Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 Oxygen's yet another NBC owned cable channel that airs reruns of old female theme sitcoms in the day, in addition to chick flicks. They've tried airing original programing in the past in the daytime, but it's never been successful for them. Remember when they tried airing Neighbours a few years back? They poor thing didn't even last five seconds on the channel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 That's okay, Toups. Everyone Freudian-slips every now and then. Yes, I doubt PASSIONS would survive on Oxygen. Aside from the 'net, though, where else could NBC try it? Bravo? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members patzo101 Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 I hate to say this, but as much as I would love to see the show continue, It would probably be in everyone's interests to let the show go. Suppose it does get picked up by another network, who's to say it won't get cancelled again 6 months after that. I think it's time to just say goodbye to "Passions." I won't be happy about it, but I'm just glad this show was a part of my life for the past 9 years. I wish the cast and crew good luck in their future endeavors. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dawn9476 Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 NBC hasn't had Oxygen very long. They just bought it from Oprah last month so who knows what direction they will take it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dawn9476 Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 If NBC wanted it on its own cable networks, they would have done that in the first place instead of going to Direct TV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members David_Vickers Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 I just hope Andrea Evans gets sick of this and leaves PASSIONS for good and returns to ONE LIFE as Tina Lord. She deserves much, much better than the crap that is PASSIONS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Shawn Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 BINGO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stenbeck212 Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 What will constant network-jumping do for Passions that wasn't done for The Edge of Night or Search For Tomorrow? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted December 11, 2007 Administrator Share Posted December 11, 2007 That was 20-25 years ago. There's a lot more posibilities now. Maybe DirectTV approached NBC with the offer and NBC took the deal. So now maybe NBC learned their lesson and will put the show on a cable channel they own. There's still hope and that's what I'm holding on to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members stenbeck212 Posted December 11, 2007 Members Share Posted December 11, 2007 Passions is not going to be a lead-in for Chris Matthews on MSNBC. Just about all the sand that will fall in that hourglass has fallen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ChiTownBoi03 Posted December 12, 2007 Members Share Posted December 12, 2007 Well this sucks for Passions fans. While I am not a fan of the show myself(not because i dislike it, i just dont watch it), Directv didn't seem to care about the show. I think Directv figured this would get them more subscribers. Quite possibly these decent ratings they said Passions got were due to people who already had Directv, and new subscribers were few, far and in between. Personally, I am not one to switch a particular cable/satellite provider just so that I can see one show. So if Directv thought that this would happen, then they were really clueless. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted December 12, 2007 Members Share Posted December 12, 2007 I'm not completely convinced that it won't end up on the network that started it all, NBC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 12, 2007 Members Share Posted December 12, 2007 Or worse, it'll end up following "Heroes" on Monday nights. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RogerNewcomb Posted December 12, 2007 Members Share Posted December 12, 2007 NBC bought Oxygen "after" Passions had started airing on DirecTV. Had they owned it earlier, they may have just moved Passions there when it left the network. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vanguardian Posted December 12, 2007 Members Share Posted December 12, 2007 What supernatural elements? The greatest majority of that part of the show went away sometime after 2001. Sure, they currently throw a little of it in here and there, but it's nowhere near the way it used to be and I doubt it would make any difference to the show "surviving" on Oxygen. Even if they brought back the supernatural in a much greater capacity, I still don't think the show would hurt being on the Oxygen channel. Like someone said, programming on this network might take a different direction. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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