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Appears with spectacles fogged up in television drama serial (4,5)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

soap opera

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'serial' is the definition.
(soap opera is a kind of serial)

'appears with spectacles fogged up in television drama' is the wordplay.
I cannot really see how this works, but
'drama' could be 'opera' (I've seen this before) and 'opera' is present in the answer.
The remaining letters 'soap' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This may be the basis of the clue (or it may be nonsense).

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(Other definitions for soap opera that I've seen before include "Eg, Coronation Street" , "TV serial such as Coronation Street" , "TV drama series" , "that might involve The Woolpack?" , "addictive programme?" .)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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