A Lot Less Love In The Afternoon
Hello, hello--hello!
I've been soooo very angry this past weekend. I've been spitting out nails. Flaming hot nails. A lot of ABC Daytime fans have been spitting them out too. Why are we all so angry? Well, in case you haven't heard, ABC had the utter gall to flat out cancel two of the greatest soap operas there ever were: All My Children and One Live To Live, which just happen to be my two favorite soaps. At least they had the common decency to keep General Hospital around, but my best friend, Danny Mae, said the reason for that is because a lot of young people watch that one, and it comes on just as school is letting out. But enough about General Hospital. My beef is about the two that are on the guillotine stage.
When I read about the pending All My Children cancelation in TV Guide a couple of weeks ago, I thought that it was a joke. Yeah, they said that it had poor ratings, but that's only because many women 18 to 49, who have always been daytime TV's prime audience, have been at work or in class during the day (and which has been that way for the past three decades). I've always thought DVRs and TiVo had rectified that problem, but, alas, it seemed that they couldn't help the ratings of neither All My Children nor One Life to Live. I've even heard that All My Children had moved to Los Angeles from New York in order to help save it. Now I wonder what's going to happen to all those people who had uprooted themselves from New York to move to Los Angeles. What are they going to do now? What are we going to do now? I hear that they plan to replace these two giants of the daytime world with just more run-of-the-mill lifestyle shows, The Chew (which is suppose to be a food-based play on The View), and The Revolution. I doubt that either one of these shows could cause the cultural revolution that All My Children and One Life To Live have cause over the past four decades. So, Happy Easter and Happy Passover, fellow All My Children and One Life To Live fans.
Well, that's al the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and remember to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
I've been soooo very angry this past weekend. I've been spitting out nails. Flaming hot nails. A lot of ABC Daytime fans have been spitting them out too. Why are we all so angry? Well, in case you haven't heard, ABC had the utter gall to flat out cancel two of the greatest soap operas there ever were: All My Children and One Live To Live, which just happen to be my two favorite soaps. At least they had the common decency to keep General Hospital around, but my best friend, Danny Mae, said the reason for that is because a lot of young people watch that one, and it comes on just as school is letting out. But enough about General Hospital. My beef is about the two that are on the guillotine stage.
When I read about the pending All My Children cancelation in TV Guide a couple of weeks ago, I thought that it was a joke. Yeah, they said that it had poor ratings, but that's only because many women 18 to 49, who have always been daytime TV's prime audience, have been at work or in class during the day (and which has been that way for the past three decades). I've always thought DVRs and TiVo had rectified that problem, but, alas, it seemed that they couldn't help the ratings of neither All My Children nor One Life to Live. I've even heard that All My Children had moved to Los Angeles from New York in order to help save it. Now I wonder what's going to happen to all those people who had uprooted themselves from New York to move to Los Angeles. What are they going to do now? What are we going to do now? I hear that they plan to replace these two giants of the daytime world with just more run-of-the-mill lifestyle shows, The Chew (which is suppose to be a food-based play on The View), and The Revolution. I doubt that either one of these shows could cause the cultural revolution that All My Children and One Life To Live have cause over the past four decades. So, Happy Easter and Happy Passover, fellow All My Children and One Life To Live fans.
Well, that's al the time we have for this week. Until next time, be well, stay well, and remember to help the earthquake survivors!
Sincerely,
Marley Sue
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