All My Children And One Life To Live: Canceled

25 Comments

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   2muchbravo
   Posted April 14, 2011 at 3:45 pm

   I read our own dear Beaker, Carla Hall, will be on The Chew.
   I’m sorry what a stupid title. Don’t watch the soaps but from the comments that I’ve seen they may have shot themselves in the foot.

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   jersey4041
   Posted April 14, 2011 at 5:18 pm

   As a dedicated General Hospital fan and someone who has watched most soaps at some point in my life I have to say this was dumb. Soap fans are VERY dedicated. I’ve seen how these people behave. They are ruthless. I don’t doubt that people will be FLYING to ABC studios to picket this decision. These people spend 100 or even 1000′s of dollars on soap events each year. It can cost anywhere from 75-100 for a meet and greet and Super Soap Weekend was nothing to sneeze at. People flew to Florida from all over, spent the money to get into disney parks… General Hospital’s fan event is $1,000′s of dollars for the weekend. Soap fans are super dedicated because the soap actor is much more approachable/interactive/(I can’t think of my word).. I can’t tell you how many of them will actually respond to your tweets, follow you and an have conversations with you. I’ve personally never been to any soap event other than the daytime Emmy’s but some of my friends are super fans and they actually have developed relationships with their favorites from the shows.

   I’ve gone on enough… All I can say is people are devastated. I know it might be stupid to some but these soaps are just part of some people’s lives. They can’t imagine a TV without them. I think it was a bad call by ABC. I think the guy is charge is an idiot. Hopefully he’ll get the boot when all of this goes down, unfortunately the shows won’t be there.

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   cattyfan
   Posted April 14, 2011 at 5:55 pm

   The two shows together represent more than 84 years of television. But ABC put Brian Frons in charge of daytime ten years back. He, by his own admission, dislikes soap operas, and has been working to get rid of them for years. He has fired stars, cut budgets, and forced unpopular storyline changes to ensure he could get his way.

   It’s a sad day for television.

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   jersey4041
   Posted April 14, 2011 at 6:11 pm

   I had no idea he admitted that. I just don’t know what it takes to get rid of someone. Why would you single-handedly destroy an institution? I like Carla as much as the next Top Chef viewer and I’m a fan of What Not To Wear but why would I want to watch a Top Chef NON-winner (I don’t want to call her a loser, feels too harsh) and the stylist who works with the girl in those shampoo commercials with the gray streak (because I don’t think most people know his name is Clinton Kelly).

   The thing that disgusts me the most is his insistence that people want more ‘View-like’ shows.. and “The View” this and “The View” that… The View works because people associate it with Barbara Walters, a respected journalist not “oh such fine programming ABC daytime has”… I really hope people who say they will boycott ABC daytime (with the exception of GH) will do what they can…or hopefully someone can pick up these shows. I’m not sure how that would work though.

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   PlathAddict
   Posted April 14, 2011 at 10:38 pm

   I’m saddened by this. Soaps were the constant in my childhood. I would always know what time it was by whatever soap the grown folks were watching. It’s strange to think that something that has been on television my entire childhood and adulthood up to this point, was just cut out as a line item.
   I never would have got into reality shows or even talk shows if the soaps weren’t there first.

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   Snootchy Bootches
   Posted April 15, 2011 at 2:58 am

   I grew up with Young and the Restless, One Life to Live, General Hospital and, later, Bold and the Beautiful. I don’t watch them anymore, but it is sad to see such institutions go away after so much time.

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   crazy rooster
   Posted April 15, 2011 at 4:24 am

   The Chew sounds like a dog’s toy. gross.

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   classy drunk
   Posted April 15, 2011 at 4:26 am

   I know the day is coming but when they cancel Young and the Restless I may have to finally take my meds. Victor and my friends in Genoa City keep me sane. Seriously, I have watched the stories (what my grandma calls them) every day since I was at least 13. I would even schedule my college classes around Y&R and B&B

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   jojo
   Posted April 15, 2011 at 4:45 am

   I used to schedule my college classes around AMC. This is a sad day.

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    cattyfan
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 5:18 am

    The Chew sounds more like a tobacco product to me.

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    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 5:55 am

    My mom watched all those shows. General Hospital was always on every day when I came home from school. That was during the original Luke and Laura brouhaha, with the Australian guy, who was some sort of spy? I guess? I grew up, started doing other things after school besides watching TV, went away to college, and happened to be at the house six years later one day at 3:30 and General Hospital was on. I could still follow the plot. All the same people were still on it. Doing the same things. It was stufpifying.

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    NotWithoutMyTV
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 5:57 am

    My soap opera needs are met every Friday with “Clippos Magnificos” on the Soup. That shit is FUNNY.

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    classy drunk
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 6:17 am

    @NWMTV, every time. That shit is funny every. time.

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    (J)ustPeachy
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:22 am

    lol @ Clippos Magnificos! so true! But on a serious note, big hugs to all the watchers out there. I remember how heartbroken I was when they cancelled Passions, and it has NOTHING of the history of these two shows. It was actually like a parody and that is why I loved it, but I watched All My Children as a child with my mom when Kelly (from Regis & Kelly) and her husband ran away together. It just seems like they would never cancel those shows. I will not watch The Chew or The Revolution or an extra hour of the Today’s show (or any hour for that matter.) I hate daytime TV. The only thing I watch during the day, if I even turn the TV on, is Price is Right or Family Fued. Hugs all!

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    (J)ustPeachy
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:28 am

    *Feud

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    classy drunk
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 8:39 am

    The Price is Right and Family Feud are awesome. But I have always wondered do people say stupid things on there because they are nervous or are they told too, but when I play at home I kick ass.

    Now when I play Jeopardy at home I am about as good as the Sean Connery’s character on SNL.

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    giffordsaz
    Posted April 15, 2011 at 11:18 am

    I died a little when CBS cancelled The Guiding Light….. for God’s sake Reva and Josh are still suppose to meet at the lake gazebo in one year to see if they were each others forever… shit for brains at CBS replaced my life long love of the opera with the Stupid Let’s Make a Deal… F*** them…. I hate that show.

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    J-Mo
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 3:17 am

    What… am I gonna doooo… without MAH STORIEEEEES?!??!! Okay, kidding, i never watched any of these shows, but that’s what my Gramma Cole called ‘em, and nobody could take her away from ‘em, she’d shut DOWN to keep up with her “stories”. She’s dead now, and if they get TV in heaven I bet she is howling and ready to beat someone with a dish-towel (her preferred weapon of choice)!

    love, J-Mo

    P.S. It’s 3:17 in the morning and I am drunk as fuck… Happy Gay Pride Weekend everybody! xoxoxoxoxoxox

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    Sheryl
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 7:57 am

    Simply cannot believe they are canceling All my Children and One life to Live. I am so sick of they cheap reality crap I could scream, and dont’t we have enough talk shows? They would be better off to run afternoon movies or sitcoms if they aren’t going to continue the soaps. I for one will not be watching the new line-up ugh! I will probably check out the soaps on other networks. Goodbye ABC!

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    LAC
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 8:22 am

    J-Mo … “drunk as fuck”! LOL!! You are so funny. Ginger ale and a quiet room is my recommendation for the next day.

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    sarcasatire
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 8:23 am

    @LAC, Ginger ale is my cure-all!

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    LAC
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 8:28 am

    Gonna miss “one life to live” – where else am I going to see seasoned seniors like Vicki and Dorian get to bang younger men? Well, besides the real housewive franchises?

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    LAC
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 8:31 am

    Sarcas – it is great for that and for an upset tummy! Heaven sent…

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    Derek Hazelton
    Posted April 18, 2011 at 12:11 pm

    Today, I cancelled my subscriptions to Soap Opera Weekly and Soap Opera Digest and they have the nerve to ask me, “Why?” I said, “There’s only four soaps left, so it’s pointless to have this magazine.” The lady said, “Oh!” What an idiot!

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    cattyfan
    Posted April 19, 2011 at 9:48 am

    Hoover has cancelled all ads during the ABC soaps, and has started a campaign to save the soaps.

    please e-mail savethesoaps@hoover.com and tell them what you think.