Scoop! Passions Seeks New Home on DIRECTV

TVGuide.com has learned that NBC is in talks to move Passions to DIRECTV when the soap's broadcast TV run concludes this fall.

As previously reported, NBC has cancelled Passions and will last is Sept. 7, 2007.

Nevertheless, NBC Entertainment president Kevin Reilly recently offered us hope for Passions' future. "We are going to be looking very, seriously at keeping [Passions] alive," the exec told reporters at TCA's winter press tour. "The fact is, there are loyal viewers of this show who love it and show up every day. And in a perfect world, we'd like to keep the brand alive. There may be another network. You know, I don't think it's a broadcast network, but there may be another cable network that wants to get in business with us and have some sort of on-air presence for the show.

If things work out, die-hard Passions watchers will have good reason to dump their cable and subscribe to DIRECTV satellite service. FYI, NBC declined comment for this story, while calls to DIRECTV were not immediately returned. No surprise there, since companies generally don't like to comment on these things until the deal is officially sealed.

Stay tuned, Passions Folks... Tabitha, Endora and the rest of Harmony's lovable freaks may still have some afterlife in them yet!

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Edited March 19, 200718 yr by nassaunew

Where would it air? DirecTV is not really a network, it's a service provider.

Where would it air? DirecTV is not really a network, it's a service provider.

I know they have at least one channel (101) where it's just DirecTV exclusive things. They had a sneak preview of NBC Universal's Chiller channel on there before Chiller launched.

http://www.directv.com/DTVAPP/global/secon...assetId=1200005

It might air on there.

Don't do it , NBC. And if you do, PLEASE offer streaming episodes with heavy commercials, if that's what it takes, and downloadable for fee, DVD quality episodes. Because fans of this show MUST have a way to keep their favorite episodes to rewatch.