[AJB39]

You're entitled to your opinion but you might be interested to know there are other programmes available to view.  Which you may also be of the opinion of "had its day".

There certainly are, but none to the degree that soap operas have.  Most shows or indeed genres once they have descended into self-parody get put out of their misery.  Occasionally a show, or indeed a genre will descend into being a self-parody of a self-parody.  They then hurriedly end those.  Only soap operas have descended below self-parody of a self-parody of a self parody, and yet, maybe because of their overall cheapness to produce, soap operas are still being made and still descending further into the morass of levels of self-parody that would have ended other genres.

By way of contrast, reality shows, another genre that I have nothing but disdain for, haven't yet done more than flirted with self-parody yet, so there is still plenty of life left in that genre, no matter my own personal disdain for it.  Soap operas, on the other hand, arer so far into the levels of self-parody morass that frankly to me it's amazing they haven't yet been put out of their misery.

What are you on about.