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

[bellcurve]

I wonder if ABC writers will have no choice but to play nice or whether they will go on strike against their company?

[Ann_SS]

No doubt the audience will be treated to early episodes of Greenlee/Ryan. Kendall/Zach, John/Natalie, Cole/Starr, Jason/Sam, and Spinelli/Maxie etc.

[bellcurve]

Last summer you liked it...

This Thanksgiving, you'll love it!

All three hours of the Llanview Prom! Thanksgiving Day! ONLY ON ABC!

[Scotty]

Oh dear God NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Jonathan]

I'd love to see the Dance Marathon again on All My Children.

[Eric83]

I am so glad this is happening, mainly because this should mean no soap will be getting cancelled for a while. This won't start until 2011?

[Franky]

The thing about soaps and reruns is the episodes aren't self-contained. So, if one of those mystical young, potential viewers catches a rerun and comes across a character or storyline that they really like, they can't tune in the next day to see things progress.

[bellcurve]

FUSION: A three hour retrospective.

1PM: Liza Colby and the girls form Fusion.

2PM: Rihanna performs at CONfusion.

3PM: Greenlee tries to fire Erica

OLTL: Three Hours of Spring Fling 1993!

As Carlivati prepares to honor history with Cole raping a drunken, whorish Starr at a Fraternity Party, watch three hours of tapes Carlivati just rented from the ABC Vault to write this awful remake.

AMC/OLTL: BabySwitch!

3 hour clipshow, announcing the return of Alexa Havins to daytime in the role of Marissa!

GH: Physician Heal Thyself

Three full hours of the most intense, heartstopping moments at General Hospital

1PM: Tony hears B.J.'s heart in Maxie's chest.

2PM: The Hospital Explodes via Toxic Balls

3PM: Shirley's Surgery.

GH: Robin's Best Moments!

1PM: Robin is with Stone during his final moments alive

2PM: Robin reunites with Anna in Pine Valley on AMC

3PM: Robin and Patrick's Wedding

GH: The Faces of Carly!

Enjoy this three hour marathon highlighting the "three" actresses who have played Carly.

1PM: Carly shoots Tony in open court.

2PM: Carly finds out Michael "died"(AKA "Show me the picture")

3PM: Carly and Sonny have hate sex after Michael is sentenced to Pentonville.

GH: The Tracy Quartermaine Retrospective

As GH prepares to kill off another member of the Quartermaine Clan, Enjoy this three hour retrospective with commentary from Jane Elliot!

1PM: Tracy holds Edward's heart medicine from him.

2PM: THE CITY: Tracy hires actors to impersonate her family.

3PM: Tracy and Luke Wed.

Well it's starting now with Brenda Barrett day. I am almost certain they'll be cutting more episodes over the Thanksgiving Holiday, Christmas, and New Years.

[All My Shadows]

I'm all for it. With this Brenda thing, they've gone back as far as 14 years, so I'm gonna keep a little faith in ol' ABCD. See what they can do.

[DRW50]

I would half-expect some "flashbacks" of Jane Elliot wearing a Debbie Harry wig and blue dress, sitting in the corner at a hospital costume party, telling Bobbie that she sure does love Luke and someday she's going to marry him.

[Soapsuds]

OLTL: The Ford LoveFest on Aug 17

Enjoy this three hour retrospective with commentary from Trevor St. John

1PM: Ford appears shirtless and pours water all over his naked body while Langston watches in heat!

2PM: Ford is attacked!

3PM: Ford and Langston have sex!

[Jonathan]

Nikki Finke wrote about it. She admitted in the article that DaytimeConfidential asked her to spread the word:

http://www.deadline.com/2010/07/abc-daytime-pushing-wga-for-waiver-or-else-network-starts-firing-soap-writers/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

[dawn9476]

Actually PC was canceled during their first six month hiatus. So that six months off/six months of work never really took affect. I believe PC stopped production in March of 2003 and went a six months hiatus. They were scheduled to come back in August but it never happened. They were canceled a few months into their first hiatus and plans to come back that August were scraped. The show went off the air in October.

[bellcurve]

That is not accurate...

PC took on the six months on/six months off beginning in 2002(I think). They had at least one hiatus before they returned to shoot another six months and then get canned.

[JackPeyton]

Days has off like 14 weeks a year. They break one week a month, take an extended summer and holiday vacation. It has really helped their budget.