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What's new in the world of television Friday, June 25?--CBS is looking for a replacement for "As the World Turns," which is leaving the daytime TV airwaves on Sept. 17, 2010. According to Broadcasting & Cable, so far CBS is considering possible updates to the game shows "Pyramid" and "Password," a talk show tentatively titled "Say It Now" starring Valerie Bertinelli and a "View"-like round-table show featuring Julie Chen, Leah Remini, Holly Robinson Peete and Sharon Osbourne.
For our money, we only want "Password" if Betty White drops by and we think Chen, Remini, Peete and Osbourne actually sound preferable to Whoopi, Babwa, Hasselbeck, Shepherd and Behar.
--Over at Showtime, longtime president Robert Greenblatt is stepping down after seven years and David Nevins is taking over, according to the Hollywood Reporter. Nevins recently announced his departure from Imagine TV.
We hope Nevins keeps the network in the "Dexter"/"Weeds"/"Californication" vein because the original programming on Showtime is excellent.
-- Finally, George Hamilton is coming to TV Land, also via the Hollywood Reporter. Reportedly Hamilton is in talks to star docu-soap described as a real-life "Two and a Half Men." It would chronicle the lives of Hamilton and sons Ashley and George Thomas -- Hamilton and Ashley are the perpetual bachelors whose lives are disrupted when 10-year-old George Thomas comes to live with them in Los Angeles.
What do you think? Would you watch the Hamiltons' docu-soap?
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NOTHING can replace ATWT. :-(
Seconded.
Thirded. I'll accept Pyramid, because I've always loved that show, but nothing else.
id rather have match game
Just what we need - more talks shows / game shows - NOT.
I am not interested in anything that is going to replace As The World Turns. No one needs more talk shows. I hope whatever they put on bombs. Showtime needs some new life, it has been going down hill for the past several years. They were starting to build a good network and took a bad/wrong turn.
It doesn't matter what they put on in place of AS The World Turns. I will not watch it and hope it is a ratings failure.
I'm not a fan of daytime soap operas. Never have been. But it's still sad to see an entire genre that has been the training ground for more actors than I can count swiftly dying, to be replaced by more talk shows and reality. (My vote, though, would be a return of daytime networked game shows, so Price is Right isn't the last of that dying breed.) Part of me wishes a renaissance could happen for the soaps, but sadly this is a case of society simply maturing out of a genre. The fact soaps have zero rerun potential and are impractical for DVD release (they tried it with Dark Shadows and to collect all of that series you need to build a new room on your house) didn't help matters any, either.
It makes me sick. Do they not count DVR/ TIVO in the "ratings"? I honestly don't think they take into account that more women work in today's society. All my friends and family that watch the show don't actually watch it when it's "on", they have to record it to watch later.
I too am not interested, although like another comment Do they not count DVR/TIVO in the ratings?? I too tape these shows and watch after work. I will truly miss ATWT as much as I miss Guiding Light. I think its a shame they are removing all the soaps from daytime TV. If so, place them all on Soapnet, with AMC which I never watch and Young and the Restless, which is another I watch. Please figure this out so we can see all the soaps again. Blessings!!