What happened to the soap opera Passions?
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television
drama tv
Passions: After Over Nine Years, the Supernatural Soap Ends, part two. Passions was cancelled by NBC in January 2007 because of low ratings. DirecTV saved the soap and began airing it exclusively in the Fall of 2007, hoping that fans would be willing to pay to watch.
Also, when did the soap opera Passions end?
August 7, 2008
Similarly, is the soap opera Passions still on TV?
Passions is an American television soap opera that originally aired on NBC from July 5, 1999 to September 7, 2007, and on DirecTV's The 101 Network from September 17, 2007 to August 7, 2008. As of 2019, Passions is the last daytime television soap opera created for American network television.
After a big wave of cancellations of daytime soaps, the genre had been stable for the past few years with the four remaining series: NBC's Days of Our Lives, ABC's General Hospital and CBS' The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful.