Re: NBC's "Days of Our Lives" nearing renewal?

On Sat, 31 May 2008 07:30:43 -0600, suzee <suzee@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Rob Jensen wrote:
On Fri, 30 May 2008 21:44:55 -0400, David <dimlan17@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That'd be good
news for the drama's 2.8 million fans -- and the entire daytime drama
genre, which has already seen the demise of Passions, Port Charles,
and Another World in the last decade. The 100-day writers' strike had
the industry racked with fears that the massive work stoppage would
irreparably damage the struggling soap genre. As a result, many
scribes risked the wrath of the WGA by crossing the picket lines to
keep soaps in originals. The union later vilified those writers after
the strike was over, though many still remain in the writers' rooms.

I'm not saying this in any context regarding the soaps using scab
writers because AFAIK, DOOL wasn't one of them, but gee, if only the
Strike had lasted long enough to kill off the oozing pustule of the
entire degenerate soap opera subgenre.

Grr! The WGA caved too soon!

If they'd alll gone away, they'd have been replaced with reruns, talk or
reality shows. Not a good thing for daytime tv....

Reality shows wouldn't happen -- waaaaay too much time to fill. And
the market is oversaturated with talk shows (and court shows). So I
think we'd see the resurgence of daytime game shows (where the C- and
D-list actors at least wouldn't be degrading themselves on reality
shows).

IMO, the death of soaps would be a good thing for TV. And game shows.

-- Rob
--
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It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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