They want to see us.” Soaps are essential to their fans, like one male viewer who approached Lucci a few years back at a book signing. “This show has been in the works for a little while, but to air it now is perfect because people-at least the people who talk to me and follow on Instagram-they all want this. “It’s funny how things work,” Lucci said last week about the special, in which she appears alongside Alec Baldwin, Carol Burnett, Andy Cohen, Jon Hamm, Vivica A. Which is why Susan Lucci, the Emmy-winning All My Children veteran and doyenne of daytime drama, is glad to give viewers a one-time soap fix Tuesday evening with The Story of Soaps, ABC’s two-hour homage to the genre.
The timing for this soap shortage could not be worse the world, grappling with a very real pandemic and very restrictive stay-at-home orders, craves the kind of reliable, escapist comfort that soap operas provide. But even television’s most melodramatic genre was not prepared for coronavirus-which halted production and caused some of daytime’s few remaining soaps, including The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful, to run out of episodes late last month. Soap operas are no strangers to disaster: the wedding day tornado that collapsed a rectory and temporarily rendered one guest blind on One Life to Live the earthquake that triggered a tsunami in Passions the catastrophic casino collapse of The Young and the Restless General Hospital’s hotel fire the other tornadoes on All My Children.
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