Is Passions being cancelled?

[KBT]

If DAYS is cancelled anytime this year I will be more than pissed! It may just be my first trip to LA.....

[Soapsuds]

Shocking statement from you King. It feels like your body & mind have been taken over.

Actually PSNS shouldnt have to stay on the air for the other soaps to stay alive. If soaps stopped shoving us with newbies, characters we don't care about and putting vets on the sidelines they wouldn't worry about cancellation. Their ratings would be so much better.

Who's fault is it? I put the blame on the HW writers and the EPs for not making changes when storylines aren't working. They are too proud and pigheaded to make changes.

[DruRocks]

Wow this sucks...don't go PSNS.

[Mason]

Crap. That's all four of my soaps right there.

[Soapsuds]

Errol just posted some more about it in the Entertainment News.

[Danni]

Well, it looks like you got what you wanted... Now let the dominos fall where they will, and hope that your soaps don't get the axe along the way. If Days gets cancelled because NBC won't support a one-soap lineup, well that's what you get.

[Ryan]

Here's the link to Errol's article:

http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=14760

[Soapsuds]

Like I said no one is to blame but the TPTB of each soap. They refuse to listen to their audience!

[Mason]

Exactly. It's not the audience's responsibility to devote an hour of their lives five days a week to watching utter crap.

[daysfan]

Soapsuds and HoganStays are right. NBC needs to fire JER, not cancel the show!

This is so sad.

And, I'll bet JER supported this if he learned it could take Days and half of Daytime with it.

[Soapsuds]

Now, that it looks like Passions is being cancelled, I wish the other soaps would wake up and realize if they dont give their audience what they want (their show) it will be cancelled. How hard is it to write intelligent/heart felt storylines using your vets with your newbies in the supporting role. It is not that hard people!

[sungrey]

I hear you. My grudge isn't against the show at all as it is against the network, which has canceled so many good soaps over the years like Generations, Santa Barbara, Sunset Beach and Search for Tomorrow that it doesn't surprise me in the least to see them do it again.

Had they left AW or Sunset on the air, would it have resulted in higher ratings for Passions? We'll never know.

[Shawn]

Passions dug its own grave by having bad writing and even worse actors (with the exception of Juliet Mills)

I will not shed a tear if this travesty is cancelled. Because of this show, AW was prematurely axed. It deserves to die.

[Helena]

AW was getting better when it was cancelled, but since SB was cancelled only 6 months later, it seems pretty clear to me that it would have been cancelled no matter what.

Passions was wacky and weird in the beginning, but I think that somewhere along the way it started to try to actually be a real soap opera, and that's when it went off track. Because there is no payoff on this soap. It's all frustration, all the time.

[UKBoi]

I guess this is pretty much true now. I just hope that Heidi Mueller, Juliet Mills, Ben Masters, Emily Harper, Eric Martsolf and Lindsay Hartley all find work on soaps again and soon.