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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Monzo" data-source="post: 351456" data-attributes="member: 19949">A plus point of B&B is certainly the fact that many international viewers have been able to follow it from the start. Daytime TV did not exist in a number of countries until the 1980s, and with the advent of cable television, US daytime soap operas eventually arrived in Western European countries and in the 1990s after the end of the Cold War in the former Eastern Bloc. The first US daytime soap on German television was Guiding Light on cable TV with moderate success, but Santa Barbara (from episode 1) really took off. It was THE show to watch in the afternoon and the cable channel therefore expanded its program with other soaps (GL, Days, B&B) and the competing cable channels also focused on US daytime soaps. In the end, only the US soaps that got viewers involved from the start got through: SB and B&B. B&B was lucky that Santa Barbara didn't survive long in the US, otherwise SB, which was also significantly more popular than B&B in France and Russia, would probably still be the international flagship of US daytime soap operas.In Germany, interest in B&B waned more and more after 2000, also because German daytime soaps started who were more bourgeois. Today there are still eight German daytime soaps and none of the American ones on German television.</blockquote>

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