So, All My Children and One Life to Live have been cancelled
"The Great and the Least,
The Rich and the Poor,
The Weak and the Strong,
In Sickness and in Health,
In Joy and Sorrow,
In Tragedy and Triumph,
You are ALL MY CHILDREN"
It was announced today that "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" were cancelled. I was incredibly upset, even before I got confirmation of the news. Of course it was rumored for a long time but the confirmation was extremely disappointing.
I watch "All My Children" every day and genuinely enjoy it. The stories endured, relationships endured. The actors showed up to work everyday for a show that aired daily, probably doing more work than a lot of primetime shows. They took paycuts and stayed by their characters for decades but in the end it still did not last.
I'm not upset just because AMC is my favorite soap or that many consider AMC and OLTL to be the best soaps on the air right now. AMC is my personal favorite on the air right now and I do watch other soaps. I am not just upset because AMC produced one of my favorite on screen romances of all time and a few others that I like as well.
I'm upset about the dying genre of the soap opera. "As The World Turns" and "The Guiding Light" ended recently as well. Of these soaps, at least one lasted several decades, from when it was originally in radio. Sarah Michelle Gellar was on All My Children, Elizabeth Taylor was on, Carol Burnett was on and she was a devoted fan. These are a few stars among many who got their start on the legendary soap.
Soaps were something that was passed on from generation to generation. My great grandmother watch AMC. A woman who was like a grandmother to me watched it. They watched it from the day it started until the day they died. It still helps me feel close to them.
We are now in the age of the death of soap operas. They had their time in the sun in the 1980's, their time of being satirized since and now these once luminous shows are getting snuffed out one by one, replaced with lifestyle shows and food shows. Everything is primetime soaps or webisodes, which each have their merit but cannot replace what came before them. These shows were groundbreaking and beloved and the fact that they are being so casually disposed of all at once is a rather depressing commentary on our time. Some cheap and easy shows are going to replace the programming with no thought to how they will do. We've lost many shows in the last few years alone. This is the dying of genre that has spanned time, generations and decades of stories and that is the saddest thing of all.
The Rich and the Poor,
The Weak and the Strong,
In Sickness and in Health,
In Joy and Sorrow,
In Tragedy and Triumph,
You are ALL MY CHILDREN"
It was announced today that "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" were cancelled. I was incredibly upset, even before I got confirmation of the news. Of course it was rumored for a long time but the confirmation was extremely disappointing.
I watch "All My Children" every day and genuinely enjoy it. The stories endured, relationships endured. The actors showed up to work everyday for a show that aired daily, probably doing more work than a lot of primetime shows. They took paycuts and stayed by their characters for decades but in the end it still did not last.
I'm not upset just because AMC is my favorite soap or that many consider AMC and OLTL to be the best soaps on the air right now. AMC is my personal favorite on the air right now and I do watch other soaps. I am not just upset because AMC produced one of my favorite on screen romances of all time and a few others that I like as well.
I'm upset about the dying genre of the soap opera. "As The World Turns" and "The Guiding Light" ended recently as well. Of these soaps, at least one lasted several decades, from when it was originally in radio. Sarah Michelle Gellar was on All My Children, Elizabeth Taylor was on, Carol Burnett was on and she was a devoted fan. These are a few stars among many who got their start on the legendary soap.
Soaps were something that was passed on from generation to generation. My great grandmother watch AMC. A woman who was like a grandmother to me watched it. They watched it from the day it started until the day they died. It still helps me feel close to them.
We are now in the age of the death of soap operas. They had their time in the sun in the 1980's, their time of being satirized since and now these once luminous shows are getting snuffed out one by one, replaced with lifestyle shows and food shows. Everything is primetime soaps or webisodes, which each have their merit but cannot replace what came before them. These shows were groundbreaking and beloved and the fact that they are being so casually disposed of all at once is a rather depressing commentary on our time. Some cheap and easy shows are going to replace the programming with no thought to how they will do. We've lost many shows in the last few years alone. This is the dying of genre that has spanned time, generations and decades of stories and that is the saddest thing of all.