On 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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My wife watched OLTL for 40 yrs, I have been watching it when I could when we married 30 yrs ago than when recording came out she taped the episodes and we would watch at night. Now that I work at home I was also watching them on my lunch hr or take a break. Really enjoyed the show and the last episode was sad. Will miss tuning into Bo and Nora and the others. Big mistake we dont watch the Chew and the revolution is boring as hell and there are already enough of those on the cable networks.… Read more »
I am happy The Revolution is getting such bad ratings. I hope the ABC bigwigs learn a lesson and don’t mess with our soaps. I promise I will never watch ABC in the daytime unless they bring back One Life To Live.
MY FAMILY IS DOING EXACTLY WHAT SO MANY OTHERS HAVE DONE AND CONTINUE TO DO… THE RADIO HAS BECOME MY ENTERTAINMENT UNTIL 2 PM WHEN GH IS ON ABC… I LOVED ABC..LOVE TY BUT NOT THIS BS. OUR ESCAPE FROM LIFE WAS OUR SOAPS..I NEVER WATCH AMC, BUT OLTL, I HAD TO CHOKE BACK TEARS EVERY DAY FOR THE LAST TWO MONTHS KNOWING MY DAY WOULD NEVER BE THE SAME… I WILL WATCH RERUNS ON SOAP NET. ABC YOU REALLY BLEW IT. I WONT WATCH ANYTHING BUT GH AND LOCAL WINDY CITY LIVE UNTIL PRIME TIME. YOU SUCK FOR KILLING… Read more »
NO i have not watched these shows and will not be doing so thank you!!!!. ABC made a huge mistake by cancelling our soaps. The viewers are very loyal to OLTL and AMC. After all its been 43 years and you cant just take away something people love and expect us to roll over and be TRAINED to like what we dont want.
I’ve been watching oltl my entire life and I cried so much when I learned that my favorite show was being canceled! I HOPE THE REVOLUTION AND THE CHEW ARE CANCELED!!!! they will never replace my soaps….who cares if reality shows are cheaper to producer….they cant tell stories like soaps do, stories that people can actually follow and respect! ABC had for sure made a big big big mistake
I’m super happy the revolution is bombing!!!! Bring back OLTL. I LOVE Anderson Ashe is entertaining and informative. ABC I am so over reality TV and Talk shows!!! Really how many must be on TV at once????? Leave GH alone and please gives our soaps back!!! Thank you
Yep, I’m watching Anderson too at two o’clock (that’s when OLTL was on here on the East Coast). Glad to see the other shows flopping. Maybe they’ll come to their senses??? We want our soap back!
My wife was pissed, and frankly so was I when they cancelled OLTL…. I’m a 30 year old man, but I enjoy watching OLTL with my wife on soapnet. (Which is also going away but thats another story)
That said, we are a neilsen family, and we have setup our cable box to to BLOCK abc so that our children don’t accidentally tune in.
Burn in hell for your stupidity ABC.
I’m happy that your shows are having a bad start… you gonna learn today !!! lmao
I am so happy the revolution and the chew r doing so badly. I was very sad to see oltl go off the air. I will boycott ance until 2pm on the dot. I hope gh will continue. Please bring back oltl we luv our soaps. Abc screwed up
I think The Revolution is bo-o-oo-ring.
I have not and will not watch the chew or the revolution…If i am home from work i will tune in to Anderson Cooper on Fox11. I only hope GH can survive because Katie Couric is annoying and a nail in the coffin for ABC. I only wish one life could have 9 lives.
It seems like all of the shows taking the soaps spot are all alike. I have not watched them, i will not watch them i only watch ABC for gh. When im not working i tune into Anderson Cooper on fox11 while the revolution is on abc. I wish One Life could have 9 lives.
I couldn’t be happier. Since OLTL ended I don’t even think about switching to ABC even a second before my clock hits 2:00 on the nose. I hope this gets cancelled and teaches the network a lesson. I’d much rather spend my afternoon with a good soap than some ****** talk show.
Boring.