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...

Is ABC and CBC SID still around? I see no point to those with only four soaps left.

They merged into one mag

They merged into one mag

Since when? Bc as of this week they still exist as 2 seperate magazines. Has there been a recent announcement of a merger?

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

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

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.

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

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/

Edited March 23, 201213 yr by Cheap21

SOD has been covering prime time for at least 30 years, but at least they were soaps.

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

Its partially their fault for sugar coating some of the awful writing.....instead of saying how shitty some stories were they continued to be all nicey nicey....it would have benefited the soaps had they been more honest with the soaps and their viewers.

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.

Edited March 23, 201213 yr by Max

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.

SOW died when Mimi Torchin cleaned out her desk, her covers were the best in the business. She did some great work on Another World back then.

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.

Edited March 23, 201213 yr by juniorz1

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."

I never bought the magazine but I find this very sad.

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Edited March 23, 201213 yr by Paul Raven