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Passions: CANCELLED by DirecTV

nassaunew
in Discuss The Soaps: Archive (2007 - 2009)

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With all this talk about "Passions" possible cancellation, I just thought I'd share with you guys this e-mail I received from a user over on Youtube regarding the history of NBC Daytime:

ABOUT NBC DAYTIME

NBC has had big problems with their daytime because they don't know when to keep the hits, let them build an audience and/or how to combat fix-it fever.

Back in the 70s, both ABC and CBS began to solidify their lineups. All of the networks had game shows in the morning and soaps afterwards. NBC started unravelling quickly. SOMERSET, though in the ratings basement, had a built-in audience until the network suggested to Procter & Gamble to have Henry Slesar write the series. Slesar was already bogged down with THE EDGE OF NIGHT. They had LOVERS AND FRIENDS for six months, then it came back as FOR RICHER FOR POORER and then disappeared. THE DOCTORS got canceled after 20 years on the air, while TEXAS, GENERATIONS and SUNSET BEACH all lasted two years. And then the backstage bickering about who owned SANTA BARBARA behind the scenes, and the monkeying around with SB's time slot did them in.

When AW was on the air, the network made it go to 90 minutes in 1979 (something that then-headwriter Harding Lemay vehemently opposed) backfired. It got to #1 but slid to #9 and stayed there for most of its run. The insult came when NBC had announced the cancellation of AW to make room for PASSIONS, then asked viewers if they wanted to keep AW or SUNSET BEACH. The viewers wanted to keep both, but NBC canned AW and six months later, canned SUNSET. When the cancellation of AW happened, DAYS took a big hit because many AW and SUNSET fans and viewers left the network. Victoria Wyndham (ex-Rachel, AW) put it bluntly in an interview about AW's cancellation: she said that if [PASSIONS] works, then the network knows what it's doing, but if not, then they'll think twice about cancelling a beloved soap.

NBC is supposedly dropping DAYS in 2009. And even part-ownership can't save it: SUNSET, SB, GENERATIONS, THE DOCTORS and HOW TO SURVIVE A MARRIAGE all were owned or partially-owned by NBC. PASSIONS got picked up by DirecTV's The 101, so it is canceled on network TV. The network did co-own DAYS with Screen Gems Television, but later sold their stake in it to Columbia Tristar Television Group, which later became Sony Pictures Television. So, right now, DAYS is hovering and even landing at the bottom. And recently they made the strategic error in killing off John Black.

If you're a DAYS viewer, better watch it because, if NBC cans it, it might not survive SoapNET.

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With all this talk about "Passions" possible cancellation, I just thought I'd share with you guys this e-mail I received from a user over on Youtube regarding the history of NBC Daytime:

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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Soap fans may know the difference between Passions, and say, As the World Turns, but network execs don't. Passions failure (if that is what it is) on Direct TV, is a failure for the whole soap genre.

And again, I'm not a fan of Passions, and I'm not going to miss it. But if anything else is going to kill the genre, it's fans declaring what is, and isn't a soap. If Passions is a mess, it's not because it didn't follow the normal soap formula. It's a mess because of the writing.

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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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...

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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Passions might end up being like a black cat with nine lives! LOL! Go NBC, have Passions defy cancellation once more!

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NBC owns MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, USA, Bravo, Sci-Fi, Telemundo and I think one more channel.

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NBC owns MSNBC, CNBC, Oxygen, USA, Bravo, Sci-Fi, Telemundo and I think one more channel.

Wow...I guess Sci-Fi or Oxygen would work for a thing like Passions.

But if it ever shows its face on Telemundo then it will truly have reached a new low...

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It wouldn't work on Sci-Fi. It bombed when they tried airing episodes from the beginning of its run.

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I hope Passions doesn't die because it just hurts the genre. I hope it finds a fit somewhere. I could see USA running it definately

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However, with UMS having reduced the budget on the show significantly, there's talk that "Passions" might yet find another life elsewhere

YES!!! Come on, NBC!! :D This time be smart and put it on a cable station you own!

Keep the faith, Passions fans. :)

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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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