There’s a reason for the buzz around Lauralee Bell and Martha Byrne’s quest to launch a primetime soap, and it’s not only because they’re two soap stars looking to make a splash behind the scenes.

Aaron Spelling certainly injected Shakespearean ambition into his glittering prime-time soap operas -- Melrose Place was a total tragicomedy -- but here’s a theatrical mashup we never could have ...

Soap operas’ detractors usually cite the same critiques of the genre, calling out the over-the-top drama, the frequent recasting of characters, the workmanlike production design and cinematography, ...