It's about time.

DiscoFunkChick said:

Let's see...

Guiding Light? CHECK.

As The World Turns? CHECK.

One Life To Live? CHECK.

All My Children? CHECK.

Yeah, it's really sad since these shows made up a fair chunk of my childhood (I used to lay with my dad on the couches and watch them...) .

But at the same time, it's so predictable and unsurprising! Especially since soaps have been on the chopping block for two years now. Seriously, what else is new?

Honestly, the next soap that should get cancelled is The Bold and The Beautiful. The Brooke/Ridge thing is played the fuck OUT already.

Right before THOSE^ four soaps, the cancellation of Another World started the downfall.

SHOCKADELICA1 said:

I'm pissed! And I don't give a damn how many times the storylines have been recycled.

AMC is my SHIT!!

Although a show like The Edge Of Night started off on CBS, it was a bigger hit on ABC. But poor scheduling on the part of the ABC network lead to the show's ultimate downfall.

Ryan's Hope was OK, but never as great as CBS' The Young & The Restless, a show that was within the same scheduled time slot.

Loving sucked.

No one cared about The City.

And both of General Hospital's spin-offs Port Charles & GH: Nightshift didn't last very long (despite that GH: Nightshift was very sucessful for the show's only 2 seasons on SOATNet).

TonyVanDam said:

So basically, we'll only have The Young & The Restless (CBS), Days Of Our Lives (NBC), & General Hospital (ABC) left standing like a triple threat match or something.

Don't forget Bold & The Beautiful!

Come on now, it's cheaper to pay reality stars. While I'm sure there's still a number of people watching and loving the soaps, you know the channels with the reality TV, INCLUDING ABC ( ) are giving the soaps a run for their money. It's all about dressing slutty, dressing in fabulous fashions, being catty and superficial, nasty, etc. But the dramatic soap element might be boring people and they want the "Real" (thought it's far from real... ) thing instead of characters. ( this is getting hard to type without laughing.)

I never got into soaps like my mother, grandmother, and aunt did. Even when mama got a job, she had daddy come home on his lunch break to watch (and eventually tape) her soaps for her. Same with my aunt. She either taped them or talked to my grandmother about what happened. I watched a few times on Summer break and then a little bit last week. I dunno why but it was just so sad watching...er...I think it was All My Children. This lady had a baby but it died, and then this cop came in and had another baby with him, so then the dad didn't have time to explain...and that had me crying.

Ok that's a shame. People would rather see grown women act a fool than watch talented actors act a fool...damn, sorry that it has to come to that for the soaps. I hope that doesn't mean we get more crappy talk shows. You can't help but know how to cook and re-upholster furniture thanks to all these shows.

TonyVanDam said:

SHOCKADELICA1 said:

I'm pissed! And I don't give a damn how many times the storylines have been recycled.

AMC is my SHIT!!

Although a show like The Edge Of Night started off on CBS, it was a bigger hit on ABC. But poor scheduling on the part of the ABC network lead to the show's ultimate downfall.

Ryan's Hope was OK, but never as great as CBS' The Young & The Restless, a show that was within the same scheduled time slot.

Loving sucked.

No one cared about The City.

And both of General Hospital's spin-offs Port Charles & GH: Nightshift didn't last very long (despite that GH: Nightshift was very sucessful for the show's only 2 seasons on SOATNet).

edge of night? dag! i forgot about that show!!!

TonyVanDam said:

DiscoFunkChick said:

Let's see...

Guiding Light? CHECK.

As The World Turns? CHECK.

One Life To Live? CHECK.

All My Children? CHECK.

Yeah, it's really sad since these shows made up a fair chunk of my childhood (I used to lay with my dad on the couches and watch them...) .

But at the same time, it's so predictable and unsurprising! Especially since soaps have been on the chopping block for two years now. Seriously, what else is new?

Honestly, the next soap that should get cancelled is The Bold and The Beautiful. The Brooke/Ridge thing is played the fuck OUT already.

Right before THOSE^ four soaps, the cancellation of Another World started the downfall.

And there also was Passions, which also died shortly after Another World. Apparently. Passions was the most trippy soap opera on TV, since it featured a disembodied cat's claw, a witch, and Abraham Lincoln. At least that's from the clips they used to show on VH1's Best Week Ever.

My godmom liked Search for Tomorrow, Generations and Santa Barbara

MJJstudent said:

TonyVanDam said:

Although a show like The Edge Of Night started off on CBS, it was a bigger hit on ABC. But poor scheduling on the part of the ABC network lead to the show's ultimate downfall.

Ryan's Hope was OK, but never as great as CBS' The Young & The Restless, a show that was within the same scheduled time slot.

Loving sucked.

No one cared about The City.

And both of General Hospital's spin-offs Port Charles & GH: Nightshift didn't last very long (despite that GH: Nightshift was very sucessful for the show's only 2 seasons on SOATNet).

edge of night? dag! i forgot about that show!!!

I'm going to miss them. And now that SoapNet is turning into Disney Jr, I will miss watching 90210 marathons on Sundays.

TonyVanDam said:

So basically, we'll only have The Young & The Restless (CBS), Days Of Our Lives (NBC), & General Hospital (ABC) left standing like a triple threat match or something.

And The Bold and The Beautiful, but that's sort of connected to Y & R.

The Edge Of Night

The Secret Storm

Days Of Our Lives

All My Children

Sad to see 'em go..

When they announced it I could hear the collective hearts of grandmas all around America breaking

DiscoFunkChick said:

Let's see...

Guiding Light? CHECK.

As The World Turns? CHECK.

One Life To Live? CHECK.

All My Children? CHECK.

Yeah, it's really sad since these shows made up a fair chunk of my childhood (I used to lay with my dad on the couches and watch them...) .

But at the same time, it's so predictable and unsurprising! Especially since soaps have been on the chopping block for two years now. Seriously, what else is new?

Honestly, the next soap that should get cancelled is The Bold and The Beautiful. The Brooke/Ridge thing is played the fuck OUT already.

Anyone remember Another World??

luv4u said:

DiscoFunkChick said:

Let's see...

Guiding Light? CHECK.

As The World Turns? CHECK.

One Life To Live? CHECK.

All My Children? CHECK.

Yeah, it's really sad since these shows made up a fair chunk of my childhood (I used to lay with my dad on the couches and watch them...) .

But at the same time, it's so predictable and unsurprising! Especially since soaps have been on the chopping block for two years now. Seriously, what else is new?

Honestly, the next soap that should get cancelled is The Bold and The Beautiful. The Brooke/Ridge thing is played the fuck OUT already.

Anyone remember Another World??

You take me awaaaay...to another world...

Back in 1989, I seriously thought that Vicky and Marly were played by twin actresses. I had no idea that Anne Heche was playing both roles.

luv4u said:

DiscoFunkChick said:

Let's see...

Guiding Light? CHECK.

As The World Turns? CHECK.

One Life To Live? CHECK.

All My Children? CHECK.

Yeah, it's really sad since these shows made up a fair chunk of my childhood (I used to lay with my dad on the couches and watch them...) .

But at the same time, it's so predictable and unsurprising! Especially since soaps have been on the chopping block for two years now. Seriously, what else is new?

Honestly, the next soap that should get cancelled is The Bold and The Beautiful. The Brooke/Ridge thing is played the fuck OUT already.

Anyone remember Another World??

Read reply #31.

Efan said:

luv4u said:

Anyone remember Another World??

You take me awaaaay...to another world...

Back in 1989, I seriously thought that Vicky and Marly were played by twin actresses. I had no idea that Anne Heche was playing both roles.

Nobody and I mean nobody has done that better than this lady right here:

Erika Slezack on One Life To Live!

She perfected it in the '80's, portraying Victoria Lord and Niki Smith. Then she took the multliple personality role to a realm never to be duplicated in the 90's, when she split into Victoria/Niki/Tommy/Jean Randolph/Princess/ Tori/ AND Victor Lord!

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Efan said:

You take me awaaaay...to another world...

Back in 1989, I seriously thought that Vicky and Marly were played by twin actresses. I had no idea that Anne Heche was playing both roles.

Nobody and I mean nobody has done that better than this lady right here:

Erika Slezack on One Life To Live!

She perfected it in the '80's, portraying Victoria Lord and Niki Smith. Then she took the multliple personality role to a realm never to be duplicated in the 90's, when she split into Victoria/Niki/Tommy/Jean Randolph/Princess/ Tori/ AND Victor Lord!

728huey said:

TonyVanDam said:

Reality TV shows has killed the Daytime Soap Operas. Plain & Simple.

Just think about it. Why would people be bother watching All My Children to see Erica Kane marry her 25th (?!!!?) husband, when those people can watch Catching Up With The Kardashians to see Kim get a new black boyfriend?

As I commented at another website dealing with TV, the daytime soap opera became a victim of changing lifestyles. It's no accident that the heyday of daytime soap operas happened in the early 1980's, which was at the infancy of cable and just before the mass migration of adult middle-class women into the workforce. Once most women began working full-time, they had less time to catch up on soap operas, so that limited their viewing options. Then came the trashy talk shows like Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, which offered up real life melodrama about adultery, paternity suits, and domestic violence without having to pay a staff of writers and a slate of actors to produce. Then the death knell came with reality shows like The Hills, Jersey Shore, The Real Housewives franchise, The Kardashians, and their knockoffs on E! and VH1. Once again, it offered melodrama from real-life people, and it was broadcast several times a week day and night, so eager fans could catch it at any time, unlike the daytime soaps, which could only be seen in the daytime unless you had a DVR or SoapNet. The daytime soap appears to be going the way of the TV western and variety shows.

...and there it is. I've known for years that it would only be a matter of time before people would lose interest in scripted drama in favor of watching a bunch of idiots act a fool in real life. I can't stand it, I miss the glamour and panache of scripted television characters. All of these reality people are so rough around the edges...or in most cases, just flat out ignorant and one dimensional. The only reality stars that come even remotely close to the grand old characters of day and nighttime drama are the Beverly Hills Housewives, and the (now defunct) cast of High Society (with Tinsley Mortimer).

Who thinks that these shows will get picked up by another network? There's actually a petition to get Oprah's network (OWN) to buy these shows.

Yeah B&B and Y&R days are numbered too. I haven't watch Y&R in months because their storyline is so bland. Who wants to keep seeing Victor and Nikki get married 20 times then break up to seduce and marry folks who are 20 years younger than them? And B&B is just as bad...like someone mentioned earlier how many storylines are we going to go through where Brooke seduces and sleeps with Ridge and all the men in his family? She's currently going down a path where Ridge's son with Taylor is in love with her and Brooke is leading him on. I suspect it'll only be a matter of weeks before they are caught in a hotel room together. Then Ridge will divorce Brooke and re-marry Taylor yet again. Then while he's married to her he'll be secretly pining for that whore Brooke once again. SMH. They also have a dry storyline involving Brooke's daughter with Deacon Sharpe and her drama with Liam, son of Bill "Dollar Bill" Spencer who used to be Brad on Y&R who is married to Katie, Brooke's sister, in which the very same actress played Victoria on Y&R who used to be married to Brad.

missfee said:

Yeah B&B and Y&R days are numbered too. I haven't watch Y&R in months because their storyline is so bland. Who wants to keep seeing Victor and Nikki get married 20 times then break up to seduce and marry folks who are 20 years younger than them? And B&B is just as bad...like someone mentioned earlier how many storylines are we going to go through where Brooke seduces and sleeps with Ridge and all the men in his family? She's currently going down a path where Ridge's son with Taylor is in love with her and Brooke is leading him on. I suspect it'll only be a matter of weeks before they are caught in a hotel room together. Then Ridge will divorce Brooke and re-marry Taylor yet again. Then while he's married to her he'll be secretly pining for that whore Brooke once again. SMH. They also have a dry storyline involving Brooke's daughter with Deacon Sharpe and her drama with Liam, son of Bill "Dollar Bill" Spencer who used to be Brad on Y&R who is married to Katie, Brooke's sister, in which the very same actress played Victoria on Y&R who used to be married to Brad.

B&B is borderline incestuous. I can't believe that show has lasted this long.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Efan said:

You take me awaaaay...to another world...

Back in 1989, I seriously thought that Vicky and Marly were played by twin actresses. I had no idea that Anne Heche was playing both roles.

Nobody and I mean nobody has done that better than this lady right here:

Erika Slezack on One Life To Live!

She perfected it in the '80's, portraying Victoria Lord and Niki Smith. Then she took the multliple personality role to a realm never to be duplicated in the 90's, when she split into Victoria/Niki/Tommy/Jean Randolph/Princess/ Tori/ AND Victor Lord!

And even OLTL has "jumped the sharks" because of THAT^ same gimmick. It gotten worse when Victoria & her multiple personalities has to deal with her daughter Jessica and her alter-ego Tess.

TonyVanDam said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

Nobody and I mean nobody has done that better than this lady right here:

Erika Slezack on One Life To Live!

She perfected it in the '80's, portraying Victoria Lord and Niki Smith. Then she took the multliple personality role to a realm never to be duplicated in the 90's, when she split into Victoria/Niki/Tommy/Jean Randolph/Princess/ Tori/ AND Victor Lord!

And even OLTL has "jumped the sharks" because of THAT^ same gimmick. It gotten worse when Victoria & her multiple personalities has to deal with her daughter Jessica and her alter-ego Tess.

LOL! Yeah, I heard about that. Thankfully, I'd stopped watching before they took that nose dive there.

Ottensen said:

728huey said:

As I commented at another website dealing with TV, the daytime soap opera became a victim of changing lifestyles. It's no accident that the heyday of daytime soap operas happened in the early 1980's, which was at the infancy of cable and just before the mass migration of adult middle-class women into the workforce. Once most women began working full-time, they had less time to catch up on soap operas, so that limited their viewing options. Then came the trashy talk shows like Jerry Springer and Maury Povich, which offered up real life melodrama about adultery, paternity suits, and domestic violence without having to pay a staff of writers and a slate of actors to produce. Then the death knell came with reality shows like The Hills, Jersey Shore, The Real Housewives franchise, The Kardashians, and their knockoffs on E! and VH1. Once again, it offered melodrama from real-life people, and it was broadcast several times a week day and night, so eager fans could catch it at any time, unlike the daytime soaps, which could only be seen in the daytime unless you had a DVR or SoapNet. The daytime soap appears to be going the way of the TV western and variety shows.

...and there it is. I've known for years that it would only be a matter of time before people would lose interest in scripted drama in favor of watching a bunch of idiots act a fool in real life. I can't stand it, I miss the glamour and panache of scripted television characters. All of these reality people are so rough around the edges...or in most cases, just flat out ignorant and one dimensional. The only reality stars that come even remotely close to the grand old characters of day and nighttime drama are the Beverly Hills Housewives, and the (now defunct) cast of High Society (with Tinsley Mortimer).

I blamed the writers' strike for starting it all.

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

TonyVanDam said:

And even OLTL has "jumped the sharks" because of THAT^ same gimmick. It gotten worse when Victoria & her multiple personalities has to deal with her daughter Jessica and her alter-ego Tess.

LOL! Yeah, I heard about that. Thankfully, I'd stopped watching before they took that nose dive there.

That reminds me about 25 years ago Adam Chandler on AMC went nuts and Erica Kane and flipped back and forth with his brother. Some of the best soap opera acting I've even seen.

Graycap23 said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

LOL! Yeah, I heard about that. Thankfully, I'd stopped watching before they took that nose dive there.

That reminds me about 25 years ago Adam Chandler on AMC went nuts and Erica Kane and flipped back and forth with his brother. Some of the best soap opera acting I've even seen.

I miss Adam and Stuart.

JuliePurplehead said:

Graycap23 said:

That reminds me about 25 years ago Adam Chandler on AMC went nuts and Erica Kane and flipped back and forth with his brother. Some of the best soap opera acting I've even seen.

I miss Adam and Stuart.

The last I've checked, only the character Stuart Chandler was killed off the show.

TonyVanDam said:

JuliePurplehead said:

I miss Adam and Stuart.

The last I've checked, only the character Stuart Chandler was killed off the show.

Adam left the show about a year ago. I wonder if he'll come back on for the finale. Shit, Stuart will probably raise from the dead.

TonyVanDam said:

JuliePurplehead said:

I miss Adam and Stuart.

The last I've checked, only the character Stuart Chandler was killed off the show.

They KILLED OFF Stuart Chandler?????

They better be damn happy I'd already stopped watching and did not have to see that.

David Canary