“Days and Lives” stops… but not really

It's a revolution in the world of soap operas.

Fans of the

series will have to take the plunge and start streaming.

If, for 57 years, the series has been the heyday of American television, it will continue its (long) career online.

Finished NBC and hello Peacock, from September 12, announces Vulture.

A strategic choice on the part of the channel: if this soap has the lowest audience of its kind, the viewers are unfailingly loyal.

The production therefore hopes that they will follow the transition to streaming and at the same time, become fans of their platform.

The survivors

The first soap opera, an expression that takes its name from the advertisements for detergents (soap meaning soap) which interspersed the programs during the day,

, dates back to 1949 (long before the famous phrase on the "time of the human brain available by Patrick Le Lay, then CEO of TF1, in 2004).

The genre grew to unparalleled success beginning in the mid-1960s before slowly declining in the 1990s.

While there have been as many as 19 soap operas produced, four have survived.

With the passage of

in streaming, there remains the unbeatable

(since 1963),

(since 1973) and

(since 1987) on the small screen.

These last two are respectively broadcast in the morning on TF1 and France 2 (and fortunately not at the same time for fans of the Abbott and Newman families).

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