Members Rakesh Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 By Jamey Giddens @ Daytime Confidential The source says TeleNext was also in discussions with another major cabler, however those talks fell through this past week. the source reveals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rocket Man Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Rakesh, thank you for posting this on this site. Also a big "thanks" for the post/update to Jamey @ DC! KEEP THE "LIGHT" SHINING! Keep the letters, calls and prayers coming! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adam Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Oh dear woman, get a grip. I mean great if they can keep the light going.... for like 6 or 7 more months. Any move to cable will fail... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RomeAt50 Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 That's why I don't understand the need to get the show to cable. They will probably lose viewers and get cancelled soon after anyways, so why not just accept it and give the fans a good ending while you have the chance? IIRC Passions lasted less than a year on cable before getting cancelled again and I've heard the show was less enjoyable after the move. I would be very surprised if GL is still around two years from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Adam Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Its just prolonging the inevitable if you ask me.... If you want to keep the spirit of the true Guiding Light going, start syndicating classic eras of the show on the Youtube channel. That's the real way to keep these things going..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RomeAt50 Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Your right. It is prolonging the inevitable. If GL had a real chance of lasting many years longer on cable I could understand, but it doesn't so it just seems very pointless. I hate to see soaps cancelled but sometimes its best for to know when to quit. They should probably just focus on giving the show a proper and satisfying send off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 It would be weird but I'd tune in to Lifetime to see it. Please with all the proper ending. GL is too far gone in its production model to have anything decent. The whole Four Musketeers reunion was awful. The characters were all there but something was off. I've got to see it was the writing AND the awful production values. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Rakesh Posted April 18, 2009 Author Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Passions was not on cable so I wouldn't compare it with a soap moving to cable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members P.J. Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Being on Lifetime, an established and successful cable network is miles different than being on a DirecTV preview channel. Let's hope for the best. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 I still say they should try the Hallmark Channel too. And Ellen needs to stop her crying and hysteria. If she really cared about GL she would have produced and written better shows. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 ^I agree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RomeAt50 Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 I hope your right. Maybe I'm being too cynical but I don't have much hope that GL and the daytime genre as a whole can be truly saved by cable networks. But its true that Lifetime is a much better place to end up on than Direct TV and is probably as good a place as any for the show to move to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members rangethatrover Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 This is really sad. I don't watch GL, but part of me wants it to make it, and the other part knows that if it does get picked up by lifetime, it will NEVER get the sendoff it so richly deserves. BUT- maybe the final episodes on CBS still could be an amazing finale, because the GL on Lifetime would probably be very, very different. She is a sap, but she loves the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members bellcurve Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 If TeleNext is really interested in their soap properties, why don't they launch new projects for daytime, primetime, or the internet? Years ago, someone suggested(during the launch of MyNetworkTV) that PGP should dig into it's lot and make telenovela reunions from some of their popular couples(i.e. a John/Sharlene novela). Even if they didn't want to do that, why can't they focus on new projects at a cheaper cost, but still visually appealing? Shooting whatever new show they come up with in Canada or somewhere in the U.S. that give tax breaks/incentives for production companies? But GL is over. Spin it off into something else for the internet or for cable, do something. But just rename the show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SteveFrame Posted April 18, 2009 Members Share Posted April 18, 2009 Lifetime is an established channel but I have heard in the past few weeks that the network's daytime and late night is really hurting since they lost Golden Girls while Hallmark is said to be doing better - even prompting Hallmark to give Golden Girls part of their primetime lineup - taking the two hours that Walker Texas Ranger has had for years. On another board I visit from time to time they said that Lifetime was really scrambling to find something to replace GG and gain some viewers back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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