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GUILDING LIGHT CANCELED AFTER 72 YEARS

Later editions to that story are reporting that the producers of Guiding Light are looking for places to take the show. It may not be dead yet, it may find itself on a cable channel continuing along.
 
Guiding Light also helped launch the career of Disney actress Christy Romano(Even Stevens, Kim Possible)
 
Really no surprise, although it would have been nice
to see "GL" make it to 75. P&G has been losing money
on it and "As The World Turns" for years, and let's face
it, the soap audience in general just isn't there anymore.
And just my opinion, but the show hasn't been worth
watching in years; the last straw, in my book, was the
departure of Beth Ehlers (Harley) for "All My Children";
someone said at the time that she was "deserting a
sinking ship."

Maybe the 101 Network can pick it up, as it did "Passions."

What do you think CBS will do? Give 3 PM (or 10 AM) back
to the affiliates, expand "Bold And The Beautiful" to an hour,
or what?
 
Saw in USA Today that P&G may try to move "GL"
to SoapNet, which is doing more original programming;
if that falls through, some "GL" characters may be merged
into "As The World Turns." The article goes on to say that
CBS will probably put a game or talk show in "GL"'s timeslot.

But five long-running soaps (including "GL") have been canceled
over the past 20 years: "Ryan's Hope" and "Loving" (ABC), and
"Another World" and "Passions" (NBC); "Passions" did run an
additional year on The 101.

I have to admit that, although I knew the cancellation was coming,
it's still hard to imagine daytime without "GL"; there has never been
a time in my life when it wasn't on; there's hardly been a time in my
dad's life when it wasn't on, since he was four years old when it
started on radio. But we will survive and get used to it, just as we
did when classics like "Edge Of Night" and "Search For Tomorrow"
left us.
 
Sad to see The Guiding Light go off after 72 years, first on radio and then TV.

I would imagine that Bold And The Beautiful will definitely go to an hour and would move to 11:00 AM Central and move Young And The Restless to 10:00 AM Central and Price Is Right to 9:00 AM Central and giving the Noon Central hour back to affiliates.

This would be interesting to see if KENS - Channel 5 in San Antonio will go to an hour Noon newscast starting in September when Guiding Light leaves the air since KSAT - Channel 12 also has its own hour newscast at Noon and I would imagine that the 2:00 PM Central Hour will also go back to the affiliates.
 
You have to wonder how much longer Soap Opera Digest can keep hanging out at the checkout stand?
 
"Good, the more "dope operas" cancelled, the better."

What would you Yekimi want to see replace these shows if they all get cancelled?

Unfortunately, daytime is now littered with talk shows and court shows that are far dumber than the worst soap operas.

While daytime soaps have been full of cliches and have many times had impossible plots, there have also been many groundbreaking subjects first dealt with in dramatic form in daytime. The acting on many soaps have been top notch for years.

The same can't be said for the endless court shows and Maury/Jerry Springer talk programs.
 
There is speculation that CBS might go with another revival of "The $25,000 Pyramid" in the slot. Hopefully CBS will think clearly and not bring on another god-awful talk or court show, but I don't expect them to hand the slot back to the affiliates. That said, it's sad (though unsurprising) to see an iconic program in the history of television go away after such a long run.
 
RALfan said:
There is speculation that CBS might go with another revival of "The $25,000 Pyramid" in the slot. Hopefully CBS will think clearly and not bring on another god-awful talk or court show...
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...as long as Pyramid is nothing like the syndicated "Donnymid" a few years back.
 
I'd like to see CBS bring back Pyramid and another one of their classic game shows like Password, Press Your Luck, or Card Sharks. Match Game is my all time favorite, but I don't think that there will ever be another version as great as the one from the 70's. I think that would work best in the mornings rather than the afternoon. I'd be afraid though that local stations might not be willing to give up the 10 AM ET hour, since too many local stations not showing CBS's programming at that time in the past is why they gave it up.

I could tolerate a talk show similar to Regis and Kelly, but nothing of the Oprah/Dr. Phil vein, and definitely not any trash talk like Springer. That would probably be better in the afternoon. I definitely don't want to see CBS give any more time back to local stations though, because it would just be more trash talk, courtroom shows, or infomercials.  :-\
 
classictvfan said:
Guiding Light also helped launch the career of Disney actress Christy Romano(Even Stevens, Kim Possible)
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And Brittany Snow (American Dreams, Hairspray, Prom Night, and the possible new "Gossip Girl" spinoff)
 
anotherguy said:
I could tolerate a talk show similar to Regis and Kelly, but nothing of the Oprah/Dr. Phil vein, and definitely not any trash talk like Springer. That would probably be better in the afternoon. I definitely don't want to see CBS give any more time back to local stations though, because it would just be more trash talk, courtroom shows, or infomercials. :-\
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I wouldn't worry about CBS or anyone else for that matter giving us another Springer or Maury, they would have to be foolish to even try.

If ( and I hope not BTW ) there is another "Dr. Phil/Oprah" style show on the horizon..ah here comes the National Enquier...whoever will be the host will be in a merry-go-round of gossip. Seems every week one of those rags ( mainly the National Enquier ) does some story about the "feud" between Oprah and the McGraws ( Phil, his wife Robin and his son Jay ).
 
According to Soap Opera Digest, "As The World
Turns" may be next. CBS has renewed the second-
oldest soap for a year with an option for another year
after that, but has given notice that if "ATWT"'s ratings
don't pick up this next year, Oakdale will join Springfield
in the mists of memory in 2010.

An unnamed "GL" staff member lamented the fact that
the cancellation of that show and the possible cancellation
of "ATWT" are blows to New York actors, who don't get
a lot of options anyway. Consider: if "ATWT" goes, there
are only two soaps left in New York, both on ABC: "All My
Children" and "One Life To Live." Not many opportunites,
are there?
 
Latest rumor is that P&G may move GL to Lifetime
when its CBS run ends, with ATWT also moving
there if and when CBS pulls the plug on it.
 
Don't know how accurate this is, since I saw it on
Wikipedia, but supposedly GL is moving to YouTube
on September 21. Will they be new episodes or
reruns? Stay tuned.
 
This week's "Soap Opera Weekly" seems to have
squashed any reports that Procter & Gamble (or
whoever produces "GL" and "ATWT") is in negotiations
with Lifetime or Oxygen to pick up "GL." According to
a spokesperson, "GL has about a 1% chance of staying
on the air past September."

Given the fact that P&G moved "Edge Of Night" from
CBS to ABC in the '70s, and "Search For Tomorrow"
from CBS to NBC in the '80s, the lack of interest in a
new home for "GL" may just be indicative of the waning
interest in daytime soaps. But that's just my opinion.

However, it doesn't look to me as if "All My Children" is
in danger of cancellation, as someone mentioned either
here or on the National TV board; it consistently ranks about fourth
(behind "Y&R," "B&B," and "GH," none of which are candidates
for cancellation).

I think we need a reality check: "GL" was canceled three times
on radio and was brought back each time "by popular demand."
(The third cancellation caused the move from NBC to CBS in 1947.)
No such reprieve seems in the works this time.
 
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