On Wed, Apr 11, 2012 at 3:33 PM, Mark Jeffries <spotligh...@gmail.com>wrote:
> The lifestyle talk show that replaced the fading "One Life to Live" to the > screams of its mostly elderly audience last fall did even worse than "OLTL" > and will be gone July 6--ABC will do an afternoon edition of "Good Morning > America" called "GMA in the Afternoon" from July 9 until Sept. 10, when > "General Hospital" moves into the 2 p.m. time slot and makes 3 p.m. local > time (although on the ABC-owned stations and other affiliates Katie > Couric's new show will air in that slot): > > > http://www.deadline.com/2012/04/abc-the-revolution-cancelled-general-hospital-renewed-gma-afternoon/ > > After Nellie Andreeva of Deadline broke the story, the grandmas who are > not in the money demo are proclaiming victory in the comments and still > demanding that "OLTL" and "All My Children" be brought back, as if it's > still 1980, the daytime audience is younger and daytime profits are still > paying for prime time (and a few of the old ladies are believing that it's > all a ruse to cancel "GH" for "GMA in the Afternoon") . Why do they refuse > to accept the reality that soaps as they were done in 1980 are too > expensive for daytime in 2012? > > As for "GMA," ABC's saying that some of the morning crew will be doing the > afternoon show, along with "new talent." > Didn't we read here recently something to the effect that Katie was trying to get ABC to make these moves so that she was not blamed for killing of GH before it turned 50? -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to tvornottv@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tvornottv-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
