ABC Sets Premiere Date For ‘Revolution’

COMMENTS (8)

• They will give this show an incredible push, as they did with The Chew. It will die in the ratings and they will be sorry they dropped One Life to Live for this mess. If they had given the soaps half the support that they have given to these reality shows they would still be on the air.

  Comment by mike — Monday November 28, 2011 @ 4:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• They won’t be sorry, because even if the ratings are below what OLTL was the COST is far far less than scripted shows. It’s a matter of economics. The Chew is a hit, averaging 2.38 million in total viewers for last week. It has grown since it started. General Hospital averages 836,000 viewers. All this and at a much LOWER cost.

  I’ll bet ABC is has happy as they could be.

  Comment by lsb — Monday November 28, 2011 @ 5:34pm PST  Reply to this post

• It’s all about cost-cutting and such drivel shows as Chew and Revolution are only airing for cost-effective reasons and a way to fill up timeslots. Hoping these shows won’t make it past a year but people nowadays will watch anything on TV, including junk like this.

  Comment by Jed — Monday November 28, 2011 @ 7:21pm PST  Reply to this post

• @lsb um maybe you should get your facts straight. General Hospital averaged 2,374,000 viewers the week of Nov. 14 not 800,000 something. On Nov. 15 One Life To Live had almost 3 million viewers. These shows have been on for decades, they are sustainable and part of pop culture. The Chew tanked day one and has managed to have a boost over the holiday season, but no proof that it will hold. The Revolution won’t be on 30 years from now, that’s for sure. Soaps still have potential. If millions are paying to see a badly written romance like Twilight, there is still a market for soaps. ABC is being foolish.

  Comment by Matt — Monday November 28, 2011 @ 11:17pm PST  Reply to this post

  • Thank you, very well said!

    Comment by Renee — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 7:14am PST  Reply to this post

    • I’m talking about the comment from Matt when I said “Very well said!”

      Comment by Renee — Tuesday November 29, 2011 @ 7:17am PST  Reply to this post

• mike&jed I could not agree more. Nielsen Ratings are just a joke. They refuse to count certain people because of age. Isn’t that a form of prejudice? People over 50 does not count anymore? And recording the shows to watch later is now BAD in these days of TiVo? Cost was a poor choice for an excuse to get rid of the shows. But they’ll learn that after thefact. What a shame.

  Comment by Cntryloner — Monday November 28, 2011 @ 11:29pm PST  Reply to this post

• They better of tweaked it. Who wants to watch somebody for five months trying to lose weight. Well I don’t that is! Let’s see, the Chew shows you how to put it on and the Revolution shows you how to take it off. Yep makes sense to me….NOT. And don’t we have enough Drs. on daytime tv. Abc even shows a rerun of Dr. Oz every morning from 10 to 11. Why don’t they put the Revolution on then and keep One Life to Live.

  Comment by Margie — Wednesday December 7, 2011 @ 12:05pm PST  Reply to this post