Well, there ever be new soaps…not in the near future…imo…so we got to cling on to the remaining four and hope the upswing continues…

Too bad the Idiot executive(s) at ABC-TV that let All My Children be cancelled didn’t have the obvious foresight that Angelica McDaniel has.
Naturally, the other soaps are doing better and no one can deny that the dismissal of both One Life to Live and AMC are contributing factors to the increased viewership of the remaining soaps. I wish that CBS would pick up AMC at least as a half hour program. I know it won’t happen but we can dream.

This looks like a puff piece from Angelica. It’s easy to say you weren’t going to accept this fate, but how does she mean? By NOT canceling Y&R and B&B? Well THAT’S easy to do when they are still at the top of the daytime heap ratings-wise, but it didn’t stop her (or CBS, since she wasn’t VP at the time, I guess) from culling ATWT and GL from the herd during the downturn of soaps’ ratings.

All it sounds like was her relishing the opportunity of poaching viewers of canceled series AMC and OLTL, not doing anything personally to maintain her own original viewers or to pull new ones by any strategy other than leaving the two top-rated soaps on air. Passively supporting the genre by not swinging the axe isn’t actively supporting the genre or looking for ways to truly save or revive it.

Angelica McDaniel commented that “Soaps are bigger than game shows or talk shows in daytime.” And? Is she planning to bring back ATWT or GL?

Jake

We told you soo. soaps are great and they have the most loyal and devoted fans. Most shows on TV can leave and people will not fight it, but when cancelled OLTL, they heard us , but still did nothing. The only good that came out of the AMC and OLTL is that Frank and Ron are at GH and are doing a great job.

When AMC and OLTL were canceled, the fans of the 2 soaps moved on to the remaining soaps therefore giving them a boost in the ratings/numbers of new fans..

Soap fans have an addiction, their soaps..
They will flock to wherever they can get their daytime soap fix .. lol
So yes. Loosing AMC and OLTL gave the remaining soaps new life..

GH came back to life in the hands of FV and RC through great story telling and an influx of ‘some’ OLTL fans helping the numbers and now GH has picked up ‘new’ viewers as well, and that is a very good thing..

Remaining soaps did benefit from the cancelations and big shakeout. Survival of the fittest for a while longer but I don’t think for a minute the soaps are out of danger. Supposedly the soaps have cut big time paychecks veterans used to get and this helps the bottom line for now. Will the soaps be here in five or ten years? Doubtful

The four remaining shows are benefiting from the loss of AMC, OLTL, GL, ATWT, Passions, Port Charles and all the other shows that I’m failing to mention. People are looking for a new home to tune into. Plus with so many new ways to tune into the shows these days, Execs need to take that into consideration before just canceling a show because it’s not doing well in the Nielsen Ratings.

Who does this woman think she’s fooling. This is just PR on her part. If she really believes that soap operas are bigger than game shows or talk shows then why is her network airing “The Price is Right”, “Let’s Make a Deal” and that horrible talk show “The Talk” when they could be airing soap operas in those timeslots instead?

yay Angelica. may soaps live on forever and ever. love em all forever! Bring back World Turns!

She is 100% correct! Soap fans do not want or need another crappy talk show, game show or cooking show! The final straw was the cancellation of AMC and OLTL! CBS, has ruled for years in daytime soaps with Y&R and B&B (I do feel the ratings systems needs work because something is amiss). Soaps have more longevity than all the talk shows, game shows and cooking shows combined!

She’s got some nerve taking credit for the upswing in soap ratings, when ABC/Disney killed two of the shows, one of which, OLTL, was doing very well in the ratings. And if ABC hadn’t let Frons and Sweeney interfere so dreadfully with AMC, it’s possible it too might have been doing better than it did until the end.
General Hospital has survived IN SPITE of ABC, certainly not because of it. Bringing in Ron C. and Frank V. was the only smart choice ABC made regarding the shows. But as much if not even more important, the fans fought the cancellations very hard and were very vocal and the network felt the wrath of those fans in the ratings for the replacement shows, and also supported the only survivor on ABC, General Hospital.
ABC, quite rightly, feared the response if they cancelled GH too, since nothing they put on the air after killing OLTL and AMC came close to the ratings the cancelled shows had.
GH survives in spite of ABC, not because of it, in any way.

Now if McDaniel wants to show us the money and revive OLTL and AMC, then maybe, just maybe, she and the rat network might have a shred of reliability.

Till then, the survival of GH in particular is due to the vociferous soap fans who have refused to take no for an answer, even after losing OLTL and AMC, and to Ron C. and Frank V. who have made the show watchable again.

(And I say this as someone who often is no fan of Ron C.’s writing style. But credit where credit is due, he’s done a lot to keep people watching – and entertained).

I’m sorry, I had no business saying what I did about McDaniel. I didn’t see that she is CBS, not ABC. I don’t know about the sins of CBS against the soaps. ABC, on the other hand….

i love angelica so much. she knows what she is talking about, soaps are here to stay. lets support our remaining 4 soaps. young and the restless has been renewed for 3 more years. thats really good news. too many people are complaining about the young and the restless, now the storylines are picking up. its still number 1 and still going strong. gh is also doing well. bravo to frank valentini for saving gh from cancellation.

GH’s 50th anniversary brought me back to the show Nov 2012—I hadn’t watched it in years, but highly enjoying it the last year.

Take that alphabet network!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Until this soaps “upswing” resurrects AMC, I pass!

Lady your network cancelled the two shows I did watch. Or tried to till the end was so ruined. I never turn your network on before 8 pm. The garbage you replaced my AS the World Turns and Guiding Light with. I have never and will never watch. I don’t watch Y&R or BB . Maybe tiic of soaps the networks shouldn’t have told me soaps were dead. I might not have listened and just shut them off. GH sometimes ,like right now they are great. Wonder why. They brought back the vets Scorpios. Robin. Anna etc. The talk shows are a joke.

I am watching Y&R for one reason only….it has the most AMC actors on it. Hope to see more added. Yes, JR and Zach are on B&B but that soap is unwatchable for me. JR /Rick and Zach/Ridge were playing characters with depth on AMC, the characters on B&B are all surface.

Unless she plans of resurrecting ATWT and GL, I can do without her opinion, thank you very much.

Regardless of what people are saying, you really need to look at the ratings trends for those cancelled shows.

AMC and GL could never have been saved. They were so low rated by the time they went off the air that no one could have saved them. No one. Passions was in worse shape. All had fallen to such lows I don’t know how they would have made money while trying to recover in the Nielsens.

ATWT and OLTL however were different stories. ATWT had a poor couple of years, but still had the framework to turn it around (similar to what GH just did) with the right team in place. OLTL was the real disappointment as it was cancelled while its ratings started to improve.

I hope all four can survive. Days seems to be in the most jeopardy as the entire NBC network seems to be in flux. GH also seems safe for now.

It is great that soaps are on an upswing, but for how long? Frankly, I only enjoy two at this time. GH is great and entertaining. It is fun to see what will happen in one day. It is more of a fly in shock viewers with a twist kind of show though. I miss Guiding Light. That show had family, and in its heydays saw some well thought out storylines that were deep and character driven. The closest think to that today is DAYS, which I believe is the best soap on the air right now. I doubt we will see a new soap hit the networks anytime in the future. A shame yes, but I think it is too late for that. You will have to look at Primetime or online for that now.

I agree with all the comments that stated soaps are not on a upswing if networks are not investing in new product or giving more money to existing soaps. This lady sounds like she was hired to kiss and make nice to “soap fans” in order to give an appearance of support, but in reality, if CBS had another product they were sure could get them more viewers for less money they would dump both Y&R and B&B in a heart beat.

And maybe CBS can try something new by expanding their Soap selections…

I hear OLTL and AMC fans are still waiting for them to be resurrected from the internet. And they had decent ratings…

Just buy them from ABC and Prosoect park and they will have a built in audience who will be loyal beyond their imagination.

Are you on drugs or something? Get real.

They cancelled ATWT and GL so why would you think they would want AMC and OLTL?

I think she is doing an excellent job of brunging more soaps back into our daytime shows !!Thank u angelica !!

They are having a resurgence in ratings because fans from the other shows are flocking to the only four left. They haven’t got better, that is for sure. I personally have no interest left in soaps now that the only two really good shows are gone, ATWT and GL. Cancel the rest and bring them back, along with AMC and OLTL, see how fast their ratings rise.

I’m not sure of the reasons, but I’m just grateful somebody finally noticed!

I stopped watching soaps after ATWT was cancelled. If they ever resurrect ATWT without the stupid CG and JP at the helm; then I will watch it. But, since that’s not going to happen; I’ll continue my focus on sports events and reality shows shown on TV. I love Judge Judy. I hate talk shows; I have never watched them and never will; it’s a colossal waste of time listening to the crap of talk shows.

Well if Angelica really believes this then it would be beneficial to speak with the writers of Y&R and ask them to stop the trashing of Sharon Newman and that fan base. We have watched patiently and loyally for over 7 years while various writers have trashed our favorite character beyond recognition. The latest stunt of putting her in Summer’s paternity story line to appease other fan bases may prove to be their downfall. I certainly hope that they clean this story line up and put the blame for the DNA story where it belongs; on Nick Newman.

ATWT was the best and historical,