Why Is What Happens In Soaps Considered News?

[ToraToraTora]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-59857385
My dislike of soaps is well known and I rarely join into threads about them but isn't it a sad indictment of society that these shows amuse and addict so many supposedly "intelligent" people? So much so that the comings and goings are considered news? Are the lives of so many so empty that they must indulge in this depressing drivel?

[Mamyalynne]

They have to fill up the Entertainments section with something and they know what is popular, just how reporting works.

[LadyCG]

Apparently his impending departure has "plunged the soap into crisis" or so I read somewhere.

Sometimes the tabloids can out-drama the soaps.

More real news please...

[Bobbisox1]

Do tell what entertains you 3Ts ?
Mine and others who discuss soaps, well our lives are anything but empty and Corrie at least must be doing something right to be still going 61 years on ;0)

[douglas9401]

Addiction's a strange thing. Drink, drugs, tobacco, shopping, constantly looking for a fight on Answerbank...

[tiggerblue10]

It's in the entertainment section and soaps are entertainment whether we like them or not.

[jno]

he's a direct descendant of William the Conqueror, so this could have dynastic implications.

[-SharonA-]

I know!! Dont'cha think it's a shame about that old guy Emma & Faye knocked down, he's dead!!!

[tiggerblue10]

I freely admit to liking soaps but I also love other stuff on Netflix and Prime. I don't get out much, lol

[ToraToraTora]

jno, Edward III

[Ken4155]

He's only quitting because he's heard there may be a vacancy in the James Bond department :-J

[tiggerblue10]

Edward III is a direct decendant of William the Conquerer.

[sp1814]

TTT

It’s Entertainment & Arts news.

On the front page of the BBC website are also stories about the Duchess of Cambridge turning 40, a story about Novak Djokovic, a story covering the COVID isolation period being cut and a report about the unrest in Kazakhstan.

They’re all news - just some may not be of interest to some and others will.

[jno]

All of them at least back to Alfred the Great, TTT

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_tree_of_British_monarchs

[david small]

I don’t watch that drivel. But, horses for courses. My SIL watches pimple poppers, my wife watches Meet the Midwife. I’d rather watch the inside of my eyelids.

[ToraToraTora]

of course Tigs I was just saying what they determined in WDYTYA.

[tiggerblue10]

Meet the Midwife? Is that a Call the Midwife spin-off?

[pat2604]

/Are the lives of so many so empty that they must indulge in this depressing drivel?/

One could ask why so many supposedly intelligent people spend a lot of time on AB!

[Bobbisox1]

Meet the Midwife?
I confess to being a ‘drivel ‘ watcher, there’s some on here who NEVER watch them yet strangely enough can tell what’s happening ;0))))

[pat2604]

A lot of very intelligent people watch soaps, especially Corrie,and a lot of very famous actors have appeared in it because they are fans. It's a British institution.

[tiggerblue10]

I wasn't having a go, TTT. Just thought I'd reassure what jno said was correct, that's all :o)