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Daytime dramas: Days & The Guiding Light

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CBS pulls the plug on The Guiding Light, and Days of our Lives got extended on NBC for 18months , but could be next on the chopping block. Is is possible that if the networks get rid of all the daytime dramas that they could go into syndication?

The model of broadcasting television from the big network, ABC, CBS, NBC are changing. You don't get the scripted comedies, or good quaility program you did decades ago. Everything reality base, and I get tired of that!

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009...main4911635.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4911635
 
Syndicated soaps? Not a viable economic model. We've got a long way to go before we see the demise of Y&R, B&B, GH or AMC.
 
A very close reliable source told me AMC is very close to being taken off the air. The ratings have plummeted. They keep replacing roles, upsetting fans in the process. The executives at ABC asked Susan Lucci to take a huge paycut and she agreed. The writers have been awful and ABC keeps getting rid of them thinking the replacements will do miracles and it hasn't happened.

My source says that AMC is hanging by a thread and could have the ax fall any time now. The impression I have is ABC won't wait much longer for higher ratings before they start handing out the cancellation announcement.
 
Procter and Gamble are reportedly pitching GL to LifeTime and bringing ATWT over next year if GL catches on.

Also, SoapNet is a possibility, or even bringing a handful of GL's better characters to ATWT before it goes.
 
In 1974 American Home Products made an attempt
to syndicate The Secret Storm after CBS canceled it.
Not only could they not find enough stations, especially
in larger markets, to carry it, the cost to the stations
would have been prohibitively expensive. After all, why
do you think game, court, and talk shows are the backbone
of syndication? They cost little to produce, so the station
doesn't have to pay a lot for the shows (with the possible
exception of Oprah, Wheel Of Fortune, and Jeopardy! because
their popularity makes them worth more in the marketplace).

Latest rumor I'm hearing is that GL will move to YouTube on
September 21. Don't know if they'll have new episodes or
reruns.
 
According to "Soap Opera Weekly," there have
been rumors of negotiations with Lifetime and
Oxygen to keep "GL" going. Apparently they
are just that--rumors. A P&G spokesperson
says that "GL" has "about a 1% chance" of staying
on the air past September 18.

The next soap to go will probably be "As The World
Turns," since CBS just gave it one year to get its
ratings up or face extinction.
 
Every time someone so much as politely listens to an idea, no matter how far-fetched, it seems to get picked up by "sources" (cough...bloggers with no real news to report...cough) as a rumor about negotiations to save such-and-such a show. Kicking some ideas around does not a chance for survival make.
 
GL is definitely done on Sept 21. Many of the actors (including Crystal Chappell, who is in the highest-profile story right now) have signed on w/ other soaps or other projects.

They have gone as far as they can go with pay cuts and production costs cuts, and then gone beyond that. The shows have all suffered and as a GL viewer for all of my life, I'm just waiting for it to be out if its misery.
 
They'll wear their street clothes after September 21. The announcement has been made that there is no future, no pick up, no nothing. No other option worked out, and it's done and over that day.
 
Actually, they're probably wearing street clothes already;
the last episode of GL was taped August 11 for airing Sept.
18. September 21 is a Monday, and CBS will start two weeks'
worth of "Price Is Right" reruns before the new "Let's Make A
Deal" debuts October 5.
 
Understood; it was a figurative statement as the question was what would happen after September.
 
THE SOAPS HAVE BEEN GETTING THE AXE EVERY YEAR SINCE 2007

PASSIONS (1999-2007, NBC)
PASSIONS (2007-2008, THE 101)
GUIDING LIGHT (1952-2009, CBS)
AS THE WORLD TURNS (1956-2010, CBS)
ALL MY CHILDREN (1970-2011, ABC)
ONE LIFE TO LIVE (1968-2012, ABC)

2013 : NONE WHICH IS A GOOD SIGN SO FAR AND ALL MY CHILDREN AND ONE LIFE TO LIVE RETURNED TO THE ONLINE NETWORK AND AIRING ON TV ON OWN : THE OPRAH WINFREY NETWORK.
 
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