| Subject: Re: You really think CBS would kill GL so soon? |
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Date Posted: 17:40:19 04/22/02 Mon
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In reply to:
Trey-Trey
's message, "You really think CBS would kill GL so soon?" on 11:15:10 04/21/02 Sun
>1) There's the decision on whether to expand Bold and the >Beautiful to a full hour or to replace GL with another >hour show.
Networks usually have soaps in development way in advance
to any possible opening of a timeslot. They just don't
make it public. There were rumors years ago the Bell
family has a bible for a new soap they were shopping
around!
>(While CBS swears up and down that they would never cancel >Guiding Light).
Who at CBS has made such a promise? Was it recently?
I do recall some time ago, a former CBS exec making such
a bold statement in support of CBS' longest running entertainment program. However things have changed!
CBS is now part of VIACOM! And believe me those VIACOM
execs # 1 priority is the bottom line: money, money, and more money! If GL doesn't make CBS the amount of money they want it to make GL will be CANCELED!
Also keep in mind, the CBS execs aren't like the idiots at NBC who for over a year made a public circus/battle over which soap to cancel for Passions. AW or SUBE? CBS will just announce it, there will be no long-running saga over the status of GL, at least concerning CBS public involvement in one.
ATWT is the savior or killer to GL! IF ATWT continues
its downward spiral along with GL, then GL remains on the
air. However! If ATWT maintain its current ratings and GL 's ratings keep getting lower and lower, GL is history!
Of course its possible both GL and ATWT drop to extremly
low ratings and CBS decides to cancel one in order to
try and save the other! I can just hear that spin now! LOL
Or God forbit, GL and ATWT go off the air on the same day!
That would truly be one of the saddest days in the history
or broadcasting! Sadly by the hands of hack writers, producers and execs, this is all a possibility in the next few years!
>but if GL were cancelled, the new show(whether it is hour >long or a half-hour long) will definetly fall into the >traditional CBS soap mold(i.e. core families, different >age groups represented, etc.), a style of show you and >just about every other soap fan has been craving for since >the 80's.
I agree. But what guarentee is there that CBS would
even replace GL with another soap? I do think CBS
would want to try a new soap since they are the only
network to have any success in doing so in the past
several decades! But who knows! It all goes back to
VIACOM! They are the ones in charge of CBS now! They
are nothing like the CBS execs of the past, who respected
soaps and worked hard to maintain CBS # 1 place in daytime.
VIACOM execs probably look at CBS Daytime and dismiss it.
>So, if GL is cancelled(and I hope it isn't) at least there >is a good chance it's fans won't get stuck with a loser >soap like Passions.
My bet would be a 3rd Bell soap!
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