SoapNet picks up "Young & the Restless"

from broadcasting and cable

Young and the Restless To Run on SOAPnet
By Anne Becker

Carol Frilegh...

I also noted on TV that Y&R is nominated in 18 categories for DayTime
Emmies. Another exercise in futility?

Snittens...

Huh? Not sure what your point is.

Donna B...

Why?

And, yes, CBS soaps did very well in Nods, GL after Y&R, ATWT after GL, ...
not so many for B&B, no shock there.

Disney/ABC’s SOAPnet has acquired from Sony Pictures Television the
rights to run the CBS soap The Young and the Restless. Y&R, the
highest-rated soap for the past 15 years, becomes the first CBS soap
to run on SOAPnet, which previously ran all the ABC soaps and NBC’s
Days of Our Lives, also a Sony show.

Y&R will join the network’s lineup April 24 with same-day reruns
running at 7 p.m.daily and in a Saturday-night marathon. The long-term
deal also gives SOAPnet access to older episodes from Y&R’s 33 seasons
for stunts and marathons.

iwantthisname...

Yahoo I have been waiting for this now maybe I can keep up on my soap
at least a few days a week :))

SOAPnet, which targets mainly women 18-49 with reruns of daytime shows
and original soap-themed programming, averaged 123,000 viewers during
prime in February 2006, down 16% from last year. But Y&R, which the
network has been after for years, could provide a big ratings jolt,
given its popularity.

Taylor...

Meanwhile, a decade worth of episodes of 'Loving' (ABC) continue to sit

Donna B...

And, lots of other classic soap! The second most sought after Classic Soap
when SN began was SANTA BARBARA, right after AW. SB's still not on the air.
But, then, neither is SN#2 & SN#3 that they supposedly got the green light
for, to make room for all of this, 2+ years ago.

on a shelf somewhere gathering dust. What I *really* want to see is
classic 'All My Children' from the early-'90s on. They USE to run
classic (daytime) soaps from the '70s and now they don't bother.

Donna B...

Except for stunts & marathons, what's been run from the 1970s?! There's not
much soap from the 1970s still extant to be useD AFAIK.

chaser...

Aren't they still running Ryan's Hope on SoapNet?

GarondoMarondo...

Yes. They're in 1980 episodes now.

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Garondo Marondo!

Laura H.

Steven L....

I bet today's young people would enjoy "Dark Shadows" if they showed
reruns of that. Heck, there might even be a market on the Sci-Fi
Channel to do a remake of "Dark Shadows," updated for today's world,
like what happened with "Battlestar Galactica."

Jude Cormier...

the only one to see reruns on Soapnet was "Ryan's Hope"

Donna B...

RH 1975-1989

AW 1964-1999, but re-broadcasts began as of July 1987.

Rick Porter...

Finally, good news for Y&R Fans!!!!

GarondoMarondo...

What was the bad news?

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Garondo Marondo!