daytime soap opera; daytime drama series
Refers to a serialized TV drama broadcast in the early afternoon time slot. The term is a contraction of 昼間の帯ドラマ (daytime strip drama).
My mother looks forward to the daytime soap opera every day.
That daytime drama is a long-running show that has been on for ten years.
An abbreviation of 昼の帯ドラマ, a daytime drama broadcast regularly in the same time slot.