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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matthew Blaisdel" data-source="post: 359099" data-attributes="member: 26">Could be that, and of course the overall budget cuts, that affected more or less all soaps at the time. Everything had to be cheaper and cheaper,  storylines got weaker and weaker, the cast thinned out more and more.No wonder audiences went over to the -  well written and acted - sitcoms. I would've done the same. Those were at least INTENTIONALLY to laugh about.I don't think it was all about Zeitgeist and that noone wanted to watch good soaps anymore from mid 80s on. The soaps just got too bad. But not all of them, otherwise Knots wouldn't have lasted till the mid 90s. And there were shows like the several Star Trek shows, which were more or less drama-soaps as well, just set in space ... and The X-files, which had very soapy elements at times as well, and those lasted far into the 2000s. So people weren't sick of soapy stuff at all... it just had to be GOOD stuff, not ridiculous crap.Even the most successful shows of recent days were soaps. Game of thrones for example...  millions and millions of viewers, literally the whole internet was talking about it, it was the show with the highest number of illegal downloads for years. A fantasy soap with intrigues and love and all and lasted for 8 years and would have lasted even longer, if it wasn't ruined by the producers as well in the last 2 seasons. The interest in soaps was NEVER gone. Even TNT Dallas could still be on, if Cidre hadn't made it a bad mexican crime telenovela.</blockquote>

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