Members Rhiannon Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 TVGuide Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DruRocks Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 WOW. That's messed up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarlandRulez Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 OH GOD!!!!!!! I was hoping we'd get THIS: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NsMw-yrDHA [!@#$%^&*]!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DrewH Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'm predicting next year, SOAPnet will get the rights to Laguna Beach and The Hills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members pamela1965 Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ i want dark shadows and the edge of night Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RionPassions Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 Hopefully SOAPnet will get Classic Passions and treat it better than Sci-Fi did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Drew Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 All sci-fi did was take something off no one was watching. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mason Posted February 8, 2007 Members Share Posted February 8, 2007 I'm sorry, THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS? For THOSE two shows??? Yep, we're not getting Santa Barbara anytime soon... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 I already knew about this so I was prepared. Talked a bit about it on the SB Talk Show last night. Whatever. F. U. Soapnet! And this throws the "expensive musical rights" issue right out the window! I highly doubt SB comes with a 30 million dollar(!) price tag on it. :angry: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shawn Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 Oh God. Those crappy excuses for shows aren't even in the same stratosphere as more deserving shows. Santa Barbara anyone? I'd also love to see Generations in there somewhere. But OTH and the OC? GAG ME! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 Why is everyone surprised when Brian Frons is overseeing both ABCD and SOAPNet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 SOAPnet and Brian Frons are unbelievable. They spend $30 Million on those acquisitions when daytime fans have been BEGGING for years for classics like SANTA BARBARA. I piss on Frons. And Juniors, you are totally right...the "expensive music rights" excuse is bullshit to me now. No way would SB have cost the network more than $30 Mil for rebroadcasting rights. This really makes me wish that SOAPCITY would have went ahead and did their soap opera channel. At least there would be more...BALANCE! R, it's not surprising, it's just really upsetting. People can see THE OC and ONE TREE HILL on DVD and Weekend Syndication. Instead of catering to the audience that demand to see REAL soaps, they cater to the teenyboppers that will ONLY watch those shows and will never convert to being daytime soap fans. It's insulting. And I wouldn't be surprised if LAGUNA made it to SOAPnet either. Frons and SOAPnet are in constant reference to it(even using it as an example of "what type of show to model" in its SOAPU contest). It's just sickening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members heatherwebber Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 They're going to run what they think will bring in higher ratings. More recent and more "recently popular" prime-time shows proabably do have a better chance then old daytime shows that were low-rated like Santa Barbara. I suspect the Another World experiment was costly and didn't bring in the ratings they'd hoped for. Hence the endless reruns of Beverly Hills 90210 and the seeking out of more recent prime-time shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ZaraB Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 I don't think Another World was costly-- they were running it two times a day at points before they acquired DOOL and Y and R. I think they got their money's worth. Frons has been trying to pattern the ABC soaps over the 'youth orientated' WB soaps, so I'm not really surprised he picked these up. OC is off the air, it won't compete with ABC soaps the way DOOL and Y and R do. Is One Tree Hill also off the air? How long before repeat season-old primetime series start bumping the daytime schedule (as in Y/R, DOOL)? Unless they decide to bump one showing of 90210. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dawn9476 Posted February 9, 2007 Members Share Posted February 9, 2007 I really don't see Viacom who owns MTV selling Laguna to Disney. Laguna will start airing old eppy's on MTV2 before that happens. ETA: Not to mention the syndication of The Real World did poorly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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