Does these things even work, but good luck to you and whoever else joins you. As an New Yorker I am more concern with the closing of two hospitals than the cancellation of a soap for our economy.

Not a New Yorker, but +1

Once a show is canceled on a network, yes it won't be back on that network but there are plenty of new networks these days. Look at the facebook campaign for Betty White to host SNL. If there was no interest in that she wouldn't have hosted the show. There are several examples of show that are still on that were canceled. They are Law and Order Criminal Intent, and Friday Night Lights. What about Scrubs? It was canceled and came back. So the excuse that a network won't change its mind is not good enough. Acting is going to suffer if soaps are canceled. It also will hurt the New York City economy. This is a soap opera board. Why are you so hostile to soaps? Do you think that you won't get older some day and your opinion won't matter? How do you feel when you are 35 and no give a hoot about what you watch? I am sick of the discrimination against soaps. I am not an actor but I have watched soaps for years. Do you know that Alec Baldwin, Meg Ryan, Julianne Moore and Morgan Freeman are just a few of the talented stars that get there start on soaps. By the way, yes the FBI did visit our group leader but that was because Barbara Bloom who is head of CBS Daytime TV thought bars of Disney soap was anthrax. Even the FBI thought the complaint was stupid.

Bellcurve eloquently said so much of what I think and better than I ever could so I'm going to address only a few of these.

You're right that fan campaigns have done a lot for a number of shows but these are different situations. The Facebook group to bring Betty White to SNL had more than 500,000 members and FB is a small segment of the viewing audience. Now compare that to the number of real live people who watch soaps.

As for Friday Night Lights, I was up to my neck in the Save FNL campaign. Do you have any idea what those people did? The main goal was to show NBC that economic power of the FNL viewing audience. There was a website where you could donate money to send mini footballs to NBC (close to 20,000 of them), but on top of that money was collected to purchase and donate copies of the S1 DVD to the USO to send to troops overseas and money was raised for a number of charities for people dealing with paralysis and also to help pay for the medical and, unfortunately, funeral bills for the real person that the FNL character of Jason Street was modeled on. That fan campaign was run like a business with specific goals, objectives, and tactics and guess what? Not one rally.

On to your question, "This is a soap opera board. Why are you so hostile to soaps?" I'm not hostile to soaps, (well only one) but I think that the reason the genre is in such poor shape is because old soaps haven't been allowed to die and be replaced by new soaps. The best news I've heard for soaps in years is the launch of Proper Manors

Bottom line, do what you feel you must but it isn't just the suits you need to convince.

I fail to see how a mass of people standing in the streets with shirts and signs is going to compel a business to reverse a huge decision that was made months ago. No offense, but I just don't get it. I saw video from the last rally. Not many people showed up and half the people there were just standing, looking around, looking absolutely frightened.

I don't think there's anything that's gonna save the soaps as we know them now, but where was all this outrage when the ratings started to plummet and TPTB resorted to outrageous choices to try to capture a different audience?

There are several examples of show that are still on that were canceled. They are Law and Order Criminal Intent, and Friday Night Lights.

FNL was never canceled.

Even the FBI thought the complaint was stupid.

And a bunch of adults sending bars and bars of soaps to a place of business isn't?

And a bunch of adults sending bars and bars of soaps to a place of business isn't?

LOL! I think that they were sending powdered soap also which is why CBS thinking anthrax called the FBI.

bellcurve, I'm not gonna quote your entire post (because it's [!@#$%^&*] obnoxious when people do that) but +1 (this too is obnoxious).

As long as they are replaced with fun talk shows, traditional game shows, and bitchy court arbitrators, bring it on!

If they were actually being replaced with something good it would improve daytime. Being canceled for a soulless and cheap update of LMAD, or Emeril Lagasse, on the other hand...

LOL! I think that they were sending powdered soap also which is why CBS thinking anthrax called the FBI.

Oh, I guess powdered soap is less expensive. Still! I don't have the money to be doing stuff like that. No indeed. If the networks can't respond to a mass of well-written, thought-out, eloquent letters, then I have no desire to do business with them.

If they were actually being replaced with something good it would improve daytime. Being canceled for a soulless and cheap update of LMAD, or Emeril Lagasse, on the other hand...

+1

LMAD is pure s h i t trash of a show!!

+1

LMAD is pure s h i t trash of a show!!

[Judge Judy]Let's not play with each other.[/Judge Judy] Douglas Marland could come back from the dead and create the next boon to the art of soap opera and you would still be saying that.

Deal is awful, I completely agree. But you would be saying that about anything that replaces ATWT.

I can't save soaps, who aren't putting in the effect to save themselves.