SHOCKER: Tim Gunn Reveals Decision to Cancel The Revolution Was Made 10 Days After Show's Premiere!
By Jamey Giddens on September 25, 2012
While ABC didn't make the decision to cancel One Life to Live's low-rated replacement The Revolution until April 2012, according to one of the co-hosts, the actual decision to gut the series happened just 10 days in! Fashionisto Tim Gunn reportedly made this shocking claim during a talk at the University of Central Arkansas on Monday night.
While ABC didn't make the decision to cancel One Life to Live's low-rated replacement The Revolution until April 2012, according to one of the co-hosts, the actual decision to gut the series happened just 10 days in! Fashionisto Tim Gunn reportedly made this shocking claim during a talk at the University of Central Arkansas on Monday night.
While promoting his new book Tim Gunn's Fashion Bible, the style icon was asked about the now-defunct daytime series. He allegedly shared that ABC knew The Revolution was dead after only 10 shows, however The Mouse House didn't tell the co-hosts because they "didn't want to hurt morale". Would that they had only been half as concerned with the morale of the men and women who had worked on gutted daytime soaps One Life to Live and All My Children for generations — not to mention those soaps' legions of diehard fans.
"It just killed me to hear that One Life to Live was cancelled for a TV show that was already done-for two weeks after it debuted," said Michelle Mills, an Arkansas resident who went to hear Gunn speak.
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28 October 2008
16 hours 35 min
and how does Gunn know this? Sounds highly unlikely.
25 July 2012
6 hours 31 min
One would safely assume that TPTB at ABC told them AFTER their last episode aired that the show was actually DOA 10 days in. That would be the only explanation!
22 April 2009
2 weeks 1 day
Suprised Tim would even know about this total agree nysam vey unlikely. Glad the show is gone it was awful from what I heard. Have never watched any of ABC daytime talk shows soaps all the way!!!
12 February 2010
3 days 17 hours
Tim Gunn is an arrogant, obnoxious twit. He'll say or do anything to try to save face. All pretense. No substance.
29 March 2010
8 hours 17 min
This just makes me more upset to know that OLTL is no longer on the air
17 June 2009
1 day 15 hours
LOL!!
12 February 2010
3 days 17 hours
The-_Moustache--
You are on here acting up.........I love it.
12 February 2008
12 hours 15 min
Bullshit. ABC knew from conception. They just wanted OLTL off the air to save cash for Katie's $80 million dollar turd.
6 June 2011
6 days 5 hours
I agree the hosts were probably told after their cancellation was announced. I think Tim and Ty are both good guys who got caught up in something bigger than them. I won't hold it against either one of them. Especially if Tim is talking openly about it.
And like others, it just disgusts me that One Life To Live was cancelled for current and past drivel. AMC and OLTL and the entire soap genre deserves better.
Yeah, and where was all this concern for those at the other cancelled shows? Nowhere!
28 June 2012
1 hour 56 min
I like Tim and he's great on Project Runway. He doesn't strike me as the type to lie about this, so it's probably true. With the ratings so bad, I think we ALL knew it was done after two weeks. (10 episodes)
2 October 2009
1 day 16 hours
And like others, it just disgusts me that One Life To Live was cancelled for current and past drivel. AMC and OLTL and the entire soap genre deserves better.
Yeah, and where was all this concern for those at the other cancelled shows? Nowhere!
I totally agree with you on this matter, CTwildheart. I will not hold it against Tim; both he & Ty are good guys!
Brian :
2 October 2009
1 day 16 hours
I totally agree with you on this matter, CTwildheart. I will not hold it against Tim; both he & Ty are good guys!
Brian
18 July 2012
2 days 9 hours
I agree...but I think everyone knew before the 1st show even aired that this crap-fest wasn't going to make it. (And I don't think Tim would make this up.)