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I think it would be possible if the soap was heavily pared down to the core element that would make it a success. The problem is that most likely, these shows being pared down would mean even more of their worst characters who helped drive viewers away in the first place.

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Which (IMO) would be the sweetest "revenge" of all. You might kill the ALL MY CHILDREN's and the ONE LIFE TO LIVE's and the AS THE WORLD TURNS's and the GUIDING LIGHT's...but you'll never kill the soaps. No matter how hard you try. ;-)

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With OLTL's 18-49 and 18-34 rankings of late, I could easily see NBC picking it up, moving production to Rockefeller Center, and airing it after DAYS....if this were ten years ago.

But now? Sure, it does better than DAYS and B&B, and nearly as well as GH...and sure, ABC says it's willing to sell them. But ABC really isn't willing to make it easy for another network to buy them (it would make them look bad if it did well for another net), and neither NBC nor CBS is really interested in picking up a soap now that they've all been marked for death.

DAYS won't go beyond its current contract of September 2013. B&B won't go beyond its current contract of November 2013. And even Y&R is unlikely to go beyond its current contract of September 2014 (though it would be the only one of the remaining four that MIGHT go beyond that date, however unlikely). By New Year's Day 2015, I would be shocked to see any of the current shows remaining.

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Hey, Khan - can you at least sort of remember when they suspended airing Loving and Ryan's Hope for two weeks... and condensed AMC, OLTL, and GH to 40 minutes each - creating just a 2-hour block of soaps per day to make time for Summer Olympics coverage in Los Angeles?

Hugh Downs actually had to read the teaser for an AMC episode coming up... He said "Will Jenny survive her injuries?" and then glibly said to his co-anchor, "Will Kim Delaney re-sign her contract?" That always sticks in my mind...

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:-D

(Yeah, I'm an ass. But that's why you love me, R.)

I actually do. More importantly, though, I remember my mom being relieved, b/c it gave her time to catch up on CAPITOL, which aired opposite RH in our market. LOL!

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ABC Daytime Jilts Carly Phillips

By Mala Bhattacharjee • Posted: Apr 22, 2011 [url=http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/abc-daytime-jilts-carly-phillips]'>http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/abc-daytime-jilts-carly-phillips]

Fans from all walks of life have been devastated by the April 14 cancellation of ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE — and New York Times best-selling romance author Carly Phillips is among them!

Read more: http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/abc-daytime-jilts-carly-phillips

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