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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Not watching the Chew,, or the Revelotion…….for what… ABC,,made a BIG / HUGE mistake in cancelling AMC /OLTL…..I watch Univision’s Mexican Soaps,,or nothing @ all..I REFUSE to watch ABC period,,,,,,!!!!!!!!!
I have never watched the Chew or the other new one and I never will..The Chew commercials I have seen are really stupid and sophmoric.. ABC needs to admit they made a mistake and bring back our soaps…there has been a huge cry over what they did..they must realize its a mistake…As for the lower ratings I can’t believe the ratings for oltl and amc were in anyway realistic /too much complaining to be seriously not watching.
I have not watched The Revolution and never will. I saw parts of the Chew and will never watch it again. I was a faithful follower of AMC and OLTL and miss them a lot. so when the revolution fails what other crap will they put on?
I will never watch Revolution or the Chew, It is so stupid that they took off AMC and OLTL to put some more stupid talk show on the TV. Don’t they have enough talk show on TV now. From 5am to 4pm is nothing but TALK SHOWS and it is the same thing all the time.
No way in hell will I ever watch !!! I tune in to try to save my beloved General Hospital but that is the ONLY time ABC is on in this house or in my friends homes! ABC made a HUGE mistake when he messed with women and their soaps!
I change the channel when The Revolution comes on. Haven’t watched one episode. ABC made a very big mistake replace OLTL with this crap!
I will never watch any of the programs that replaced OLTL & AMC! The ABC network execs have treated their longtime viewers andsupporters (30+ years for me) terribly. They have ignored our requests and they have done it all in the name of the almight buck! I hope that both shows fail miserably!
hell no i dont like it i want back one life to live i dont look at tv anymore sice u taker one life to live off and no i dont like that new show
I have watched one life to live for my life! Its a shame they couldnt have moved it to a different time slots whatever time would have been fine but to take it off all together was wrong. I think alot of people would have watched the revolution but there are to many hurt and disgusted people that lost there daytime show.Bring back one life to live!
This show is so boring! I was a fan of All My Children and One Life to Live My television used to be on ABC from 9:00 Am until 3:30 PM Now I only watch a local show at 9:00 and the View at 10:00 and then ABC goes off!
I do not turn my TV to ABC until 3:00 PM to watch General Hospital…will not watch any other programs on ABC until One Life to Live is put back on the air…ABC has lost alot of loyal viewers thanks to the very bad mistake of cancelling daytime Soaps and if they do away with SoapNet or General Hospital, ABC will no longer exist in my home!!!! Please return daytime TV to something that we want to watch…PLEASE BRING BACK OUR SOAPS!!!!!!
I will never watch abc again after they dropped AMC and OLTL. Who ever made the decision to can both shows , should be canned themselves!!! The new shows SUCK!!!!!
Revolution is BORING!! Bring back our soap “One Life to Live”!!!!!!!!
Never watched it, NEVER will. Don’t watch ABC in the AMC and OLTL time slot at . Get them shows off of there and get the soaps back on!!!
I refuse to watch ABC except for General Hospital in the afternoons since they cancelled my other two favorite shows, One Life to Live and All My Children. Doesn’t matter what they put on at that time, I won’t be tuning in unless my soaps come back.