I was very disappointed to hear that ABC is canceling One Life to Live and All My Children...Well, mostly One Life to Live. I rarely watch All My Children.
I've been watching One Life to Live for 20 years, and DVR it so I don't miss it. Sometime I watch the episodes a week late, but I always see them. I think the storylines have been even better than usual recently, and find it hard to believe that ABC thinks a couple of health/lifestyle/food shows are going to have the same type of longevity and following as those two soaps.
I thought it was really cool that Hoover pulled their advertising from ABC in protest, and has even set up an email for people to send letters to ABC to that they will pass along.
What is not cool is that people are boycotting products that are made by companies who have not pulled their advertising. Keep buying your cereal and chocolate and cleaning products. Most corporations can't afford to pull their advertising based on programming cancellations. They need to save their moves for bigger fish - Moral issues, contract disagreements...Someone is always going to be unhappy about a show being canceled. Just because the soaps have a huge viewership, myself included, doesn't mean their cancellation needs to result in a boycott and making companies who happen to advertise with them lose revenue because you, as a fan, are trying to prove a point.
Contact ABC, use Hoover's email address that they set up...But keep shopping. Someday you'll get over your shows being gone. I'm not sure this is the place to take a stand. Hundreds of people will lose their jobs if the shows are canceled. If thousands of fans stop buying products, they might cause employees of those companies to lose their jobs, too. Does that make you any better than the ABC execs?
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I'm so lazy I don't even pay attention to the "boycotts" of anything. I don't watch daytime TV anyway (our TV is always on the cartoon channels - LOL).
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