Our special "The Year of the Soap" series continues below with Part 2. Read Part 1 here.SPRING
DARK SHADOWS was a pop culture phenomenon when it ran on ABC Daytime from 1966 to 1971, spawning movies, comic books, a primetime remake several years later and even (in part) inspiring Ryan Murphy to create AMERICAN HORROR STORY. Now, a new, big-budget film version of the show, directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp as the vampire Barnabas Collins, is scheduled to be released on May 11, 2012.
Monday night’s two-hour conclusion of LA FUERZA DEL DESTINO (“The Power of Destiny”) reached nearly 8 million viewers who tuned in to all or part of the broadcast. The finale, followed by a special episode of DON FRANCISCO PRESENTA, which delivered an average audience of over 3.6 million viewers, led the Univision Network to a first place finish among all broadcast networks, regardless of language on Monday night across all key demographics. The hit novela’s finale delivered an average audience of 6.2 million Total Viewers 2+, 3.4 million Adults 18-49, 1.9 million Women 18-49, 1.6 million Men 18-49, 2.0 million Adults 18-34, 1.0 million Women 18-34 and 963,000 Men 18-34.