Is ABC Preparing to Cancel AMC and OLTL?

[ER Tosh]

I made a thread about WWE in the PrimetimeOxides forum since it seems people want to talk about the topic.

[dragonflies]

Jamey tweeted this a few hours ago when asked about the future of OLTL:

@Marty2634 I hear some sort of announcement re: ABC will be made by the 15, and that things r looking "slightly" better.

[leahanna]

so we will know on friday, so what do you all think? Both shows gone, safe, one or the other?

[Soapsuds]

Ummm..I will guess...AMC has a couple of months to get its numbers up or it is cancelled by fall. OLTL has another year left.

[leahanna]

really you think oltl is safe for now? I was thinking that they both have through May to prove themselves or they will be canceled by years end

[Soapsuds]

AMC could be a goner already but I think they will give them time to bring up the numbers again. I think with Days at the bottom of the ratings helps out AMC just a bit but not very much. AMC still ranks dead last in the 18-49 category.

[leahanna]

I agree, I think a cancellation announcement would have been announced already if they were gone in September because they are probably writing Aug or Sept right now, at least OLTL is, AMC with their writer change might not be. So you think OLTL is okay for now?

[Soapsuds]

If I were to bet some money....I'd say AMC has several months to bring up ratings...if not it will be cancelled....I actually give AMC one year and no more...with OLTL lasting another year after that.

[leahanna]

that's good, I am feeling better about it but I don't want to be blindsided so I am glad someone else feels the same way I do

[LeClerc]

If ABC is making an announcement sometime next week (and assuming it has to do with the soaps) doesn't the fact that there is an announcement suggest that a show is going to be canceled?

I can't see them coming out with an announcement that neither show is being canceled, or an announcement that the shows have been given x amount of time to turn turn things around.

[Soapsuds]

YOu have a good point there. I never thought of it that way...lol

Someone mentioned the 15th is the date something would be announced.

[leahanna]

it could also be a deadline to the stations on their fall daytime schedules, so we will know on the 15th what the schedule is, could be the same, one show is gone or they both are

[LoyaltoAMC]

From the sound of things, it looks like the 2pm spot is what they'd first want to open up for whatever new reality show they have available, just because that's the most enviable time slot. Whether that means OLTL would be cut (probably unfairly) to make room for the new show, or AMC would be cut and OLTL moved into its timeslot in most markets, is anyone's guess. ABC going out of its way to mention Howarth's return, and probably to a lesser extent Broderick's, tells me that the shows are safe for at least part of the 2011-2012 season, until they can find a suitable reality show or shows to replace them. I mean, why go out of their way to get Howarth and Broderick back and then announce these changes if they plan on cancelling them in the very near future.

[dragonflies]

Another tweet from Jamey:

Hearing a decision will be announced re: ABC Daytime THIS WEEK! Keep calling Anne Sweeney! (818) 460-7700

[All My Shadows]

And what will happen when nothing at all is announced THIS WEEK?