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daytime drama

noun

Definitions

  1. A television or radio serial broadcast during the daytime, especially one featuring…

    A television or radio serial broadcast during the daytime, especially one featuring melodramatic stories or characters.

    • Daytime dramas were as successful as their prime-time counterparts, despite concerns that an economically unattractive listening audience (housewives) would deter sponsors from purchasing advertising spot time in this scheduling block.
    • David Canary, Awards […] 87. Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Actor in a Daytime Drama (1985) 88. Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Daytime Drama (1986)

  2. The genre comprising such serials.

    • In the anything but static popular culture of the 1970s, daytime drama found itself at odds with both the place of women in contemporary, real-world situations and the contextualized, melodramatic world of females in soap operas.

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No curated loop yet for daytime drama. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA