Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA ABC cancelling two of its most well known soap operas -- 'One Life To Live" and 'All My Children' <a href="http://finance.yahoo.com/news/ABC-cancels-2-longtime-soaps-apf-3482219364.html?x=0&.v=1" target="_blank">http://finance.yahoo.com/news/...x=0&.v=1</a>
Originally Posted By tashajilek If you said Days of our lives i was going to have a heart attack. I am not the type to care for soaps but my aunt forced me to watch and 6 years later lol.
Originally Posted By amazedncal2 I started watching both (with my mom) the first year they premiered and have been continuing watching "One Life to Live" but dumped "All My Children" this past year. I understand them cancelling "All My Children" as many of the actors/characters changed when they moved to the West Coast last year. I don't understand them cancelling OLTL as I think it has better story lines than "General Hospital." Gosh, I even remember the first Vickie! I've grown up with some of these actors and will miss them. Daytime talk shows and reality shows......snore.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 It's very, very sad. I blame Bob Iger for this because he ultimately had to sign off as these are groundbreaking shows that to this day do social storylines that you don't see on primetime (OLTL is doing one now involving bullying in schools and how one senstive teen with asthma gets bullied to the point he is stripped of his clothes and then the others put video of the attack and the nude boy on a Facebook like site, which drives him to a suicide attempt). Daytime dramas were really murdered by OJ because it was during his saga that the networks decided they could and would prempt them for days and weeks and interrupt them and never play what was missed. Audiences went down and never came back. Also, rewriting history was absurd and the writing was attrocious. Ask anyone who works/ed/watches AMC about Erica Kane's unabortion or Dixie's death by poisoned pancakes. Or all the kids hired for a few hundred grand a year that can't even remember their lines or their accents. It got bad. But both shows made money for ABC and this was a money deal. They don't want to pay for scripted dramas when they can put on talk show drivel for a fraction of the cost. They've been planning this for a while and lied to cast and crew for years now ... they made the entire AMC cast and crew move to LA from NYC only to ax the show. They likely didn't kill General Hospital yet because they get James Overexposed Franco guesting when he can fit it into his schedule and they probably need to find a perfect 'concept' show for Bob's wife Willow Bay to take its place (much like CBS head Leslie Moonves made an unwatchable talk show for his wife Julie Chen). Just a terrible day for TV.
Originally Posted By calgrl2490 When I was in middle school I started watching AMC with my mom and have been ever since. I agree the story lines kinda stink now but I've never been able to rip myself away and its sad they are done. Even with the bad story lines I would much rather watch that then another show like Girl Talk. Running infomercials would be more entertaining.
Originally Posted By magic0214 I'm wondering what will happen to the Daytime Emmys! It will soon be down to around 3 shows...so will the just add it to the Primetime Emmys and call it "The Emmys"?
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<Never understood the appeal of Soaps...>> An opinion. But no point. Plenty of people don't get the appeal of say WDW. They truly wouldn't care less if it was bulldozed for more subdivisions (I shouldn't give Iger any ideas here). The point is daytime dramas or 'soaps' have/had value to many incredibly talented people and Disney is axing two of the best ever because it wants cheaper, crappy talking head shows. More Walmarting.
Originally Posted By tashajilek That really is a shame, some people have been watching those shows for decades.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan I've never been a soap watcher, but it is a significant milestone that two more long-running soaps are getting the axe. My mom started recording All My Children around 1980 and has watched faithfully ever since. She's really bummed about this. I hope that they will at least find a way to wrap up these shows in a way that is satisfying to the millions of people who have followed them all these years.
Originally Posted By Ursula ^ That was my question. I haven't watched a soap in years, but how do you wrap it all up? My best guess is with a wedding or a funeral.
Originally Posted By brotherdave I should have added that although I've never understood the appeal of soaps, I feel bad for those that are fans of them losing them. We certainly don't need more talk shows. How many more people can spill their personal lives on national TV anyway???
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA Mrs. Jim in Merced CA is pretty bummed. We record three shows on the DVR everyday. 'One Life to Live' 'All My Children' and 'Young and the Restless.' I've watched the soaps on occasion, and while yes, the story lines are silly, and most of the time it's just people standing and talking, the Mrs. explained that it's just something easy to watch, that she can 'veg out' on. Amen to that. My overall sense? Soaps are no more or less entertaining than anything else on the ol' boob tube. Plus, on a personal note, (as a sometime actor myself) it sure is impressive that those actors are in there, learning new lines practically everyday. That's a real skill.
Originally Posted By calgrl2490 I just hope they don't wrap it up like Port Charles. They gave us like 20 new juicy cliff hangers and then the big THE END! ahhhhhh I was so mad. I hate when they end it in a way where you have to wonder about what happened next. Just make it clean and final!
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan Is another group of talk shows really what viewers are wanting? There aren't enough? I know, they're much, much cheaper to produce. But holy cow, it seems like 90% of TV is talk shows now.* *Not intended as a factual statement.
