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The Revolution: Poor Ratings Debut

Published:January 18, 2012

Revolution ratingsOn Monday, ABC unveiled their new daytime show, The Revolution, and the ratings were anything but revolutionary. One has to wonder if the execs are second-guessing their decision to cancel One Life to Live.

Per the ratings for Nielsen’s 56 metered markets, The Revolution debuted to a 1.9 rating. That was a drop of 21% from its lead-in which averaged a 2.4 rating. One year earlier, now-cancelled One Life to Live was averaging a 2.3 rating.

For the show’s second airing, The Revolution did even worse — dropping 16% to a 1.6 rating.

While it’s too early to tell if The Revolution will be a flop, this certainly wasn’t a positive start — especially considering Monday was a holiday and more people were home than is typical for a weekday. On the positive side for the network, new series is cheaper to produce than the soap opera that it replaced.

Created by J.D. Roth, sometime TV host and an executive producer on The Biggest Loser, The Revolution is a lifestyle talk show that shows five month personal makeovers in five days. The TV series is hosted by Ty Pennington, Tim Gunn, therapist Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry, Dr. Jennifer Ashton, and exercise guru Harley Pasternak.

What do you think? Have you watched The Revolution? Do you think that it will be a success, even if it doesn’t perform as well as One Life to Live? Could this help save General Hospital?


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Lisa February 10, 2012 at 5:38 pm

Awful shows. I miss good scripts and great actors. The producer don’t want to pay for things that is why they are producing these stupid reality shows!!

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Linda Devitt February 14, 2012 at 12:15 pm

Personally I haven’t watch either The Chew or The Revolution. Just watching the cuts they show advertising the shows is enough to turn me off. Yes I am an avid soap opera fan and very upset that you took All My Children and One Life to Live off the air. There are entirely too many shows like these two on the air now when you consider cable channels also. I hope they flop BIG TIME!

GO GENERAL HOSPITALd! HOW THEM WHAT GOOD ENTERTAINMENT IS ALL ABOUT!

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Lorie Querques February 15, 2012 at 1:47 pm

CANCEL THE CHEW AND THE REVOLUTION. BOTH DUDS like the execs that put them on tv. Bring back what we really WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!! and that is AMC and OLTL. THEN AND ONLY THEN WILL WE GO BACK TO WATCHING ABC. You need to listen to the viewers to be SUCCESSFUL.

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Anonymous February 17, 2012 at 3:11 pm

cancel both these losers. Watch the food network for cooking and hgtv for home and garden. We are so tired of so called reality shows, allow us a little time to fantisize with the soaps. I’m sure good writers can give us something to look forward to each day. I will not watch such stupid shows as the chew and the revolution. There are more channels than ABC.

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s Lovato February 17, 2012 at 6:09 pm

i will not watch the chew pewwww and the revolution sounds like a stupid war game I am so fed up with abc that I am not watching any shows until they bring back all my children and one life to life if they don’t then Im out and will watch any other show instead of abc channels so consider me a lost and hardcore oltl and all my children and general hospital fan asta la vista abc shows……..

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