Soaps Are In Trouble

The future of soap operas is looking like a slippery slope!!!
Susan Lucci and the rest of the All My Children crew have taken a dramatic reduction in pay.
This is after NBC’s Days of Our Lives axed longtime cast members Deirdre Hall and Drake Hogestyn, and cut everyone’s pay by about 40% to keep the show on the air through 2010.
Hall’s character had been on the show for 32 years!
Talk about no job security!
Soap audiences are down by a lot, averaging only about 2.6 million viewers a day. At one point there were as many as 12 different soaps on the air, but that number has fallen to 8.
No word on how much of a pay cut Susan is taking, but….she’s still probably way overpayed!
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