Save Our Soaps ATWT Rally

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Save Our Soaps Rally

Host: Save Our Soaps - Guiding Light/As the World Turns

Type: Causes - Rally

Network: Global

Date: Friday, April 16, 2010

Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Location: 524 W 57th St (Between Tenth and Eleventh Avenues.) New York, NY

Save Our Soap Members, Please come join us in front of CBS studios NY on April 16th when we rally in protest of our soaps being cancelled. Our Love for Guiding Light and As The World Turns should unite us, and tell CBS we will not stand for them cancelling these beautiful American Icons we have made our family over the decades.

We will meet outside at 2pm wearing red. Hopefully we can get the media involved which might draw the interest of other networks to pick them up.

I was also wondering for those coming if we could meet in at the Today Show in Rockefeller Center to try and get on live TV in the morning.

It is going to take hundreds. I hear the last rally didn't produce many fans, let's show them this time we mean business. It's not too late fans, let's get our soaps back once and for all !!!

[Soapsuds]

I heard of this. I hope people show up for the Rally. But this is more for ATWT. GL has been off the air for sometime already.

[Saving ATWT]

Gl is already a lost cause seeing as how the many of the cast and crew have moved on. No one will pick up both soaps and any focus should be placed on ATWT. I doubt it will be picked up anywhere but you never know. With the Mick story, ATWT might be a good match with Days on NBC.

[Chris B]

Not gonna work. When are some fans gonna wise up and innovate? Start talking about a spin-off. Get petitions signed, get the idea to the writers and producers of the show. A spin-off either on the web or pitched to another network could be doable in a financial sense. The entire show isn't getting picked up in new episodes. Not gonna happen. You'll be lucky to find reruns.

[Saving ATWT]

I doubt any network would want a spin-off from the lowest-rated soap. Maybe, if this had a happened a few years ago, that recently failed gay cable channel would have taken a Luke and Noah show.

Web seems to be the best bet for mini-shows. PGP does not want to loose money and no network, aside from Halmark or Lifetime who have already passed, would pay going rate for anything this risky.

I have been thinking about Sony because they already do three soaps and actually make money off their shows. A spin off filmed on an LA Sony lot has a future. A new production company is what fans need. ATWT or a spin off with glodal distribution could and would make money. I believe, within a few years, companies like Sony will be setting up their own cable/online channels thus cutting out CBS or NBC as middle man taking a cut.

If CBS ever cuts B&B, Sony will find a way to air the world's most popular soap here in the States. PGP makes soap, not TV, and therefore does not make the same investment.

[Chris B]

A spin-off (in a 13 episode primetime format) is a cheaper and more reasonable idea than picking up 250 episodes of a 50 year old soap opera. If it's true that Lifetime had any interest in GL, then their mistake was pitching the entire show as opposed to a primetime spin-off.

[Saving ATWT]

Agreed, and I think you may see a few of the remaining soaps end up somehow spun off into primetime within the next 5-10 years. Media in all areas is changing and even the networks are going to somewhat be transformed. Imagine a situation in which we just download the shows we want to watch: set up our own 'prime time must see' lineup very much in the same way we go to the Apple iTunes store. If things shift this way, maybe two or three soaps can live on in current form.