The soaps can be cancelled or still be running.For me the last 15 years of GH and counting. ATWT after Douglas Marland's death, GL after Nancy Curlee left. AW when JFP took over as EP. The late James E. Reilly's two run's on Days. The late Gloria Monty's second run on GH. Ellen Wheeler's GL run. The last 10 years of AMC. JFP OLTL run Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini OLTL run.

I'd say the soaps stopped really being their own groundbreaking genre after 1995. Visually the looks are different and the money wasn't there anymore. So many shows floundered, IMO, in 1997, 1998 ...

Right now....

Right now....

+1

basically 2007 to Present overall though....

Right now.  For GH specifically, the late 90s on.

Now.

Edited November 24, 201510 yr by Nothin'ButAttitude

ATWT after Douglas Marland's death, GL after Nancy Curlee left.

These aren't "eras." Regardless of quality, both shows went through several different eras in their last 15 or so years.

I don't know if there actually a fair way to answer this. There have been plenty of times when one soap has been really good, and another has been incredibly bad, just because they're all so different.

Even now, it seems like GH's badness is still on a different than what the other three are doing.

ETA: You weren't talking about years for soaps overall, were you? Because that's what I thought you meant at first. And I don't truly think that can be answered.

 

 

Edited November 24, 201510 yr by MissLlanviewPA

I don't know if there actually a fair way to answer this. There have been plenty of times when one soap has been really good, and another has been incredibly bad, just because they're all so different.

Even now, it seems like GH's badness is still on a different than what the other three are doing.

ETA: You weren't talking about years for soaps overall, were you? Because that's what I thought you meant at first. And I don't truly think that can be answered.

 

 

Hi MissLIanview i love the name. I meant head writers and EP's runs over the years.

1994-till now…..soaps never recovered after 1993

Well, for me...

DAYS: 2004-2008 (Reilly 2.0 was a mess and Hogan was embarrassing, Dena at least had the baby switch to help make the show at least watchable).
GH: 2001-present. Guza gutted everything I loved about the show, and Cartini has set the carcass on fire. I can't begin to care about this show anymore, and Jean P Smart TV isn't inspiring my interest either. 
Y&R: 2005-present. Been some peaks and valleys through this time, but it isn't The Young & The Restless anymore, and Pratt writes the show like he's Snoopy writing his Dark & Stormy Night novel. I can't.
OLTL: 1990-91 are particularly embarrassing years, though 2010-11 was awful too, after The Great Minority Purge that saw the Abs Brothers eat the show. I've never been so glad to see someone killed off by a falling chandelier in all my life.

AMC: Whatever year the unabortion happened until the end of Pratt. Gross.

But that's just what I've seen. The last decade has been REALLY rough on these shows. Yikes.
 

ATWT after Douglas Marland's death, GL after Nancy Curlee left.

These aren't "eras." Regardless of quality, both shows went through several different eras in their last 15 or so years.

Sorry should've put regimes instead of era's. I'm stuck with this heading since can't undo it.

Well, for me...

DAYS: 2004-2008 (Reilly 2.0 was a mess and Hogan was embarrassing, Dena at least had the baby switch to help make the show at least watchable).
GH: 2001-present. Guza gutted everything I loved about the show, and Cartini has set the carcass on fire. I can't begin to care about this show anymore, and Jean P Smart TV isn't inspiring my interest either. 
Y&R: 2005-present. Been some peaks and valleys through this time, but it isn't The Young & The Restless anymore, and Pratt writes the show like he's Snoopy writing his Dark & Stormy Night novel. I can't.
OLTL: 1990-91 are particularly embarrassing years, though 2010-11 was awful too, after The Great Minority Purge that saw the Abs Brothers eat the show. I've never been so glad to see someone killed off by a falling chandelier in all my life.

AMC: Whatever year the unabortion happened until the end of Pratt. Gross.

But that's just what I've seen. The last decade has been REALLY rough on these shows. Yikes.
 

So for you concerning AMC it's basically 2005-2010

Right now....

+1

basically 2007 to Present overall though....

Yeah there really was a sharp decline around 2007  where they stopped being entertaining even during the summer. I noticed love in the afternoon disappeared.

Right now....

+1

basically 2007 to Present overall though....

Yeah there really was a sharp decline around 2007  where they stopped being entertaining even during the summer. I noticed love in the afternoon disappeared.

I know this is a weird opinion but I feel like it was that year in particular that sort of gave off this bad omen of things to come....beginning with Passions's cancellation....

of course from what I picked up the quality of all the soaps around that time were starting to get in rough shape...it's weird to think we still had 9 soaps back then and probably even then not one of them had a capable writer/producer...or the ones we still have now for the show (like Brad Bell) just went through a period of absolute dreadful writing...

Edited November 25, 201510 yr by YRfan23