AMC and OLTL Canceled!

[LoyaltoAMC]

I'm afraid for Robin! Have to admit I love all the backlash. None of it will amount to a hill of beans in terms of saving these shows, but it'd be gratifying to see Frons and Sweeney sweat just a little after so cavalierly pulling the shows.

[DRW50]

Oh, don't get me wrong - I think she's great and it's nice to see someone who gives a damn. I just compared them because of the Egypt quote.

[dragonflies]

Oh I know, I was teasing

[Adam]

She should launch her own "Torpedo of Truth" one woman show!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Hoover better watch out, ABC could decide they never want to do business with them again.

I mean, part of the ad revenue soaps generate go into their budgets. If sponsors go pulling their sh!t now, it means even less money are going to be going into AMC and OLTL in their final months.

For every Hoover, there's a competitor ready and willing to take its place on the ABC commercial lineup.

Just sayin'....

[All My Shadows]

I think it generally boils down to the P&G soaps' core fanbase mostly (but not all!) being older, not tech savvy, etc. They did boycotts and pickets in the streets to no avail. The ABC base is a bit younger and know a thing or two about using the Internet to their advantage, and so there's crazy stuff like trending on Twitter and Yahoo, making the front page of nearly every single entertainment website (and the entertainment pages of general news websites), etc.

If this goes on for a few days, finally, ONCE AND FOR ALL someone will have actually started the beating of those goddamn drums.

[DRW50]

I think you're right. I think that this would probably, at most, make ABC and the other networks reconsider whether or not to junk all other soaps and any other scripted programming and move towards fifth-rate stuff they only put on the air because they claim it's cheap to produce. But I think that's worth some complaint, for the future of scripted shows, if nothing else.

I don't even mind reality shows. I just hate the idea of anything being slapped onscreen to squeeze out a few nickels in the short term. That's what "The Chew" and the other one seem to be.

[dragonflies]

[DRW50]

Consider what a shambles ABC has been in recent years, I think they will end up taking a loss on the replacement advertiser. I actually wonder if some companies are just looking for a reason to cut ties with a sinking ABC.

[Khan]

Unlike Sheen, though, Robin Strasser is a trained actress who'd be smart and connected enough to hire writers to fashion one-woman-show material. She wouldn't just get up onstage and ramble and bore the hell out of people for ninety minutes.

[Soapsuds]

I doubt Sweeney is losing any sleep on the other hand Frons is probably peeing in his pants as we speak.

[dragonflies]

+1

[Adam]

YES!

[Ryan Chamberlain]

I'm on a drug. It's called Robin Strasser. You try it once. You *don't* die. You are just HOOKED.

Love that woman. Just followed her on twitter (mine's @cloudsweare...if you all don't follow me by now. Do it please. If you want.)

She's amazing in every sense of the word. Fiery, bitchy, smart! She's now my female version of Mike (except...my door don't swing her way. Nothing wrong with that. But, not for me. )

[Khan]

Whether or not Hoover is motivated to pull its advertising in support of AMC/OLTL fans, I applaud the decision of any advertisers to pull out from these networks. (Please, it isn't like there aren't other ways to get to us, lol.) For too long, the networks, especially the Big Four, have made creative and programming decisions w/ little regard for those who keep them in business - meaning, of course, the viewers. And all the while, they use the advertisers as their scapegoat, claiming they're only trying to give them the audiences they want, when the advertisers are steadfastly responding, "What the [!@#$%^&*]?! Who said we wanted them?"