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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 263982" data-attributes="member: 27">Another possibility is that Brian Frons (who was dismantling ABC daytime, whether by design or through ineptitude), believed that cancelling two of the three soaps at the same time would in a way cut down on viewer backlash, since they would be dealing with two cancellations at once rather than two cancellations spaced a year or two apart.&nbsp; Rather than have his name dragged through the mud for six months, then dragged again a year later, he&#039;d just consolidate the vitriol.Frons&#039;s overall plan was to cancel all three of their soaps, but could not get the higher-ups to agree to get rid of them all at once.&nbsp; There was still some life left in them all, but GH had more residual clout since it had been so popular for so long in the 1980s-1990s.&nbsp; When the OLTL and AMC non-soap replacements did not catch on, ABC took a step back and realized they should hang onto at least one soap....and just get rid of Frons.&nbsp; Which can be filed under &quot;barring the barn door after the horses have run away&quot;.None of the replacements for cancelled soaps have really caught on (that is, scoring higher ratings than their predecessors).&nbsp; The only one that came close was The Talk&nbsp; on CBS that replaced As The World Turns, but their ratings went down after a season or so and never recovered.&nbsp; Passions, despite unprecedented publicity around its premiere and network money and patience as it floundered for years, never scored higher ratings than Another World did.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 263982, member: 27"] Another possibility is that Brian Frons (who was dismantling ABC daytime, whether by design or through ineptitude), believed that cancelling two of the three soaps at the same time would in a way cut down on viewer backlash, since they would be dealing with two cancellations at once rather than two cancellations spaced a year or two apart. Rather than have his name dragged through the mud for six months, then dragged again a year later, he'd just consolidate the vitriol. Frons's overall plan was to cancel all three of their soaps, but could not get the higher-ups to agree to get rid of them all at once. There was still some life left in them all, but GH had more residual clout since it had been so popular for so long in the 1980s-1990s. When the OLTL and AMC non-soap replacements did not catch on, ABC took a step back and realized they should hang onto at least one soap....and just get rid of Frons. Which can be filed under "barring the barn door after the horses have run away". None of the replacements for cancelled soaps have really caught on (that is, scoring higher ratings than their predecessors). The only one that came close was [I]The Talk [/I]on CBS that replaced [I]As The World Turns, [/I]but their ratings went down after a season or so and never recovered. [I]Passions[/I], despite unprecedented publicity around its premiere and network money and patience as it floundered for years, never scored higher ratings than [I]Another World[/I] did. [/QUOTE]

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