on radio in 1937, transitioned to television in 1952, and ended in 2009. A crucial element that defines the soap opera is the open-ended serial nature of the narrative, with stories spanning several episodes. One of the defining features that makes a television program a soap opera, according to Albert M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
