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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What do I think? Well, I think ABC screwed up cancelling One Life To Live and All My Children. Your looking for ratings from the viewers…well did you get the message that the viewers want their soaps back? I’m sure with the cost of production, it should weigh more towards what the fans want as appose to the cost of production. I’m sure you can cut corners somewhere else so that the viewers don’t have to be the ones to suffer. I have been a fan of One Life To Live for over 35 years, and it’s a loss in… Read more »
Even if I had never watched AMC and OLTL I would not watch this show It does not interest me in the slighest..There are enough cooking shows on tv and none of the other things they do are even interesting ..I watched the first day and have not watched since..
Sorry, I had to correct my email address. But I say it again. I wouldn’t watch the “Reveloution” again. Once was enough!!!!!!!!!! Also put GH Back on. Been watching that one as long.
I hate the Revolution. I am so disgusted with ABC I barely watch it. I watch GH but I tivo it and watch it at night so I don’t have to watch their sponsor commercials. I want nothing to do with ABC for what they did to this beautiful soap OLTL. FLOP Revolution and take the Chew with you and ram it down your throat ABC!!!!
We have enough wait loss, cooking and talk shows on tv now why add another. I watched it once and that was enough for me. Please put OLTL back on. I have been watching it for almost as long as it has been on the air.
I think it is an awful show. I want One Life to Live back. I miss it but I will never watch the revolution or the other one that took all my children’s spot. If they would cancel General Hospital I would never watch ABC again!!!
The Revolution is terribly boring. I do not watch ABC in this time slot any more.
LOLOLOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!!!
I don’t care if it saves GH. I think they need to bring back OLTL.
HA WE HAD AMERICANA IN FULL SWING…THEN THE AXE FELL ON AMC..THAT WAS HARD…THEN OLTL HARDER N NOW THE IMMINENT DEMISE OF GH? FOR WHAT MORE OF THE SAME ALL OVER CABLE???? BIGGEST MISTAKE ABC/DISNEY MADE WAS TO PISS OFF THE MAJORITY IN DAYTIME! EVEN PRIMETIME IS SUFFERING…LOWER N LOWER THE RATINGS GO AND ONCE THE AD MARKETS SEE HOW BAD ITS GETTIN YULL HAVE MUNDANE ADVERTISERS LEFT DEMANDING CUTS IN AD COSTS! ABC WILL HAVE TO FILE FOR FOOD STAMPS! BRING BACK THE SOAPS OR AT THE VERY LEAST…RETURN AGNES’ NIXONS RIGHTS TO THE SOAPS N LET HER AS… Read more »
I’m not surprised at all. ABC has been told by thousands that they will not watch these replacement shows, yet they decided to make that stupid move anyways. It’s nobody’s fault but their own. ABC daytime wasn’t broken…..yet they decided to fix it. ABC loses 🙂
I am not a CPA nor do I know anything about ratings and such, but, I do have common sense. Common sense tells me that if you take shows like AMC and OLTL that millions of people watch every day off the air and replace them with more cooking shows and self help shows that cost less to produce but no one watches, you are basically shooting yourself in the foot. People who watch soaps are loyal. If we are working, we record these shows to watch later. Or, we tune into the Soap Network to watch all at once… Read more »
Haven’t watched and will never watch anything that is put in those time slots…BIG mistake..cancelling the soaps…something proved for over 40 years! I will never get over this…The soaps were like family.
The Revolution is a really dumb show the only show dumber is The Chew obnoxious people on both shows and a waste of time. I have been a devoted fan Of OLTL for years and am now lucky enough to be home in the daytime and nothing to watch. I have switched to CBS from 12:30 – 2:00 and will continue to watch GH for however long it is on but as for ABC for the most part I am done there is no way I am ever watching The Chew The Revolution and especially Katie Curich cannot if she… Read more »
Revulsion isn’t a show I’ll ever watch….take off our soaps and kill the ratings….sounds like justice to me