Editing Soap opera (section)

==Canada==
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Relatively few daily soap operas have been produced on English Canadian television, with most Canadian stations and networks that carry soap operas airing those imported from the United States or the United Kingdom. Notable daily soaps that did exist included ''[[Family Passions]]'', ''[[Scarlett Hill]]'', ''[[Strange Paradise]]'', ''[[Metropia (TV series)|Metropia]]'', ''[[Train 48]]'' and the international co-production ''Foreign Affairs''. ''Family Passions'' was an hour-long program, as is typical of American daytime soaps; all of the others ran half-hour episodes. Unlike American or British soap operas, the most influential of which have run for years or even decades, even daily Canadian soap operas have run for a few seasons at most. Short-run soaps, including ''[[49th & Main]]'' and ''[[North/South]]'', have also aired. Many of these were produced in an effort to comply with [[Canadian content]] regulations, which require a percentage of programming on Canadian television to originate from Canada.

Notable prime time soap operas in Canada have included ''[[Riverdale (1997 TV series)|Riverdale]]'', ''[[House of Pride]]'', ''[[Paradise Falls]]'', ''[[Lance et Compte]]'' ("He Shoots, He Scores"), ''[[Heartland (Canadian TV series)|Heartland]]'', ''[[Loving Friends and Perfect Couples]]'', and ''[[The City (1999 TV series)|The City]]''. The [[Degrassi (franchise)|''Degrassi'' franchise]] of youth dramas also incorporated some elements of the soap opera format.

On French-language television in [[Quebec]], the ''[[téléroman]]'' has been a popular mainstay of network programming since the 1950s. Notable téléromans have included ''[[Rue des Pignons]]'', ''[[Les Belles Histoires des pays d'en haut]]'', ''[[Diva (Canadian TV series)|Diva]]'', ''[[La famille Plouffe]]'', and the soap opera parody ''[[Le Cœur a ses raisons]]''.