ABC cancels AMC, OLTL

[madbrian]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 2:52pm

Per HuffPo, All My Children will end in September, One Life To Live in January.
Soaps

[Q]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:09pm

I sense wailing and gnashing of teeth across the land.

[theaternut]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:12pm

It is time. No one is watching.

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:13pm

I know that I just heard a wail from Basking Ridge.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:22pm

Stockard and Jane2 will be upset...

Me, I'm ready to drop AMC. It was mildly entertaining during my morning coffee tho.

Melissa Claire Egan got out just in time, though probably will carry the stink of this last season with her on castings.

Glad Carla from Top Chef got a job!!

[SNAFU]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:26pm

When they moved AMC to the West Coast the writing was on the wall. Soaps are a dying art form. There are no longer stay at home Moms. They are all out working.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:26pm

Q, I'm wailing and gnashing! Can't help it, I've been watching AMC since the day it started. I think around 35 years.

Doodle, where did Carla get a job?

[SonofRobbieJ]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 3:28pm

OLTL??? How much can one person be required to deal with????

[bdwaygirl]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 4:18pm

"I know that I just heard a wail from Basking Ridge."


LOL! Is that aimed at me?

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 4:25pm

I haven't watched it in years, but this greatly saddens me. I've watched the show on and off since I was maybe ten years old. I scheduled college classes around it when I could because no VCRs were allowed in our dorms.

I loved them all. Greg and Jenny. Angie and Jessie. Phoebe and Langley. The fabulous, devious Opal and the loyal Myrtle. Tad and Liza and Tad and Dixie. Cliff and Nina. Palmer and Daisy. ADAM! Stuart and Cindy. Brooke and Tom. Trevor and Natalie and Janet from another planet. Hayley and Brian and Hayley and Mateo. Nico and Cecily. The entire Kane family...Mona, Mark and Ellen and the one and only Erica Kane. I think of her as the Liz Taylor of daytime, with all of the glamour and drama and men. To me, Mike Roy was her Michael Todd and Travis Montgomery was her Richard Burton.

The show was really ahead of it's time...combining real social issues with great storytelling and entertainment. It will always have a special place in my heart.
I am sadder about this than when RYAN'S HOPE got the boot.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 4:45pm

I was just commenting to someone that days of Soap Operas are ending. I can only think of three that are still on the air - General Hospital, Days of Our Lives, & Young & the Restless.

Unless ABC messes with their time slot I think GH can hold on a bit longer. Because of their 3pm time slot it always got the teenage girls who were just getting home from school. If they move it to an earlier slot then it might be next on the block.

[Bettyboy72]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 4:48pm

Soaps are way too expensive to produce and the viewers just aren't there.

Women who wear Quacker Factory and pleasure themselves to Soap Operca digest between cat feedings are gonna lose their s@#t.

[Eris0303]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 4:53pm

I just hope that the actors are able to land on their feet. The soaps can be a hard stigma to shake. For every Kelsey Grammer there are about ten Tom Eplins.

[doodlenyc]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:03pm

Carla from Top Chef will be on "The Chew", Mario Batali's new show which will replace one of these soaps, Jane.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:13pm

Oh, ok, thanks Doodle.

Carla's a big favorite, I like her mostly for her personality.

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:15pm

It's a total threadjack, but this

because no VCRs were allowed in our dorms

is crazy to me!

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:16pm

OMFG Bettyboy. I love The Cracker Factory lady. Watching her (and her callers) is as entertaining as it gets. I can't believe people buy and wear that ****. There was a thread about it on here years ago.

Quack quack!

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:21pm

Phyllis, I know, right?!

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:23pm

I started watching AMC around 1980 when I was still in high school. I scheduled my college classes around the show. During my summers off from college, I worked at a sporting goods store. At that time, I had a radio that carried the audio from television stations. Every afternoon I would head on over to the jeans section, hide the radio and stand there for an hour, folding jeans and listening to AMC.

My absolute favorites on the show were Dorothy Lyman as the original Opal. I was so sad when she left. And who could forget the love story between Jenny and Greg (Kim Delaney and Laurence Lau).

I can't remember the last time I watched, but it has been several years.

In early 1990 I appeared as an extra/under 5 in about 8 episodes. I was the envy of all my college classmates who watched AMC along with me.

So sad, but I guess it's time.

[blueroses]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:29pm

I adored Dorothy Lyman. I could never really embrace the other actress as Opal. It's kind of like when Bev joined FACTS OF LIFE (even though she was a different character). I wasn't having it.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:34pm

Blueroses, exactly!! I never liked Jill Larsen in the role. Dorothy Lyman was perfectly tacky. How she made me laugh. Long live Opal's Glamorama!

[Kad]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:36pm

My mother is devastated. She's been watching those two since they debuted.

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:40pm

Dottie, I also had one of those radios and listened to AMC during my free period when I was teaching.

[DottieD'Luscia]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:45pm

My funniest recollection in college was getting most of my roommates (all male) hooked on it! I remember coming in from class one day and my roommate Doug was sitting there plopped in front of the tv watching AMC and anxious that I was going to miss that day's episode!

I also have pictures of when Jenny and Greg appeared at Rye Playland in 1982.

Jane2, that radio was the best!

[Jane2]

Posted: 4/14/11 at 5:51pm

I remember how wild I was about Tara and Phil. And when I first saw Karen Lynn Gorney in Sat. Night Fever, I was disappointed at the way she looked much older.