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Curtains For "All My Children" AND "One Life To Live"?

DToTheJ

DToTheJ

An update of a previous thread...

http://www.seattlepi.com/tvguide/438111_soaps1.html

TV Guide Magazine has learned that the network is not just planning to cancel AMC in the coming days but will very likely cancel One Life to Live, as well. Word is, ABC Daytime chief Brian Frons has a talk show and reality show lined up for fall — both of them much cheaper to produce than soaps — and he needs to clear the schedule. More disturbing, insiders say Frons has been extremely cavalier about all this, showing no signs of sorrow or regret about a drastic decision that will leave General Hospital as the network's only daytime soap.

So it looks like they're working on two new daytime talk shows, it seems... or are they actually going to give an hour back to the affiliates?
 
Susan Lucci was on TV in Chicago (she's making the rounds for her book) and she denied that All My Children was going to be canceled.

Of course what does she know eh? ;D
 
Given that both shows are hugging the bottom of the daytime
soap ratings (both have ratings less than 1), I won't be surprised
if this is ABC's version of what happened to "Guiding Light" and
"As The World Turns". I think the prophecy is coming true: the
only soaps left are going to be "Young And The Restless," "Bold
And The Beautiful," "General Hospital," and (maybe) "Days Of Our
Lives".

But how many more talk show do we need? CBS is doing just fine
with "The Price Is Right" and "Let's Make A Deal", so why not some
more game shows?
 
bpatrick said:
Given that both shows are hugging the bottom of the daytime
soap ratings (both have ratings less than 1), I won't be surprised
if this is ABC's version of what happened to "Guiding Light" and
"As The World Turns". I think the prophecy is coming true: the
only soaps left are going to be "Young And The Restless," "Bold
And The Beautiful," "General Hospital," and (maybe) "Days Of Our
Lives".

But how many more talk show do we need? CBS is doing just fine
with "The Price Is Right" and "Let's Make A Deal", so why not some
more game shows?
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Sounds good to me; there's only a few good talk shows on the air on TV anyway, so why not get rid of some of the dumber or worse ones and put more game shows on.

Bpatrick, you definitely sound like someone who has the same opinions I do; too bad more people don't share that opinion.
 
DToTheJ said:
An update of a previous thread...

http://www.seattlepi.com/tvguide/438111_soaps1.html

TV Guide Magazine has learned that the network is not just planning to cancel AMC in the coming days but will very likely cancel One Life to Live, as well. Word is, ABC Daytime chief Brian Frons has a talk show and reality show lined up for fall — both of them much cheaper to produce than soaps — and he needs to clear the schedule. More disturbing, insiders say Frons has been extremely cavalier about all this, showing no signs of sorrow or regret about a drastic decision that will leave General Hospital as the network's only daytime soap.

So it looks like they're working on two new daytime talk shows, it seems... or are they actually going to give an hour back to the affiliates?
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Guess no one really read this from that earlier thread:::::::::

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php?topic=187536.msg1652584#msg1652584
Just found this:::::

http://soapcentral.com/amc/news/2011/0323-cancellation.php

AMC exec producer Julie Hanan Carruthers was told this week (and subsequently told the show's cast) by higher-ups that AMC is not in current danger of cancellation. But several actors from the show have since hit Twitter and other online sites to tell viewers of the need to let the network bigwigs know how they feel about AMC... a phone number is listed in the article for fans to call ABC. Of course, Brian Frons, the bigmouth President of ABC Daytime, had to remind us that production costs are still going up. Thanx for the update, Brian ::)
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Where have I heard all this before? Oh, yeah, it was back
around 2005, '06, or '07, when the cast and crew of "GL"
were being asked to take pay cuts (and in a few cases,
actors such as Maureen Garrett and Jerry Ver Dorn were
taken off contract), yet CBS and P&G kept insisting that
"GL" was in no danger of cancellation. Well, we all know
how that turned out. So I'm not prepared to take Brian
Frons' denials that "AMC" is about to get the heave-ho
too seriously.

However, if pay cuts are the way to save "AMC," I hope
Susan Lucci doesn't do what Kim Zimmer did: pull her weight
as the star of the show, refuse to take a pay cut, and tell
the producers to let somebody else take it.
 
I never could understand why "The Bold and the Beautiful" would make it, until now - apparently, it does very well overseas - especially in France... Go figure...

Now I say bring Countdown/Des chiffres et des lettres across the Pond... Considering the prize for winning one day is a teapot... :)

J
 
I always wondered why Jerry Lewis was a big fan of that show... ::)
 
Mark said:
Susan Lucci was on TV in Chicago (she's making the rounds for her book) and she denied that All My Children was going to be canceled.

Of course what does she know eh? ;D
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Ed O'Neill tells a great story about how he learned that Married with Children had been canceled.
(he was staying at a bed and breakfast in Ohio when a couple staying there heard the news on their
car radio and came up to him to tell him they were sorry)
 
FreddyE1977 said:
Mark said:
Susan Lucci was on TV in Chicago (she's making the rounds for her book) and she denied that All My Children was going to be canceled.

Of course what does she know eh? ;D
Click to expand...

Ed O'Neill tells a great story about how he learned that Married with Children had been canceled.
(he was staying at a bed and breakfast in Ohio when a couple staying there heard the news on their
car radio and came up to him to tell him they were sorry)
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Ed O'Neill appeared on All My Children as a detective a couple years before MWC came on the air. :)
 
He also played Popeye Doyle in a made-for-TV movie. Ed seemed destined for a career as a
TV gumshoe before Al Bundy entered his life.
 
I'd like to see some more game shows on whatever form of TV, but networks may still
shy away from the idea. NBC and ABC will never do network game shows again.
CBS is still giving them a shot. Syndication and major cable networks are the only
way aside of direct Internet website streaming. This dilution of judge, talk and reality shows
are monotonous to me unless someone interesting is guesting.

bpatrick said:
Given that both shows are hugging the bottom of the daytime
soap ratings (both have ratings less than 1), I won't be surprised
if this is ABC's version of what happened to "Guiding Light" and
"As The World Turns". I think the prophecy is coming true: the
only soaps left are going to be "Young And The Restless," "Bold
And The Beautiful," "General Hospital," and (maybe) "Days Of Our
Lives".

But how many more talk show do we need? CBS is doing just fine
with "The Price Is Right" and "Let's Make A Deal", so why not some
more game shows?
Click to expand...
 
Basic evolution of broadcast television: the soap opera model is destined to be extinct, and network news broadcasts, whose rotating cycle of prescription drug sponsors is likely envied only by Glenn Beck's soon-to-be-defunct Fox program, will likely follow suit at some point.
 
Jim said:
I never could understand why "The Bold and the Beautiful" would make it, until now - apparently, it does very well overseas - especially in France... Go figure...
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And B&B is also aired en francais north of the border on TVA, its French title translates as Top Models ;D
 
At least Susan Lucci got her Emmy.

While I never saw a full episode of her show, when she lost to Erika Slezak that one time, after Candice Bergen and John Larroquette won so many Emmys they decided to take themselves out of the competition, I wrote to Slezk and asked her to please do the same. I later read an article where she said she wasn't happy about that!

But then Lucci got hers. I didn't realize how many years it took Slezak to get so many, and I think she got another even after that.
 
vchimpanzee said:
...I wrote to Slezak and asked her to please do the same. I later read an article where she said she wasn't happy about that!
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Look at that, you're famous! ::)
 
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