Members Khan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 SPILL. NOW. (Please?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 I got you both beat. I'm 31, and I started watching at 3. HA! :-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 That's what happens when you turn a talk-show hostess into the Second Coming. Some "go to the Cross," others "go to the O." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 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. ;-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Carolyn1980 Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 With an exacting critical eye, as well. Imagine, being 8 years old and drawing the profound conclusion that the Brooke English character had pretty much exhausted her relevance to the canvas of All My Children by that point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 This is like watching my two cats fight over the big fluffy pillow on the back porch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members You're Soaking in it Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 :-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! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Scotty Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 I read that too fast and thought they had fired JFP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 Really? When was the last time she watched a soap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 Any statement from David Canary? I'm surprised none have surfaced yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted April 22, 2011 Members Share Posted April 22, 2011 I don't want him to say anything. I want all of the AMC actors to stay under the radar. Let the loons and famewhores do their thing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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