Should soap operas not exceed 30 minutes?

Question

Soaps are so darn long and women have to watch the whole thing every single day.

Why not limit CBS to 2 half hour soaps per day and only show them on Wednesdays & Thursdays.

And since other TV shows have reruns, why not have soaps show reruns?

Answer 1

Apparently you don't like soaps.  But maybe us women should just sit around for hours and be tortured by whatever horrible shows you want to watch.  Guess maybe you prefer Judge Joe Brown over Y&R?  Pfft, please.  Those court shows are just as bad as soaps, if not WORSE

Get over it and do something else while your woman watches her soaps!  If it was up to me, soaps would be on 7 days a week and be 2 hours long!

And FYI:  Some soaps DO have re-runs, but it's only usually around holidays.

Answer 2

I'm a guy...and I like one soap: As the World Turns. They actually aren't long when they only air for 39 minutes of an hour as commercials take up so much time! 20 minutes is too little. CBS has, in my opinion, the best soaps and 3 are very popularly watched. An hour of a soap, only once a week, is much too short. CBS would anger a lot of viewers. And Soaps do not have reruns because most viewers are daily viewers.

Answer 3

TURN THE CHANNEL.  lol ... that should solve your problem.

Answer 4

if it was up to me it would be all 7 days and 2 hours and no re runs on holidays! god change the chanel if u hate itso much

Answer 5

Soap Operas are NOT TV shows. Some soaps like Days started as 30 min shows in the old days. The rest of your idea is ludicrous.

If you buy a DVR or TIVO you can record them !!!!

Answer 6

I like the 1 hour they give us, I wish that B&B was a hour long too :o)

they do flashbacks that's enough for me!

soaps are on 5 days a week and do not have 10 to 15 episodes like the primetime shows.........re-runs are not needed!

Answer 7

Actually if you minus all the stupid commercials(which thanks to Tivo I can) most soaps are only about 35 minutes or so long.  

Answer 8

They've tried that 30 minute soap thing before, and most of those shows don't last.  Women want a full hour each day.  No quickie soap for us!  

As for reruns, yes, I'd love to see reruns of my favorite soap.  I want to see it from way back in the 70s and the 80s. I want to see who these people were when they were still young!

Answer 9

Amen brother.

Soaps are so depressing and long.

Answer 10

soaps arent like othere tv shows thats why there coulled soaps!

in my opinion, they should be longer! I cant get enough!

Answer 11

>  I agree with the soap reruns BUT are you crazy with the rest of your question ??? These story lines take long enough to wrap uP>without only 30 minutes two times a week !

lol,,apparently your not a soap fan, because if you were you wouldn't be throwing this question out there and wasting 5 points> and why target it to CBS soaps?  are you a NBC or ABC watcher???