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Brendan O'Carroll's extraordinary family sitcom Mrs Brown's Boys has eclipsed the big soap operas as the showcase television event of the Christmas Day schedules.
Somebody comes up with an ambitious plan for canals, and someone else tries to top that by building a really big soap factory, and in that feverish atmosphere someone else decides to top them all with the idea that what they should really be doing is fighting slavery.
Those numbers remain modest compared to those of Big Soap, but a walk down the cleaning aisle in almost any supermarket reveals not just Method's reach (Ginger Yuzu dish soap, Pink Grapefruit hand wash) but its impact on competitors (Clorox Green Works).
Every day it's a big soap opera because there's always a big story with someone kicking off about something.
Fox later added that she'd "love a big soap wedding".
Even THE Bachelor himself thinks this whole season (and debatably the whole show) is one, big soap opera?
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Having proliferated from two episodes a week to four, then to omnibus editions and now live productions, the big soaps are screened 300 times a year.
While there is a still a substantial, if ageing, audience with little or no interest in platforms such as Netflix, the big soaps will carry on.
The success of potty-mouthed Irish matriarch Agnes Brown (played by the series writer and creator Mr O'Carroll) and her brood highlights the decline of the big soaps in delivering blockbuster "specials" for Christmas Day.
The other big soaps, unlike Emmerdale, house both indoor and outdoor sets together on self-contained lots - Coronation Street in central Manchester and EastEnders at Elstree in Hertfordshire.
Mr. Peña Nieto is married to one of the country's biggest soap opera stars.
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