Bad news, actors on As The World Turns, those actors’ families, and sick people watching The Price Is Right who can’t reach the remote:
The ailing soap industry took another hit this morning with the announcement that CBS has canceled As the World Turns. The show will end its 54-year run in September.
The move, which comes just three months after CBS bid adieu to Guiding Light, will leave just six soaps on the air. The number could soon shrink to five if ABC axes One Life to Live, as has been rumored.
Dammit, network television, won’t you give these shows a frickin’ CHANCE before just dumping them? First Arrested Development, then Hank, and now, CBS is totally giving up on As The World Turns after barely over half a century?
I was really hoping that As The World Turns would be the first show to follow an entire human’s life from beginning to end in real-time, but now, that loose end will NEVER GET TIED UP.
And to think — the show came just one year shy of tying According To Jim’s record for most years anything has done anything…
