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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Still very angry with ABC over the cancellations of OLTL, you are now going to be sure and cancel GH because of the lead in show that you are forcing on everyone. If it hasn’t been made clear to you yet. We do not want another realty show! We want to watch, All My Children, One Life to Live and Genreal Hospital just have we have for the last 40 years. Please, please, please put our soaps back on air and get rid of these stupid shows you have replaced our with. Put those on the food channel if there… Read more »
AMEN SISTER
Won’t watch ABC dduring the day anymore……..UNLESS they brought back One Life to Live……It is as simple as that!
As a faithful watcher of OLTL since 1974, I was distressed when then went off the air even though the fans were vehemently arguing for ABC to reconsider.
Needless to say I miss my friends in Llanview but I have found books offer me another way to spend my time. ABC will lose out here. The last thing we need is yet another reality show. Don’t you know the reason people watched OLTL is to escape reality for a brief time?
ABC ruined Daytime TV! I have NOT even turned your two new shows! Quit trying to ‘Copy’ cable TV’s shows! I do NOT need ANOTHER STUPID SHOW, to tell me “how to eat, how to dress, how to lose weight, how to decorate etc!” STOP! ABC, why didn’t you LISTEN your your fans of AMC & OLTL! INSTEAD of NOW fire Brian Fons, who made the dumbest decision YET for television! I have watch BOTH soaps since the very FIRST day they came on TV. Now, that’s a true fan! EVeryone I have talked to is so over, what ABC… Read more »
I will NEVER watch it nor the show before it. I watched AMC and OLTL for DECADES, and now have discovered the “Talk” on CBS. It is a poor substitute for OLTL, but I have NO other choice as far as I am concerned!!!!!!!!!
I knew it would flop ABC made a huge mistake now go get those actors and beg them to come back to OLTL
I quit watching ABC from 12 – 2 o’clock. They took soaps that we had enjoyed for 40 years and in their places put more talk shows. If they had wanted to cancel a show for either of these replacement programs, they could have cancelled The View and suffered no lack of an audience. In fact, they may have gained audience. I quit watching The View after they were so disrepectful to a President of the United States.
I will NEVER EVER watch this show or the Chew. Bring back my soaps. Shame on you ABC you broke peoples hearts by taking off AMC and OLTO. You put a lot of people out of work too. Again shame on you ABC.
Save General Hospital !! You were so so stupid to cancel the soaps. I won’t watch either of the new shows, they are a total waste of tv time. What a dumb decision to pull shows that are so loved and revered to instead air shows that are monotonous talk, lifestyle, cooking, style, etc. There is too much of that already on tv and we don’t need more! Keep GH and Shame on You for killing the other two soaps!!
TOTALLY AGREE
The Revolution is doomed….and hopefully “the Chew” will follow suit…..as a lifelong viewer of AMC and OLTL I am epically PISSED OFF at ABC exec’s!!!!! How dare you take away my shows and then have the colossal gall to replace it with these two pathetic and painful (to watch) disasters…I hope they continue to drown in poor ratings…money isn’t everything ABC…you f****ed up the best thing you could do now is to admit it, re-instate our shows…that way you can go from being the goat to the hero!!!! As for “General Hospital” I don’t give a rats behind if it… Read more »
Happy to hear that the Revolution is doing so bad, thats what happens when you cancel one of the best soap operas that ever aired. I will never watch these replacement shows!!!
Bring back our Soaps!!
I WILL NOT watch this show, which was to be so much better than ONE LIFE TO LIVE. Nor will I watch that ridiculous “food” show The Chew. ABC executives, and especially Mr. Fronz — my TV room is an ABC-free zone, except for General Hospital, which I’m SURE you are plotting to remove as soon as you can. I do not, I repeat, I DO NOT, need, require, or ask for another show that tells me how to prepare food, and then another program that tells me what’s wrong with me and how to lose weight, etc. ABC is… Read more »
ME TOO
I haven’t watched it, and will never watch anything that is in the time slot of AMC & OLTL that were cancelled by ABC. I used to have ABC tuned on all day and all evening, NOT anymore… there are slot of other TV stations to watch that care about their viewer! Just seeing the advertisements for the replacement shows, make me want to puke! I will continue to Boycott ABC/Disney daytime and more importantly all the advertisers of ABC/Disney daytime, except for GH, and if they cancel General Hospital, then ABC will be blocked from all my 5 of… Read more »
Very unfortunate that the ABC big wigs think they can make people watch their stupid shows , there are to many health and food shows all the time , sick of them. We tried so hard to keep OLTL on , signed petitions , wrote letters and were totally ignored . So they got what they deserve and we definetly didn’t get what we deserve ” ONE LIFE TO LIVE ” . I feel like I lost someons I love and I did “ONE LIFE TO LIVE “!!!!
I love all my children and one life to live its like having a death in the family Miss it so much