My Husband recently recorded a show - I think it was on last week - and it was terribly interesting. It was called: "What killed the soaps?". Many of the stars interviewed cited the O.J. Simpson chase and trial that actually killed the soaps. As we all well know - watching your favorite soap is almost like an addiction - an enjoyable addiction. When the soaps were preempted for weeks at a time for that stupid trial, they lost a lot of viewers because the soap addiction was broken.
I remember a time when my DH and I used to watch both All My Children and One Life To Live. We always watched the recorded soaps over dinner, and honestly, two hours of soaps were taking up way too much of our time. BUT ..... We were hooked. Then One Life to Live came up with a story line that we just could not stand. It had to do with a hidden city, and something called "Badderley" or something like that. We decided "Now is the time to drop this one". We continued to watch All My Children, which was the perfect timing over dinner. We never even went back to One Life To Live, although we always kept up on what the actors were doing.
We don't have children, it is just us two, and so it always was perfect to watch All My Children over dinner. We would sometimes critique a story line, and even discuss how we would re-do that story line.
I still miss my soap family - but seeing these people on the internet is just not the same. We still watch TV over dinner. I put on one or two older sit-coms on the DVD, and we are happy with those. I also have quite a few Disney World videos, and I go back to WDW in a flash.
Well ...... It was nice to "talk" with you all again, and I wish you all a very Happy New Year !
when I saw and heard some of the things online. Honestly I prefer the edited version on OWN
