Members Wizzerkat Posted October 20, 2013 Members Share Posted October 20, 2013 These two things pretty much sum it up for me. It seems that these days, if it's not GH or Y&R the show might as well not exist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members frequentsoapfan Posted October 20, 2013 Members Share Posted October 20, 2013 Soap Press stopped hyping Y&R awhile back. They actually go hard on Y&R for the same things they praise GH for while saying Y&R needs to take a cue from GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 21, 2013 Members Share Posted October 21, 2013 I never feel comfortably commenting on the ABC soaps as I never watched them or followed them but as far as the soaps I know go I know Days always got so much much press coverage over ATWT/GL/AW. I remember jumping up and down over a Josh and Reva SOD cover in 2006 which sounds bad but by that time I felt the show, despite how bad it had become had largely been forgotten; it was the first time the show had been on the front cover on SOD since 2002. Regarding Y&R as a loyal viewer I could easily understand the heavy press coverage it got I mean it is the #1 soap but what the soap press never understood nor explored why it was the #1 soap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapsnstuds Posted October 21, 2013 Members Share Posted October 21, 2013 To this day, Stephen Nichols and Mary Beth Evans from Days of Our Lives are still going strong -- at least in the memories of a lot of diehard Patch and Kayla fans back in the day. Magazine covers featuring those two, especially from the 1987 to 1989 period, are always a hot commodity. And believe-it-or-not but Charles Shaughnessy and Patsy Pease still have something of a cult following 25 years after they hit their zenith on the same soap. Oddly enough this was around the same time that I quit watching NBC and switched to the ABC soaps with the exception of Santa Barbara. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soaplovers Posted October 21, 2013 Members Share Posted October 21, 2013 My mom was a hard-core Shane/Kimberly fan so that's true LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted October 23, 2013 Members Share Posted October 23, 2013 Days of our Lives and General Hospital - probably because they seem to have the most psycho fans (who will buy anything). hehe But, yeah - those two. And to a lesser degree, The Young and the Restless and All My Children. As for ignored, the half-hour soaps; also, the P&G soaps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted October 23, 2013 Members Share Posted October 23, 2013 Yeah, in my timeframe as a fan, obviously Loving tops the list. Days is the one that seems to top the list--but I guess I understand why. I mean when they had the SOD Awards Days would always seem to win everything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Pine Charles Posted October 23, 2013 Members Share Posted October 23, 2013 Yep... even when their ratings were in the toilet in the early '90s. I don't think it's about the amount of fans, but the personally of the fans you have. Mary Sue from Iowa could have been sending in 50 votes. LOL And just to clarify - I'm not saying every single DOOL fan is like that. I also know Neilsen ratings aren't 100% accurate. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SoapDope Posted October 23, 2013 Author Members Share Posted October 23, 2013 I agree. I remember when DOOL won every stinking award it seemed during those years. Didn't they win an award for the devil possesion storyline with Marlena ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted October 26, 2013 Members Share Posted October 26, 2013 They won in 1996 for Best Show. But there was no actual 'best storyline' award for the previous year. DAYS & GH share the top spot, followed closely behind by Y&R. in recent years, there have been endless Nick/Phyllis/Sharon and Victor covers. I'd say AMC was next, then B&B, then OLTL. ATWT & GL afterwards. GL never had a cover on SOD after 2002. I think I read that LOVING had only one cover on SOD during its 12 year run. And even that may be incorrect. It may have just been Weekly. I found it funny how Another World seemed to get more cover stories upon its cancellation announcement. Suddenly they were a hot story to cover. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 28, 2013 Members Share Posted October 28, 2013 They had that Josh and Reva cover in 2006 I mentioned above but they never got a farewell cover like ATWT did the following year. I actually don't even remember when the last time ATWT had a cover before that, probably had to be at least ten years at the least. The most interesting was when Jacqueline Courtney's death made the cover back in 2011 and they had weird touched up photo of Steve and Alice up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ~bl~ Posted October 28, 2013 Members Share Posted October 28, 2013 Was that SOD a subscribers only cover with Josh and Reva? I recall a couple of times that they had P&G show covers, but they weren't in stores. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted October 28, 2013 Members Share Posted October 28, 2013 Days was overkill and ATWT was ignored...yeah they got covers but only for big events....Someone sneezed on Days and it was on the front cover Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapfan770 Posted October 28, 2013 Members Share Posted October 28, 2013 Maybe it was. It did seem though anytime GL started getting publicity they did run at least run a cover: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr Neil Curtis Posted October 29, 2013 Members Share Posted October 29, 2013 Did Loving ever have SOD covers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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