suites Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Very sad day for TV in general. Replacing them with a cooking show and a lifestyle show. My wife is very sad. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Very sad day for TV in general. Replacing them with a cooking show and a lifestyle show. My wife is very sad. I was always more of a Y&R/B&B guy. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 In all honesty, I find all of this very fascinating. In the age of the DVR, I guess these shows just aren't cutting it for viewers. And that's what interests me most. Where have all the viewers gone? Has the social movement of women into the workforce caused the inevitable collapse of the daytime soap opera? It's possible, but why now all of a sudden? Why not 10 years ago or more? Is the interest still there? Have the primetime shows copied the daytime "soap" formula? Was it the "reality" show that killed it? I can understand the economics of producing a show year round without any breaks in programming like their primetime counterparts (22 episode seasons). It just sucks that all of those people are losing their jobs. It was also a pretty decent avenue for an up and coming actor to test the waters by going onto a soap. I can 100% support any scripted programming, but I'm upset that it is yet again being replaced by yet another talk show and now a cooking show. Yes, I realize that a talk show and a cooking show has writers, but you know what I mean. This is 4 cancellations in the last 2 years (Guiding Light and As The World Turns were the other 2 on another network CBS). It's also quite sad because those shows were a direct link back to the old radio days where they sprang from. Maybe peering into the lives of people that you don't know everyday is a turn off to people because the government does that? Or people are too hooked onto texting and social media to worry about these things? It could be any of these things, I think. Edit: Yep, my mother was always a Y & R woman. Edit Part Deux: Actually, the first college that I visited I remember everyone getting around the dorm tv to watch The Young & The Restless with their lunch. Women and men. Edit Part Troix: It's probably just a generational thing. You can't just jump into a show like a soap opera and know what is going on. But if you had someone in your family who watched it, they could clue you in on what was going on. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The "cooking" show looks like it has a chance to be pretty good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jff Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Maybe peering into the lives of people that you don't know everyday is a turn off to people because the government does that? Or people are too hooked onto texting and social media to worry about these things? It could be any of these things, I think. That could be it. Facebook has made people realize that their friends lives (if not their own) are soap operas in themselves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bleedorange Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 They just weren't very good. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Rusty Shackleford Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Years ago when I was in college I worked summers as a bank teller. My co-workers were all middle-aged ladies, and they would take their half-hour lunch break at the same time every day; the time they took either dictated or was dictated by the soap they would watch in the breakroom. I ended up with the second shift of All My Children. And I must say, I couldn't help but to get into it. I even watched every now and then when I went back to school. Kelly Ripa and Sarah Michelle Gellar will always be Haley and Kendall to me. Two things I would point out about soaps and why they might be going away: 1. They're much better watched in a group setting with other people who know the characters. The plots, etc. can get complicated and ridiculous, and it helps to have other people around. Watching at home on the DVR doesn't really do the job, I would guess. 2. They have a certain rhythm to them that probably doesn't convert well to DVR-ing. They fit into a certain sort of daily routine that doesn't exist much anymore, whether it's work around the house or an ironclad schedule in the break room. I haven't watched AMC in 15 years, but it'll be sad to see it go. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
tinnitus photography Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 we'll always have Via Chicago. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
u2roolz Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 Random observation: It's a real sausage fest up in here. I remember catching Eva Longoria on Y & R about 10 years ago when I was home sick from college. I also remember Julianne Moore & Parker Posey on As The World Turns when I was being babysat by my aunt in the mid 80s. They always seemed to get the most beautiful women in one place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Moss Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 I remember Young and the Restless being pretty big in our college dorm. I'm guessing that maybe the lifetime network movies or something like that is stealing the viewers. Edit: Oops, it was Days of our lives that was big. I just remember a guy with an eyepatch, or is that in all of them? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
uncool2pillow Posted April 15, 2011 Share Posted April 15, 2011 The demise of the daytime soap gives me a glimmer of hope for western civilization. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The High Heat Posted April 16, 2011 Share Posted April 16, 2011 we'll always have Via Chicago.Don't bank on that. There's more interest in shows like The View and The Talk. ABC should just go ahead and put on their version of The Vagina Monologues, too. People nowadays want to talk about screwing around, not watch the very light porn genre. Hell, you can see the real deal on your portable porn machines we call laptops. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
The Inside of Outside Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 I was always more of a Y&R/B&B guy. My wife (girlfriend at the time) hooked me on Y&R/B&B in the early-mid nineties. I completed a 12-step program for it (SOA) shortly afterward. we'll always have Via Chicago.Thankfully.... I remember catching Eva Longoria on Y & R about 10 years ago when I was home sick from college. I also remember Julianne Moore & Parker Posey on As The World Turns when I was being babysat by my aunt in the mid 80s. They always seemed to get the most beautiful women in one place.I thought Eva Longoria couldn't act her way out of a paper bag when she was on Y&R. Sometimes things don't change.... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Basil II Posted April 17, 2011 Share Posted April 17, 2011 If Y&R is last to go .......It was the best of the bunch..... -Robert Dark Shadows was cool in a low budget sorta way..... -Robert Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Duck-Billed Catechist Posted April 24, 2011 Share Posted April 24, 2011 Looks like the market is finally opening up for me to get my soap off the ground. How I have dreamed of this day. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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