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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

DirecTV to Keep "Passions" Alive


Earlier this year, NBC announced it had canceled its daytime sudser "Passions." The show would end its 8-year run in June. Now the network is closing in on a new deal that would keep the series alive on an unusual platform, DirecTV.

This will be the biggest original programming initiative for the satellite provider which has been interested in original content business for a while. It is
however not clear at this point what channel the company will use to air the series.

Daytime soap operas normally have a weekly budget of $1 million. Under the new deal the costs are expected to be cut. Also, NBC Universal TV Studio will produce only 4 episodes per week for DirecTV. The show aired 5 times per week on NBC.

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Labels: Daytime, NBC

posted by Justin Van De Kamp at 10:00 AM

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Never cared much for Soaps, pay attention to just one, for old time's sake. Passions is not that one so I could care less what happens to it. I actually want it cancelled seeing as it is holding hostage a character from the one soap I do follow.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 7:00:00 AM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Eric Martsolf (Ethan) is my favorite hunk. Thanks for the eye candy!

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 8:54:00 AM EDT  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

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Hugs

Mark - Toronto

Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 3:37:00 PM EDT  

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