The death rattle of soap operas - Many down, three to go?

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There have only been four American soap operas left on TV in recent years:
The Bold and the Beautiful (CBS)
The Young and the Restless (CBS)
General Hospital (ABC)
Days of Our Lives (NBC)

Now it appears that Days is being moved to subscription-only streaming platform Peacock. Fans are extremely pissed off because no one wants to pay to watch this one show and boomers don’t even know what the hell streaming is anyway.

This has led to some speculation that this soap is effectively DOA, and the other three will suffer the same fate. Some might remember that All My Children and One Life to Live tried to carry on via Hulu, but both were struck with lawsuits and were quickly cancelled.

Please comment your opinions here (or just talk in general about your favorite soaps, it might be last time you get to).
 
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Pokemonquistador2 said:
There are still soap operas? I thought they went the way of Saturday Morning Cartoons. Sacrificed to the March of Progress and the rise of alternate forms of entertainment. Also, not a lot of women sit at home all day folding laundry anymore.
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I know General Hospital is on Hulu (not the Live TV version, just the cheap $7 one). I think the other two can be watched on the CBS website. So there’s no need to be at home during the original broadcast. However, I’m not sure how many are still watching.

I’m surprised they’ve made it this far. The recent DOOL news points to them killing it off while avoiding fan backlash. I wouldn’t be surprised if after a year they said “oops, well we tried”, and that will be that.

Y&R will be the very last to go. I’m placing my bets now.
 
seems as good a thread to necro as any
the wife's been watching Dallas, I sorta glance at it sporadically but usually play a video game or otherwise dick around online
currently season 7 and the cinematography is WAY fucking different than the last time I bothered to look at it, more like X-Files/Breaking Bad style filming. It's not bad, but it doesn't look like Dallas at all
what happened behind the scenes?
 
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Nothing really; season seven's only real issue behind the scenes was the writing staff shrinking to the core writers after they added several extra writers the previous year.

The real backstage shit doesn't start until season eight and the multi-season clusterfuck that is the dream season and it's consequences.

As for soap operas in general; I really miss a now long since deleted account on Youtube that used to have the entire Jack/Jennifer saga from 1988-1993 from their first meeting to Jack's departure. It sadly got copyright struck long before the ability to download shit from Youtube was easy to do.
 
I have good memories of late '80s General Hospital because I had to watch it with my grandma during the summer. Tony the blind doctor, the brainwashed vet married to Felicia. I might be the only person who remembers poor Dawn, who got killed in a trash dump or something.

Anyway, soaps are hella woke now. Half the population of General Hospital is black now and I'm sure everyone is some form of gay. So into the trash it goes. (Also, they fired the show's hunky star because he refused to take the jab.)
 
The death knell of soap operas is entirely down to streaming.

We cancelled our UK TV licence five years ago because it was a complete waste of money and we now live happier lives.
 
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if you listen to talk radio for obsessive amounts of time you may notice Herb Alpert's "Rise" pops up as filler music slightly more than other filler instrumentals when something goes wrong at the network level or killing time during a commercial break when the local station should be running spots
I've hear that's something of a secret handshake for soap nerds, as it was when Luke and Laura first, ahem. "met"
 
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