ABC preps reality TV version of 'General Hospital'

Disney/ABC is tone deaf to its viewers/consumers. Disney shook Wall Street analysts and investors several weeks ago with news its ad revenues were falling as a result of continued low network ratings, and here we go again. More money in development poured down a rat hole. The money ABC has wasted on "developing" new daytime shows, including $80 Million on Katie could have kept All My Children and One Life to Live on the air for who knows how long. Not even Katie, and certainly not The Chew have produced the 18-49 demographic that soaps AMC, OLTL, and General Hospital brought. Now, The View is faltering with demographics at or below General Hospital. How can ABC not correlate that the millions of afternoon viewers it drove away with the cancellations of AMC & OLTL translate into fewer eyeballs watching their primetime promos, and therefore, ABC's primetime has lost audience share at a higher rate than any other network. I don't trust for one moment that ABC will not try to replace General Hospital with this mess of a "reality" hospital show. I already boycott everything on ABC daytime or primetime except General Hospital, and if General Hospital is canceled and replaced, I will never turn my television to ABC again. ABC needs to develop a way to get AMC & OLTL back on the air, and fix what they broke instead of exacerbating the problems they already have by continuing to threaten General Hospital. ABC said they would save money by canceling the soaps. Well Katie Couric's launch budget alone would have paid for two years of OLTL. As for The Chew, saving a little in production costs is off-set by lower ratings and lower ad revnue, so as my mother would say, that was "penny-wise and pound-foolish." ABC needs to stop the foolishnes, and return to the daytime line-up that kept ABC Daytime at #1 for decades and provided a pool of loyal viewers for its primetime as well.