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Thanksgiving Soap Opera Pre-Emption Schedule!

Monday, November 24 2008


Days will be on Friday! (NBC)
While you're enjoying the upcoming holiday some of your favorite soaps will be taking time off too! This year's holiday preemption schedule will go as follows…

On Thursday, Thanksgiving Day, November 27:

ABC will show encores of its soaps. All My Children will relive the tornado storyline, General Hospital will revisit Sonny (Maurice Benard) and Kate's (Megan Ward) wedding, and One Life to Live fans will get to see Gigi (Farah Fath) and Rex (John-Paul Lavoisier) make love for the first time.

CBS soaps, including As The World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, and Guiding Light will not be seen due to a CBS Sports Programming special. The Young and the Restless will show a classic episode at 12:30 PM EST and 3:00 PM Pacific.

Days of Our Lives will be preempted on NBC, as the network airs the "National Dog Show."

On Friday November 28:

All ABC soaps will be pre-empted today due to College Football.

CBS soaps, including As The World Turns and The Bold and the Beautiful again will not be seen due to a CBS Sports Programming special. Guiding Light will air a repeat at 1:30 PM EST, and The Young and the Restless will air a classic episode at 12:30 PM EST.

NBC will air a new episode of Days of Our Lives today!

Note: For all Canadian viewers, The Young and the Restless classic episodes will air on Wednesday November 26 and Thursday November 27.

Come Monday December 1, all soaps will resume at their normal times. Soaps.com hopes that all of our readers have a wonderful holiday! For those who still want their soapy fix during this time, we invite you to chat it up with others on our Message Boards over some leftover turkey and watch a video clip, or two, of some past epsiodes in our Daily Updates sections.