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If we really want to keep the show, maybe we should start contacting the regular sponsors. They had regular sponsors, the ones that advertisised with them and gave the graduation gifts.

KPW1956 wrote:

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I'll admit the first couple times I saw the show... I literally rolled my eyes.. At first glance it seemed much like your typical soap opera/reality show. I didn't even realize it was a reality show...

But I think I got sucked in during some sort of drama...I think the summer after SO1 when they were doing flashbacks of the season.. and Josie dealing with all her garbage about keeping the baby/ not keeping the baby/ who is the father/ leaving the SO house.. and just really struggling... You could really empathize with her plight... and I remember it was Rain who warmly kept persisting trying to calm Josie down when she was essentially hysterical..

I never got to see all of Rain's story... or many of the other womens... but from what I did see... I really liked her! It seemed like she cared.... and most likely had a tender heart.

When I first started watching the show, it was Season1 in reruns,
but it ended after the last of the original six women graduated, so I did not see Rain either. I missed the start of SO2 also, so I
am enjoying that. I did see Josie's first stay via flashbacks, so
her progress was easy to follow. As i did not realize there was
a Season3 until an old friend mentioned it was on another
channel in the morning...I did not catch the beginning of that
either, and when I did start watching, I had missed most of
Jessica and TJ's stories. I think it was Jill who "drew me in" and
got me watching regularly, but it took me a bit longer to feel
really involved with that group! There did not seem to be as
much "cohesion" as in previous groups, or so it seemed to me!
I did not think that I would watch the reruns again, but
I'm finding it very interesting, while realizing how much I had
forgotten! Sometimes I just got so irritated with one or the other
that I would swear I was not going to watch one more day....and
here I am!!

KPW1956 wrote:

QUOTE:
I'll admit the first couple times I saw the show... I literally rolled my eyes.. At first glance it seemed much like your typical soap opera/reality show. I didn't even realize it was a reality show...

But I think I got sucked in during some sort of drama...I think the summer after SO1 when they were doing flashbacks of the season.. and Josie dealing with all her garbage about keeping the baby/ not keeping the baby/ who is the father/ leaving the SO house.. and just really struggling... You could really empathize with her plight... and I remember it was Rain who warmly kept persisting trying to calm Josie down when she was essentially hysterical..

I never got to see all of Rain's story... or many of the other womens... but from what I did see... I really liked her! It seemed like she cared.... and most likely had a tender heart.

When I first started watching the show, it was Season1 in reruns,
but it ended after the last of the original six women graduated, so I did not see Rain either. I missed the start of SO2 also, so I
am enjoying that. I did see Josie's first stay via flashbacks, so
her progress was easy to follow. As i did not realize there was
a Season3 until an old friend mentioned it was on another
channel in the morning...I did not catch the beginning of that
either, and when I did start watching, I had missed most of
Jessica and TJ's stories. I think it was Jill who "drew me in" and
got me watching regularly, but it took me a bit longer to feel
really involved with that group! There did not seem to be as
much "cohesion" as in previous groups, or so it seemed to me!
I did not think that I would watch the reruns again, but
I'm finding it very interesting, while realizing how much I had
forgotten! Sometimes I just got so irritated with one or the other
that I would swear I was not going to watch one more day....and
here I am!!

I was recently sooo surprised when I discovered my second cousin was a huge fan of SO. We got together for lunch and went to her mother's grave Memorial Day weekend. Her mother died a year ago and she is still trying to sort out her feelings.

My cousin was homebound taking care of her elderly mother for several years prior to her mother's death and the show meant so much to her. She is hearbroken with the recent events. The loss of that kind of program is just cruel to so many people across the country.

Okay, here in NYC we have Judge Joe Brown (yawn, yawn) he could be shifted to 4:00 a.m. and SO could be put there.
However, here is the fly in the pudding. Oprah and a few others (including NBC) have financed giving Racheal Ray a daytime talk show! Look at the morning line-up here in NYC after the today show ends in the mornings: 10:00: ELLEN; 11:00 MARTHA; 12:00 (used to be SO); all on NBC.

They are not going to cancel any of the soaps, GOD FORBID they should cancel PASSIONS. Racheal, I like her cooking shows but a talk show? When they aired Tony Danza's last show he muttered "Racheal Ray wants this?". He was on ABC at 10:00 a.m.

So there is some manuvering going on at the networks. Dr. Phil has worn his welcome but Oprah backs him. Do you see the connection in all this? Iyanla was let go from the Oprah show, turns up on SO. I really liked her and now this. I visited her website and it is really nice.

Face it once Mary Ellis Bunim passed away, it was only a matter of time for all the shows they created. I sincerely hope SO come back and hope that NBC has not deliberately filled up the voicemail box (accidentally on purpose).

Food for thought!!!!!

Peggy56 wrote:

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:ohmy: Okay, here in NYC we have Judge Joe Brown (yawn, yawn) he could be shifted to 4:00 a.m. and SO could be put there.
However, here is the fly in the pudding. Oprah and a few others (including NBC) have financed giving Racheal Ray a daytime talk show! Look at the morning line-up here in NYC after the today show ends in the mornings: 10:00: ELLEN; 11:00 MARTHA; 12:00 (used to be SO); all on NBC.

I'm also in NYC, and it sounds like the NBC fall daytime lineup will be Ellen at ten, Martha at eleven, Megan Mullalley at noon, Days at one, Passions at two, Joe Brown at three and Judge Judy at four. So unless they give SO some crazy late night timeslot, I'd say we're out of luck in the Big Apple.