ABC is dropping the soap!
ABC announced on Thursday that they will be dropping two iconic soap operas from their daytime line up, including ‘All My Children,’ and ‘One Life to Live.’
To put this in perspective for all you non-soap-watchers, ‘One Life to Live’ premiered in 1968 and ‘All My Children’ followed in 1970. We’re talkin 44 consecutive years of television here!
‘OLTL’ was responsible for starting the careers of stars such as Ryan Phillippe, Marcia Cross, Nathan Fillion, Judith Light, Tommy Lee Jones, and Yasmine Bleeth, while ‘AMC’ launched the career of Sarah Michelle Gellar, Michelle Trachtenberg, Melissa Leo, Kelly Ripa, Josh Duhamel, Eva LaRue, Christian Slater, Rosie O’Donnell and Amanda Seyfried.
The final episode of ‘All My Children’ will air in September 2011, and the final ‘One Life to Live’ will air in January 2012.
The President of Disney/ABC Television said in a statement: “Each of the shows has touched million and millions of viewers and informed the social consciousness. It has been a privilege to work with the extraordinary teams who brought the residents of Pine Valley and Llanview to life each day, and we thank the cast, crew, producers and most especially the fans for theircommitment to the shows through their history.”
Sad to see them go?
Go to hell ABC!……..Adding more left wing talk shows like the view, but what happens to us loyal fans that have watched this show since inception and are confined to our homes and bed?….Cant we have a little fantasy and these people are like family to us!!!! Put them in another time slot for heavens sake……I am devastated to say the least……..I wont watch ABC anymore, screw your network!
WHAT??? This is crazy…why would you even think to do this? Surely the economy hasnt effected soaps now as well….I have watched off and on since I was a kid and currently have been out of work for quite some time…have you even thought to ask the people what they want? Is anyone going to pick up the shows or can’t someone start a network that plays current episodes of soaps everyday? Something needs to be done, or i’m afraid you are going to have a lot of disappointed people watching NBC or CBS! Stupid move ABC!
ABC….you are freakin crazy….what are you going to replace them with…so much for being an ABC fan…when those two soaps are off I will stop watching ABC….
Please help us save these shows-your network ??It would change my vote for you channel
.Save AMC AND OLTL==E-Mail: Brian.frons@abc.com Brian Fron’s direct office line: 818 460 7020 Anne Sweeney President, ABC Television ABC Studios 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank CA 91521
Please help us save these shows-your network ??It would change my vote for you channel
.Save AMC AND OLTL==E-Mail: Brian.frons@abc.com Brian Fron’s direct office line: 818 460 7020 Anne Sweeney President, ABC Television ABC Studios 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank CA 91521
Anne Sweeney President, ABC Television ABC Studios 500 South Buena Vista Street Burbank CA 91521 Anne Sweeney direct office line: 818 460 7700 E-Mail: Anne.x.Sweeney@email.Disney.com PETITION – SAVE ALL MY CHILDREN AND ONE LIFE TO LIVE – The Petition Site http://www.thepetitionsite
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please save….AMC and fire anne sweeney……
Please do not replace theses soaps with talk, cooking or reality shows. I’ve been watching these soaps since I was a little girl with my mom and I would truely miss watching them on a daily basis. These are truely good clean afternoon shows that I not need to worry about being R rated. If you cancell these then I have no reason to tune into ABC anymore.
i am so upset over the cancellation of amc and oltl why il am sure abc will loose most of their daytime watchers 1 to 4 was my tv time will not be after september i hope cbs has something that will occupy my time. i am 75 years old have been watching soaps since i was married 55 years ago come on now lets get real what are people going to do now????
I will not be watching abc in the daytime period if they take our soaps off. OLTL is my favorite show I have been watching it since I was a kid.
THE DAY THE SOAPS DIES. ABC WILL NEVER BE WATCHED AT MY HOUSE AGAIN. AMC WAS THE ONLY THING I WATCHED ON ABC ANYWAY. AND I WILL NOT BE BUYING ANYTHING FROM ANY OF THERE SPONSORS EITHER
They say people want to watch different types of shows now? No one ever asked me. Some of us don’t and I, for one, cannot stand all this reality TV crud. It was cool at first but now…they have run it into the ground. 2 hours a day…that is my little time to myself…the only time I get and I like to spend them in Pine Valley and LLanview. I have grown up with these shows and I am deeply saddened by this decision. I won’t be watching ANYTHING on ABC anymore and I hope more people agree with me.
If AMC is taken off the air I will delete ABC out of my program guide and my family of 6 will no longer be able to watch that channel even for the news. This is the most disgusting crap I have heard in a long time. STUPID MOVE!!!!!!
ABC has screwed us so we will screw them. The new shows sound stupid and same old crap to me!! AMC and OLTL were the best ABC had to offer.