After 54 YEARS- As The World Turns is cancelled

[underpants]

It's official. After speculations, rumors and false starts, CBS has officially decided that "As the World Turns" will go off air this September.

As with ATWT sister show GL and NBC's Passions, the newly canceled show is hoping to find a new home, but that's not likely to pan out, considering how Passions fumbled on Direct TV and GL couldn't manage to make it happen. Then again, one never knows…

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[Pool Hall Ace]

1. So the World is ending in 2010.

:scared:

[LynneSin]

9. And the Rapturests were telling us 2012 - what do they know?

:rofl:

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

2. I feel sorry for all the oldies who watched that show every single day

My Grandma watched her stories "Days of our Lives" and other soaps every single day. Her day revolved around them. Soaps are a dying breed. :cry:

[tigereye]

4. mine watched The Guiding Light...

[Pool Hall Ace]

5. Yeah, my mom watched "Days of our Lives" from its inception

until her death in 2001.

[Drunken Irishman]

20. My mom still watches General Hospital and All My Children.

[trof]

3. Jesus wept.

:evilgrin:

[Sheltiemama]

37. I'll tell you when Jesus wept.

About the time Reba was cloned. And then there were the endless weeks she time-traveled through a painting. I stopped watching it several years ago.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. OH NOES!

I used to watch "As The World Turns" with my mom way back in the Pleistocene era, beginning soon after we got our first TV.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

7. Wow. It began the year I was born

And I've never seen one single episode...

[Captain Hilts]

8. I just watched the first 7 episodes of "Dark Shadows" on DVD last night...nt

[mitchum]

14. Those are ones that feature Claus Von Bulow's mistress-to-be

[Captain Hilts]

18. I forgot about THAT connection! Tell me more. I know the outside of the house is a Newport

mansion. I used to live in Newport.

[mitchum]

22. I didn't know that!

Are you trying to tell me that there really isn't a Collins mansion? :)

[Captain Hilts]

23. Oops!

[raccoon]

10. Wonder how much longer Young & Restless will be around.

They've already cut the salaries of Victor Newman, Nikki Newman, Jill Abbott, and probably others as well.

[LynneSin]

12. Bold and the Beautiful will be around for awhile - that one is very popular overseas

I wouldn't be suprised if they expanded B&B to a full hour.

[Shell Beau]

17. I thought Victor was booted off. I wonder how because he basically

fathered everyone on the show. My aunt watches and she calls it Victor's Sperm.

[LynneSin]

19. the gene pool doesn't get very deep on soap operas

and then they age them so quickly that you end up having 40 something characters with the possiblity of great-great grandchildren.

[Shell Beau]

21. Yeah, but Victor is legendary. Kinda like Adam Chandler on AMC.

[LynneSin]

26. Or Brooke Logan on Bold and the Beautiful

You think of all the kids she has had and their connection. She's had 2 kids with Eric, Ridge (Who thought he was Eric's son), Jack (who is Ridge's brother and once her daughter's boyfriend), and Deacon (who was her daughter's boyfriend).

Scary.

[argyl]

27. Are any children planned on soaps? The one night stand with bad boy/girl=baby

seems to be a real storyline staple.

[raccoon]

32. No, and on soaps, every time a couple has sex the woman gets pregnant.

APparently, they are (1) amazingly fertile, (2) never use birth control.

[Sheltiemama]

35. Especially if cheating is involved.

Cheating has a 100 percent birthrate.

[raccoon]

31. He was going to be, but then he & the producers reached an agreement about his salary. nt

[LynneSin]

11. I use to love "As the World Turns" - watched it all the time

I just couldn't commit to taping it regularly.

I hope Lily and Holden have a happily ever after.

And ATWT tackled some great topics along with having a great supercouple with Luke & Noah. I hope those 2 live happily ever after too!

[blogslut]

13. Awww, that's sad

That was my mom's favorite soap. By Nancy and Bob and Lisa and the rest. You are part of my youth.

[WolverineDG]

15. I watched that one when I was little

so far back, that I remember (barely) Lisa being married to Bob.

dg

[blogslut]

24. One of my first memories

Bob and Lisa and how Nancy was so worried about them. :hi:

[WolverineDG]

25. Do you remember when Bob got shot??

:hi:

Dad always said he hated soaps, but Mom always replied "Well then, why DO you come home for lunch?" (this was when ATWT was on at noon) :rofl:

dg

[Lydia Leftcoast]

29. Hell, I remember when Ellen got pregnant out of wedlock

I was about 8 years old and couldn't figure out how that could happen. I do know that the local moms considered it a shocking plot line.

[WolverineDG]

30. amazing, huh?

I vaguely remember something like that because I got the impression that it was illegal for married people to have a baby unless they had been married at least one year. :crazy: Funny things little kids think up.....

dg

[Shell Beau]

16. Wow. I am kinda shocked. Never watched it, but that is a long time.

[TK421]

28. thank the maker n/t

[Bombero1956]

33. who needs daytime soaps

when we have nighttime soaps now. Plus we have nighttime wrestling which is sweaty soaps for men.

[susanr516]

34. Wow--

My mother used to iron the clothes in the living room so she could watch ATWT. I liked The Edge of Night and General Hospital better.

[MrsMatt]

36. That's sad - I have a friend who crews

on the show. Looks like he's out of a job.

ATWT was my mother's favorite of all the "stories".