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Oh, ABC. People watching SOAPnet do not want to see two days of 5-hr blocks of The Chew! But "The Chew's Countdown To Christmas" is what will be airing on 12/17 and 12/18!

Thats just tacky.

This is from another board but I thought it was worth posting.

In this weeks entermainment weekly, there is an article about talk shows taking over daytime. The head of CBS Les Moonves says that his network went from losing $25 million to making about $100 million in daytime by getting rid of two soaps and adding talk and game shows.

Then it says that ABC is following CBS' lead and this quote from Brian Frons "People are really interested in multiple points of view, multiple voices. Daytime viewers are also saying that if they are going to give us an hour a day, we need to give them something that is going to improve their lives." Later on he says, "You can't spend more money for less audience. That's why you see people going toward programming forms that cost less to produce."

Edited December 2, 201114 yr by JaneAusten

Whatever. Soaps are dead and Frons and Moonves are writhing and laughing Vivian-style on their grave.

Frons & Moonves do STFU.

I'd rather have game shows instead of talk shows. I watch Lets Make a Deal when home.

Edited December 2, 201114 yr by OLTL_fan

Whatever. Soaps are dead and Frons and Moonves are writhing and laughing Vivian-style on their grave.

LOL to the Vivian reference. Amazing.

The head of CBS Les Moonves says that his network went from losing $25 million to making about $100 million in daytime by getting rid of two soaps and adding talk and game shows.

Yet they never, ever mention either of these shows anymore, after hyping The Talk for months. I guess there's nothing to mention when your show is only known for firing people.

I love how Frons is claiming that these are different voices when ABC is so lazy they even give them the same titles.

It's filler, and I don't know why they pretend otherwise. They see viewers as stupid and fat and easily distracted, so this is the monkey flinging crap. Fine. But please stop pretending it's anything else.

I'd take Let's Make a Deal over a generic talk show any day.

WHAT??

Not gonna lie, I answer to God and not folk, I have had The Chew on as background more than a couple times.

Traitor. Can't have anything else on in the background?

yea like DAYS or B&B?

Not gonna lie, I answer to God and not folk,

Traitor. Can't have anything else on in the background?

Could, and often do, but when I'm working (and when it was particularly awful) I had AMC on as "background" as well.

I say again...