http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Life_to_Live
http://www.indystar.com/article/20120113/ENTERTAINMENT/201140309/-One-Life-Live-takes-its-last-breath-today?odyssey=tab%7Ctopnews%7Ctext%7CIndyStar.com
http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/television/9933537-421/one-life-to-live-airs-final-episode.html
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Showing posts with label Anne Sweeney. Show all posts
Friday, January 13, 2012
Monday, June 6, 2011
RIP (likely) GENERAL HOSPITAL 1963-2012.
Take a look at this article from THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER site:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/what-katie-courics-new-show-195183
I'm making a sort-of-educated guess that Disney/ABC will again manage for margins (i.e. low ratings don't matter as much if production costs are cheap--the rationale behind THE CHEW and THE REVOLUTION replacing ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE) and cancel their remaining soap opera aka "daytime drama."
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/what-katie-courics-new-show-195183
I'm making a sort-of-educated guess that Disney/ABC will again manage for margins (i.e. low ratings don't matter as much if production costs are cheap--the rationale behind THE CHEW and THE REVOLUTION replacing ALL MY CHILDREN and ONE LIFE TO LIVE) and cancel their remaining soap opera aka "daytime drama."
Friday, April 15, 2011
More regarding ABC soap cancellations--the fix was in and public kept in the dark.
http://www.deadline.com/2011/04/abc-daytime-chief-on-why-amc-oltl-were-axed-general-hospital-katie-couric/
And here's a key passage from the article:
The demise of the two venerable soaps was actually a year in the making, Frons tells me. "A year ago, we started to look at our projections where the ratings for the soaps would go," he said. When those projections came in pretty discouraging, the network began to aggressively develop replacement shows, 15 of them. Four of the 15 were picked up to pilot: The Chew, The Revolution and two others, a talk show and a dating show. Originally, the idea was to cancel only one daytime drama, Frons said. But "the way the ratings developed and the pilots turned out, the ratings developed negatively and pilots developed positively, so we decided to make a bigger shift."
And here's a key passage from the article:
The demise of the two venerable soaps was actually a year in the making, Frons tells me. "A year ago, we started to look at our projections where the ratings for the soaps would go," he said. When those projections came in pretty discouraging, the network began to aggressively develop replacement shows, 15 of them. Four of the 15 were picked up to pilot: The Chew, The Revolution and two others, a talk show and a dating show. Originally, the idea was to cancel only one daytime drama, Frons said. But "the way the ratings developed and the pilots turned out, the ratings developed negatively and pilots developed positively, so we decided to make a bigger shift."
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