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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I tried to watch The Revolution and can’t do it. The Chew is less offensive, but still annoying. ABC has lost a daytime PM viewer.
The revolution sucks!
What a poor poor pitiful show.
Apart from Tim Gunn the entire cast is awful. By the way ABC, The Chew is equally bad!
I tried to watch it for Carla from Top Chef but she doesn’t even speak in the episodes!
The Revolution is possibly the WORST show ABC has ever put on the air. What were they thinking??? I cringed through a few segments of the first couple of shows – absolutely terrible. Bring back One Life to Live and fire everyone who thought that this show would work.
I hate that my soaps are gone. I miss them everyday!!!!!!!! I refuse to watch ABC from 1 – 3pm, I even wait to turn on General Hospital so my viewership won’t be counted toward The Revolution’s ratings.
I said a couple of weeks ago these new shows would not last! ABC LISTEN TO YOUR VIEWERS! You srewed yourselves bigtime!
Irimi said exactly what I was thinking. Great comment. I will never support The Chew or The Revolution. Bring back AMC & OLTL. ABC does not care about their viewers. They only care about money. These soaps gave us much more than 2 hours of tv. We identified with the characters and it gave us an outlet for a few hours a day. I wish they would just bring us back our shows.
I agree.. We did identify with the characters…………ABC just doesn’t care what the viewers want……… They should……….But they don’t.. So ABC will continue to lose viewers on daytime programming!!!!!!!!! GIVE US OUR STORIES BACK!!!!!!!!!
Thank you ABC. You have freed up 2 hours of my time by canceling AMC and OLTL – those are declared “No TV” hours. Thank you ABC for helping me with managing my finances. I now have additional funds from NOT watching your advertising for two hours. And Thank You ABC for reminding me the important of family. Because of the cancellations, I have spent time talking to my kids about their great-grandma and how much she loved so many things, including “her stories”. So while you took away one of my few opportunities to relax and forget the stresses… Read more »
How long are we going to have to suffer through The Revolution?
I agree.. The revolution is cheaper to make than a soap opera!!!!!!!!!!! The Revolution isn’t doing well… It’s a COMPLETE FAIULURE!!! People are not interested in watching this reality CRAP show!!! That want you to make wallpaper out of children’s art… Or how afraid Tim is of driving!!! Give me a break!!! NOT INTERESTED AT ALL!!!!!!!!!!I don’t watch The Chew or The Revolution.. I don’t care how cheap these shows are to make.. The fact is no one wants to watch these CRAPPY reality shows!!!!!!!!!!!! And ABC is still losing money.. Cheap to make or not!!!!!!! These reality shows don’t… Read more »
My New Year Resolution is not to watch the show “Resolution”
Bring back OLTL
I hate the Revolution!! I’m excited that people are able to transform their lives but I’m so sick of seeing it every few minutes. I hate ABC for ruining their programming. I have changed to CBS and will never watch daytime ABC again. Hopefully, CBS is smarter that ABC and will pick up OLTL.
I will not watch this bs show. Can they not come up with an original idea? It’s the same boring sh**. Soap operas are our out, meaning we have a couple hours of the day to get out of the ordinary stuff. Sure sometimes soaps repeat themselves, but they are pure entertainment. This is ridiculous how soaps, which have been a staple are going obsolete. There is nothing now that I want to watch during OLTL hour and I turn off the tv altogether now. Everything is talk shows. It seems like anyone with a mouth has there own talk… Read more »
I hope this show tanks. Bring back OLTL. We like our popcorn drama everyday, not a type of show that is on cable non stop. Pure crap.
The Revolution really does not work. Plus seriously, the View, The Chew (another one that doesnt work, but works better than the revolution) and now The Revolution all on the same channel??? Come on, Law & Order reruns are better than this. The View is fine, but these others are flat out knock offs with platforms that cannot be sustained. I didnt watch the soaps – but I sure dont care for these.
Sorry ABC, that’s what you get for not listening to the viewers! I don’t watch anything on ABC except General Hospital. It’s just a matter of time before The Chew chokes and The Revolution bombs…..I’ll just sit here and wait for ABC to come to it’s senses. Nothing wrong with admitting when you’re wrong.
I HAVE CHANGED THE CHANNEL WHEN THE CHEW AND REVOLUTION COMES ON. I WILL NOT WATCH ABC UNTIL THEY BRING BACK MY SOAPS!! ENOUGH OF THESE DAYTIME TALK SHOWS. I HOPE THEY CANCEL THESE TWO SHOWS AND BRING BACK OUR SOAPS. ABC HAS MADE A BIG MISTAKE!!!!