Members Khan Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 Point taken. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 Say what you will, but we will never have another Ellen Wheeler. She is truly one of a kind. For all the wrong reasons, but still one of a kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 From your mouth to God's ear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 To clarify. B&B is owned by Bell-Phillip Television, 100% Bell owned and operated. Y&R is owned, in majority, by Sony Pictures Television, Bell Dramatic Serial Company is a production partner and Corday Productions with an extreme minority share. DAYS is owned, in majority, by Corday Productions, Sony Pictures Television is a minority production partner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 So when Moonves was talking about the end of the "client-owned soap", I guess there was some going on over at Y&R and B&B. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members kalbir Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 When I think the final four will go (in date order): General Hospital: April 2013 Days: November 2015 B&B: March 2017 Y&R: March 2018 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaytimeFan Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 Yeah, Moonves usually makes very coherent public statements...but the "client owned soap" thing was a WTF. The only thing I'm wondering is perhaps "client owned" meant "a soap owned by an advertiser"...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 GH will be gone before 2013. I don't see any soaps lasting past 2015. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members darraholic Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 GH: 2012 DAYS: 2015 (I think NBC will let them continue for its 50th) B&B: 2015 Y&R: 2016 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 I think he must have meant P&G. Did he also talk about "special" soaps that would continue and people figured that had to be the Bell soaps? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted December 4, 2011 Members Share Posted December 4, 2011 When Wheeler cut the cast, she got rid of the wrong people...and then it became even more of a mess. Yes I thought client owned referenced P&G specifically, while Sony etc is not an advertiser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Melroser Posted December 5, 2011 Members Share Posted December 5, 2011 I wish shows would try to cut their budgets too and trim casts. But, instead of letting go A popular fan fave and pissing off that person's fans, the show should cut down the 'extras' and when a cast member that is popular leaves on his/her own just leave it that way without having to find a replacement. Too many times shows get rid of 'a name' just to hire another 'name' and all it does is upset the current audience. Of course, this will hurt shows if they are too character focused on one or two characters (GH Sonny and Jason, for example) and then if they leave the show it wouldn't work. The shows also need GOOD writers that know how to balance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AdelaideCate007 Posted December 5, 2011 Members Share Posted December 5, 2011 I can't speak for everywhere, but I've lived in Italy and France and grew up in South Africa and Australia (and live in Australia now) and B&B is HUGE internationally, especially in Italy. Days of Our Lives and Y&R are pretty popular down here as well (I remember Y&R being big in France) but nothing like B&B. They've tried to get GH on several times down here (it was on for a while in the 90s) but it never seems to catch on. I think GH will be gone in 2012 and that DAYS, Y&R, and B&B will hang on a little while longer. I think B&B will be the last one standing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted December 5, 2011 Members Share Posted December 5, 2011 BTW, AdelaideCate, thanks for all the videos you've uploaded on YouTube! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members StevieM Posted December 5, 2011 Members Share Posted December 5, 2011 I think GH is gone in September 2012. B&B and Y&R will likely go at the end of their contracts in 2013 and 2014, respectively. Amazingly, DAYS may be the last soap standing. KC may ask for a 3 year contract, with NBC offering 1 1/2 years. They could compromise 50/50 at 2 1/4, which would bring it to December 2015, just after it's 50th anniversary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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