Um ok.

Anyway, I don't think it's about room. They will just use the money they pay for one of the soaps, and invest it in a much cheaper show. I still think that if it gets off the ground it will replace a soap. (Most likely OLTL.)

Yeah I am sure one of the soap will go.

Perhaps they will use 1/3 of the money they finance OLTL with for this new show, and the other two thirds will go to AMC and GH to plug the leaking holes.

GH is the most expensive soap to produce, and Y&R is a close second. DAYS used to be the most expensive soap to produce until its budget cuts in 2006 and then again in 2008.

GH tends to go overbudget, and it's the ABC soap that Frons puts money into more than AMC and OLTL as well.

I thought though that Y&R for a long while was way more expensive to produce than GH though

I thought though that Y&R for a long while was way more expensive to produce than GH though

It is. That's why they hired Darius McCrary (nuMalcolm) to make sandwiches for the rest of the cast and crew. ;-P

I don't think AMC's budget will improve until they fire JHC. She seems to be so incompetent and burns through so much money, you'd almost think they use it for toilet paper.

She seems to be so incompetent and burns through so much money, you'd almost think they use it for toilet paper.

No, that's what the scripts are for. ;-)

GH tends to go overbudget, and it's the ABC soap that Frons puts money into more than AMC and OLTL as well.

I thought though that Y&R for a long while was way more expensive to produce than GH though

I'm going off the soap budget reports TV Guide published a few years ago. In 2006, it cost like $1.3 to produce DAYS a week, GH was $1.25 million, and Y&R was $1.2 million.

There's been budget cuts since then, with DAYS being hit the hardest, so now GH and Y&R are the top two, with GH edging out Y&R slightly.

How horrifying it is to see they spend a million dollars on such cr*ppy episodes!

Perhaps they will use 1/3 of the money they finance OLTL with for this new show, and the other two thirds will go to AMC and GH to plug the leaking holes.

Sounds like a plan.

I'm going off the soap budget reports TV Guide published a few years ago. In 2006, it cost like $1.3 to produce DAYS a week, GH was $1.25 million, and Y&R was $1.2 million.

There's been budget cuts since then, with DAYS being hit the hardest, so now GH and Y&R are the top two, with GH edging out Y&R slightly.

I know several years back, Days budget was between 1.8-1.9 million a week.

But wasn't GH's budget 3 million a week and Y&R's 2.5 million a week at some point?

I know several years back, Days budget was between 1.8-1.9 million a week.

Yep, and then the budget cuts of 2006 and 2008 happened. I think DAYS is produced on a budget of anywhere between $700,000 and $800,000 a week now.

But wasn't GH's budget 3 million a week and Y&R's 2.5 million a week at some point?

I'm not aware of this, it certainly wasn't during the past decade.

The sad thing is, soaps were produced on a budget of tootsie rolls and lolly pops in the 60's and 70's, and yes it looked that way, but the creative content was a lot more compelling and daring, not so anymore.

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Hmmm..its on CBS on my market..lol. Typical that Sylph doesnt know of the Doctors show....

It's syndicated--here we get it on ABC

AMC was the most expensive but they moved to LA so now OLTL is the most expensive with GH being the least expensive.

Wha? I always read GH had the highest budget (though the rumour was in the last year AMC had some budget probs going over and OLtl was consistantly under).

I don't think AMC's budget will improve until they fire JHC. She seems to be so incompetent and burns through so much money, you'd almost think they use it for toilet paper.

+1

I def have been enjoying the show a lot more the past two or so months, but I think what really needs to be done is to get an EP with more vision.

The bottom line is that if this is a "midday" newcast, I'm almost willing to bet that this would be for the 1PM/Noon Central hour. Or maybe ABC would do the show live immediately following the View and run another feed at 1PM for affiliates so they could choose what time they want to air the broadcast, with AMC or OLTL and GH immediately following.

I hope this makes it off the drawing board!

I respect your opinion, but don't really get why you're so excited--couldn't most daytime newswatchers who wanted another news show just watch CNN, MSNBC, Fox, etc? What new elemenet will this bring to the table?

Re budgets, I think AMC has more or less fixed its probs in LA--the original gossip remember had to do with the fialure to rent a storage space, etc. Also, ABC are smart enough to know after a move like that for the first little bit the show will need to settle into its budget--just the nature of the industry.

They are so damn greedy but I guess that's how company's are these days they need the money to keep the network running even though they make alot of money on shows in primetime

Do they make that much? A show like Lost is expensive to make. I know in the 70s daytime often helped support primetime--LaGuardia's book quotes Fred Silverman (when he was at ABC I think) saying that most primetime dramas cost so much that they don't make a profit for the network until things like syndication packages are factored in.