When ABC cancelled two of their Soaps, All My Children and One Life to Win, soap fans started campaigning to save the genre. Both show have been on the air for over 40 years. Granted when CBS cancelled Guiding Light and As the World Turns, both on air 50 plus years, the fans were visibly upset, but not to this extent. Of course, they were cancelled two years apart – not on the same day in April, 2011. Plus from all indications, it looks like General Hospital will also be cancelled. This is just conjecture, there is nothing concrete about this so please don’t say that I said it for sure. That’s how vicious rumors get started.

Soap fans everywhere have united and are demanding that the cancelled shows get a reprieve, possibly on CBS or NBC, or get thecable-television companies to support a new soap cable channel to replace the soon to depart SoapNet. In order to do this a new coupon campaign has been started. These coupons are easy to fill out. You provide your Cable Company or Sattelite’s name, fill out
your name and address, clip it and mail it to the post office box included on the coupon. Pretty easy isn’t it? Your voice WILL be heard! Fill out and send ONE coupon per household members.

Where can you obtain your coupons? This weeks Globe magazine on sale NOW. They will also be available in the next issues of CBS Soaps In Depth and ABC Soaps in Depth. Or you can go to Sudz.tv on the Internet.

Come on peeps, show your support for our Soap Opera’s and start sending in those coupons. ALL soaps are in danger!!! Thank you!

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Last night, June 19th, the 38th annual Daytime Emmys were held in Las Vegas. To say it was a disaster would be a huge understatement. I’m glad I writing this today, instead of last night, as I wouldn’t have been as kind. The Daytime Emmys used to be held exclusively in New York City, of course that’s where the majority of the Soap Operas were produced. Some years back they were alternated between Los Angeles and NYC and now for the 2nd year in a row they are in Las Vegas. Yes, it gives the stars a new playground to go to, but why were they held on Father’s Day and opposite the popular Miss USA Pageant?? From the very beginning it was a travelogue for Las Vegas, including commercials, and that got old really fast. Don’t forget the showgirls, Marie Osmond and the 15-20 minute tribute to Oprah! Speaking of Oprah, they created a new special Emmy for her, supposedly the first annual, had this way too long tribute to her and guess what? She couldn’t even attend the awards to accept, but had a ‘nice’ taped acceptance speech.

There was no televised Red Carpet coverage! Normally SoapNet televises awesome coverage, oh yeah, they are owned by ABC/D and have been cancelled in 2012. Couldn’t CBS do the awards from 9-11 EDT and do Red Carpet from 8-9? Now THAT would have been a coup. Due to all of the Vegas promos and so much time for Oprah, there was no time to show the clips of the nominees. That was a travesty as many fans were upset by who did win and who they thought should win. However, if we had seen the clips, we might have been able to understand it better. On Twitter @SoapsInDepthCBS stated several times that they had seen the clips and COULD understand why some won. It was all about the clips that the stars, or shows, had sent in. Having the right clips for the judges to view makes a huge difference.

There was little mention of AMC or OLTL being cancelled much less a tribute to them. Okay, I hear the argument – they are technically still on the air until September and January. However, shouldn’t there at least been a tribute to ATWT? After all, Julie Pinson was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress, Colleen Zenk for Outstanding Lead Actress and Michael Park WON for Outstanding Lead Actor (he was performing on Broadway and couldn’t be present). Surely, some kind of tribute should have been done.

On the upside Tracey E. Bregman introduced that Jabot Cosmetics was going public, and I don’t mean stock wise LOL. Jabot has been a storyline on Young and Restless for about 20 years and it’s nice to see that the viewers can now purchase their own line of Jabot Cosmetics, in fact I purchased my Red Carpet Collection last night. ShopJabot. They had several short interviews with Tracey and some commercials. Also, the spot on Children’s Miracle Network, featuring several of our Soap Opera stars was excellent. Wayne Brady introduced Susan Lucci, as Erica Cane, having been married 8 times – big gaff. Enter Shemar Moore (YEAH), ex-Malcolm on Y&R who quickly corrected that and said 11 weddings. They did a tribute to all of Erica’s weddings and spoofed her getting married to Regis and Ellen, it was humorous but they couldn’t do something for the incredible Erica Slezak?

Did you know that the ratings were down 27% last night? That should tell TPTB something and why I called it a disaster!

Enough of my ranting now, I do want to congratulate all of the winners especially B&B for being Best Drama for the 3rd year in a row. it is now time for the fan base to unite and stick by our remaining soaps. Keep tuned in for more information and SEND IN YOUR COUPONS!

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Francisco St Martin (Dario) has just tweeted that he has been let go from Days. While I haven’t gotten all fuzzied with Dario, lately he has been growing on me. When I heard that Mark Hapka was coming back, as Nathan, I had high hopes that there could be a mix-up with the two guys and Melanie, just like with Stephanie in the mix.

I was also looking forward to more of Rafe’s family and the ultimate angst. My bet is that Gabi will be the next to go seeing that Will is going to be the nu gay guy with Sonny.

As Carolyn Hinsey would say “it’s only my opinion”.

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About 2 weeks ago, Dena Higley was out as head writer on Days. She was replaced by Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr. Darrell was an intern for Days quite some time ago and Marlene was a former writer for Days, so they both are familiar with the show. They both previously co-wrote for Passions, another NBC soap. Obviously with new head writers we can expect changes, however, with demise of AMC and OLTL we are in store for some MAJOR changes!

Executive Producer, Ted Corday, has said that he wants to move
back to a more positive, romantic, intriguing show as opposed to
revenge, drug addiction and prostitution. For that I applaud him. He
also wants to get back to the core families — Meaning the Brady’s
and Hortons. Hurrah! When was the last time we really saw Roman
Brady? How much story have Bo and Hope been given since they
reunited? I am hoping his vision becomes a reality.

It’s going to be till the end of summer thru the fall before we see a
lot of changes. Days tapes well in advance, in fact they have already
taped to mid-August with Higley as the writer.

I named this article “Blood Bath in Salem”. Here is why – last week
it was announced that Crystal Chappell (Carly) and Louise Sorell
(Vivian) have been let go. Yesterday it was announced that Nadia
Bjorlin (Chloe), Tamara Braun (Taylor) and newcomer Bren Foster (Quinn) have been released. Today the blood bath continued when
head producer, Gary Tomlin was let go.

On the plus side, Matthew Ashford will be returning as Jack – Jennifer’s hubby. Rumor has it that Drake Hogestn and Deidre Hall
will be returning as John and Marlena, although for only a short
time. I personally do not think this is a good idea. While John and
Marlena are memorable characters that fans are invested in, if they
are only here for a short time, only to be get written off again, the
fans will be more than irate!

Today it was announced that Mark Hapka will be returning as Nathan Horton. I couldn’t understand him being written off to begin with and
it will be a great triangle with Melanie and Dario.

I would love to see Bryan Dattalio come back as Lucas. They have been mentioning his name a lot on the show.

Who would you like to see come back to Days??

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For the last week, or so, I have been numb and just didn’t know what to say. So I thank you for your patience and allowing me to say all that I have to say now.

I, as others, had heard the rumors that either All My Children or One Life To Live were going to be cancelled. I sighed and prayed it was just a malicious rumor. First of all, I thought, they wouldn’t cancel AMC. ABC had recently spent an enormous amount of money relocating AMC from New to a spectacular new studio in Los Angeles. Now the rumor regarding OLTL was a little more feasible. I had noticed they had been falling in ratings, however, it didn’t make sense seeing that they  had been gaining in the ratings race.

Then on April 14th the bomb dropped. BOTH AMC and OLTL had been cancelled. I couldn’t believe it! Granted, as my readers know, I don’t currently follow those shows but I have in the past. In fact, about 25 years ago I was fortunate enough to be on the OLTL set and was honored to meet Erica Slezak, the late Asa Carey, Robert S. Woods, to name a few – in fact, Imogene Coca was playing a cleaning lady on that episode. I watched AMC at the beginning with Erica and Phil and of course there was GH with the Luke and Laura HUGE story. However, times pass and due to different circumstances I was back to watching shows from my childhood and a few new ones. Sorry, I guess I’m regressing and need to get back on the subject.

AMC, after 41 years, will be gone in September of this year and OLTL in January 2012. What are these shows being replaced with? A show focused on food called The Chew and The Revolution focused on health. Do we not have enough of those shows now? We have a full network called the FOOD Network that deals with food, plus Rachael Ray. As far as health issues we have Dr. Oz and The Doctors and I’m sure there is a health network out there with all of the cable stations.

What really ticks me off is the unemployment of not only the actors, but all of the crew and the Soap Magazines! Plus, what about all of the actors that had lived in the NYC area, probably all of their lives, uprooted and moved their families to the West Coast – that’s despicable.

In the last 2 years CBS has lost two of the longest running Soaps – Guiding Light and As The World Turns. I used to watch both of those shows with my Grandmother and watched GL till the very end. Oh yes, there were times that the story-lines were just too ridiculous for me to continue watching – but I always came back. I think we have all done that from time to time and don’t even tell me that you haven’t, LOL.

When GL and ATWT were cancelled the fans gathered around trying to save their shows. It didn’t work. The fans of AMC and OLTL are attempting the same thing, however, I don’t think it will work for them either.  So what can we do to keep our shows on the air?

Come 2012 there will only be 4 Soaps left for us. General Hospital on ABC, Days of Our Lives on NBC and Bold and Beautiful and Young and Restless on CBS. Do you care about these shows? Then stand up and make sure you watch, go to their sites and message boards and talk about the show(s) – both the good and the bad regarding story-lines, the powers that be DO listen, believe it or not. Be loyal to the sponsors that are on YOUR Soaps – purchase their products, write to them and thank them. Write to the show and let them know your loyalty. Attend Soap events – contact your favorite stars (just don’t stalk them LOL). Every little thing will help.

We need to do what we can to save our remaining shows. If we don’t we will have a daytime full of reality shows, talk shows, game shows, food shows, yada yada yada. Also support the Soaps Web Series: The Bay; Steamboat; and Venice just to name a few. And for all of you Another World lovers check out www.anotherworldtoday.com.

God Bless,
Patti

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I received a questionnaire from NBC regarding Days Of Our Lives and one of the questions was about Carly and who should she hook up with and why. While my neighbors and I have discussed her being with Daniel, I really gave this a lot of thought before answering.

Yes, we all agree that Daniel is the logical choice – they do have a history and share a daughter, Melanie, together. However, let’s face it that is TOO obvious and I’m kind of rooting for a Daniel/Jennifer hook up. I mean wouldn’t that be great and then have Jack come back and can’t believe that Jen actually moved on?

Not a lot of “older” eligible bachelors in Salem – at least none that I would see her with. I do have a suggestion though. I would love to see her and Roman together. Roman has been back-burnered way too long and needs a storyline and I can definitely see the two of them together. Plus, wouldn’t it be a kick in the butt to Bo – who left Carly for his “Fancy Face” Hope?

I would love to hear your comments on this and maybe the powers that be will consider it.

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According to Soap Opera Digest, two more cast members from Days are voluntarily leaving the show.

A week after Soap Opera Digest reported the news of Mark Hapka’s (Nathan) ouster from Salem comes word that Shelley Hennig (Stephanie) and Jay Kenneth Johnson (Philip) have both decided to leave the show. “It just feels right,” says Hennig of why she’s taking off after four years. “I have been preparing for this for awhile, so I have said my mental good-byes. I will miss the faces I see here every day, but everybody has been really encouraging and has embraced my decision…. I feel like I’m going out with a bang after last week’s air shows and I feel great about it creatively and I am thankful to the writers for giving me that. I am thankful for this role that DAYS has given me and will miss playing this character. I am forever thankful for the fans and this wonderful gift that was given to me. It’s been a lot of fun to play and I wouldn’t change anything.” Hennig’s last tape date is February 2. As for Johnson, “It feels perfect,” he says. “The story ended and there’s a lot of stuff going on out there. I thought about it a lot; it just felt like the right time. I want to thank the fans for continuing to watch and following me from my first stint to the other shows I’ve done and back to here. I hope they keep an eye on me in the future.” Read more about it in the issue of Digest on sale February 1.

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According to Soap Opera Digest Mark Hapka has been let go as Dr. Nathan Horton.

Hapka joined the show in June 2009 and should wrap taping soon.

Since joining the show Hapka’s Nate was romantically involved with Shelley Hennig’s Stephanie Johnson and Molly Burnett’s Melanie Kiriakis.

I am personally very unhappy about this. The fallout from Stephanie’s involvement about the paternity tests switch and Melanie realizing that her husband is Parker’s father could give us months of storyline, with Nathan and Melanie.

We’ve all seen the awesome attraction that Melanie and Nathan have for each other, I just don’t understand Days reasoning for this.

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Daytime Emmy Award winning actress, Natalia Livingston, joins the cast of Days on January 26th. Livingston, (ex Emily/Rebecca on GH) will portray Nicole’s younger sister, Taylor.

Nicole and EJ postpone their upcoming nuptials due to Johnny’s health crisis. When EJ meets Taylor he is immediately smitten – it’s kind of like an “Oh, my God!” moment. Will Taylor be able to humanize EJ?

I can’t wait for Nicole’s reaction. She already has issues with Sami, regarding Sydney and she had to break up with Brady at EJ’s insistence, and now she has to deal with Taylor.

Will Nicole lose the ability to see her “beloved” Sydney?

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Hey, ya’ll! I apologize for not posting in quite some some, but never fear, Patti’s here and ‘ back posting.

First, let me explain why I’ve been gone. My energy levels basically bottomed out and I just wasn’t up to the task. Fortunately I have been feeling a lot better and then my computer fried! Oh what a sad situation that was <sigh>. I do have an older laptop (at least 10 years old) that was still running Windows2000. While I loved that O/S, most programs don’t support it any longer. Plus it was slow LOL.

My darling Larry got me a new laptop for Christmas. It’s an HP, runs Windows7, has 4 gigs of memory, etc., etc. I was quite pleased that Win7 is similar to Win2000 and there wasn’t a huge learning experience. Larry also got me an iPad and I have been having a blast with it. Okay, you can call me “spoiled rotten” now.

I decided, last night, that my New Year’s Resolution is to start posting again – but a tad bit differently. I’m going to concentrate on “my opinion” topics for my 3 soaps that I watch, DOOL, Y&R, and B&B. Some will be long posts, others short. For example, why does everyone still hate Carly and what’s up with “Saint Kayla” on Days. Brooke and Thomas, along with Taylor’s hypocrisy and the Hope/Liam/Oliver triangle that now has Amber in the mix. I’m actually missing Steffy on B&B.  Then we have nut-cake Sharon on Y&R along with Diane sleeping her way around town and we can’t forget psycho Daisy and Jana. That’s just a few topics off the top of my head.

I probably won’t be doing a lot of Spoilers, but I will let you know about Casting News and Late Breaking News. There are some days I might be posting a lot and other days nothing. It just depends on what’s going on. I will also be posting short thoughts on Twitter, so please follow me @myworldofsoaps.

Have a wonderful 2011 and don’t forget to comment on my posts!

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