A good drama works in any language. For this list, we'll be ranking the most popular, influential or long-running soap opera programs from around the world. We'll be focusing specifically on soap operas outside the continental United States for this list, however, so shows like "Dark Shadows" or "The Bold and The Beautiful" will not be considered.

It's time to get dramatic. For this list, we'll be ranking the most popular, long-running or influential American soap operas. Our list includes The Bold and the Beautiful, One Life to Live, The Young and The Restless, All My Children, Days of Our Lives, and more! Join MsMojo as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Daytime Soap operas.

Let the face slapping and hair pulling begin! For this list, we'll be looking at the most popular, influential, or long-lasting soaps that aired during an evening time slot. Our list includes The O.C., One Tree Hill, Desperate Housewives, Beverly Hills 90210, and more! Join MsMojo as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Primetime Soap operas.

When the soaps get extra soapy. Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the plot twists in daytime drama that left our jaws on the floor.

Everyone has to start somewhere and these are all successful actors who started in soaps. We’ll be looking at ten A-list actors who once had significant roles in soap operas. For the purposes of this list, we’ll only be including American soap operas, so actors like Chris Hemsworth, who starred in the Australian soap Home and Away, will not be included. MsMojo ranks the most successful actors who started in soaps. Are there any soap stars we missed? Let us know in the comments!

Top 10 Space Opera TV Series This may be the small screen, but it’s telling some big stories. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down the Top 10 Space Opera TV Series. For this cosmic list, we’re looking at the very best live action tv shows that set drama and action against the always epic backdrop of outer space.

A lot of stars have checked into "General Hospital." Welcome to MsMojo, and today we’re counting down our picks for the most famous guest stars and early career performers on the long-running ABC daytime soap.

The best rock musicals to ever play Broadway still have us on a high.

OK, time to pack it in. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’re counting down our picks for the Top 10 TV Shows That Ran For Too Long. For this list, we’ll be looking at television series that outstayed their welcomes and would have been more fondly remembered had they tightened up the story. We’re not saying that these shows are necessarily bad, as some of them had respectable and popular runs, even until the end - just that they may have ran a little long and lessened in quality as a result. We’re only including scripted shows though, so game, talk, and reality shows, as well as soap operas are excluded.

A list of the top 10 strangest, most unexpected and most WTF moments from the much-loved ITV soap, "Emmerdale"

A list of the top 10 most shocking character deaths in "Coronation Street" history

Starring in a hit television show has never been so uncertain. Welcome to WatchMojo.com, and today we’ll be counting down our picks for the Top 10 Shows that Kill off Main Cast Members. For this list, we’ll be taking a look at the shows that keep a revolving door of characters while keeping audiences always uncertain as to who will die next. Because soap operas can have thousands of episodes and with dozens of deaths in them, we’ll be excluding them from this list. Oh, and in case you haven’t guessed it, there will be major spoilers.

Sometimes the road to the A-List includes a detour first into afternoon TV dramas. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Actors Who Got Their Start on Daytime Soaps.

Emotions, sensations and melodrama all on the small screen. Join http://www.WatchMojo.com as we count down our picks for the Top 10 Most Ridiculous Soap Opera Plot-lines.