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Word on the street the street again, according to Deadline Hollywood, due to the

Word on the street according to a press release by Prospect Park is that All My Children and One Life To Live are going on an early hiatus due to labor disputes with the with the union representing production staff on both soaps. This has is caused production to stop on June...

Word on the street in an interview with Time Magazine, Peter Bergman who plays dastardly Jack Abbott on The Young and The Restless muses about the future of soaps.

Sometimes jumping into a new show is hard to do. Given the fees for cable channels and services such as Netflix, you may not feel like you are ready to invest in a show that you may not even like after you watched a sample. Or perhaps you have not followed a show for a long time and you feel like you are too out of the loop to start again. N...

A new film being produced and directed by websoap "The Bay's" Gregori J Martin here in New York for his Lanyfilms Productions. The film being filmed here in New York will star The Bay's Kristoff Andrews is based on 19 year old Robert Areizaga Jr. who was murdered in White Plains, New York at a party in the Fall of 2010 by a vicious gang.  The story tells of  Robert’s journey to turn his ...

The New York Daily News was at the Save OLTL and AMC Rally yesterday and has a poll now asking :

Should ABC cancel the soaps, 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live'?

Yes, it's a pure ratings decision. No, you can't take away my beloved soaps! Who cares?

Word on the street according to The Library of American Broadcasting my all time favorite head writer and soap creator Agnes Nixon was named as one of their "Giants of Media" during an event at the Grand Hyatt in New York on Oct. 6.  To her...

Word on the street in an intrview with Michael Logan veteran journalist Carolyn Hinsey (Soap Opera Digest, New York Daily News) reveals her upcoming book published 4th Street Media called Afternoon Delight: Why Soaps Still Matter.  The book is due out in 2011.
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Word on the street according to an article on Business Insider is that daytime soaps have lost 30% in ad dollars between 2005-2009.  In the first half of 2010 they also lost another 20%. 

So why is this happening? 

I...