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If you asked me back when Passions, GL, and ATWT were canceled, shortly followed by the end of AMC and OLTL, whether soaps would still be on the air in 2024, I would have told you no. I didn't see any of the soaps surviving another decade. To hear that there is a tradional format soap being put forth in 2024 is amazing news for us soap fans albeit very shocking and kind of scary.

I know it's early, but where would this be filmed? As much as I would love a NYC soap, I think financially west coast or Atlanta would make the most sense. Back when GL and ATWT were canceled, I mentioned scaling down to a half hour and relocating both soaps to Atlanta which was beginning to boom in film and TV production at the time and giving companies great incentives would save both soaps a lot of money. May have been a challenge to convince casts to move out there though.

Did CBS aquire that 10am timeslot again for the Let's Make a Deal reboot or is LMAD just in GL's timeslot according to market. I ask because GL was on at 10am in NYC and that's the timeslot LMAD took over. Would make it sense to be paired back to back with TPIR.

So is Falcon Crest being pulled or just added to Prime? I see it as leaving soon on my end, but there no similar designation for Dallas. I would like to rewatch FC from the beginning, but not if I will lose access to it soon.

I agree and like @Khanhan think 94 is still decent. @Gray Bunny Beth's last week also scored a 5.7, although that was only good enough to get GL a 6th place finish instead of Top 5 a few weeks earlier. So I guess, Beth's claim that GL was scoring a 5.7 when she left wasn't wrong.

Pretty sure Beth's last airdate is at the end of the month. From what I gathered on YouTube, this is the week Bridget crashes Dylan and Julie's wedding.

I think this is the last time GL gets a top 5 finish in the 90s until the clone storyline in 1998.

I'm not sure when Jean left. But by the time she arrived LOL was already a sinking ship, it had been for most of the decade. It makes sense. I'm sure the network was interested in replacing it by then either way. GH and ABC were heating up and LOL was showing its age and definitely felt outdated.

Seems like poor foresight to place Love of Life at 4pm instead of 3:30. The 3:30pm slot is doing well at maintaining GL's audience - perhaps viewers were sticking around til 4pm and letting that hour block conclude before switching off or onto something else. Wonder if the network just didn't have much faith in LOL and keeping a rerun that could pull in numbers was just a wiser move than jeopardizing the slot in the case LOL still manages to underperform.

I wonder if this "more grounded" feel also had to do with the massive ratings erosion that occurred in season 7 and the decline that would continue til the end.

Thank you. Didn't realize the turnover was so quick. When did these longer tape to air periods become more of the norm, especially Days which seems to have one of the longest.

Am I correct to assume that GL was recording episodes one week before they aired back in 1980? Was this common practice or am I misunderstanding?

I believe she underwent heart surgery and missed out on the earlier episodes and is replaced next season. I remember when I, similar to you, decided to watch all the eoisode from the very beginning not too long ago and noticed she was absent and thought that this would be the season Geddes gets replaced by Donna Reed but it's not.

Matt Bomer briefly talks about his run on GL after receiving The Hollywood Reporter's Trailblazers Award. Complete Article: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/matt-bomer-interview-ryan-murphy-bradley-cooper-career-scad-tvfest-1235819552/ In lighter moments, Bomer reflected on humbling milestones he experienced as an aspiring actor, from his first role as a background artist at age 12 in the 1992 Chuck Norris movie Sidekicks (“If that’s not an origin story, then what is?” he wondered, laughing) to a three-year run as a regular on both All My Children and Guiding Light in New York in the early 2000s. His appraisal of those gigs was tinged with equal parts appreciation (“It felt like going to grad school”) and unbridled amusement. “My Guiding Light character was a trust-fund baby who bet his fraternity brothers he’d be the first to deflower the town virgin … then he lost his trust fund and turned to the only life that someone can when they lose their trust fund: sex work. Then he went crazy and killed five people,” Bomer said, laughing along with the crowd inside the newly minted SCADShow theater. “Some days I’d have 30 pages of dialogue, ya’ll!”

On paper, Texas sounded perfect for the era. Why wouldn't you capitalize on the Dallas hysteria and bring that same energy into daytime. However, I'm not sure Texas was ever really all that much like Dallas (I didn't watch so I have no idea). What is true is that NBC fumbled the bag. I wonder what promotion was done to launch Texas and whether the soft launch through the AW expansion did more harm than good. It clearly left AW on life support for two decades.

I was extremely underwhelmed by this first episode of season 16 from start to finish. Very curious to hear your thoughts.

Interesting to see Days have such fluctuations in the ratings. Most of the other soaps seem to range within a few points for the most part...almost like keeping homeostasis but gradually trending down over long periods of time. However, Days is just all over the place.

Lots of movement except for the bookends. Days and AMC have made quite the return.

YR is pretty much untouchable. It was interesting to see GH back in the 7s for a few weeks not long ago, but none of the soaps are strong enough to match YR right now.

It could also be that Edge wasn't really performing too well at this ooint while the rest of the ABC lineup was, so as to not highlight this fact, they just didn't include it at all.

That is part of the reason I loved season 8. JR realizes that Sue Ellen is the only woman that can handle his [!@#$%^&*]. He also remembers why he was so in love with her to begin with. It could have changed the direction of the show- JR could have still been as sinister and conniving as ever, but his family, Sue Ellen and his son, should have been who he protected against it all.

Thanks. Interesting to see more dates on the list from 87 than 88 or 89.

The end of 89 saw a ratings improvement for GL, but it wasn't sustained. There also is an overall downward trend for all the soaps at this point.

I was waiting for this. The point in 1990 when GL first drops below a 5. I believe this is GL's first HH rating below a 5, unless I missed one in 88/89

Pretty much one of the many issues that led to the death of soaps - viewers were aging out (and also dying) of the younger demographics and these coveted demos weren't being replenished with new viewers for a number of reasons (one being the growing number of women in the workforce as working moms increased from 56 percent in 1980 to 72 percent in 2000).