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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 286658" data-attributes="member: 27">NBC certainly wanted their soaps to be more like Days was in that period (that is, bat-$hit crazy), and at times SuBe gave them a run for the money in craziness.&nbsp; Another World was an old-style soap that focused on generational and social-struggle stories, and the show resisted NBC&#039;s attempts to &quot;make it more like Days&quot; as long as it could.&nbsp; Procter and Gamble owned AW and if NBC had tried to monkey with the time slots, they would likely have been very upset; NBC could not afford to make one of its top ad buyers unhappy, so AW stayed where it was, earning ratings somewhat higher than SuBe&#039;s.&nbsp; NBC ended up cancelling both soaps within six months of one another in 1999, believing they could make more money by owning and producing Passions and giving the other hour back to affiliates. Passions never earned the ratings of AW or SuBe, despite exhaustive efforts from NBC to promote it.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 286658, member: 27"] NBC certainly wanted their soaps to be more like Days was in that period (that is, bat-$hit crazy), and at times SuBe gave them a run for the money in craziness. [I]Another World[/I] was an old-style soap that focused on generational and social-struggle stories, and the show resisted NBC's attempts to "make it more like Days" as long as it could. Procter and Gamble owned AW and if NBC had tried to monkey with the time slots, they would likely have been very upset; NBC could not afford to make one of its top ad buyers unhappy, so AW stayed where it was, earning ratings somewhat higher than SuBe's. NBC ended up cancelling both soaps within six months of one another in 1999, believing they could make more money by owning and producing [I]Passions[/I] and giving the other hour back to affiliates. [I] Passions[/I] never earned the ratings of AW or SuBe, despite exhaustive efforts from NBC to promote it. [/QUOTE]

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