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It's so funny, all my friends that have fun of me over the years since my soap love started with Passions have been telling me they're sorry and how this must suck for me...

I'm actually going to be even more pissed once Soapnet is gone too.

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I hope so, too. For years, stars from all the soaps have had to tow the company line and pretend like neither we nor they can't see what was really going on - and this is the thanks we all get? Yes, I realize, soaps are a business like any other and that at the end of the day, it's dollars and cents, not emotions and histories, that keep the wheels turning (ironic in this case, since daytime was practically built on emotion and history). But to have not one but two long-running soaps cavalierly dismissed w/o a thought toward how viewers might respond to losing their stories - or worse, with the insinuation that what they have to offer in the way of replacements will somehow be "better" for them in the long run than good, old-fashioned, life-enriching storytelling...?

As I said before, this isn't like GUIDING LIGHT's ending; as much as I still love that show, I knew P&G and CBS had sucked the life out of it, and there was no hope at all of it ever going on. AMC and OLTL were in terrible shape, but not past the point of all hope. Something still could've been done. True, nothing lasts forever, but doesn't anyone at all feel they owe it to 2+ million people - and perhaps more importantly, to their pocketbooks - to try everything before just calling it a day?

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So someone on another board said that on the Today Show this morning, they discussed the cancellations of AMC/OLTL and used shots of Bo/Nora, Tess/Ryder/Ford and also discussed the controversial stories that were done on OLTL showing Kish and Marty and Andrew discussing her rape. Anybody else see this or have a clip?

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There used to be one. It sort of went hand-in-hand with the whole "Trading Spaces"/"While You Were Out"/"Design on a Dime" home renovation phenomenon. At the end of the day, however, people got burned out on both types of shows. Why? Because human beings crave. story.

Why must Frons even pretend what he's doing is innovative? One, it ain't; and two, it's all motivated by a need to keep costs down and keep from losing that airtime to the affiliates (which they will in the end anyway). He would replace it with the Farm Bureau Report if he could get away with it.

Now, going after the sizable Hispanic/Latino market that watches Univision and Telemundo by developing Latin-styled telenovelas? That's innovative.

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I was never a PORT CHARLES fan, but even I thought that was trifling. If they care(d) enough to watch, Frons, why not "reward" them with a happy ending for all their favorite characters? Who knows? Such a gesture of goodwill might engender some, if not all, to at least sample what you offer as a replacement. I'm just saying.

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ABC gave back the half hour to the local stations. I don't think they cared.

What I want to know is why Brian Frons continues to be employed? He's been in soaps like 30 years, and really once these new shows are on he will be as needed as Barbara Bloom was to CBS.

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