Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.
Over the past 50 years, Port Charles, New York has seen its fair share of drama, including family feuds, organized crime, men who are cryogenically frozen, and women who are murdered.
The fictional city is the setting of the longest running soap opera in history, "General Hospital." The show has outlasted other daytime dramas like "All My Children," "Guiding Light" and "As The World Turns."
Here to tell us how is Barbara Irwin, co-director of Project Daytime, a research project examining daytime television. She's also Chair of the Communication Studies department at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY