'All My Children,' 'One Life to Live' canceled

[Viva_La_Revolution]

Source: cnn

ABC has announced that the network is “evolving” its daytime offerings by canceling “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” and making room for two new shows.

The two longtime staples of afternoon TV-viewing will conclude in September 2011, and January 2012, respectively.



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[ixion]

1. Used to watch All my kids in college in the 80's, I'm ashamed to admit

fortunately I got over them. :)

[joeybee12]

2. Wow, even if you're not a soap fan, this is the end of an era...

these two ruled daytime for quite some time...the afternoon serial just isn't the money-maker it used to be.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. I waffled about posting it.. but I came to the same conclusion. eom

[aquart]

12. Well, I am a soap fan.

And this is a bad day.

[leftynyc]

16. Me too

I got started back in 8th grade before cable tv, vcrs and dvds. I had mono and my choices were soaps or game shows. I chose the soaps and have been an on and off watcher ever since. This breaks my heart.

[alp227]

30. what about PBS?

for example while my local stations show the soaps my local PBS shows Charlie Rose, cooking shows, Tavis Smiley, a BBC newscast, and the PBS NewsHour live from Washington (formerly the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer).

[JI7]

8. but the quality of the shows went down also , i would be ok if they actually

put into these shows what they use to and then if they still didn't get the ratings i can understand.

but to me it seems like they ruined the shows .

AMC became way too much about Ryan.

[aquart]

13. Brian Frons' extended midlife crisis.

The shows became all about the MEN.

[leftynyc]

22. It still has the most loyal fans on TV

They just want to save money and put on more talk show crap.

[Dulcinea]

28. We have a winner! *ding*ding*

Most probably soaps will be replaced by reality shows, which are much cheaper to produce.

[Raschel]

33. I think they could make some big money by rerunning the shows from the beginning.

I'd watch it! And Susan Lucci is still stunning btw.

[ladywnch]

38. grew up watching these shows with my grandmother

fond memories...... She talked about listening to Guiding Light, Search for Tomorrow, Secret Storm all on radio back in the day....... funny thing is, she's still here (at the tender age of 96).... they're going the way of the dodo.

[AngryOldDem]

3. This was rumored about AMC.

News to me, though, about OLTL.

Susan Lucci was on Good Morning America a couple of weeks back and said that the show had just gotten a vote of confidence from ABC execs. Kiss of death, right there.

Soap operas are reaching the end of their road. Another pop culture icon dead.

I kind of watched AMC during summer breaks, but my dad was a fanatic. Never missed it after he retired.

[R Merm]

5. If this was posted 13 days ago, I would have thought it was a joke

[BeyondGeography]

6. My deceased grandmother would be very upset

But I guess that's part of the problem.

[JI7]

7. This makes me SAd and Angry

Brian Frons who is in charge of Daytime at ABC is the one who should have been fired long time ago. he ruined these shows with his stupid focus groups . i think he wanted the shows to be cancelled .

i'm tired of reality shows and talk shows. i hope the replacement shows fail. i hope abc fails.

[aquart]

9. Good Lord. It's even reached DU.

Seems the Mouse wants cheap non-union daytime. Every job lost on those shows is a union job.

[Sherman A1]

20. Yes, those are a bunch of Union jobs & paychecks

gone. While not a soap fan at all, I do feel for those losing jobs and there are a whole lot of folks who will be affected. That should not be taken lightly by anyone.

[Myrina]

10. AMC has sucked for at least 5 years anyway ...

.... how many times can the tired old storylines of "Erica and Jack", "Ryan and Greenlee", who's buying who's company, who's secretly boinking who, who's wife just went nuts, who's back from the dead and who's got a twin be recycled?

:puke:

[alp227]

11. and I don't care, soap operas are obsolete, primetime is better n/t

[aquart]

14. That's what I like, useful, helpful commentary.

[alp227]

21. in the old days the networks even had reruns of primetime during the daytime

for example in 1976 All in the Family reruns followed Guiding Light, and ABC had sitcom reruns before the soaps, and all the networks had more game shows; that was 30 or so years before the wave of talk shows and syndicated stuff

and of course targeting a daytime non-nine to five working audience that's why the soap operas aren't written/produced with such high quality

[guruoo]

18. When I gave up TV 6 years ago, primetime had already become little more than soap and mirrors

[Geoff R. Casavant]

15. Makes sense -- why keep trying to come up with outrageous plots

when you can watch something even more outrageous and surreal on the latest reality TV?

[aquart]

17. I guess, just a guess, you don't actually watch soaps.

[Geoff R. Casavant]

24. Yeah, guilty as charged.

I caught the odd episode of Search for Tomorrow and The Young and the Restless when my grandmother was alive, but these days my experience with soaps is just what The Soup excerpts each week.

[JI7]

19. Soap operas don't have to be outrageous, the best stories have been people

dealing with things people deal with everyday like losing loved ones, disease, race issues, gay rights etc.

in fact the soaps went down with less of the above and more outrageous bs.

[madrchsod]

23. i watched the first episode of all my children....

that was a long time ago!

[Dawson Leery]

25. To be replaced by "Reality" TV.

:eyes:

This is a move to maximize profit by minimizing quality.

[tanyev]

26. Can a Bristol Palin talk show be far behind?

[RebelOne]

27. No problem here. Never watched soaps anyway. n/t

[travelingtypist]

29. And the one that deserves to be canceled is the Moobster slag fest GH.

Sad, sad, sad.

[no_hypocrisy]

31. AMC was a phenomenon at my college.

1977. Dr. Chuck Tyler finally let former teen call girl, Donna Beck, how he felt about her. All through the hallways on all the floors, you heard a unison scream of "Chuck kissed Donna!"

You won't see THAT happen again b/c of a TV show.

[Raschel]

32. There weren't many channels and more people watched the same shows.

It kind of connected everyone and was fun.

Now there are so many choices that we don't have the same shows in common as much.

Those were the days!

[Biker13]

42. no_hypocrisy!

Were we at school together?! My friends and I actually scheduled our classes around AMC, and this was at Vassar!

I remember Donna and Chuck, and later Chuck and Nina. What a wedding! I stopped watching YEARS ago, but just last week, I checked in for the hell of it. Imagine my surprise, Erica and Jack, still fighting away, and Ryan still as annoying as ever!

For me, it's the end of a cherished memory. Now I feel OLD!!

Biker's Old Lady

[no_hypocrisy]

45. Very very close in demographics to Vassar. I went to Sweet Briar.

And yes, you'd hear re-caps of the daily episodes at meals. You discussed Erica, Mary (poor Mary!), Nick, Phoebe, etc. like they were people you knew.

[athenasatanjesus]

34. Here's a link to the greatest Soap ever!

http://www.hulu.com/soap

[in_cog_ni_to]

35. Amazing. Though I haven't watched soaps since the Luke and Laura days....

these shows have been on the air forever!

[JVS]

36. Jesus. They are going to have a fucking HUGE DVD boxed set!

[madamesilverspurs]

37. Gasp!

Anyone else remember scheduling college classes so you wouldn't have to miss Phil and Tara? Aw, heck, we did the same for Barnabas and Angelique. . .


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[JVS]

39. I'm surprised they don't just make the show shorter. 5 hours a week is a lot of time to expect...

a viewer to set aside for a daily program.

[center rising]

40. AMC was on the air for 40+ years

It's run its course. The ratings sucked, the story lines sucked, and now Brian Frons sucks!!!

[JI7]

43. Brian Frons is the one who destroyed the show , he wanted to cancel it

so he can bring in some reality show crap.

just look at how he brought in the writing team that was at Guiding light when it got cancelled and that same team moved to as the world turns and got that cancelled.

so he hires that same shitty ass writing team.

Frons is the one who should have been gone years ago.

but as always the top execs never go for their failures. and now a bunch of union jobs (not just actors) will be gone.

[trackfan]

41. I watched the very first episode of OLTL.

Makes me feel old.

[DemocratAholic]

44. this is rather sad statement

Love them or hate them, the truth is that soap operas have had the most ground breaking story lines on television. Stories about abortion, inter-racial relationships, gay people, teen pregnancy, rape, alcoholism, drug abuse...

before it was on prime-time television...it was on a soap opera.

I used to watch both of these soaps back in their heyday, and they were very good. Yes, they were low-budget, the sets looked fake, but the writing was often fantastic and with some very fine actors to go along with it.

The reason that this is important, even if you don't particularly care for this kind of tv show, is that it represents what has become of network television. Let's remember, these are the public airways. ABC is canceling these soap operas (and I will admit the quality of these shows has declined dramatically over the years) because they can make more money producing a cheap talk show, even with far less viewers. It's all about the profit.

It seems to me that there was almost an effort to make these shows as bad as possible, just so no one would complain when they did get canceled. I don't believe that people are not interested in watching soaps, but I do believe people are not interested in watching soaps with poor writing, uninteresting story lines, and low production value. If they invested as much effort in these programs as they did with their Disney Channel shows, I assure you they would still be quite successful. But they are not going to be able to sell soaps on DVD, or make a movie...or all the other ways they have figured out to make money with Disney Channel shows.

This is what happens when one company controls so much of the media. Network television is not really that important to them anymore. But these are the FREE airways. We have no choice but to pay for cable television because network television and what is on the public airway is so bad it is unwatchable. I'm paying 100 dollars a month for cable in hopes that there will be 1 channel out of 100 that is offering something I want to watch.

[Ratty]

46. They should go the "Dark Shadows" route

Started as a plain, gothic soap opera. If you watch the DVDs the entire first year is just a plain soap opera about a young governess who goes to work at a gloomy New England mansion. Ratings started to tank so they thought, Hey, let's add a vampire. The rest is history.

I mean, wouldn't it be cool?: Erica Kane: undead and jonesing for braaaaains.

[Iggo]

47. Used to watch Todos Mis Kiddos way back in the 'Love In The Afternoon' days.

I liked General Hospital better, though. That whole Luke and Laura thing was the shit.

[mackerel]

48. I've watched a few soap operas here and there over the years.

I've always been more into comedies. Either way it's an end-of-era. Long overdue.

[GomezLives]

49. I dont often watch them but I like to know they're there.