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The Bold and the Beautiful is a soap opera created by Lee Phillip Bell for CBS Daytime . It premiered on March 23, 1987 and has aired 6092 storylines as of June 17, 2011.

Set in Los Angeles, California , the show centers upon the Forrester family and their fashion house business Forrester Creations . The program features an ensemble cast , headed by its longest-serving actors John McCook as Katherine Kelly Lang as sister show to the Bells' other soap opera , as several characters from each of the two shows have to the other since the early 1990s, and its title derived from Y&R.

Since its premiere on March 23 , 1987 , the show has become the most-watched soap in the world, with an audience of an estimated 26.2 million viewers. As of 2010, it continues to hold on to the second-placed position in weekly Nielsen Ratings for daytime dramas. B&B has also won 31 Daytime Emmy Awards , including one for in 2009 and again in 2010, as well in 2011.

Premise

Set in Los Angeles, California , The Bold and the Beautiful centers around the Forrester family and their fashion house business Forrester Creations. Northwestern University in Chicago, Illinois . The young lovers hurried to get married after Stephanie became pregnant. They moved to Los Angeles, California, where they established Forrester Creations , designing and producing upscale men and women's fashion, based on Eric's designing talent and Stephanie's financial funding. While winning international recognition, fame, and wealth with their work, Felicia . It was discovered years later, when the children were all adults, that Stephanie's (Stephanie Forrester) elder son, Ridge, was actually the biological child of Massimo Marone .

Start and development of the series

The pilot episodes of the show focused on the preparations of the wedding of the Forrester's eldest son, Ridge, to Caroline Spencer , the daughter of the media mogul Bill Spencer . At this time Ridge has already become a fashion designer and vice president of Forrester Creations. Many media outlets throughout the world, from the big television networks to the most honorable newspapers, to the last gossip newspapers publicize their wedding, declaring it as "the wedding of the year in the fashion world." Thousands of women see the pictures of Ridge in the newspapers and speculate on the identity of the woman who has won the heart of the man who has, until recently, been a playboy, and who has refused to settle for one woman.

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