For Fun--Predict the cancellation date of the final network soap opera

[crainbebo]

I think 2020 will be the final cancellation, and that would be for Y&R since it's one of the most popular soaps left!

-crainbebo

 

[Corky Marlowe]

Over here, I suspect the flies and locusts will still be watching 'Coronation Street', 'Emmerdale' and 'Eastenders' (and listening to 'The Archers' ) at the end of time.

'Listening to 'The Archers'"? Wait, what? England still has radio soaps?

 

[BMR]

Over here, I suspect the flies and locusts will still be watching 'Coronation Street', 'Emmerdale' and 'Eastenders' (and listening to 'The Archers' ) at the end of time.

'Listening to 'The Archers'"? Wait, what? England still has radio soaps?

60 years old this year, and still going strong http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...ores-record-ratings-of-over-5m-listeners.html

 

[vchimpanzee]

Headline, June 4, 2022:

"'Restless Bold General of Our Lives' Cancelled"

 

[danikayser84]

The way I see it, The Young and the Restless, like The Price is Right, will be around for quite a while still

Could CBS be the network with the last daytime soap opera and the last daytime game show?

 

[PTBoardOp94]

They don't call CBS the Tiffany Network for nothing. As if TPIR and Y&R are the broadcast equivalents of Tiffany

 

[bpatrick]

The way I see it, The Young and the Restless, like The Price is Right, will be around for quite a while still

Could CBS be the network with the last daytime soap opera and the last daytime game show?

Somehow it would be appropriate if CBS had the last daytime soap; it was the last U.S. network
to cancel its radio soaps (November 25, 1960), and for a long time it looked as if "The Price Is Right"
would be the last network daytime game show (until CBS revived "Let's Make A Deal"). So I wouldn't
be surprised, just as I won't be surprised if ABC is the first Big Three network to be soap-less, as it was the last
of the Big Three to get into the soap wars ("General Hospital" started in 1963; CBS and NBC had soaps
dating back to the '50s or even, if you count "Guiding Light" on radio, the '30s).

And if anybody wants to know what NBC soaps I'm talking about; specifically, it's "Young Doctor Malone,"
which ran from 1959 to 1963. And it could have been called "Young Doctor Malone: The Next Generation,"
since television's Dr. Malone was the son of radio's (the show had been on radio from about 1939 to 1960).
The CBS ones you know: "Guiding Light," "As The World Turns," "Search For Tomorrow," "The Edge Of Night"
(which started as the radio version of "Perry Mason" in the '40s), "Love Of Life," and "Secret Storm."

 

[justpassingthough]

After the canellation of GL and then ATWT, I thought CBS was making a quick exit for the doors and ABC would endure as the "soap" network. Then they announced that SOAPnet would become Disney Jr in 2012 and the writing was on the wall.

With that said, I say "Days of our Lives" makes it until 2013. "GH" and "BB" make it until 2015 and CBS finally ends the soap opera era when "Y&R" folds in 2018.

 

[WPPCProductions]

General Hopital will never end.The rest probably will soon.

 

[imhomerjay]

If the world ends within the next year, then GH will have made it to the end of time. Otherwise, um, no.

 

[bpatrick]

"Days" has been renewed through 2013 with an option for an
additional year. If its demographics hold I think it's OK for the
foreseeable future. I think "GH" gets it next year and ABC is out
of the soap business.

I see no reason why the two CBS soaps can't go on indefinitely
(and indefinitely does not mean forever but to some date I can't
predict right now).

 

[DToTheJ]

Let's not forget that they're bringing back "Passions" - at least that's what I heard from my news source, Tom Tucker. :

 

[anotherguyTN]

CBS went for 16 years with no change in their schedule from 1993 when Family Feud was cancelled until 2009 when Guiding Light was replaced with Let's Make a Deal. If CBS is satisfied with how the current schedule is doing it wouldn't surprise me for them to go several years with no changes again.

 

[ercjncpr]

the sooner the better

 

[JeeperOne]

I think 2020 will be the final cancellation, and that would be for Y&R since it's one of the most popular soaps left!

Not only that, but with AMC & OLTL migrating their way to the Internet upon cancellation on TV, Internet TV will have evolved by then whereas the average layman would be able to program an Internet TV station like one can program an Internet Radio station now

By that I mean one would have a choice between original content (Of course), content from the public domain (The stuff on the Internet Archive comes to mind here) & the ability to band together with others to form an Internet TV network like groups of Internet Radio stations do today either on a 24/7 basis or just for a show or two (Take a good look at the Talk genre on SHOUTcast & you'll see what I mean )

JMO.....

Cheers

 

[JeeperOne]

The way I see it, The Young and the Restless, like The Price is Right, will be around for quite a while still

Could CBS be the network with the last daytime soap opera and the last daytime game show?

Somehow it would be appropriate if CBS had the last daytime soap; it was the last U.S. network
to cancel its radio soaps (November 25, 1960),

And CBS was also the last network to cancel the last Old Time Radio era programming as most folks know it as well (September 30th, 1962) with Suspense & Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar leaving the air after their final episodes that night

Of course, they later revived the genre with the CBS Radio Mystery Theater & were quite successful at it for nearly a decade before finally succumbing for good in 1982

CBS and NBC had soaps
dating back to the '50s or even, if you count "Guiding Light" on radio, the '30s).

But NBC never really started broadcasting soap operas on TV with much success until Another World came along in 1964 (Though it wasn't for a lack of effort in trying )

And if anybody wants to know what NBC soaps I'm talking about; specifically, it's "Young Doctor Malone,"
which ran from 1959 to 1963. And it could have been called "Young Doctor Malone: The Next Generation,"
since television's Dr. Malone was the son of radio's (the show had been on radio from about 1939 to 1960).

Many of these (If not ALL of them) also ran on TV as well. Another one was Hawkins Falls which was more of a folksy soap opera like its two predecessors on radio One Man's Family (Which also had a brief run on TV) & Pepper Young's Family were than anything

Just a little more history

Cheers & 73 to all the Hams & OTR buffs amongst us