Soap Opera Digest Ends Print Edition

That's sad. End of an era.

But frankly, I'm surprised the print edition lasted as long as this.

I subscribed for many years, but finally gave up in 2016 when only about 1 out of every 4 issues was making it to my mailbox.

I complained to the company. They yawned and wouldn't even send me back copies of the issues that I had missed. As my subscription was up for renewal shortly after that, I let it lapse.

As a fat homosexual child, I would walk down to the grocery store and buy SOD and a pint of ice cream. Ah, memories.

Back in the mid 90's when I got my first apartment I would get Soap Opera Digest delivered on a Friday, then go to the store and buy a Totino's pizza, a 2 liter of soda, and a box of Little Debbie's (cheap eats). I would read the magazine while I ate my pizza, that was living!!

R4- do you miss having two feet? I can only assume at least one has been cut off due to your diabetes and morbid obesity.

r2

same and I went to the digital version a few years ago but I do miss the hard copy

You can all ways red this for the scoop 💋😘♥️🌹

It will be ok DL elders. Don’t do anything crazy.

Before we know it daytime will be only news, children’s shows or paid programming.

Just like the soaps themselves, they should have shrunk down earlier.

It should have gone back to a monthly mag when the number of soaps shrunk down to 4. Apparently they'll do 4 print issues a year but still....

As a shy introvered fat gay boy, I too would look forward to getting the new issue.

And yes, I would read the magazine while I had whatever for lunch or dinner.....that was my me time for the week as a young single gayling on a budget.

[quote][R4]- do you miss having two feet? I can only assume at least one has been cut off due to your diabetes and morbid obesity.

R5 Thanks for turning this thread into a health and diabetes lecture. Just exactly what we needed.

For years I have been saying they need to create a podcast soap opera. Either a new show bible or revive one of the old ones. Production costs are a fraction of tv and money from existing IP is left on the table. WGA wake up!!

R13 People have done web soaps and podcast soaps but they just don't get much traction.

I think part of it is that people in the age bracket who would watch an old fashioned soap want to watch it on TV. There are things like Six Minutes, which was co created by David Kreizman and which has been in part written by Tom Casiello - it's all audio and very successful, but is aimed at a young adult audience or as a family show.

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r5 I was 20 back then with an active life and a good metabolism.

[quote]There are things like Six Minutes, which was co created by David Kreizman and which has been in part written by Tom Casiello

For those who care to opine, would Tom Casiello have had a more extensive career as a soap opera writer if he weren't gay and out?

There’s only like 2 shows on at this point so I don’t see the point anymore

Needed male centerfolds.

There are four soaps still, r17.

But many of us have been wondering if that's enough to support a soap magazine in the long run. Clearly the answer is no.

I always preferred Daytime TV and Soap Opera Weekly, both long gone

Now what am I gonna read at Walmart on Saturday while the old ladies count out every single penny, write a check and use coupons while the line behind them is ten deep?

[quote] As a fat homosexual child, I would walk down to the grocery store and buy SOD and a pint of ice cream. Ah, memories.

When was this?

SOD took shots at Soaps In-Depth when they shuttered a few years ago.

[quote] Either a new show bible

For which soap?

[quote]Production and money from existing IP is left on the table.

Huh?

And you honestly want to go back to the days of faceless radio dramas?

Sad it’s an end of an era. SOD was a huge part of childhood for me. Loved the best and worst issue the seasonal preview issues, the what’s in and out, and of course the hottest males/females issue. Liked how much money went into it in the 80s and 90s. Actual cover shoots and photoshoots. Knew it was dying (like sops) when the budget changed and the covers reflected it. All the inserts of actors never all in the same room together a strange mismatch of heads.

the magazine always favored days of our lives and General hospital and Y&R. Those shows seemed to monopolize the covers.

Surprised its biggest readership was 1991. Would have thought 80s but I guess the 90s is when all the other soap magazines popped up - Update, magazine, weekly, news, in depth, ABC episodes, soap dish…did I forget any?

R16 I mean, he wrote for WWE for a long time, and that wasn't exactly Out and Proud central.

R26 yeah, there was a certain point in the mid to late 1990s where DAYS was on the cover every fucking week without fail. GL and ATWT weren't on very many covers in the last 10 years they were on the air. And they started doing the multiple faces from multiple shows on the cover around then, too.

R23, they sure did. Something like plastering on their cover now the ONLY mag devoted to soaps or something like that; a clear shot at In Depth's demise.

However...

Prior to shuttering, SID had on THEIR covers 'more pages than any other soap mag' or '22 more pages than any other soap mag' -- a shot at Digest's reduced page count? Sure. Both were true. Neither liked being picked on by the other; SOD last for 2 1/2 more years than SID did.

R26, update started in 87 or 88; Weekly in 89 with a Patch and Marina cover!

The one I loved was Soap Opera NOW! the newsletter that came to your mailbox.

Linda Susman wrote there before going to Weekly; she was smart and savvy and got the best news.

The fact is Digest stopped caring a long time ago.

When Michael Tylo died, did they reach out to Lisa Brown for a comment? No.

But they ran an Instagram quote from Kate Linder. Please. They shared a few group scenes on Y&R whereas Michael and Lisa created a magical love story with Douglas Marland on GL.

The news was old; there was no in depth (no pun intended) analysis. Hinsey's column showed she was a bully who favored her pets and picked on the on-screen rivals of said pets.

Remember that Jossip thread? Most workers were treated like crap while management looked the other way.

I'm not surprised the mag died; just shocked it took so long.

Oh, and they didn't cover the Alarr scandal until after it was over.

Bible of the industry? More like the pamphlet of soaps.

The first few years of Weekly was the pinnacle. None better.

[quote]Needed male centerfolds.

Yeah, I preferred Soap Opera Magazine and Soap Opera Weekly because their larger size allowed for bigger shirtless photos of the soap hunks.

I loved SOD and Soap Opera Weekly.. I found Soap Opera Weekly to be far more gossipy and fun...But SOD held its own...RIP..

Which gay guy will Cricket choose?

I miss the old days when you had to be pretty to be on tv...

4 of the guys from 'Sunset Beach' strip off:

SOD must hold the record of most closeted gay actors in a single magazine. DL Fave Michael Weiss..

[quote] I miss the old days when you had to be pretty to be on tv...

R37 That sure didn't stand in Heather Rattray's way!

I never watched Sunset Beach but I did enjoy them interviewing Tim Adams, as they were always talking about the fact that he never wore underwear.....

Update had the best covers and photos. The @ 8x10 size issues were the best!

Didn’t love the cheap paper quality of SOW or Soap Magazine. At the very least they featured all the shows! Especially my favorite OLTL

Soap Weekly used the same quality paper that the National Enquirer and the Star did. That's why it was so easy to throw them away after reading.

Meanwhile, Soap Digest had higher quality paper and many more people saved their Digests. .

They are still doing the digital version right?

Let’s circle back to what you tubby gaylings were EATING as you pored through the pages of your hot-off-the-press Soap Opera Digest.

And did the photos therein serve as fodder for your masturbatory fantasies?

But where will I read about my Stories???

Fruit roll ups and Jeno’s frozen pizza and washed it down with some Jolt!

The comment upthread about favoring Days, GH and Y&R… I remember as a gayling being irate over the Days saturation in the magazine. I was hard core AMC and OLTL and was puzzled that Days stars seemed to be on every other cover. Fast forward 20 years later and I’m working in magazines and realize that, duh, the reason Days was on so many covers was because they clearly did gangbusters for newsstand sales. Even though Days wasn’t top rated in the ratings, their fans were rabid.

Dack Rambo was a beautiful man!

This revelation will rock the DL base to its core. Sad but true.

Nah, r50. What rocked us to the core were the cancellations of AW, ATWT, AMC, and OLTL.

There was a point sometime in the late 90s where DAYS boycotted or blackballed Digest for a few months because of some feature or cover they did or did not do, and after that, DAYS was on seemingly every cover, to the point where I started calling it Days Of Our Lives Digest.

Circa 1997-98 is when they just stopped featuring anything that wasn't DAYS, GH or Y&R/B&B. No surprise those are the last 4 shows standing. I think GL's last cover was about 7 years before it was cancelled. They didn't even get a full solo cover for the 70th, I think.

R38, I don’t remember ever having seen that pic before, thanks for posting!

Is the dark-haired guy on the bottom right Hank Cheyne?

My grandmother had a subscription and I remember every time we would visit her, I would grab up all the back issues I hadn't yet seen, take them into my room and read for hours. I couldn't be seen buying or reading SOD back home for fear of being called a fag (like I was hiding it otherwise).

R40, Or Heather Tom.

Now, let's be understanding and kind to Heather Tom. She's been a lifelong sufferer of Pinched Sphincter Syndrome (PSS) and must cope with her affliction on a daily basis!

I was a diehard SOD reader, but I started leaning towards Weekly—they were on cheap paper, sure, but they had better critiques and writers and graphic design. Stopped buying either much after college unless AMC was featured, since that’s the only soap I kept with regularly once I was out in the “real world”. I think I still have some issues of both in a box..somewhere…

While I concur completely with r56 on the subject of Sphincterina, I didn't find Heather Rattray unattractive. I had just started watching World Turns when Lily's cottage blew up, so Heather was Lily as far as I was concerned. I thought she was fine, and very believable as a businesswoman.

I still remember that the new SOD used to come out on a Wednesday and it revealed Marlena as the killer days before the onscreen reveal

Dallas vs Dynasty!! The AIDS crisis!! A pictorial history of Barbara Stanwyck!! SOD was gold back in its heyday.

Who can forget that one of the greatest soap headlines was delivered by SOD----->>The RETURN of Brenda Dickson!!

Is it possible all 4 of those guys are gay?

^

Claudia on Dynasty was an "unsung hero?" First she was a doormat, then she was batshit crazy. Nothing heroic in either of those.

In recent years, they've just been recycling the same headlines over and over:

Days Explodes

Y&R Explodes

GH Explodes

Eric Braeden Speaks

The Plan to Save Days

R63 I know Claudia was a lot, especially in the end...But she did support Steven and his gayness before Alexis showed up and even before Krystal was openly comfortable with it.

Obligatory "Mimi Torchin used spoilers and thus, ruined soaps for me" post

[quote]I still remember that the new SOD used to come out on a Wednesday and it revealed Marlena as the killer days before the onscreen reveal

Was Mimi working there then?

That's my line, r66. She killed OLTL Easter weekend 2000. Elian was more suspenseful than the Will Rappaport story, and I realized I didn't need to watch OLTL for about three weeks. As a result, I never returned to it. Thanks, Mimi Torchin.

R52 I think it was Weekly that pissed off and got boycotted by days

R67, like 12 days before as I recall

But they got a cover!

D’oh!

Mimi was always at Soap Weekly, never at Soap Digest.

She's the one who founded Soap Weekly and convinced the shows to release detailed info about the episodes in advance so she could then put out that info as spoilers in the magazine.

What r70 said. And I never looked at OLTL again. Or any other soap, for about five years.

I watched Y&R starting in 2005, when Kevin was getting his ass kicked in jail. I had to see what that was about. I quit after too many weeks of Maria Arena Bell. Loved LML. And I would skim World Turns for its gay content whenever that started. I've now been watching Y&R now since whenever Mark Grossman appeared as Spider (Adam).

[quote] The comment upthread about favoring Days, GH and Y&R… I remember as a gayling being irate over the Days saturation in the magazine.

When was this?

Another bit when SOD was dancing on SID’s grave.

In Depth was making digs a few months before it went off the air boasting 30% more than any other soap mag.

if they dish it out, they should have to take it.

I suppose Claudia was heroic for wearing all those horrendous hairstyles they saddled her with, especially with her fivehead, poor thing.

SOD was tweeting people who were sad about SID’s demise saying that they were still here and shit.

SOD will now print 4 special issues a year. What’s the point? They can’t keep a staff on for just 4 issues a year.

R77 I think the 4 issues a year thing is to keep the name for legal reasons.

No, they can’t keep a staff on for that; the company will either hire freelance or use people on staff at other magazines.

What will Moo Moo Hinsey do now? She has nowhere to go and nothing to do....no more young studly soap actors to blackmail......

R79, I'm sure we'll hear -- and see -- what the full fallout is next week. Will the website be redesigned? Will they keep that cow's column?

How ironic she'd lose it now that her BFF Rena is back as Lois on GH.

Her constant praise of Phyllis on Y&R and slams on Phyllis's rivals like Diane were embarrassing.

R53, yes, the 4 guys are Timothy Adams, Jason George, Dax Griffin & Hank Cheyne. ☺️

All the online Days fans are convinced that they single-handily brought the magazine to its knees by shaming them for not reporting on the Albert Alaar story sooner.

DAYS fans are loons.

They should have switched to online only years ago. Truth is, ever since the mainstream entertainment sites added soap reporting, the shows would rather go to TVLine or Deadline before SOD. And the shows can't threaten to withhold information from those sources, because they don't care. Plus, thanks to social media, casting news and behind the scenes changes come out almost instantly.

I remember some readers being upset when SOD started covering prime time soaps so heavily. It made sense to me…an issue with Dynasty on the cover is going to sell more copies.

I mean, it was a $5 magazine - print has been slowly dying (entertainment weekly for one)....it was a no brainer.

They should have gone to monthly and given up the synposis pages.

[quote]They should have gone to monthly and given up the synposis pages.

That's ironic. The synopsis for each show was the reason magazines like Soap Digest were started.

For synopsis were the heart of the magazine for the first 15 years of its existence.

R87 yes, but in the Internet age you can get a recap of everything almost instantaneously. They should have shifted focus to features or just about anything else. They could have kept a brief page or two of recaps, maybe, as a fun running dialogue.

r88 Not all of Soap Opera Digest's subscribers would have access to the internet or know how to use it even if they did have access. The number of subscribers who fall into this category is dwindling each day, but they do exist.

So, the synopsis of each show is still a vital part of Digest to that set of subscribers. Those are the same subscribers who are going to be the most hurt by the end of the print edition.

These days, the weekly synopsis just takes up a page per show.

Back in the 70s and 80s, those synopsis were incredibly detailed and took up 4 pages per show. And in the early 80s, there were 14 shows to cover.

R86, I think it was $6.99 an issue

For old news, lukewarm features, the same old opinions "Phyllis is great and everyone in town hates Diannnnnneeee!" - uninspired photos. No bite. No Diva von Dish. No dish, for that matter.

Did they really need any synopsis the past 20 years? Ever since the budgets for soaps were cut, it's basically been two people in a room reiterating what two other people in a room talked about yesterday, and the day before, etc. If you missed one episode, or a whole week, the actors would catch you up.

[quote]Back in the mid 90's when I got my first apartment I would get Soap Opera Digest delivered on a Friday, then go to the store and buy a Totino's pizza, a 2 liter of soda, and a box of Little Debbie's (cheap eats). I would read the magazine while I ate my pizza, that was living!!

I am so happy to hear about this.

I was doing a similar version back in the late 70s and early 80s. About every other month our neighbor (who subscribed to Soap Opera Digest) would travel for work and we would collect her mail while she was gone. Whenever I I saw the SOD on the table where we kept her mail, that meant the next day was party time for me.

I would leave school early the next day. I'd just walk out the door and keep walking. I'd stop off at the grocery store on the way, buy a Totinos, and a 32 oz glass bottle of TaB. I'd go home and pig out and read the neighbor's Soap Opera Digest.

Those were the days.

Cover stories....Kin Shriner!! Liberace!!! Richard Simmons!!....Was this their Gay Issue?.......FYI I forgot how hot Kin was back then.

DAYS Marlena making Worst Wedding after that hideous dress.

GH Steve Bond showing some skin. A far cry from Lumpy Austin.

The stunning hot men....RIP SOD............FYI Does anyone recognize the gay with Nola in this pic?

That's just the hair stylist for the show, R96.

The shame of it all is that SOD has one of the worst websites ever.

I did have a long relationship with Digest.....I started buying it in 1986 and even through my poorest salad days, I still managed to buy it every week for a very long time.

Was a P&G fan but was still buying it fairly often until around 2016 or so. So 30 years.

And yes, I was a fat whore that would get my Friday treats and my copy of Digest and nibble and read in bliss. (And Weekly, too.)

100!

How sad that after nearly 50 years SOD goes out with a whimper

Its final cover.....somewhere Terry Lester is spinning in his grave. Fucking CRICKET on the cover.

I don't think the article says when the last physical issue comes out (unless I missed it)

I thought a few of them said immediately.

It’s the las5 issue

with cricket

And perennial Hinsey fave La Stanford

The Staff and The Bug. Ugh.

Carolyn Hinsey's pussy still stinks

I worked on Super Soap Weekend for years. Great gig, but I didn’t watch the shows. Thank God for SOD. My mom bought me a subscription every year as one of my Christmas gifts.

can anyone point me to an article where it says no more physical issues? Everyone I read didn't say when they would cease

r108 read the Variety article linked in the original post of this thread.

Here's another article you can read r108

Pretty sure I still have this issue, somewhere. Kate Collins was my favorite soap actress ever.

here's an article that says SOD "AXED"

It didn't have to say "AXED" but ...that IS what SOD often said about fired actors.

r109 and r110

thank you, I meant the article didn't say WHEN they would cease ... I can't find where any article says that last week's issue was the last physical one

We still don’t know when the final physical issue will be nor if a weekly magazine will still be issued but only in digital form.

I know people age and everything but Romalotti looks like a mess to me. What a tragedy if this was the last cover. He always gave me creep/closet vibes. And hanging around the Corys didn't exactly dispel my dislike for him.

November shocker; there's actually one more weekly Digest coming out. Should be out now or by Monday

Floating head finales are Eric Forrester, Nicole Walker, Ned Quartermaine/Eddie Maine, and Ashley Abbott

insets of Darin Brooks and Greg Rikaart; it's got November sweeps; it went to bed before the axe fell so no final editor's note.

It's too bad they didn't get a final issue featuring classic covers, anniversary covers, a few Diva von Dish columns etc.

Isn't Michael Damian pushing 70?

Damian looks 75 to me. But he is closer to 60. He has been around Hollywood for years. I cannot imagine how he actually made a living all of these years off YR. Must be out screeching out his lousy music. It is also sad that Doug Davidson isn't even allowed on the YR studio and yet Damien wanders onto Lauralee Bells 40th anniversary episode..

I do not buy that Damian is only 61. I remember watching him on Y&R in 1983 when I was a young teenager and thinking he looked like he was older than his character.

R119 Agreed. LINK....He claims to be 19 on his first American Bandstand appearance. He shaved at least 5 years off his age.

Michael Damien said in his recent Locher Room session that he's been directing lots of Hallmark style movies.

In fact he directed Christmas Waltz which was the highest rated movie of the year on Hallmark Channel in 2020.

He recently finished a sequel movie, Paris Christmas Waltz, starring Jen Lily and Matthew Morrison. He directed that as well while his wife, Janeen, wrote the script.

Paris Christmas Waltz debuts on Nov. 19 on Great American Family Channel.

To bring it full circle the final cover should have been Love of Life or if they wanted to be cheeky, it should have been a plan to save Days cover.

R121 So Matthew Morrison isn't cancelled? Too bad.

R118, why was Doug Davidson given the boot from Y&R?

R124 Lauralee Bell is such a bitch........She claims she is friends with EVERYONE including Doug Davidson..But him returning (even for ONE episode) is "complicated".....Give me a fucking break....INTERVIEW EXCERPT.....

[bold]You mentioned that we’ll see Paul in flashbacks, but there will be nothing new with Doug Davidson?[/bold]

(Lauralee Bell) "There will be a couple of flashbacks with Paul. I talk with Doug every day. I always feel like it’s so hard to explain the situation to everybody. We are best buddies, and we talk all the time. I did tell him that nobody wants him back more than I do. It’s just complicated. There are a lot of factors involved."

R125 = Lauralee Bell is full of it when she says the situation is so "hard to explain" about Doug Davidson. It's actually not. It's that they CANNOT (or won't) explain it. He isn't there. WHY? Nobody believes she talks to Doug Davidson every day. You're both married. Why would you be talking to EX co-workers EVERY day? The more she talks the stupider she sounds.

Someone here will know this: in the 90s or 00s, there was a blind item in the SOD about some actor, fired for something that happened at a fan thing, I think in NYC. Alcohol was involved. Who was that, what happened? Did he whip it out or what?

Thanks R116. I guess it makes sense they might have one or two more in the pipeline.

I wish they'd gone to the year end to have the Best and Worst issue, but alas.

From the comments section of one of the linked articles upthread.

It reads like some comments in the DL Is CLOSING DOWN thread.

SOD was at its best and most interesting under Meredith Berlin. Yeah, she still did your basic puff features (Recipe: Philece Sampler's Summer Salmon Salad!), but she had a good critical eye and a sense of humor about the genre. It also helped that Michael Logan was a feature writer during that period and had some good dish in his columns.

When Berlin left for Seventeen and Lynn Leahey became the editor, I thought SOD lost its luster. Leahey was one of those "Calgon, Take Me Away!"-type soap fan and really dumbed down the magazine.

Meowch! That Logan article is fab.

Logan is such a cunt!

I LOVE it.

He was often very astute in his writing.

I was disappointed he went to TVGuide as he was a bit defanged there.

But some of those longer interviews he did before his recent retirement were great - he did a good one with Lisa Brown at the end of GL, and a phenomenal one with Jane Elliot when she retired from GH (aside from those occasional visits).

any see this week's issue?

R127, I think that was an actor on All My Children - James Fitzgerald. He played the character Pierce Riley. I remember reading he got fired for bad behavior at a fan event, but I don't remember any details (if the story was even true).

[quote] From the comments section of one of the linked articles upthread.

Which one?

R135 oh you're right! It was him

I remember James Fitzgerald was so hot but was a pretty bad actor. He played opposite Robin Mattson and the ugmo actress who played Laura at the time. They were an odd trio.

Ugmo! LOL

Can't find a decent photo of Fitzgerald from that role/time.

Fitzgerald's role of Pierce was one in a line of several pairings for AMC's Brooke that went south. They went through two recasts for him (including, for a short time, Maxwell Caulfield).

Then there was Jim, the character who was revealed to be a child pornographer. That was the one where Roscoe Born actually freaked out about his role midway through a scene and left the building. They got David Forsyth to fill in for him for the rest of the run.

ThEN there was Eliot who turned out to really be Josh the guy that ran over Brooke's daughter while drunk.

They really did Julia Barr WRONG for a few years there......

R127 here, thanks R135! Damn I miss those shows and my SODs. Didn't Michael Nader get fired too for drinking? Dmitri! My favorite was John Callahan though, what a beautiful man.

R141 Yes, Nader had drug issues. He was replaced by Anthony Addabbo, who was promising as a replacement at the start until he had Dimitri calling someone "dude" in dialogue and it sorta killed the vibe, I guess. Nader was briefly on the blink-and-you-missed-it AMC reboot.

John Callahan was a truly beautiful hairy beast in his prime.

Since we're talking about AMC....

Linc!! Oh how sad. Up in heaven with Phoebe and Langley. It was Linc and Kitty I think. Kitty stayed at Myrtle's, or maybe that was her twin who had talent but was hooked on pills.

I got my digital version today

[quote] He was replaced by Anthony Addabbo, who was promising as a replacement at the start until he had Dimitri calling someone "dude" in dialogue and it sorta killed the vibe,

The script writers did NOT have Dimitri calling someone "Dude."

That was the actor ad libbing. Granted, he was a temporary fill-in, but it clearly showed that Addabbo had no idea about the background of the character he was playing.

And yes, it pretty much destroyed the character the moment Addabbo said "Dude"

R146 yes, that's why I said HE and not the writers.

And yes, he was clueless. And now he's dead.....as is Nader.

[quote]I was disappointed he went to TVGuide as he was a bit defanged there.

Yeah, but at least he was able to let out his claws for his Worst of the Year column.

[quote]I wish they'd gone to the year end to have the Best and Worst issue, but alas.

It seems natural that the Best & Worst issue should be one of the four special issues they do. However, that would be a lot of "copy," and they would have to hire writers who actually watched all four soaps. Sadly, what they're likely to do is have some of their US Weekly and Closer staffers slap together a "Daytime's Greatest Love Stories" or "Most Romantic Soap Weddings" issue using the SOD archives.

The possible/probable final cover

I loved the cover with the "Bad Girls of Daytime" with Michelle Stafford, Maura West and Kassie De Paiva before Blair was declawed. They were all perfect super bitches at the time.

Why did they stupidity not spell out the fate of the magazine in their press release? Is it going to continue with digital copies or not?

VIDEO----->>Pierce meets Brooke. BONUS POINTS----->>Early Mark Ripa at the (4:10)....He looks like a stripper who landed a soap opera role.

R153- is it just me or is there palpable sexual tension between Pierce and Matteo in that scene? Get a room!

R152, they disabled the option to subscribe to the digital edition and posted, "Unfortunately, Soap Opera Digest is no longer being published as a weekly magazine, effective with the November 13th, 2023 issue."

All SOD subscribers will now receive Woman’s World until their subscriptions run out.

Ha Ha! That’s funny r156.

R24 You might want to check the success of "The Archers". There's money to be made.

I've never received anything from them saying SOD is canceled

How in the holy hell am I gonna keep up with all my stories?

They published their Best & Worst of 2023 on their nightmare of a website.

B&B entries.

Days.

General Hospital.

Young & The Restless.

And finally, The Devil Wears Lane Bryant's picks.

[quote] And you honestly want to go back to the days of faceless radio dramas?

Would that be so bad?

Oh the fat lady who always looked over her shoulder in her picture and still looked fat.

Ooooh look Someone has an opinion on the internet

So does everyone else

Yesterday, I finally got an email saying that the magazine has been canceled and my subscription was transferred to US weekly which I am not upset with

Inside Soap magazine (which is the UK equivalent) is still producing a print edition.

I'm not surprised, as there are still lots of older women who like buying weekly magazine with their supermarket shopping.

This was rather lovely. I watched the whole thing. There’s a lot of warmth between the three EICs over the years.

You’d never know that was the same place that produced the Jossip thread

Ahh, yes the Jossip thread.

Below is the link the infamous Jossip thread from August 2008.

For those not familiar with it, when Carolyn Hinsey was fired as editor of Soap Weekly and columnist for Soap Digest, there was a item about it on a little know site called Jossip. There, current and former employees of Soap Weekly and Soap Digest started sharing tales about what a bitch Carolyn was.

Then word got out further and many soap fans were reading the thread. Lots of juicy gossip there. Can't verify how accurate or truthful any of it is.

The Hinsey thread was a specific time and place but it was fucking GLORIOUS....before it just became a weird mess.

People started going off and making up shit and pretending to be real people that they were not.

I guess Alan didn't read it before doing the interview.

Alan certainly read it at the time.

But he wants the Locker Room to be a nice place, he didn’t memorize it during this show

^ mention it

I'm sure they said to him in advance don't bring it up. They sidestepped the issue of when they'd get scooped by websites and say we knew but we were sitting on it because the shows asked us to.

What does that even mean? It doesn't explain why SOD didn't tell the Albert Alarr story till after it was over.

[quote] People started going off and making up shit and pretending to be real people that they were not.

It was fun craziness for a bit and then just started to repeat itself.

I was Frank Valentini's Musky Overstuffed Jockstrap there.....that was my first time using that nickname, which I've used here since from time to time.

Someone did a schedule of a day in Carolyn's life that was one of the meanest, cruelest reads I've ever seen.

It was fabulous.

But really, after that, no more needed to be said.

I suppose Lynn and Stephanie are good actresses then.

It's one thing to run a dysfunctional outfit but now they know that everyone knows what it was like in there.

I'm bitterly jealous that Stephanie was blowing Tom Eplin while he was still hot.

Are there enough soap operas and soap actors along with an audience and readership to warrant a periodical or magazine in the year 2023? No.

WEHT Diva von Dish?

R184. He left the magazine in circa 93 or 94; they tried continuing it with someone who didn't have the same wit or flair.

The writer who wrote DVD died earlier this year after a battle with colon cancer.

thanks R185. I should have known DvD was a gay man!

he was part Addison DeWitt, part Maude Findlay; he had a scathing wit and a biting tongue. He said once that Stephanie Forrester looked like a filing cabinet in a sports coat. (Though I don't think that was ever printed.)

He did write that she was soaps' meanest character; someone who had the audacity to threaten to break a pregnant woman's arm (Brooke, of course). I think he wrote: "She threatened to break Brooke's arm like a twig. Steph, no twig herself..." ouch.

When a performer would be giving a particular tour de force, pulling out all the stops, he'd yell out into the office "Somebody's acting!"