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4/14/11

DEATH OF AN ERA....

WOW, I MUST SAY I N.E.V.E.R. THOUGHT I'D SEE THIS DAY...


ABC cancels 'One Life to Live,' 'All My Children'

Susan Lucci

Susan Lucci


ABC announced Thursday that it will cancel venerable daytime dramas "One Life to Live" and "All My Children," leaving only four English-language soap operas on the air.


ABC described the move as an evolution, and it simultaneously announced two new lifestyle shows, "The Chew" and "The Revolution."
The cancellations add to the huge change coming to ABC-owned and -operated stations, with Oprah Winfrey's long-running syndicated series set to sign off May 25.
"While we are excited about our new shows and the shift in our business, I can't help but recognize how bittersweet the change is," said Brian Frons, the president of daytime for Disney ABC/Television Group. "We are taking this bold step to expand our business because viewers are looking for different types of programming these days."
The network promised in a news release to "conclude each series in a manner that respects their legacies and the longstanding hopes of many of their viewers."
Both "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" were created more than four decades ago by Agnes Nixon.
"All My Children," set in fictional Pine Valley, a town that closely resembles the Philadelphia Main Line, premiered on ABC on Jan. 5, 1970, as a half-hour show; seven years later it expanded to an hour. Star Susan Lucci was nominated for a Daytime Emmy 18 times before finally winning for Outstanding Lead Actress in 1999.
"One Life to Live," set in the fictional town of Llanview, which is modeled on a Philadelphia suburb, debuted July 15, 1968, as a half-hour show and became an hourlong in 1978.
"All My Children" won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama Series in 1992, 1994 and 1998. It has received more than 30 Emmy Awards in all, and has taken on such social issues as AIDS, abortion, cochlear implants, teenage alcoholism, racial bias, acquaintance rape, spousal abuse, homosexuality, Reyes syndrome, Vietnam MIAs and more. The show aired daytime's first same-sex kiss between two lesbian characters, as well as its first same-sex wedding between two women.
"One Life to Live" won the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Drama Series in 2002. Its daytime firsts include stories of interracial romance, illiteracy, medical misdiagnosis, racial prejudice, gang violence and teen pregnancy.
Among its most celebrated story lines was one in 1992 about a gay teen (the then-unknown Ryan Phillippe) that culminated with the display of the Names Project AIDS Memorial Quilt. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation named it Outstanding Daytime Drama in 1993, 2005 and 2010.


BECAUSE OF MY WORK SCHEDULES THE  PAST FEW YEARS, I HAVEN'T KEPT UP WITH THE *SOAPS* LIKE I USE TO.

BUT I PRETTY MUCH GREW UP WITH THEM,
ESPECIALLY SUSAN LUCCI.

AND FOR ALL OF YOU WHO WATCHED THEM FAITHFULLY, THIS IS LIKE LOSING A PART OF YOURSELF.

MAYBE I SHOULD TRY TO SEE THE LAST EPISODE. I HOPE THEY GO OUT IN STYLE AND DIGNITY.

I ALWAYS SAID WHEN YOU THINK THINGS ARE BAD, JUST WATCH THE SOAP OPERAS......

NOW WHAT WILL WE DO?










See ya Yesterday...One Tomorrow at a Time...

6 comments:

Viki said...

I was shocked when I heard this today. I watched AMC but not from the very beginning. When they took off my other soap AW, I stopped watching all the soap operas.

Jules said...

I was feeling the same way when CBS canceled "Guiding Light" and then "As the World Turns". Like you, I grew up watching these shows. I am glad that "The Young & The Restless" is still going strong. We have a cable channel called SoapNET and I wish these clowns would get their act together and put all of the soaps on their. I like that I can catch Y & R if I miss it during the day, but I think it would have been a great help to have all of them and maybe not cancel them. Oh well. The world is changing!

My Grama's Soul said...

Hello Jake....I was a working woman most of my adult life...so was unable to watch the soaps on a regular basis...but when I did it was always Susan Lucci. I couldn't believe much angst could happen on a regular basis. LOL LOL

They will be missed...ah "out with the old...in with the New".

Xo

Jo

My Grama's Soul said...

Hello Jake....I was a working woman most of my adult life...so was unable to watch the soaps on a regular basis...but when I did it was always Susan Lucci. I couldn't believe much angst could happen on a regular basis. LOL LOL

They will be missed...ah "out with the old...in with the New".

Xo

Jo

Busy Bee Suz said...

This is kind of sad...right?
The end of an era? Soaps are kind of cult like. I grew up watching As the World turns with my Grandma. I gave them up about 15 years ago though.
((hugs))

CATIZ4PawPaw said...

REAL BIG BUMMER!!!!!!I don't know how many times you can die and come back as your sisters', sister-in-law's lost neice's evil twin!
I've worked for the last 40+ years, and they didn't have DVR or a VCR for that matter to watch the episode later. Of course, you could miss an entire decade and go back and probably catch right up.

Oh the only Soap Opera I watched was "Soap" with Billy Crystal, who played a gay housekeeper. I loved his accent and loved the line when answered Jess with "jes jess". Funny.

Well, hope all the people who relied on the daytime shows can find something else to do.

I understand, Judge Judy, Judge Joe and Judge Alex, etc. are entertaining. Although, I worry about our country after seeing the people who appear on the court shows. If these people are representatives of our society, we are in big trouble.