Monday, December 03, 2007
Extended writers strike may burst soap bubble
Ohio.com: "When Pam Powers began listening to radio soap operas with her grandmother in the late 1940s, she considered them to be ''an island of emotional refuge.'' And over the ensuing decades, the Benicia, Calif., resident dedicated much of her life to the genre, logging time as a writer for Soap Opera Digest and penning columns about the TV shows for local newspapers. At the height of the love affair, she had personal contact with many of the actors and was tracking up to 15 daytime serials."
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This is a genre that has gotten a bad name over the years. Plenty of people are glued to them every week, so why are the rating dying? I think people want something that is more believable than ever and a soap just can't give it. Friend of mine watch every episode; still I don't have a taste for them. Either way it's sad to see something so quintessential going down hill.
The soap fan base is unlike the other TV fan bases. Though the demographic has been decreasing, losing it could mean extreme losses of revenue in daytime slots.
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