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UMMM...okay....Isn't that like over a year old?

As for the Days stuff I think the internets have already expressed their outrage/shock/saddness at the possiblity of that happening and the mass hysteria that occured has finally died down so I don't know why you're trying to stir things back up...

This is about Passions. It finally got kicked off NBC after NBC and now Days has an oppurtunity to rebuild itself and not suffer from being assocatied with that trash.

Even if Days is in trouble at least it will have the dignity of dying on its own and AFTER Passions. Not to mention the fact that its reach iconic status across the globe and truly is the epitome of "soap"...maybe not right now in its current state but definitely as a whole body of work and historically.

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Oh, come on. They may be idiots, but they aren't dumb. Of course they know the difference.

W/o a doubt, there's a reason why actors get nominated for Emmys from ATWT (even if the DEmmys are a joke now), but they don't from Passions.

No NetExec is going to look at Passions distribution techniques as a way to herald in a new era for soaps.

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Sorry if I somehow offended you, I don't want to get into a fight; just wanted to share this information with everyone.

You had the option of not reading what I posted. If you didn't like what I posted, fine, but don't come on here and make a smart ass remark about my post. I won't stand for it. If you don't like it, don't read it. It's as simple as that.

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DirecTV to cut ties with 'Passions'

NBC soap may find another suitor in '08

By JOSEF ADALIAN

DirecTV has lost its passion for "Passions" -- but the NBC U-produced sudser isn't quite dead yet.

Satcaster has told NBC it won't be ordering a second season of the soap, which moved to DirecTV in September as part of a $40 million deal designed to bring more original programming to the service (Daily Variety, Apr. 25). NBC canceled the show earlier this year.

In order to keep "Passions" on DirecTV through August, satcaster has ordered 52 additional episodes of the show from the Peacock's Universal Media Studios. However, starting in early to mid-January, skein will begin airing just three times a week (compared with four weekly airings now).

"Passions" will go on an extended holiday hiatus next week, then return in February for another month of filming. Show will wrap production in March, and as of now, there are no firm plans for it to continue.

However, with UMS having reduced the budget on the show significantly, there's talk that "Passions" might yet find another life elsewhere. Newly acquired cabler Oxygen might make a good fit. Peacock also could turn the skein into an Internet-based sudser.

DirecTV and UMS declined comment.

Read the full article at:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117977472.html

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If PASSIONS moves to Oxygen, then I doubt the show's more supernatural elements will "survive." In fact, I can see PASSIONS-on-Oxygen becoming a straight-up, traditional drama.

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