Members Gray Bunny Posted March 22, 2012 Members Share Posted March 22, 2012 Sad. Another daytime staple gone. Not that their last 7-8 years were any good. Just another sign of this once-great industry fizzling out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted March 22, 2012 Members Share Posted March 22, 2012 They merged into one mag Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted March 22, 2012 Members Share Posted March 22, 2012 Since when? Bc as of this week they still exist as 2 seperate magazines. Has there been a recent announcement of a merger? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted March 22, 2012 Members Share Posted March 22, 2012 I was told they had merged into one mag, isn't it called ABC, NBC, and CBS soaps in depth on the cover now? I can't see them keeping two mags when NBC & ABC have one soap a piece Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Eric83 Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 That's what ABC SID has on their cover now but GH is always the main soap on the cover. CBS SID still exists on its own. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 When OLTL was cancelled, ABC SID expanded to cover all soaps. GH is still the leading soap and its still officially called ABC SID. CBS SID only covers the 2 CBS soaps and Days. You can see that on their website http://soapsindepth.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BKuzak Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 Yes i was going to say the same thing. I remember they used to put the cast of Melrose Place and Beverly Hills 90210 on the cover back in the early 1990's. This isn't new. I just didn't like it when it turned into more of a "enquire" type magazine with eye-grabbing headlines several different stories on the cover. I liked when they would pick one soap and put them on the Cover and put little headlines on top about something else. I did not like when it started putting all big stories on the cover, along with big headlines that are misleading. they started it around 2003.. for back issues, go here. http://www.soapoperaworld.com/index.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Max Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 If they had expressed their honest opinions about the writing, they would also have been punished in the short-term by being denied access to those all-important spoilers. In the long-term, however, this conduct only hastened the genre's demise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 I bought the AMC farewell issue (which amounted toi three pages or something) and they had an advertisement for a sister magazine devoted to reality tv shows. Will that still run? It seemed they (rightfully) realized their timing was limited. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members juniorz1 Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 Agreed. I remember the AW Cover with Frankie/Cass/Kathleen like it was yesterday. Their Santa Barbara tribute issue was the finest in the business- I don't believe SOD even got one. Frankly, the only reason SOD became successful in the late 90s was by copying the old SOW format. And sorry Carolyn Hinsey, but there has never been nor will there ever be a finer soap opinion column than Marlena DeLaCroix's Critical Condition. I LOVED the Our Miss Brooke piece she did, essentially saying Brooke had gone mad with her sexual obsession with Thorne. It was the most in-depth, psychological examination of a character I'd ever seen printed in a soap mag. Frankly, I think it was around 2000 when they really fell off the beaten path. Lastly, am I mistaken, or did they give AW as fine a tribute issue as they did for SB?? Either way, I read SOW pretty much every week from the beginning and often bought it. SOD, not so much. Edited to Add: I still am in LOVE with their Daytime Emmy Dream Ballot issues they did in the early days, as well as the For Your Consideration issue. FYC came out before the ballots- they'd release it right at the end of the eligibility period to encourage actors to put their name in the ring as well as push actors they thought should be nominated. The Dream Ballot was based on the actual Emmy Ballot and was voted on by their editors as to who they thought deserved recognition that year. Plus, they'd reveal many of the actors who kept their names off the ballot so we'd understand why they weren't chosen. And to top it off, we'd even get Honorable Mentions/Runners Up. Obviously, that is what my SON Emmy Dream Ballot is based on, which I will start voting on in the beginning of April, FYI. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 What I enjoyed most about Marlena was she didn't try to be the voice of the people. Carolyn Hinsey was so horribly condescending as she tried to act like every viewer, and lecture viewers in that faux-folksy manner. Marlena never tried to act like her opinion was anything but her own. My favorite Marlena column was the one she wrote about McTavish's GL - The Hollow Drum. I also loved their "rating the replacement" articles, and the anniversary issues where they would try to get quotes from all the major actors over the years. Their DAYS issues from 1995 were wonderful and were the first real exposure I had to the history of DAYS. Even yesterday, I saw an old photo of Denise Alexander with her head cocked, holding a pencil, and I immediately said to myself, "Hey, that was in the Soap Opera Weekly DAYS issue." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members quartermainefan Posted March 23, 2012 Members Share Posted March 23, 2012 I never bought the magazine but I find this very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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