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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The Chew and the Revolution both gag me! Watched 2 shows and will never watch either again. Bring back All my Children and One Life to Live and get rid of the joker who thought this was a good idea! He is only there to destroy ABC!
As I said before, I will NEVER tune into the Revolution!! I hope this program flops and you replace it with General Hospital!!!
I haven’t watched and don’t plan to. I loved OLTL and no talk show could ever replace that.
I will not watch the Revolution or The Chew. I was a loyal ABC viewer, but I now find other things to watch. I am very unhappy with ABC.
With there being so many options for cooking shows, how to dress shows and the like on cable channels, why would ABC get rid of soap operas that everyone knows has a HUGE faithful fan base? It is all about $$$$$. Let’s see how much $$$ the shows that replaced AMC and OLTL make them. I bet they get hit hard and deservedly so!
like screw the chew&revolt the revolution, daytime fans unite! I will never watch any replacement shows or abc again once Gh leaves and katie couric can go away too! i haven`t watched any abc programming except soaps since the announcement of daytime being screwed with, i don`t need abc telling me to cook first then lose weight like i`m not good enough to breathe thats why we have the food network and Dr Oz
I grew up watching AMC and OLTL with my grandma’s, they passed their love for their shows on to me and my sister and I passed this tradition on to my daughter, and daytime choices for viewing are terrible!!!! Who needs another talk show!! Really ? The Chew, The Revolution? I can not say what kind of show they are because I turn off my television when they come on never watched them and never will!!! I am so mad at ABC. The person who made the great decision to cancel our shows? He must be feeling the heat from… Read more »
I have absolutely no desire to watch The Revolution or The Chew. I do not care for the View. Since removing OLTL and AMC I no longer watch anything on your network. I watched OLTL from the very first show until the last. I cannot believe that you would cancell a show that had the following that it has. I do not like reality TV. I have enough reality in my own life. If I want to watch a cooking show I’ll watch the food network. You talk about the cost to produce a show like OLTL as being costly… Read more »
I won’t watch it I personally want my soaps back. I tune in to ABC now one hour a day to watch General Hospital and when it goes (which I hope ABC is smarter than that) I won’t watch it at all. I now watch CBS and NBC for they still have a soap on their channels. Its funny I quit watching NBC years ago and started watching the soaps on ABC but now they have made me go back to the other networks. I don’t want another show to tell me how to eat, dress, and whatever else they… Read more »
I hope the show fails. I’ll never watch anything in the 1 or 2 PM slot. I hope ABC loses money everyday from their bad decision to take AMC and OLTL off the air.
I would never watch either one these show’s after the Cancellation of my favored Soap’s.
I never watch ether show!! I want AMC & OLTL back!!! It sucks that they put junk on when we had two good shows.PLEASE BRING BACK AMC & OLTL!!!!
I will NEVER watch ABC again….except to watch General Hospital!!!!! I even gave up Dr. Phil, because ABC cancelled all the BEST shows they had!!!!!!!
Never ever will I watch this show. I want to know why you all think people want to be told what to wear and how to cook for 2 solid hrs. Well they don’t. You are going to have two stupid shows that are going to flop and you all made a big mess and didn’t care what us viewers wanted. Your viewers are not June Cleavers, we are working men and women that work at home or work odd shifts that come home and want to escape from reality not learn how to cook or dress from hollywood know-it-alls.… Read more »
I will NEVER watch any program that TRIES to replace One Life To Live. It will never happen.