People in soaps must never keep their doors closed.
When a gal slaps a guy (which is very often), it must sound like the bursting of a Diwali fire cracker.
A normal lecture for students on TV lasts for 2 minutes max., while in reality we pound our watches on the desk to check if they are working.
People on TV don’t have time for ‘stupid’ things like watching television.
Nice people are always pretty, smart, good looking and everything else bad people (and we) are not.
For a typical soap, at least 20 litres of glycerine must be shed.
All the materials must be collected well in advance and in bulk. E.g. for a woman oriented serial, several tons of bindis, must be ordered. Or for a mythological serial mukuts, gadaas, wigs, bows, and arrows, necklaces etc. must be arranged for.
No self respecting producer or director must even think of winding up the serial anywhere before the 500th episode.