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Somerset (12) Another World got overly large 5½ years ago, so half the cast moved to Somerset and out of contention (NBC...
...could not love the most trustworthy man on TV, Dr. Matt Powers, father figure at Hope Memorial Hospital (NBC...
...fashioned and extremely complicated mate-swapping epic involving the Matthews, Frame, Randolph and Corey families (NBC...
There are worse problems. After "Squeaky" Fromme's attempted assassination of President Ford, CBS affiliate WTVJ in Miami pre-empted five minutes of Edge of Night for a news program. The station's switchboard was immediately ablaze with calls. NBC Miami affiliate WCKT had a similar experience recently when Barbara Walters Visits the Royal Lovers pre-empted The Doctors and Days of Our Lives. Sighed an employee...
...fresher, more daring soaps are pulling younger, more affluent viewers rather than the traditional audience of blue-collar housewives and the retired. There is also a trend to give the soaps more time for their vicissitudes. Last year NBC, in a push for supremacy in TV's richest market, daytime programming, expanded its two blockbuster soaps, Days of Our Lives and Another World, to an hour each, smashing the opposing game shows and half-hour soaps. Last month CBS followed NBC with an hour-long version of As the World Turns. More of the 14 soaps...