Members LeClerc Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Sorry if this is old news. Looks like AMC will officially get no marathon whatsoever, the only soap with that distinction. On the one hand I get that AMC is effectively dead and it must be peforming horribly on SoapNet, which needs to make money. On the other hand, this is just going to hurt AMC even more. SoapNet's fall schedule (effective September 15) http://www.sitcomsonline.com/boards/showthread.php?t=230314 What's expiring: Dallas and Melrose Place Weekdays 6:00am The Young and the Restless Yesterday 7:00am All My Children Yesterday 8:00am One Life To Live Yesterday 9:00am General Hospital Yesterday (Mon, Wed-Fri), General Hospital: Night Shift encore (Tues) 10:00am Days of our Lives Yesterday 11:00am Beverly Hills 90210 (replaces Melrose Place) 12:00pm Beverly Hills 90210 (replaces Melrose Place) 1:00pm One Tree Hill 2:00pm One Tree Hill 3:00pm The O C 4:00pm The O C 5:00pm Beverly Hills 90210 6:00pm Beverly Hills 90210 7:00pm The Young and the Restless Today 8:00pm All My Children Today 9:00pm One Life To Live Today 10:00pm General Hospital Today 11:00pm Days of our Lives Today (Mon, Wed-Fri), General Hospital: Night Shift NEW (Tues) 12:00am The Young and the Restless Yesterday (Tues-Fri), General Hospital: Night Shift encore (Mon) 1:00am All My Children Yesterday 2:00am One Life To Live Yesterday 3:00am General Hospital Yesterday 4:00am I Wanna Be A Soap Star effect. 9/1 (replaces Dallas) 5:00am Ryan's Hope (Mon-Thurs), Soapography (Fri) 5:30am Ryan's Hope (Mon-Thurs), 1 Day With... (Fri) Saturdays 6:00am General Hospital: Night Shift encore 7:00am One Tree Hill (replaces General Hospital: Night Shift encore) 8:00am One Tree Hill 9:00am Beverly Hills 90210 10:00am Beverly Hills 90210 11:00am Beverly Hills 90210 12:00pm Movie 2:00pm Movie 4:00pm General Hospital: Night Shift encore 5:00pm General Hospital: Night Shift encore 6:00pm General Hospital: Night Shift encore 7:00pm The Young and the Restless - Monday 8:00pm The Young and the Restless - Tuesday 9:00pm The Young and the Restless - Wednesday 10:00pm The Young and the Restless - Thursday 11:00pm The Young and the Restless - Friday 12:00am General Hospital: Night Shift encore 1:00am One Life To Live Monday 2:00am One Life To Live Tuesday 3:00am One Life To Live Wednesday 4:00am One Life To Live Thursday 5:00am One Life To Live Friday Sundays 6:00am Port Charles 6:30am Port Charles 7:00am Beverly Hills 90210 8:00am Beverly Hills 90210 9:00am Beverly Hills 90210 10:00am One Tree Hill (replaces Movie) 11:00am One Tree Hill (replaces Movie cont.) 12:00pm Movie 2:00pm General Hospital Monday 3:00pm General Hospital Tuesday 4:00pm General Hospital Wednesday 5:00pm General Hospital Thursday 6:00pm General Hospital Friday 7:00pm General Hospital: Night Shift encore 8:00pm Movie 10:00pm Movie 12:00am Days of our Lives Monday 1:00am Days of our Lives Tuesday 2:00am Days of our Lives Wednesday 3:00am Days of our Lives Thursday 4:00am Days of our Lives Friday 5:00am Ryan's Hope 5:30am Ryan's Hope Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Frons..................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Wow...I like 90210 and all, but 26 times a week? Really? Is that needed? I still don't like that OTH and OC are on twice a day. OC only made 92 episodes, so it goes through it's whole run in like three months...which isn't ridiculous, but still, they didn't seen to mind putting "Dallas" on once a day, with its 357 episodes. SOAPnet is no longer about soaps, especially if there's no longer gonna be an AMC marathon. No matter how fucked up the show is, how horrible the ratings are, they have to at least come out and admit that they're selling out on AMC fans. I'm not criticizing them for the business decision they made, I just want them to acknowledge that they know that they're pissing off the AMC people who relied on that weekend marathon to catch an episode they missed (or the poor people who can only make time to watch the weekend marathon because they are busy during the week). I'm not surprised RH has lasted this long. Its fanbase is large and vocal and won't take any [!@#$%^&*] from SOAPnet. With "Dallas" gone, this marks the first time SOAPnet doesn't have one of the *big* 80s primetime soaps on...they were essentially replaced by the teen dramas. I love teen dramas, believe me (never was an OTH fan, though, and only like the first two seasons of OC, and 90210 is always delicious), but why can't they have both the teen dramas and the more adult stuff? Damn, all they need to do is put the adult stuff in the mornings (like, from 10AM to 2PM) and then put the teen stuff in the afternoon (2PM to 6PM). And they can pick better teen soaps, too. My beloved "Dawson's Creek" has been orphaned by TBS and The N treats it like [!@#$%^&*]. It needs a new home! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Figures, why doesn't Frons just come out and admit he wants the show gone. I always figured the Days marathon did worse than any soap marathon out there. It's kind of sad they'd do this to one of their own network soaps. Heck move it overnight or something, getting rid of it is stupid Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Southofnowhere Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 I'm sure Frons is hoping this will cause more peeps to DVR AMC during it's ABC run times! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Well why not do it for ALL the soaps......... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 I still do not know why hes doing it to an ABC soap. I could understand him doing it to Y&R or DAYS but an ABC soap......... If he wants more people to DVR it during daytime then he needs to take GH off that list because there ratings are HORRIBLE also.................... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Yeah that's why IMO this is a million times worse is because it's an ABC soap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Desertrose Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 They are dropping THEIR OWN NETWORK'S leadoff soap? Wow, way to go ABCDFrons. Nice way to treat those few who still watch AMC. What a clever way to pick up new viewers.... This is really very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Soapnet's already the "anything but soaps" network, Frons is just going to push it the rest of the way. Way to go Disney promoting one of the biggest hacks to come along in years to run the Soapnet Channel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members NYC123 Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 ABC needs to fire FRONS NOW! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Darcy Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 Maybe it's in the contract agreement with Y&R and DOOL that Soapnet will run their marathons during the weekend (i.e., Soapnet is already paying Y&R and DOOL to run the marathon during the weekend but they are not paying for AMC since it's owned by the same company.) Just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 I know I sound like JP here but...this is simply a response to what viewers are watching and not watching. Obviously, people are not watching that AMC marathon. It makes no money...so goodbye. When they yanked AW, they said it was getting a 0.0 rating sometimes (too small to measure). Why should they continue to program something that is unwatched? We have to let the market drive this somehow, OR we need to create a "PBS for soaps" where we send in money to support the nostalgia and the marathons. I would actually do that...but nobody is offering to create a PBS for soaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 It's more about the fact that it's a soap from their very own network. Honestly I really doubt Days gets good ratings, hence why it was moved back to 11 PM and why Y&R moved back to 7 pm, and why I'm guessing their marathon is now shown over night....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Aaron Posted August 13, 2008 Members Share Posted August 13, 2008 WHAT? Soapnet's not about soaps anymore? Since when! :-) Just kidding, but seriously, does this still surprise people? Soapnet hasn't made real soaps a priority in years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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