CBS Renews Its Entire Daytime Lineup, Including 3-Year Pickup for ‘The Young and the Restless’
It’s good to be Number One. CBS, the top-rated network in daytime television for the last 30 years, has renewed all five programs in its daytime lineup for the 2017-18 season. The pickup deal includes iconic game shows Let’s Make a Deal and The Price is Right, along with The Talk and long-running soap operas The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless. The latter serial has received a three-year pickup, which will keep it on the air at least through summer of 2020.
“All of our talent, on screen and behind the scenes, is hard at work making the upcoming season of these award-winning series even bigger and bolder,” says Angelica McDaniel, executive vice president at CBS Daytime.
But McDaniel hasn’t forgotten two landmark serials no longer on the air—Guiding Light and As the World Turns—that were instrumental in building CBS Daytime into the Nielsen powerhouse it is today. In fact, she recently gathered together 11 beloved stars from GL and ATWT for a celebratory class photo, and TV Insider has the exclusive first look right here:
Exclusive: Casts of As the World Turns and Guiding Light reassemble to celebrate CBS’ long-standing daytime dominancePictured in the exclusive photo, from left to right: ATWT’s Martha Byrne (Lily); GL’s Robert Newman (Josh), Beth Chamberlin (Beth), Rick Hearst (Alan-Michael) and Crystal Chappell (Olivia); ATWT’s Tamara Tunie (Jessica) and Ellen Dolan (Margo, also GL’s Maureen); GL’s Vincent Irizarry (Lujack/Nick) and Krista Tesreau (Mindy); ATWT’s Colleen Zenk (Barbara); and GL’s Michael O’Leary (Rick).
And they’re all looking mighty damn fine! Congratulations to everyone!
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Krista Tesreau looks fab! (but still love me some Kimberly Simms!) All of them look great. Kim Zimmer, Maura West need to be here obvi..
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So many good characters missing: Bob, Kim, Iva, Lucinda, Iva's mom (name?), Carli, Jack, and Reva, Philip, Billy, Maureen, and Dr.Bauer (??). I'd love to hear what they are all doing now.
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Lovely but without Michael Park and Maura West AKA Carly and Jack that's like and NCIS reunion without Mark Harmon. Ditto GL's 'Reva Shane'. When I think CBS soaps I definitely think Josh & Reva and Jack and Carly. Forever.
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It's nice that CBS is finding a way to honor the two shows that are no longer on....but it would be even better if they could do something to reengage those of us who watched these shows.
A short run show on All Access catching us up with either/both shows would be a good place to start.
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Nice a three year pick up for Young and Restless. CBS sure likes its soaps better than ABC and NBC who always go down to wire in renewing them
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It helps CBS they have a Daytime head who cares about soaps like Angelina McDaniel. Unlike Barbara Bloom who along with P&G made sure two soaps died on in the 2010s. And Fronz who killed ABC soaps for cooking shows.
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Well, the CBS lineup has better ratings. I'd prefer the shows with better ratings too.
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CBS owns their soaps now, so they replace bad showrunners and HWs BEFORE ratings drive down too far.
I still wish CBS had bought ATWT from P&G, long-term makes more sense thant talk shows and game shows.
I doubt a few years from now anyone will watch a daytime talk show or game when everything is streaming. Hopefully NBC and ABC realize that before it's too late.
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Y&R is a Sony Pictures Television and Bell Dramatic Serial Company production, while B&B is a Bell-Phillip Television Productions Inc. production. ABC is the only network that actually owns and produces their soap.
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