Soap operas replaced with nonsense

I'm not a big soap opera fan, but come on!

If a network is going to cancel 2 long-running and highly rated daytime dramas, they should at least replace them with something else that might be at least watchable. But in today's climate of corporate media, that's too much to ask, I guess.

I was shocked today to discover that ABC is canceling 'All My Children' and 'One Life To Live'. The cancellation of the former is particularly shocking, for I'm actually somewhat familiar with 'All My Children' because my mom has watched it regularly for 40 years.

The real outrage is what ABC is replacing these 2 soaps with. One of ABC's 2 new shows is about "health and lifestyle transformations", and each week will deal with one woman's 5-month weight loss regimen.

Really??? Like there aren't enough shows like that already???

Is ABC just completely out of its fucking mind? (Yes.)

One thing is for absolute certain: The new shows aren't going to get the ratings 'All My Children' has. That's an outright guarantee. You can't replace the entertainment of a long-running soap with a facsimile of the zillion weight-loss shows that already fill the airwaves.

I bet ABC gets gobs of hate mail about this! Viewers have already announced their intent to boycott ABC entirely. One apologist for ABC said the only people who are upset are middle-aged women. But I'm a man, and I think ABC's decision is plumb stupid.

It never ceases to amaze me how people in charge of TV and radio outlets make such idiotic decisions yet keep their jobs. It's like having Waiter Grover in charge. Meanwhile, nobody else has been able to find a damn job for 10 years.

(Source: http://marquee.blogs.cnn.com/2011/04/14/all-my-children-one-life-to-live-canceled)