I was just looking at WLS's website. Believe it or not, "The Chew"
is indeed the name of the show that's replacing "All My Children." Think
a mini-Food Network (an hour a day). "The Revolution" is the working
title for the show that's going to replace "One Life To Live." It's more
a lifestyle/fitness/makeover thing (as if "The Biggest Loser" isn't enough).
"The Chew" is scheduled to debut in September; "The Revolution," in
January.
I'm wondering if ABC will do a straight replacement of the two soaps and
air these new ones in the 1-3 (ET) slot, or move "GH" to 1 PM (ET) (which,
BTW, was its original slot back in '63), then go with the new shows from 2-4
(meaning "The Chew" possibly goes up against "The Talk").
As far as soaps in general go, I don't know that any of them has had a "don't
call me while my show's on" storyline in years. But to the person who said that
if "AMC" and "OLTL" had given the fans what they wanted, let me say, as a
"Guiding Light" fan for several years, that you're on-point. "GL" wrote out or
put on the back burner so many of my favorite characters that I gave up on it,
and while I haven't watched "AMC" or "OLTL" in years, I suspect something similar
happened to them.
At any rate, it's eventually going to come down to the two Bell shows as the last
remaining soaps, and as homerjay said, when "Y&R" goes, the soap era will have truly
ended.