ABC Gives Drama Pilot Orders To Soaps From Mark Gordon And Callie Khouri

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• Wow ABC must be the dumbest network out there. First they cancel my soaps and now they want to put soaps on at night and not even the soaps that they canceled the ones us fans want back. Idiots I will not watch these replacement soaps I will only continue to watch the last 4 standing soaps on daytime television.Soaps are not dead and us fans will be heard and there are many of us dont ever test a soap fan because you will see how we will never back down from a fight and we will Unite. Come on soap fans let are voices be heard and let us all Unite and fight. Never give up ABC will regret what they do to thier soap fans mark my words. Just like the Revolution has horrible ratings thanks to us soap fans! ABC you SUCK!!!

  Comment by Elizabeth — Saturday January 28, 2012 @ 9:24pm PST  Reply to this post

• I find it ridiculous that ABC would plan to show prime time soap dramas after unceremoniously replacing daytime soaps that aired to generations of liyal fans for more than forty years. Then ABC replaced our daytime soaps with garbage that is already sinking like a rock on the ratings. Soap fans are not going to get over it. We are uniting across the web and are successfully boycotting ABC and it’s sponsors.

  Comment by Laura — Saturday January 28, 2012 @ 9:41pm PST  Reply to this post

• I am a Soap fan and I have moved on. I no longer watch ABC anything. When General Hospital ends, which it will soon, ABC will no longer have the millions of soap viewers they have had for decades. They can’t replace All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital with these kind of shows. These shows may get good ratings but they would be getting even better ratings had that not treated the “real soap” fans so badly. Bye ABC, you will no longer be missed.

  Comment by Kathy — Sunday January 29, 2012 @ 7:44am PST  Reply to this post

  • last i heard was that they were keeping GH. ??? Very Recent rumor or fact.

    Comment by kay — Sunday January 29, 2012 @ 2:11pm PST  Reply to this post

• Well here is the fact they are starting two new soaps for Primetime as the title says, they just threw away an audience of millions to start over. It truly makes no sense. You’d be suprised who all watches soaps. Some bigger names would include: Snoop Dogg, Reba McEntire, Mary Higgins Clark and lets not even get into all the actors and actresses that have gotten their start on soaps. John Stamos, Brad Pitt, Julliana Moore, Kelly Ripa that is just a handful. Are there as many people home when these shows air? Nope… but it doesn’t mean that people aren’t watching it. The just have to watch it when they are able and in many cases they aren’t being included in the ratings.

  Comment by Amanda — Sunday January 29, 2012 @ 2:25pm PST  Reply to this post

• We, as in our family and friends are continuing our boycotting of ALL THINGS ABC and Disney for their having cancelled “One Life to Live” and “All My Children.” In response to these cancellation policy decisions, decisions made by Disney’s Robert Iger and ABC’s Anne Sweeney and Brian Frons, ABC is witnessing half of the Daytime audience fan base flee its network programming entirely, as some acutely perceptive observers many months ago had well predicted would be the tragic outcome. In an honorable business culture, these three individuals would have already committed a form of corporate “hari kari” for having offended and injured as many parties as they have through their rank incompetence, poor business decision making, and despicable treatment of their customers/loyal viewers of many decades duration. And, moreover, for their manifest classless crude abuse, deception, and disrespect they rained on the ever talented casts and crews of “One Life to Live” and “All My Children.” Iger, Frons, and Sweeney are disgraces to the honorable traditions that have historically prevailed in the American entertainment and broadcasting industries, and the latter Ms. Sweeney in having been complicit to the extreme in Mr. Frons’ notorious in the public record, chronic repeated ageist and sexist conduct, is a disgrace to the American womens movement that tragically paved the opportunity for her; powerfully witness her wrecking operations in a Bain Company-like looting fashion of a great American storytelling genre birthed by writer Agnes Nixon that sustained primetime programming on this country’s networks for decades. Then, the three of them, Iger, Sweeney and Frons went on to replace such iconic American classics (with millions of LOYAL daytime viewers) with junk programming a la The Spew and The Revulsion in further debasing the American contemporary television medium. Shame on the three of them and let damn be done! ABC/Disney: Release the rights now being held “hostage” to those shows and allow another network or cable provider to bring these shows back to their audiences. For once, do the right thing and cease your contemptful conduct toward your customer base that is inimical to every sound business practice. Begin, then, to advertise ABC in a positive public light.

  Comment by Dr. Donald G. Boudreau — Sunday January 29, 2012 @ 2:34pm PST  Reply to this post