If I were in charge of a streaming soap opera classic channel this is the schedule I would begin with. Half hour shows in an hour timeslot will be 2 episodes.

M-F

8-Another World

9-Guiding Light

10-As the World Turns

11-Ryan's Hope

12-All My Children

1-One Life to Live

2-Port Charles

3-The City

4-Days of Our Lives

5-General Hospital

6-Young & Restless

7-Bold & Beautiful

8-Search for Tomorrow

9-Loving

10-Edge of Night

11-Dark Shadows

Sat.

8-Paper Dolls

9-Flamingo Raod

10-Dante's Cove

11-Melrose Place

12-Beverly Hills 90210

1-Kindred, the Embraced

2-Central Park West

3-The Monroes

4-Models Inc.

5-Pacific Palisades

6-Hollywood Heights

7-Dallas

8-Dynasty

9-Knots Landing

1o-Falcon Crest

11-The Bay

 

Sun. - Talk shows, Interviews, awards shows, specials

 

Held for future airing: Generations, Sunset Beach, Where the Heart Is, The Secret Storm, Love of Life, Neighbours, Coronation Street, EastEnders

 

Capitol is not listed, an oversight. I left off Santa Barbara. OY. 

Passions is not listed, intentional.

I have no idea how I would deal with the year of 90 minute AWs. Also the years of 45 min. ABC soaps. 

One thing I would really want that I didn't figure out are shows like Soap, Mary Hartman, Dirty Sexy Money & other serialized parodies of soaps.

I would like to include a section of vintage soaps, the oldest examples that could be found. 

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Looking at the way streamers are set up, I think it would make sense to have soap hubs.

CBS/Paramount Plus could have Sunset Beach, 90210, Dynasty, Bright Promise with their current episodes of B&B, Y&R and The Gates. Maybe add classic collections for the Bell soaps. 

ABC is in the best position to do this between Ryan's Hope, Loving/The City, Port Charles, All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital.

I'm not sure what soaps NBC/Peacock own, but if they had Passions, it would definitely get some eyeballs on Peacock.

4 hours ago, Chris B said:

Looking at the way streamers are set up, I think it would make sense to have soap hubs.

CBS/Paramount Plus could have Sunset Beach, 90210, Dynasty, Bright Promise with their current episodes of B&B, Y&R and The Gates. Maybe add classic collections for the Bell soaps. 

ABC is in the best position to do this between Ryan's Hope, Loving/The City, Port Charles, All My Children, One Life To Live and General Hospital.

Disney also owns Santa Barbara. Speaking of SB, I cannot believe I left it off my list. OY. 

4 hours ago, Chris B said:

I'm not sure what soaps NBC/Peacock own, but if they had Passions, it would definitely get some eyeballs on Peacock.

NBC owns Generations, half of Sunset Beach, all of Passions.

DAYS is owned by Corday & Sony but has a contractual agreement with Peacock. 

Sony owns half of Y&R. 

Corday also owns 1% of Y&R.

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5 hours ago, Contessa Donatella said:

Disney also owns Santa Barbara. Speaking of SB, I cannot believe I left it off my list. OY. 

NBC owns Generations, half of Sunset Beach, all of Passions.

DAYS is owned by Corday & Sony but has a contractual agreement with Peacock. 

Sony owns half of Y&R. 

Corday also owns 1% of Y&R.

Paramount bought the Aaron Spelling collection so they would be who handles Sunset Beach for any streaming or DVD deals.

Looking at it, I think it seems Peacock could do a decent soap collection with Days, Generations and Passions. They could even look into a Generations remake or reboot which could be paired with Bel Air. But Disney is who would have the money maker with all those big names.

9 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Paramount bought the Aaron Spelling collection so they would be who handles Sunset Beach for any streaming or DVD deals.

Thanks for that info. I thought that NBC's interest only lasted as long as it was a broadcast entity. And I knew that CBS had acquired all of the Spelling. 

9 minutes ago, Chris B said:

Looking at it, I think it seems Peacock could do a decent soap collection with Days, Generations and Passions. They could even look into a Generations remake or reboot which could be paired with Bel Air. But Disney is who would have the money maker with all those big names.

I was slightly startled last month when Jerome Dobson mentioned talks about streaming Santa Barbara. Once they sold to New World, their vested interest was no longer. 

What?  No Peyton Place?  Shame on you!  514 half hours that changed TV forever- and it's turning 60 next month!  

Bright Promise is complete and owned by CBS/Paramount.

 

Also, add Strange Paradise!

27 minutes ago, Avatar610 said:

What?  No Peyton Place?  Shame on you!  514 half hours that changed TV forever- and it's turning 60 next month!  

Bright Promise is complete and owned by CBS/Paramount.

 

Also, add Strange Paradise!

Very good ideas.