Will ABC Daytime Cut 20 Scripted Episodes Per Year, Per Soap?

[Soapsuds]

So on the 10th of Aug..all the ABC soaps will be pre-empted for 3 hour Brenda block?

[AllMyDaysatGH]

that is just....wow

[Jonathan]

Will Genie Francis get the same treatment if she returns?

I'm so glad they didn't do anything like this for The Real Greenlee.

[All My Shadows]

I can roll with this. I'll be watching the 90s episodes for the other storylines featured in the episodes. The 1996 ep features Sarah Brown's Carly, so I'm surprised they're rolling that one out.

As much as I want them to do something similar with AMC and OLTL, I have a feeling that they're the only reason why they're doing it now is because it's *gasp* Vanessa Marcil!! *gasp*

[sheilaforever]

ITA - I don't get the neagtive feedback: they're bascially doing what we always wanted - give us a classic episodes and these are classic episodes.

It suits the prupose to promote Brenda's return and saves the soaps money by taking a day off...

EDIT: only dowside; only GH would get such a treatment. AMC or OLTL - not so much.

[JackPeyton]

Thankfully, no.

[Ann_SS]

Daytime Confidential has updated this story. Seems ABC is playing hardball with the union. The waiver would allow ABC to avoid spending money to renegotiate individual contracts.

[dragonflies]

Not with Frons around, they can barely be bothered to ask her back

I never thought I'd say this, but this is a million times WORSE than the Real Greenlee stupidity. At least they didn't disrupt programming for that

[Cheap21]

20 episodes per their 3 soaps is 60 episodes which is about 3 months. Calling it next summer, each soap will go on hiatus for a month and ABC will air Brenda: The Lost Years

[teplin]

We should be so lucky.

[MichaelGL]

I think I might like this, if it means we'll get more better paced episodes/stories and more cliffhangers, better than having to wait until Feb, May or Nov for stories to reach their peak, and even then the writers still don't deliver. Nobody can deny that the amount of episodes we get these days from the ABC soaps, most are used as filler.

[Scotty]

This should be the biggest risk Frons should be allowed to take with ABC Daytime right now...

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[AllMyDaysatGH]

http://www.soapopera...m/news/breaking

More Events Planned For ABC Daytime

The upcoming SOAPnet tribute to Brenda is just the start of ABC Daytime's plans to have more encore episodes in their network lineup. A spokesperson for ABC Daytime/SOAPnet explains, "Fans have often expressed the desire to see their favorite episodes of our soaps… Throughout the year, ABC Daytime will occasionally encore episodes that will enhance current story and give fans the opportunity to see episodes they really loved and have wanted to see again."

[DRW50]

I'm sure fans have demanded to see Sonny shoot Dante...again and again and again and again.

[bellcurve]

Uh no, we should NOT be so lucky.

This would affect scriptwriters WAY more than it would the top honchos. Some of those scriptwriters deserve to be fired, but it definitely wouldn't be the Rebecca Taylor's of the bunch that would be cut.

MIGOD SONNY! YOU JUST SHOT YOUR OWN SON!