Set in Los Angeles, it centers around the Forrester family and their fashion house business, Forrester Creations. The Bold and the Beautiful debuted on March 23, 1987. 2008 (l–r): Kristen ( Tracy Melchior), Thorne ( Winsor Harmon), Felicia ( Lesli Kay), Eric ( John McCook), Stephanie ( Susan Flannery) and Ridge ( Ronn Moss) Currently, the series has been renewed by CBS to run through the 2023–2024 television season. The serial aired its 8,000th episode on January 4, 2019.

It is the youngest airing daytime soap opera in the United States, celebrating its thirtieth anniversary on March 23, 2017. B&B was the last American soap opera to make the transition due to the cancellation of ABC's One Life to Live before it returned along with All My Children on April 29, 2013. On September 7, 2011, the series switched to high-definition television, making it the second-to-last American soap to make the switch, at the time.

The Bold and the Beautiful has also won 77 Daytime Emmy Awards, including three for Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series, in 2009, 2010, as well as 2011. As of 2010, it continued to hold on to the second-place position in weekly Nielsen Ratings for daytime dramas.

Since its premiere, the show has become the most-watched soap in the world, with an audience of an estimated 26.2 million viewers. The program features an ensemble cast, headed by its longest-serving actors John McCook as Eric Forrester and Katherine Kelly Lang as Brooke Logan. Set in Los Angeles, California, the show centers upon the Forrester family and their haute couture business. It premiered on March 23, 1987, as a sister show to the Bells' other soap opera The Young and the Restless several characters from each of the two shows have crossed over to the other since the early 1990s. The Bold and the Beautiful (often referred to as B&B) is an American television soap opera created by William J.

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