Editing Soap opera (section)

==India==
{{main|Indian television drama}}
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Unlike the season-based production in most countries, most of Indian television fiction tends to be regular-broadcasting soap opera. These started in the 1980s, as more and more people began to purchase television sets. At the beginning of the 21st century, soap operas became an integral part of Indian culture when [[Balaji Telefilms]]'s [[Kyunki Saas Bhi Kabhi Bahu Thi]] premiered on Disney's 21st Century Fox owned [[StarPlus]], becoming the highest rated show in Asia on weekdays prime time 10:30pm. Indian soap operas mostly concentrate on the conflict between love and arranged marriages occurring in India, and many includes family melodrama. Indian soap operas have multilingual production.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20140502-family-affair-indian-soap-operas|title=Culture, Family affair Indian soap operas|website=bbc.com}}</ref>

Many soap operas produced in India are also broadcast overseas in the UK, Canada, the United States, and some parts of Europe, South Africa, Australia and South East Asia. They are often mass-produced under large production banners, with companies like [[Balaji Telefilms]] running different language versions of the same serial on different television networks or channels.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4CAgVZ-lJFIC|title=Soft-soaping India: The World of Indian Televised Soap Operas|isbn=9781858563213|last1=Moti Gokulsing|first1=K.|year=2004|publisher=Trentham Books }}</ref>