ABC May Be Ready To Trim Its Daytime Drama Lineup: Will 'All My Children' Go?

"It's confirmed! AMC is canceled! But it's not final! I might be wrong! But I'm not! This is confirmed! AMC is canceled! Let's hope not!"

Remember, things can change on a dime.

I couldn't have said it better about the move. Adam.

Especially in Vincent Irizarry and Alicia Minshew's cases. Both of them were in NYC and raising a family. They moved for basically nothing. I feel sorry for them the most.

Sorry, I am not going to cry over actors making darn good salaries when many out of work middle class folks would kill to make such high salaries for even 18 months.

Exactly! This girl doesn't know diddly squat and she's just acting like she does so that when it is announced she can be like "Told ya'll!... ".

Any chance the Ravenbeauty hatefest can start its own thread? This is old territory.

Perhaps another Jacob Young spankfest....

Edited March 23, 201114 yr by marceline

Honestly, she tries to get more readers. Just like Nelson Branco...When the news comes out they will be like "I TOLD YOU SO!!" but if they are wrong, they would say "Things change fast"...

^She lost that really quickly, though. I didn't like her (and I got some of my best David/Erica in YEARS from her )because looking back now, I think she just disguised her plot points under history and character interaction. She didn't do anything different than Pratt did, ie. shock and awe, she just used their pasts to do it. Maybe that's what the show needed, I don't know, but I don't love her recent work as much as most did.

The numbers can't be denied, though.

It's hitting the media now precisely BECAUSE they're in the process of taking care of this stuff. It's showing up on the desks of secretaries, assistants, interns and other people who were previously unaware and those people are starting to talk. It's hitting blogs because Tanya in Information Systems heard from Jerry in Business Affairs that Mohinder in Accounting said that he went to happy hour with Shaquanda in Investor Relations and she said they're wondering how to spin this in the annual report. (She also said that Will in Marketing cries in bed but that's a separate issue.)

+1 so good!

Tell us about poor Will?

It makes me sad to think we might have lost a year or two of AMC because someone forgot to rent a storage locker. It seems so ridiculous.

Please don't link to Ravenbeauty/Voy or bring anything over from there. Thanks!!

It makes me sad to think we might have lost a year or two of AMC because someone forgot to rent a storage locker. It seems so ridiculous.

We can blame JHC.

Please don't link to Ravenbeauty/Voy or bring anything over from there. Thanks!!

SORRY TOUPS! Won't happen agian! LOLS! We don't want false information.

Any chance the Ravenbeauty hatefest can start its own thread? This is old territory.

Whomever said it, then, my argument was to suggest that ABC is making this decision the last 2-3 weeks is ridiculous spin on ANYONE's part.

There's this pretty big deal called affiliates contracts which I have been privy to and they take forever to renegotiate the terms. Pulling AMC and replacing it with a talk show is simply not an overnight decision nor easy as some suggest. NBC couldn't keep all their affiliates on board for a 4th hour of today for example and that could happen to ABC's new talk show, too.

Edited March 23, 201114 yr by TeamEric

Perhaps another Jacob Young spankfest....

Mmmmmmmmmm.....sounds good to me!

I think the move could have worked if there had been a real effort to actually improve the show. I also don't understand why they moved only to have to spend more money, because they didn't have the right storage for the sets, or whatever it was. Why was the person who kept making these mistakes never replaced? Clearly someone at ABC wanted to save AMC, but why was there never any effort to get smarter budget control?

Clearly, the move didn't succeed in cutting production cots, but ABC did try to save AMC so all the hysterical claims otherwise are ridiculous. As for "improving the show," I am never going to agree with you and others that quality or story writing has anything to do with the soap ratings. Our society has changed. For some unfathomable reason, people who watch tv are obsessed with reality dramas, reality competitive shows, etc. Reality shows are even pushing many prime time scripted shows off the air. The soap genre is dying this format and nothing can save it.

I get what you're saying but I consider these actors to be just like those tons of other American workers. They do the best they can while profiteers and incompetents make decisions that [!@#$%^&*] with their lives. If a textile company chooses to move their operations from NYC to Mississippi, sure the workers have a choice: either uproot their lives or stay in the old town and try to find a job waiting tables. The ones who choose to move do so because they think and hope that that decision is going to pay off for them. They're tying their fortunes to their employer. Unfortunately their employer was a self-serving, narcissistic idiot.

I agree completely. My point is that the AMC actors are a damn sight luckier than average American workers who make less money and never have the option of moving to keep their job unless they are a top exe. If the actors lose their jobs, I totally sympathize, but being made temporarily uncomfortable to keep on making that kind of money is not a tragedy that some people are trying to make it out to be. I don't recall a lot of outrage on behalf of the AMC crew who lost their jobs when the show moved to LA.

Edited March 23, 201114 yr by Ann_SS

Please don't link to Ravenbeauty/Voy or bring anything over from there. Thanks!!

I don't know who this Ravenbeauty is....but something tells me that Toups is having Channa flashbacks!

Edited March 23, 201114 yr by StevieM

Leave my future husband out of this. Now if you must continue ripping Raven.

Whom ever said it, then, my argument was to suggest that ABC is making this decision the last 2-3 weeks is ridiculous spin on ANYONE's part.

Agreed. Sorry, my comment wasn't directed at you specifically. It's just that if people want to hate on Ravenbeauty, they'll still be able to do it after AMC is off the air. No need to hijack this particular thread tonight.