Ilene Kristen is my hero

[gwynnega]

Here's a great Michael Logan interview with Ilene Kristen (One Life To Live, Ryan's Hope, the gal in my default icon) on OLTL's cancellation and the Prospect Park fiasco.

In other news, we're supposed to have another bout of Big Old Winds here in LA. If my power goes out again, I'm gonna be pretty cranky.

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[ratphooey.livejournal.com]

Talk shows are SO much cheaper to produce that there's almost no way scripted material can compare.

I'm sure GH will be next, and that CBS joins the bandwagon before long.

I just don't think the audience exists in the same way it used to. There are fewer housewives at home, and so many more channels to choose from.

[gwynnega]

On the one hand, executives like Brian Frons gutted these shows. When Frons came to ABC Daytime, there was a thriving lineup, and he decimated it with his micromanagement.

On the other hand, the daytime audience has shrunk--as has the audience for network TV, period, what with cable/the Internet/etc. But ABC primetime is firmly behind serial drama--Revenge, for example. I think it might still be possible to rethink the daytime soaps for a different time slot or format (a weekly show or a half-hour show or a telenovela-style show, etc.), in the same way that soaps went from radio to TV.