The Bold and the Beautiful (1987)

Directed by

Michael Stich, Deveney Kelly, David Shaughnessy

Genre

soap opera

Country

United States

Length

39 seasons, 8757 episodes

Rated

TV-14

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 147 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This soap opera follows the Forrester family who run a high-end fashion business in Los Angeles. The show focuses on their personal relationships, romantic entanglements, and family conflicts.

dramaticemotionalfast-pacedglamorousromanticmelodramaticintricatefamily-centered

What happens

The Bold and the Beautiful (often referred to as B&B) is an American television soap opera created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell for CBS. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera The Young and the Restless; several characters from each of the two shows have crossed over to the other since the early 1990s. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers upon the Forrester family and their haute couture business. The program features an ensemble cast, headed by its longest-serving actors John McCook as Eric Forrester and Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan. Since its premiere, the show has become the most-watched soap in the world, with an audience of an estimated 26.2 million viewers. As of 2010, it continued to hold on to the second-place position in weekly Nielsen Ratings for daytime dramas. The Bold and the Beautiful has also won 77 Daytime Emmy Awards, including three Daytime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Drama Series, in 2009, 2010 and 2011. On September 7, 2011, the series switched to high-definition television, making it the second-to-last American soap to make the switch, at the time. B&B was the last American soap opera to make the transition due to the cancellation of ABC's One Life to Live before it returned along with All My Children on April 29, 2013. The series celebrated its thirtieth anniversary on March 23, 2017. The serial aired its 9,000th episode on April 18, 2023. Currently, the serial has been renewed by CBS to run through the 2027–2028 television season. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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