As someone with 50+ episodes of 'Days of Our Lives' under her belt, Lisa Rinna knows about soap operas. And with 'Guiding Light' recently being canceled after 72 years of existence, Rinna told PopEater that it won't be the last soap to go, and the entire genre may be extinct in 5 years.

http://www.popeater.com/television/article/lisa-rinna-soap-operas-plastic-surgery/432833

I hate to admit it, but I feel that soaps will be extinct in the next decade or so...

For once, I agree with Lisa. I also feel for the people who write for the soap mags - they wouldn't be too far behind!! :eek: :(

It's sadly quite true.

I have to agree with Lisa. Soaps are starting to decline and many viewers are losing interest. I have a friend who is a nurse that works night shifts and she used to watch soaps during the day when she was home. But in the past couple of years she got fed up with Days of Our Lives and One Life to Live and stopped watching. Now during the days when she is home she usually movies she gets through netflix or she watches reruns of older shows like Home Improvement and Roseanne. My aunt who has been retired for 15 years basically stopped watching soaps a few years ago too. She is another person who watches movies or old shows on cable. I kind of find soap operas tiring to watch sometimes because the storylines drag on too much.

Another thing that is contributing to the decline of daytime TV is that the younger audience that would normally make their way to the soaps is dwindling. A lot of that audience is watching something else instead of the soaps. Sad but true.

For once, I agree with Lisa. (

"For once?" LOL. Do you disagree with Lisa Rinna a lot. I can hear her reaction to your comment.

Lisa: OH NO! WHAT DO YOU MEAN FOR ONCE? COME ON! I CAN'T BE THAT BAD! JUST ASK HARRY AND HE'LL TELL YOU! NOW I'M GONNA YELL AND SCREAM MY OPINIONS OUT REAL LOUD UNTIL I ANNOY PEOPLE! YEA! OH, BY THE WAY, GO TO MY BLOG AND VOTE IF YOU WANT ME ON THE NEW "MELROSE PLACE". :lol:


Don't get me wrong, I do love Lisa, but she is loud but I still love her and she knows I'm a fan. :lol:

Soaps are dying, sitcoms are dying...what's going to be left on tv in a few years but crappy reality shows?

Soaps are dying, sitcoms are dying...what's going to be left on tv in a few years but crappy reality shows?

Soaps are dying, sitcoms are dying...what's going to be left on tv in a few years but crappy reality shows?



You may have a point. I was talking with a friend last night who watches more television than me and she was saying how difficult it is for dramas because if they dont do well the first few episodes they get dropped, which as she told me is not time for a show to find its audience. I have to agree with her.

I'd say in ten years all that is going to be on TV is reality shows and news. The sitcoms that I watch are all reruns and I have lost interest in OLTL. A couple years ago I found some old tapes that had a bunch of episodes on them and those were better then the episodes they have today.

You may have a point. I was talking with a friend last night who watches more television than me and she was saying how difficult it is for dramas because if they dont do well the first few episodes they get dropped, which as she told me is not time for a show to find its audience. I have to agree with her.
A show like Hill Street Blues which was at the bottom of the ratings for years wouldn't make it today. Neither would Cheers. Very sad indeed.

The biggest problem for soaps is that there is so many other choices to watch. When soap opera's first appeared on TV most people only had a few channels and in the afternoon they all had soaps on. So you watched soaps or you didn't watch TV at all in the afternoon. Now thanks to cable and satellite we have so many channels that people can find many other options to watch instead of Soaps.

A show like Hill Street Blues which was at the bottom of the ratings for years wouldn't make it today. Neither would Cheers. Very sad indeed.
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You may have a point. I was talking with a friend last night who watches more television than me and she was saying how difficult it is for dramas because if they dont do well the first few episodes they get dropped, which as she told me is not time for a show to find its audience. I have to agree with her.

I also agree. In the past couple of years I have seen quite a few well written one hour dramas and sitcoms that been axed just because they didn't have high ratings. NBC totally pissed me off last year when they axed Journeyman then starting showing that dumb celebrity choir show. ABC also made me mad when they didn't renew Miss Guided for a second season. Every time I see promos for shows like The Biggest Loser I feel like throwing something at the TV. I think if weight loss shows like that should be summer shows and not something that airs during the fall and winter.

This was mentioned before but the soaps are losing some of their longtime fans and that is not helping. My mother was always a CBS soaps girl. I remember coming home from school as a kid and she would be watching Guiding Light. About the end of the 80's she stopped watching that show but and just went to watching Y&R and ATWT. By the end of the 90''s she was only watching Y&R and just a few years ago she stopped watching that one. A lot of people have done that over the years.

As sad as it is, I think she's right. Soaps have pretty much done every permutation of every plot over and over by now; like many other genres (the western, the variety show, etc.), they may have simply run their course.

I guess I'd be more upset if I didn't truly feel that the quality of soaps has fallen drastically in the last decade or so. And like everything else, I'm sure at some point, soaps will "come back", though perhaps not in the form we are all used to seeing them.

As someone with 50+ episodes of 'Days of Our Lives' under her belt, Lisa Rinna knows about soap operas. And with 'Guiding Light' recently being canceled after 72 years of existence, Rinna told PopEater that it won't be the last soap to go, and the entire genre may be extinct in 5 years.

http://www.popeater.com/television/article/lisa-rinna-soap-operas-plastic-surgery/432833
What do they mean "50+?" Tsk, tsk, they get their information from IMDb, obviously. Lisa was a major player on DAYS in the early 90s, I assure you she did waaaaaaaay more than 50 episodes. Knuckleheads.

Anyway, she's basically right. Five years might be too soon, but whether it's five or ten, it won't be long, unfortunately.

What do they mean "50+?" Tsk, tsk, they get their information from IMDb, obviously. Lisa was a major player on DAYS in the early 90s, I assure you she did waaaaaaaay more than 50 episodes. Knuckleheads.

Anyway, she's basically right. Five years might be too soon, but whether it's five or ten, it won't be long, unfortunately.

I HATE how IMDb does that. For people who have been on a show for 30 years, they have something ridiculous like 200 episodes. They need to quit applying the number of episodes an actor is in for soaps. For sitcoms and primetime dramas it's usually accurate, but not for soaps.

As sad as it is, I think she's right. Soaps have pretty much done every permutation of every plot over and over by now; like many other genres (the western, the variety show, etc.), they may have simply run their course.

I guess I'd be more upset if I didn't truly feel that the quality of soaps has fallen drastically in the last decade or so. And like everything else, I'm sure at some point, soaps will "come back", though perhaps not in the form we are all used to seeing them.

Pretty much all shows reuse plot but on soaps the same plots get used 10 or more times. Baby switching seems to happen every few years on every major soap.

I also agree. In the past couple of years I have seen quite a few well written one hour dramas and sitcoms that been axed just because they didn't have high ratings. NBC totally pissed me off last year when they axed Journeyman then starting showing that dumb celebrity choir show. ABC also made me mad when they didn't renew Miss Guided for a second season. Every time I see promos for shows like The Biggest Loser I feel like throwing something at the TV. I think if weight loss shows like that should be summer shows and not something that airs during the fall and winter.if it makes you feel nay better im still upset about miss guided too that was a really funny show

if it makes you feel nay better im still upset about miss guided too that was a really funny show

I have a few other Miss Guided on these forums. It was really funny and Judy Greer and Chris Parnell carried the show well.

Soaps today are not what they use to be. Back in the early 90s when I was in highschool there were 3 soaps I never missed. Y&R, General Hospital, B&B. Back then those soaps IMO were awsome. As it got into the later part of the 90s they started to slowly go downhill. Nowadays I don't tune in to soaps. They have changed so much. General Hospital I am so dissapointed in that one. So many good characters have been taken off that soap.

Soaps today are not what they use to be. Back in the early 90s when I was in highschool there were 3 soaps I never missed. Y&R, General Hospital, B&B. Back then those soaps IMO were awsome. As it got into the later part of the 90s they started to slowly go downhill. Nowadays I don't tune in to soaps. They have changed so much. General Hospital I am so dissapointed in that one. So many good characters have been taken off that soap.

I agree soaps years ago were very different from what they are today. I think soaps were better written in the 80's and 90's.

I do not agree with Lisa Rinna's opinion. The soap operas on one network (ABC) aren't in any danger of being cancelled and the soap opera genre can't be extinct altogether. The last soap operas to be cancelled are Passions and Another World. None of ABC's soap operas are in any danger of cancellation. Frakken' economic crisis has taken a toll on the soap opera genre and many characters had to be killed off because of it. Why can't any new soap operas make their debut nowadays?

It is really sad how bad soaps have become. I lost interest in One Life to Live back in 2005 when they would focus on the same characters over and over again. Nothing I ever did in the way of "campaigning" worked as far as getting to see what I wanted to see. Soaps are so desperate for viewers that they bring back beloved chacters (Days is famous for this) but then they fire them again. Plus, they all seemed geared toward teenagers. Yeah, that makes a lot of sense since teens are home during the day to watch.:rolleyes:

I agree soaps years ago were very different from what they are today. I think soaps were better written in the 80's and 90's.

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I agree soaps years ago were very different from what they are today. I think soaps were better written in the 80's and 90's.
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