How do Soap Operas work

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So i just read that General Hospital has over 60 seasons and the longest airing show ever is Guiding Light at 72 seasons.

So like are each season consistent with the last? Do they reference something that happened 10seasons ago? Do they use the same actor/actress for all seasons? Is soap operas just a dramatized version of real life?

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That ‘longest airing’ is surely just a US statistic. Wikipedia tells me that Guiding Light ran for 57 years from 1952 to 2009, but Coronation Street in the U.K. started in 1960 and is still going strong, so is looking at 64 years right now.

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