This is horrible.

I knew it would happen at some point but ugh.

I am with you Kenny. I would love for Days to move to CBS if I had a choice but there would be changes no matter where they end up. This is disgusting. Just when Days finally got it right and is on a roll this comes along and now the whole genre takes a hit.

This is so depressing. Makes you wonder if JER even cares. Could he have been so pissed at Days that he ignored the 6 months NBC gave him to improve the show in favor of his show getting cancelled knowing it may lead to bad things for Days? Whatever-this is bad for all soaps because this is looking like it will actually happen (although I saw many posts like this last year and both Days and Passions stayed so who knows).

Of course Frons would love to get ahold of the #1 soap in 12-24 viewers! Isn't that his target audience right now, since he has stated that ABCD targets the younger viewers?

I could actually so see him getting rid of AMC (since it's the lowest rated in 12-34) and using it as a lead in for One Life to Live and General Hospital. ABCD would have a winning network in the younger demos.

Anyone who thinks they wouldn't dare cancel AMC/OLTL for Passions should think about it from a business standpoint...

PSNS is a cheap show to produce and would only cost a fraction of AMC/OLTL's weekly budget.

It's already estabilshed as the #1 soap in teens and 12-24 demos.

JER owns the show, so there's no messy red tape with NBC

Plus they could ship Erica off to Harmony and start a company to rival Crane industries. Imagine those Theresa/Erica catfights

^ And if that didn't work They could always reduce it to a half hour and air it at 12:30

Wow, a battle of Erica versus Theresa?! That would be incredible. Still, though, I agree with those who say Frons would sooner cancel OLTL. Erica could still soap-hop.

But demos and the marketability factor make "Passions" a great fit for the youthful ABC Daytime.

The only problem is that JER does own the show, as you mentioned. And ABC seems to like ownership over all its shows, right? Like, 100 percent ownership. So that could be a problem.

I heard a rumour that if Passions goes off, they will attempt to lure back some of the original actors for a "Battle of the Clones" with the current actors, and it will tie into the Charity/Tabitha battle royale...

Could be interesting..I bet Jade Harlow's Jessica would tear Danica's a new one!

Rion, that is probably the studiest thing that "Passions" could ever do. I mean, there's a difference between being a soap send-up or parody and becoming a complete and utter joke. That is utterly ridiculous! I hope that doesn't happen. Of course, the point is moot, because I will NOT let "Passions" get canceled.

Who'd have thought 42 years ago that in its final days, Days' safety would be in the hands of PASSIONS? LoL

Who'd have thought 42 years ago that in its final days, Days' safety would be in the hands of PASSIONS? LoL

I know, it's just so...moronic.

Who'd have thought 42 years ago that in its final days, Days' safety would be in the hands of PASSIONS? LoL

Kenny, I am starting to get really PISSED at James E. Reilly. If the six-month rumor is true and he ignored it, just because he saw the writing on the wall and decided to get "Passions" canceled so it could kill "Days" -- and be the ultimate revenge for his firing -- then I hate this man more than anyone on earth.

I NEVER thought I would say that.

But that seems to be the most likely scenario.

This IS the man who came up with so many demented, sick, twisted characters who have carried out bigger schemes to get revenge. This JERk is doing the same thing as his characters and frankly, I find it disgusting!!!

Shame on you, Reilly!!!#$@#$#@$@ #Shame on you, JERk!!!W#$@#$@#$@#$#@$@#%$#$%#$%%

If a new soap ever really is launched, I could only see it being something of the telenovela format a la MyNetworkTV. I can't see any of the big three networks investing in a brand new soap opera again, especially not NBC.

I'd love to see that happen, or even a half-hour soap in syndication with Christmas Break recaps and maybe even summer breaks. Competition for WHEEL OF FORTUNE.

Who'd have thought 42 years ago that in its final days, Days' safety would be in the hands of PASSIONS? LoL

This IS NBC, Kenny! LOL.

Kenny, I am starting to get really PISSED at James E. Reilly. If the six-month rumor is true and he ignored it, just because he saw the writing on the wall and decided to get "Passions" canceled so it could kill "Days" -- and be the ultimate revenge for his firing -- then I hate this man more than anyone on earth.

If this is what's happening, JERk just better hope he NEVER runs into me in a dark alley.

All I have to say is that if ANY. OTHER. SOAP. is cancelled on ANY. NETWORK. just to make room for DAYS of PSNS, I will [!@#$%^&*] bricks. I will set fire to buildings. I will fuckin...break every hourglass I come upon. I will...I don't know...I'd just become a DESTRUCTIVE little sunama[!@#$%^&*].

I like DAYS. Hell, I used to love DAYS. It's a good show. It has a great history (the first 20 years at least, cough cough). But I think it's a MAJOR SLAP IN THE FACE of all fans of a show if they replace it with DAYS. It's like saying..."Okay, you and ATWT and it's 50 years of success here are not needed anymore. We have DAYS OF OUR LIVES now! So you guys don't matter."

No soap, NO SOAP AT ALL, no matter how bad it is, deserves to go out at the hands of another soap. If they're cancelling a show for a brand new soap, that's totally different. But to drop a show...just to pick up another...it's just vile and any network that does that is dead to me.

However, can any of you see your hypocrisy in this matter, when you have repeatedly claimed that AW fans hated Passions merely because it was AW's replacement? If indeed any AW fans hated Passions just for merely being AW's replacement, they are every bit as justified in their opinions as you are for hating the fourth hour of the Today Show.

Well, I'm not a PSNS fanatic, and I'm not trying to speak for them, but I think there's a difference here. In 1999, when AW was going out for PSNS, nobody had ever seen PSNS ever before. It was a brand new show and nobody knew what it was going to be like. Nobody had the right to just hate it upon arrival. Not want to watch it? Yes. But not vehemently bash it over and over again it just because it replaced AW.

But now, "The Today Show" has been on for 50+ years and people *know* what it is. It's a known shown, and most everyone who's watched daytime TV has seen at least a few minutes of it. Hopefully enough to decide whether or not they like it. If a person loves PSNS, but doesn't like Today, I think they have a good reason to be ticked off about PSNS dying just so that big bad three-hour TODAY can be even MORE longer than any morning/talk/news show should be.

Kenny, I am starting to get really PISSED at James E. Reilly. If the six-month rumor is true and he ignored it, just because he saw the writing on the wall and decided to get "Passions" canceled so it could kill "Days" -- and be the ultimate revenge for his firing -- then I hate this man more than anyone on earth.

I NEVER thought I would say that.

But that seems to be the most likely scenario.

This IS the man who came up with so many demented, sick, twisted characters who have carried out bigger schemes to get revenge. This JERk is doing the same thing as his characters and frankly, I find it disgusting!!!

Shame on you, Reilly!!!#$@#$#@$@ #Shame on you, JERk!!!W#$@#$@#$@#$#@$@#%$#$%#$%%

EXACTLY! I said the exact same thing earlier, JER direly wants revenge on Days, and he seems to not care about Passions at all, so he would probably think "Oh why not?! I can get back at Corday for firing me!" I bet if he did, or does, know that this depends on Days future as well, he's just tell NBC to cancel Passions RIGHT NOW!

All I have to say is that if ANY. OTHER. SOAP. is cancelled on ANY. NETWORK. just to make room for DAYS of PSNS, I will [!@#$%^&*] bricks. I will set fire to buildings. I will fuckin...break every hourglass I come upon. I will...I don't know...I'd just become a DESTRUCTIVE little sunama[!@#$%^&*].

I like DAYS. Hell, I used to love DAYS. It's a good show. It has a great history (the first 20 years at least, cough cough). But I think it's a MAJOR SLAP IN THE FACE of all fans of a show if they replace it with DAYS. It's like saying..."Okay, you and ATWT and it's 50 years of success here are not needed anymore. We have DAYS OF OUR LIVES now! So you guys don't matter."

I agree. As much as I love my show, it just wouldn't be fair to other soap viewers. If Days were cancelled to bring on, say, AMC... I would be breathing fire. Then again, I'd be pissed of Days were canned, as well. Either way, the situation sucks ass.

ANY soap cancellation at this point is terrible for the entire group. But to have both Passions AND another soap cancelled? That just says it all. Days would flop on another network, anyway. Then it'd just be another loss.

Edited January 3, 200718 yr by Kenny

And the death of the daytime genre starts

Have we heard anything about ATWT/GL being picked up this year? I know the last deal was 2005-2007. Isn't May when the current contract it up? Could CBS/PGP be waiting to see what happens with PSNS/DAYS before they renew them?

By the end of the year we could lose 3 soaps

JER is totally gonna give fans of PASSIONS a big F-U in its last hours.

Can you imagine having watched a show for 7-8 years and still, having had nothing resolved?!

Yeah, worst-case scenario, Passions gets cancelled and Days moves to another network. The other network cancels a soap to make room, then Days is an inevitable flop (for reasons mentioned on previous pages) and ends up canned within a year or two, anyway.

This could be killing three birds with one stone. Then the daytime genre really WILL be on its last legs.

I know it's looking more and more unlikely, but I hope to God that PASSIONS isn't cancelled, now more than ever. And anyone else who is a fan of soaps should be too, whether you love, hate or just don't care about PSNS.