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Here Today, Gone Tomorrow: A Statistical Look at Canceled Soaps
With the constant rumors of NBC pulling the plug on Days (which I hope never happens mind you), I got a little curious as to how many soaps have been canceled and dug into my old, faithful book, “The Soap Opera Encyclopedia” (published in 1997). As the findings were pretty interesting, I thought I’d share them! Please note, the shows written into the first list were canceled after the book was published, but I wanted to add them to the total. The second list is the names of the shows just for giggles as some of the titles are pretty laughable!
Network: Number of Cancelled Soaps:
ABC 10 published + Port Charles = 11
CBN* 1
CBS 17
Direct TV 1 (Passions (again))
Dumont 1
Fox 1
NBC 34 published + Another World, Passions & Sunset Beach = 37
TBS 1
*Christian Broadcast Network
Network: Canceled Shows:
Please note, some shows were canceled on one network then picked up by another only to be cancelled again. I’ve added the airdates after the show to specify them as well as specifying if a show went through a name change.
ABC The Best of Everything; Dark Shadows; The Edge Of Night (1975-1984); Flame In The Wind (1964; renamed A Time For Us and ran from 1964 -1966); Loving (1983-1995; renamed The City and ran from 1995-1997); Never Too Young; The Nurses; Port Charles; Ryan’s Hope; A World Apart; The Young Marrieds
CBN Another Life
CBS The Brighter Day; Capitol; The Clear Horizon; The Edge Of Night (1956-1975); The Egg And I; The First Hundred Years; Full Circle; How To Survive A Marriage; Love Is A Many Splendored Thing; Love of Life; The Road Of Life; Search For Tomorrow (1951-1982); The Secret Storm; The Seeking Heart; Valiant Lady; Where The Heart Is; Woman With A Past
Direct TV Passions (2008)
Dumont A Woman To Remember
Fox Tribes
NBC Another World; Ben Jerrod; The Bennetts; Bright Promise; Concerning Miss Marlowe; The Doctors; Fairmeadows, U.S.A.; First Love; Follow Your Heart; From These Roots; Generations; Golden Windows; The Greatest Gift; Hawkins Falls; Hidden Faces; Kitty Foyle; Lovers And Friends (1977; renamed For Richer, For Poorer and ran from 1977 -1978); Miss Susan; Moment of Truth; Morning Star; One Man’s Family; Our Five Daughters; Paradise Bay; Passions (1999-2008); Portia Faces Life; Return To Peyton Place; Santa Barbara; Search For Tomorrow (1982-1986); Somerset; Sunset Beach; Texas; These Are My Children**; Three Steps To Heaven; A Time To Live; Today Is Ours; The World Of Mr. Sweeney; Young Dr. Malone
TBS The Catlins
** Please note, “These Are My Children” aired from January 31 to February 25, 1949 and preceded ABC’s “All My Children” (1970) by 21 years … AKA NBC did not rip off the title.
There are currently only eight soaps still on the air: All My Children, As The World Turns, The Bold & The Beautiful, Days, General Hospital, Guiding Light, One Life To Live and The Young & The Restless.
As part of your ever faithful Two Scoops duo, Tony and I are always ready to share our thoughts on our favorite guilty obsession with you. We hope you'll do the same with us! We appreciate all the feedback that we can get!
Cheers!
Laurisa
(Note: These dates and times are still tentative and are subject to change, but I will try my best to keep this list as accurate as possible.) If you see any shows missing or know of a change in time or scheduling that I have missed, please leave me a post, and I'll add the info or fix the problemo.
April 1
9:00 PM E.T. - Hell's Kitchen - Fox
April 2
9:00 PM E.T. - Criminal Minds - CBS
10:00 PM E.T. - CSI: NY - CBS
April 3
TBA - Without a Trace - CBS
8:00 PM E.T. - My Name is Earl - NBC
9:00 PM E.T. - CSI - CBS
9:00 PM E.T. - Supernatural - CW (1 episode only)
April 4
TBA - The Ghost Whisperer - CBS
10:00 PM E.T. - Battlestar Galactica - Sci-Fi
10:00 PM E.T. - Numb3rs - CBS
April 7
9:00 PM E.T. - One Tree Hill - CW
9:30 PM E.T. Samantha Who? - ABC
April 8
8:00 PM E.T. - NCIS - CBS
10:00 PM E.T. - Boston Legal - ABC
April 10
8:30 PM E.T. - 30 Rock -NBC
9:00 PM E.T. - The Office - NBC
9:30 PM E.T. - Scrubs - NBC
10:00 PM E.T. - ER - NBC
April 11
9:00 PM E.T. - Moonlight - CBS
April 13
9:00 PM E.T. - Desperate Housewives - ABC
April 14
8:00 PM E.T. - Bones - Fox
9:30 PM E. T. - Rules of Engagement - CBS
April 15
10:00 PM E.T. - Law & Order: SVU - NBC
April 16
8:00 PM E.T. - Back to You - Fox
9:30 PM E.T. - 'Til Death - Fox
April 17
Smallville - CW
April 20
10:00 P.M. - Brothers & Sisters - ABC
April 21
9:00 PM E. T. - Gossip Girl - CW
9:00 PM E. T. - House - Fox
April 22
Reaper - CW
April 23
10:00 PM E.T. - Law & Order - NBC
April 24
8:00 PM E.T. - Ugly Betty - ABC
9:00 PM E.T. - Grey's Anatomy - ABC
Lost - ABC
9:00 PM E.T. - Supernatural - CW
April 26
9:00 PM E.T. - Robin Hood - BBC America
April 28
8:00 PM E.T. - Bones - Fox
April 30
TBA - The Farmer Wants a Wife - CW
May 22
TBA - Last Comic Standing - NBC
May 29
TBA - Fear Itself - NBC
10:00 PM E.T. - Swingtown - CBS
June 2
TBA - When Women Rule the World - Fox
June 9
TBA - Nashville Star - NBC
June 11
TBA - Celebrity Circus - NBC
June 16
10:00 PM E.T. - Weeds - Showtime
June 21
TBA - America's Got Talent - NBC
June 25
9:00 PM E.T. - The Baby Borrowers - NBC
So, what April shows are you most looking forward to seeing? As much as I love re-runs of The Office, I will giddly welcome new episodes! And, I'm dying to see what's next on Desperate Housewives! Other shows that I will welcome back with open arms are: Gossip Girl (my guilty pleasure), My Name is Earl, and Samantha Who?.
By the end of April, The Bachelor will probably be over, so I'll try to cover the CW's new dating show The Farmer Wants a Wife.
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Here's the next week reminders for fall season premieres. (And, there are a lot of them!)
Thursday, September 20
Survivor - on CBS @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Friday, September 21
Friday Night Smackdown! - on CW @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Viva Laughlin - on CBS @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Saturday, September 22
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Sunday, September 23
The Simpsons - on FOX @ 8:00 p.m. ET
King of the Hill - on FOX @ 8:30 p.m. ET
Cold Case - on CBS @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Shark - on CBS @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Monday, September 24
Chuck - on NBC @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Dancing with the Star - on ABC @ 8:00 p.m. ET
How I Met Your Mother - on CBS @ 8:00 p.m. ET
The Big Bang Theory - on CBS @ 8:30 p.m. ET
Heroes - on NBC @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Two and a Half Men - on CBS @ 9:00 p.m. ET
The Bachelor - on ABC @ 9:30 p.m. ET
Rules of Engagement - on CBS @ 9:30 p.m. ET
CSI: Miami - on CBS @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Journeyman - on NBC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Tuesday, September 25
Bones - on FOX @ 8:00 p.m. ET
NCIS - on CBS @ 8:00 p.m. ET
House - on FOX @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Reaper - on CW @ 9:00 p.m. ET
The Unit - on CBS @ 9:00 p.m. ET
The Singing Bee - on NBC @ 9:30 p.m. ET
Boston Legal - on ABC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Cane - on CBS @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit - on NBC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Wednesday, September 26
Deal or No Deal - on NBC @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Bionic Woman - on NBC @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Criminal Minds - on CBS @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Gossip Girl - on CW @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Private Practice - on ABC @ 9:00 p.m. ET
20/20 - on ABC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
CSI: NY - on CBS @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Dirty Sexy Money - on ABC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Life - on NBC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Thursday, September 27
My Name is Earl - on NBC @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Smallville - on CW @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Ugly Betty - on ABC @ 8:00 p.m. ET
CSI - on CBS @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Grey's Anatomy - on ABC @ 9:00 p.m. ET
The Office - on NBC @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Big Shots - on ABC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
ER - on NBC @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Without a Trace - on CBS @ 10:00 p.m. ET
Friday, September 28
Ghost Whisperer - on CBS @ 8:00 p.m. ET
Las Vegas - on NBC @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Moonlight - on CBS @ 9:00 p.m. ET
Numb3rs - on CBS @ 10:00 p.m. ET
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