SoapNet general manager Deborah Blackwell is departing her post effective immediately but will continue as a consultant until her contract expires at the start of next year. Departure comes following ...

SoapNet’s first original scripted series, “General Hospital: Night Shift,” averaged more total viewers during its premiere hour on Thursday night than any other single telecast in the network’s ...

Daytime soaps are in peril and it just may be that prime-time is riding to the rescue. While soap opera audiences continue to dwindle, SoapNet, the Disney-owned cable channel devoted to ...

Disney/ABC TV Group is shutting down cable channel SoapNet to make room for a new kids channel. By James Hibberd Writer-at-Large Disney/ABC TV Group is shutting down decade-old cable channel SoapNet ...

It used to be that harried soap-opera watchers too busy to catch their shows during the day had only one friend: the videocassette recorder. Now, watchers have a multitude of choices, from TiVo, the ...

For countless soap opera fans, the dawn of the new millennium 25 years ago brought a new way to watch their favorite shows. On January 20, 2000, Disney launched SOAPnet, a basic cable channel devoted ...

The now-defunct cable channel saw its distribution and series offerings grow dramatically under her watch. By THR Staff Deborah Blackwell, who ran the Disney cable channel SoapNet from 2001-07, died ...

This article is from the archive of our partner . But now that the number of daytime soaps have dwindled to just four and Disney Junior's ratings have been strong with the preschool set, Disney has ...

NEW YORK — The SOAPnet channel is all washed up and will be replaced by Disney Junior, a new 24-hour channel aimed at preschoolers. The Disney-ABC Television Group announced Wednesday that the channel ...

SOAPnet will add docudrama to its line-up this summer with the debut of "The Fashionista Diaries," a look at two assistants from a trio of companies as they gear up to produce a fashion show and after ...