AMC and OLTL Will Move Online!

[Vee]

Hounding them isn't going to have any enhanced effect. PP apparently is trying to broker a cable deal, though, so obviously they're interested.

[Scotty]

Exactly....if anything it may have the opposite effect.

Just like when people were cheering some of those same companies who bought ads during The Chew when they told disgruntled AMC/OLTL fans that there thoughts and opinions really mattered to them and would be taken into consideration......only to keep buying ads on ABC. It's all about business....

[JaneAusten]

See I am not sure I have heard one person here say or think The Chew or whatever the other show is will succeed. I like Carla Hall I like Clinton Kelly but the premise of the show doesn't even appeal to me. And its got nothing to do with AMC cancelled as up until about 2 months ago I wasn't watching AMC much.

People have a right to protest and be unhappy but the shows will likely fail on their own merits not because soap fans boycotted. JMO. As far as the soaps being successful, I don't work for CBS, ABC, NBC so I have no idea what type of measurements are in place to know whether they are or not. Nor does anyone here. All we can do is speculate. All I read is how advertisers pay for certain demographic groups that really none of the soaps are meeting anymore and that includes OLTL despite the viewer gains. Primetime network TV shows get cancelled at the drop of a hat these days due to lack of meeting those demographic targets so its not a shock to see this impacted scripted daytime TV. Cable is likely a better place for them as the performance requirements are not as stringent because those networks have more than advertising dollars as a way to support them they also get carriage fees per subscriber from the cable companies.

Serialized drama is still viable, its all over network television. And there are plenty of nighttime soaps too. I hope that PP takes this shows and has the foresight to morph and change and progress as the audience warrants not because some dated showrunners and writers tell them thats how it needs to be. THats a lot of what's helped things change for the worse in a lot of ways.

[TeamEric]

That's it? They booed her?

OMG, from the posts here I thought they had tarred and feathered her LITERALLY.

Boofreakinghoo some soap fans dared to BOO the replacements. Grow a tougher skin, Carla.

[TeamEric]

Eh, I'll say it again PP wants AMC and OLTL's built-in audiences more than it wanted the shows.

[TeamEric]

Harass?

Marceline, Batali is WHITE and been booed plenty by soap fans. Heck, non soap fans have BOOED him plenty as he's not exactly had a hugely successful career so far.

[DRW50]

I don't know if Carla had any reaction to it or not - she probably knows not to take it personally. Or I hope she does. I guess being booed is hard not to take personally. I do feel sorry for the people on The Chew who aren't criticizing soap fans and just doing their job, but the bottom line is they just need to try to make this...show less offputting than it has been in the promos.

[Vee]

I think the Chew hosts are just doing their jobs, for the most part. But when you get comments from some of them like "Susan Lucci is Italian, she can come make pasta!" or "those shows didn't work!" I think they kind of deserve some of the blowback.

[DRW50]

Yeah - I can never remember who said those (wasn't it Mario?). I liked Carla a lot on Top Chef so if she'd said anything negative I would have been hurt in a silly fanboy way. That's why I don't think she has. But a few others did.

[Jonathan]

Any other scoop from The View taping? PP announcement?

[Pine Charles]

[skiman12082004]

I was wondering the same thing? Is anything new going to come out of Friday's show?

[R Sinclair]

Yep. That's it. They booed her.

Which, somehow, morphed into a scene from Mississippi Burning.

[All My Shadows]

Frons might have pitted AMC against the food program, but as far as I can see, that battle was fought (and lost by AMC) long before the cancellation announcement was made. I have no love for the food program, none whatsoever, and I'm obsessively protective of a show that I wanted to see succeed and be relevant and be awesome and be amazing again. But I really do not understand what is to be gained from booing her. It's not like she needs to be taught a lesson or two about taking a job. Boo the people who did ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to try to save these shows or update them or make them viable but then have the audacity to say "Soaps are dead."

[DRW50]

Logically, nothing is gained. Emotionally, this was a day for people who were so invested that they came to The View to say a goodbye to their show, a show they may have watched for decades. They see someone who represents the show replacing theirs, and they just lose it for a minute.