SoapNet's Fall Schedule

[brimike]

And THAT is the way of the future. It's exactly what we'll all be doing in a few years. AppleTV is the same concept, with NO COMPUTER. It's your new cable box, able to download all sorts of shows, like iTunes.

It's also why the writers made everyone's lives miserable by going on strike for so long. Once everyone is watching downloaded shows from their computer on a big-screen HDTV? That 1.7 percent is going to come in quite handy for a lot of out of work writers.

[rhythmchyc]

OMG, ETA: (LOL) HULU sounds awesome!!

I missed out on all of the first few seasons of Nip/Tuck and definitely want to catch up on them. Especially since the show has degraded in quality over the last couple seasons (love Sanaa Lathan. love Julian McMahon. HATED Sanaa and Julian lol)

AND!! I'd love to spend a Sunday afternoon watching classic Y&R episodes (teen Victoria and Ryan getting married, Billy and Mac falling in love for the first time, the episode when Jack walks over Victor's body or the episode when he flings the chair out the window, the flirtation between Dru and Malcolm, Brad finding out Ashley's baby was Victor's)

<sigh>

Also, would love to see the whole Rose/Paul relationship on AWTW again. That was really heartbreaking.

Gosh, this website sounds like a dream!!

I agree about CBS.com. Especially since they'd gotten rid of those tics on Firefox.

[All My Shadows]

Oooh, that kicks ass! The amazing thing about Hulu is that it's so much better than other sites when it comes to picture/sound quality. I still have a relatively ancient monitor, but all I have to do is put whatever I'm watching in fullscreen mood, point the monitor towards my bed, and get back under the covers lol. The picture is so clear, and there are teenty, tiny little skips that only last for one-one zillionth of a second that they're unnoticeable unless you're actively looking for them. I love CBS.com and I get my daily (okay, I've been skimping lately, but I've been running errands) dose of "Dynasty" season 2 every morning, and I also like to watch my "Love Boat" too, but I don't like to fullscreen it. There's a slight lag in the video, and it's not horrible, but it's noticeable. The regular screen on the website is big enough for me to just lean back in the chair and watch. Don't even get me started on In2TV, though...the screen is so small and fullscreening it is just horrible. I watch stuff there sometimes (especially "Eight is Enough," which I adore), but their player turns me off. They have too many good shows for me to just ignore it, though LOL

Ah, well they don't actually have any of that stuff lol. The last time I checked, they only have season 5 of N/T, and they don't have any Y&R yet (only soaps are AW, GL, and ATWT...the AW is currently from May-June 1991, and GL and ATWT are from June-July 2007). They are constantly adding stuff every single day, though, so I wouldn't be surprised if some other soaps just randomly popped up. <Brenda Dickson>Old school Y&R, anyone?</Brenda Dickson>

[rhythmchyc]

Aww no old AWTW or Y&R...

Or Felicity...

LMAO

[detroitpiston]

I love Hulu too, but I'm still waiting for them to add Hercules and Knots Landing episodes lol. Love The Adams Family eps too.

[Khan]

<BD>Well, hello! That's a fabulous idea!</BD>

[quartermainefan]

also check out fancast.com

[All My Shadows]

Daaaaamn, they have more episodes of "Dynasty" than CBS.com has! I really, really worry that they'll take all of this stuff down before I get to watch it all! It would be different if it was all stuff that I was forcing myself to watch, but I want to see so much of it and the time is just not always there lol. I hope some college professors won't mind being upstaged by Krystle and Alexis...thanks for the heads-up!

[David_Vickers]

Stupid to have OTH, OC & 90210 twice a day now (4 times is laughable). They should've kept MP & Dallas esp. SoapNet should not be skiping Tues DAYS & Mon Y&R either, which is stupid as hell imho.

Looks like I Wanna Be A Soap Star has been canceled since it wasn't on this summer and probablys not coming back this fall either. I rather enjoyed it.

[dragonflies]

Great post AMS, I completely agree!

[EricMontreal22]

EVen though the timeslot is pathetic, and I cna't get SOapNet to watch anyway, I'm thrilled Ryan's Hope is still there SOMEWHERE. That's about the only thing to like about their current schedule.

I guess 90210 is back to tie into the spin off? but...

[JackPeyton]

The thing is... 90210 IS a soap.

and 14+ hours is devoted to current soaps.

This is SOAPnet. They are showing soaps. maybe not the soaps we allw ant them to - but still. It is far froma reality network. its far from another E! rip off.

[MarkH]

See, I think it is going to BECOME an E! rip off.

That makes me sad...but if that is what the market wants....I mean, I cannot expect broadcasters to stay in business if they can't make money.

Soaps no longer make serious money. Kmart was once a thriving discount chain. And now... Macdonalds was once the number one fast food chain in growth, and now.... Starbucks, now in decline....

Things don't last. Soaps peaked in the 80s (in terms of profitability), and through steady erosion for a lot of reasons (NOT ALL CREATIVE PROBLEMS WITH SOAPS....LOTS OF OTHER FACTORS), they are soon dipping under the price point where they can be affordable.

I see that there are several Canadian-US primetime shows in development. This makes sense. Drama is now so expensive, if you have multinational cost sharing from the beginning, it is more reasonable to mount a production. HBO did this with Rome and Extras (shared with BBC).

I think that may also be the future of soaps. If telenovelas are so popular in latin countries, and Europe is still flourishing with soaps (and, to a lesser extent, Australia and Canada and now even Turkey), the future may be in producing multinational things that do not require sole US cost-bearing. Such soaps would also have wider appeal.

If that is where we are headed...so be it.

Marceline has converted me. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR NOSTALGIA, at least not on the business end of things.

Soapnet needs to do what it needs to do to stay alive. If it succeeds, maybe it will alway be a place for ONE soap or something. That is more than nothing.

[Gray Bunny]

NOOOOO!!! I need my Melrose reruns!!!

[All My Shadows]

I can't speak for anyone else, but I don't have a problem at all with 90210 on SOAPnet. Like you said, it's a soap, so it belongs. My only problem is that SOAPnet likes to overload on so few shows when they have every possible chance to put more in there (and I realize that the name of the game is ratings, but even they have to be bored with the current daytime schedule). I don't have a single problem with OC and OTH either. The problem for me is that OC only made 92 episodes, so it's just a little much to have it on ten times a week. 90210 and MP, sure. It makes sense. But not the other two. That's the time that they could be using to experiment with other things.