soap opera , , auch: soap , informal **

She began her career with a role in a soap opera.

I was always too large to live in your little soap opera.

By any chance, has anyone ever seen a soap opera?

Now I don't even get to watch a soap opera.

Sometimes he got a bit part in a soap opera.

A single story on a soap opera can be told for weeks, months, or sometimes even years.

"So you can help him get his soap opera on the air."

It was her first and only role on a soap opera.

That situation could be a running soap opera for much of the season.

I think there's a little bit of a soap opera here.