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Soaps have plenty of viewers; they're just not the traditional viewers of years past who watched the show live on the network affiliate. The networks have yet to figure out how to count all those viewers who time shift via DVR/VCR, who watch on SoapNet, who watch online via official web sites or YouTube, etc.
The network brass keeps harping about women are working outside the home and aren't home to watch soaps. Bullcrap. I've been watching soaps since I was 15; during every single one of those years, I've either been a full-time student or had a full-time job.
The viewers are out there, but they're being ignored.
When I heard that ATWT was being cancelled, I knew that AMC wouldn't be too far behind. I remember my mom watching AMC and the other ABC soaps when I was growing up. I myself began watching them in the late 90s on and off. I stopped watching them a couple of years ago but I would still tune in once and a while to see what was going on.
I am very saddened by both AMC and OLTL's cancellations, although not surprised. Young women just aren't growing up watching them like in the past decades. GH and the rest will soon follow. It is unfortunate but this is the time that we live in now.
My primary soap was OLTL althought I've kept up with AMC somewhat. AMC used to be hilarious with Phoebe, Lenny the Purse Snatcher and Myrtle. Glad 'they' aren't alive to see this.
I am probably going to have a personality disorder when OLTL goes off...
In Latin America, the "soaps" (novelas) are very popular, They are on in the evenings and even men watch them. Betty La Fea began as a novela in Mexico, I think.
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In Latin America, the "soaps" (novelas) are very popular, They are on in the evenings and even men watch them. Betty La Fea began as a novela in Mexico, I think.
univision has wonderful novelas---guess i can get my soap fix there after amc goes----i am caught up in triunfo del amor even tho my spanish is rudimentary at best
The crap on "reality" TV and "entertainment" news shows far surpasses the corny situations and tacky villains the soaps invented.
The real question is: Do soaps imitate life or does life imitate soaps?
Don't bother with an answer, it's a rhetorical question, either way it's a yawn.
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