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Just saw on Yahoo TV that CBS is canceling Guiding Light. The soap began on radio 72 years ago(January 25,1937) and will finish its CBS run in September. PGP Productions is said to be exploring different ways to keep the show going, i.e. cable or online, but will have to determine the cost effectiveness of doing so. So ten years after Another World's demise another Procter & Gamble soap will leave television and the number of daytime dramas will be reduced to seven, three each on CBS and ABC and one on NBC. As I said in the Daytime Emmys post, the soap opera seems to be a dying genre....perhaps the cancellation of GL really does signal the beginning of the end. I've never been a regular viewer of GL but as a lifelong soap fan I have to say that it's a real shame.

All the details are available here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/arts/television/02ligh.html?hp

R U Serious???? Ya mean they brought back Phillip for nuttin'?!?!?!

My mom watched when I was young, my fav was always Ross...My sis told me the other day they killed him off a few years ago...That sux!

I hate it for their viewrs cuz we know how it totally bites to have yer show takin' from you!!!!!!!

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Interesting that CBS announced this exactly 10 years to the month after NBC's announcement about AW....

If GL doesn't find another home, at least they get more time to wrap up than what we had with AW. Crying or Very sad

You all know that GL was my "other" soap of the '80's.

Loved the SL with Mindy and Philip and I think Judi Evans was the other girl and the Bauer boy. Memory is not so good. I will never forget the day that I heard on the radio that Roger Thorpe died in real life. I was shampooing the carpets....Holly and who could forget our favorite Iris as Spauldings sister but I didn't know it at the time. Plus, the lovely Tina Sloan back then.

Anyway, tuned in occasionally over the years and it has never had the fire it had then. I don't think many soaps 'these days' offer what we had in the '80's and even the early '90's as I remember watching it now when my son was little.

I guess I am just not suprised. What with that terrible camera action they had going lately.

Reva and Josh 20 years ago was priceless and THAT is what I wish they would put on HULU!

Natalie

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Loved the SL with Mindy and Philip and I think Judi Evans was the other girl and the Bauer boy.

Mindy Lewis (Krista Tesreau), Phillip Spaulding (Grant Aleksander), Beth Raines (originally played by Judi Evans), and Rick Bauer (Michael O'Leary)--The Four Musketeers. Hands down, the best teen story on a soap EVER.

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I will never forget the day that I heard on the radio that Roger Thorpe died in real life.

Michael Zaslow. The one and ONLY Roger Thorpe. A complex villain, with twin Achilles heels: his beloved daughter Chrissy (who grew up to go by her middle name Blake), and the one woman he ever truly loved, Holly (Blake's mother). And Barbara Berjer (our Bridget Connell) played Holly's mother Barbara Norris!

It was very sad when he died. Tragedy struck his family again when one of his two daughters was killed in a car accident two years after he died. His widow died a couple of years ago of cancer, so only one of his daughters is still alive.

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who could forget our favorite Iris as Spaulding's sister

No one! Beverlee McKinsey was a tour de force as Alexandra Spaulding, and she successfully took on big brother Alan, evil Roger (whom she was married to for a while), and adored her two sons Lujack (real name Brandon) and Nick. Lujack's death was one of the two most tragic, Maureen Bauer being the other.

I watched GL when I was in high school. My favorite couple was Rick Hearst's Alan-Michael and Lucy. I also liked Ross and Blake. Roger and Holly were fascinating. And a ton of familiar Bay City faces were part of Springfield as well: Beverlee McKinsey, Barbara Berjer, Mark Pinter (playing the evil Mark Evans on GL), Hilary Edson (reformed borderline psychotic Eve Guthrie), Petronia Paley (Vivian Grant)...Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head. I never saw MP on GL, but I recall all the others, though I must confess I only saw Barbara Berjer on YouTube.

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Reva and Josh 20 years ago was priceless and THAT is what I wish they would put on HULU!

Hell YES! Reva baptizing herself "The Slut of Springfield" in the fountain at the country club while then-wheelchair-bound Josh (ran his car into a tree because he was so upset over Reva and...I think it was Billy) could only watch is one of the most memorable GL moments.

And WAY before Coyote Ugly, Reva Shayne was dancing on the bar and singing "Proud Mary."

Not to mention she and Josh were just so tortured, and yet, when they were together, so hot. Their first wedding at Cross Creek was one of the most beautiful soap weddings I ever saw.

I liked Ross too, Wendy. His friendship with Ed Bauer was wonderful, and he and Blake were a nice couple.

It is truly the end of an era.

I think I'm going to try to pull off a comprehensive tribute to the show. Sort of like my "I Wanna Go Back" video (which features The Four Musketeers, Beverlee McKinsey's Alexandra, and Roger and Holly in the GL section, along with Alan-Michael and Lucy at their wedding, my one concession to myself), but bigger: it's either going to be one long video of 10-15 minutes with various songs covering various aspects of the show (for example, Simon and Garfunkel's "Old Friends" to spotlight memorable friendships like The Four Musketeers, Ross and Ed, Vanessa and Maureen, and Henry and Jenna; "Pictures of You" by The Last Goodnight showcasing the families, the Bauers, the Spauldings, the Lewises, the Coopers; and more), and for the finale, clips through the years to Carrie Underwood's "Whenever You Remember." Like the "I Wanna Go Back" video, I'll have to rely on others to provide the clips from YouTube or upload them to someplace I can download them to save them and use them, like MegaUpload or Yousendit, but I really want to do this, and I have about 4 1/2 months to put it all together.

What do you all think? Can I pull it off? Can I give GL a deserving farewell sendoff in "Video by Amy" style? I know that I want to try. Should I start putting feelers out there? I really want to know what you all think, especially those of you who watched GL at any point in its long, illustrious history.

Amy
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What do you all think?
Can I pull it off?
Can I give GL a deserving farewell sendoff in "Video by Amy" style?

~~~*AG*, I'll be looking forward to it on *4EverFlix* Cool

Me Too!! Me Too!!

Natalie

either. But it's still a shame that the longest running soap opera has been cancelled. My mom said she used to hear it on the radio when she was a little girl, and of course she also watched it on televion later.

Thanks, KG, thanks, Natalie! Am I that obvious about having talked myself into it? LOL.

In all seriousness, though, I've been to a few of the GL message boards, and a lot of people are afraid that they aren't going to end the show well, and that's actually where I got the idea from. There are several posts and polls about which actors/characters should they bring back for the final week (not that they actually WILL, but who the fans would like to see one last time), which actors who have passed on should be remembered even if it's just with still photographs at the end of the episode (everybody is saying Michael Zaslow, Beverlee McKinsey, and Charita Bauer, who played Bauer family matriarch Bertha "Bert" Bauer for several decades), and there's an entire group of people who are saying that if they don't put Josh and Reva back together in the end, then the ending will completely suck (apparently Jeffrey, is that his name? The guy Reva's with now? Apparently he is, to quote some of the posters, "a bully," "a brick wall incapable of showing any emotion," "boring as h#ll," and "an a$$hat"). So what I want to do, and what I'm going to try to do, is make a tribute that is for the fans--who they want to see, who they want to be remembered, who they loved and who they loved to hate. I just about have the song list compiled (have to double-check it against evil WMG's list to make sure I don't pick something that won't be accepted by YouTube), and I've broken it down into the following categories; each category listed gets its own song/tribute video portion:

Families

Friendships

Villains and Fight Scenes

Couples

Weddings

Events (for example, The Four Musketeers at the prom, the big parties they used to have at the country club where the whole cast was there, wedding receptions where they had a dozen side stories going and people eavesdropping and getting into arguments and such, holidays including Christmas, Thanksgiving, and of course the traditional 4th of July Bauer barbecues)

In Loving Memory (a tribute to actors who have passed away in real life, including but not limited to the big three everyone keeps mentioning from what I read, Beverlee McKinsey, Michael Zaslow, and Charita Bauer)

And the final overall tribute to bring everything together, I already have the song chosen, and I chose it because of the lyrics: "Whenever You Remember" by Carrie Underwood. If I didn't know better, I'd swear it was written for GL's ending:

"When you look back on times we had
I hope you smile
And know that through the good and through the bad
I was on your side when nobody could hold us down
We claimed the brightest star
And we, we came so far
And no they won't forget

Whenever you remember times gone by
Remember how we held our heads so high
When all this world was there for us
And we believed that we could touch the sky
Whenever you remember, I'll be there
Remember how we reached that dream together
Whenever you remember

When you think back on all we've done
I hope you're proud
When you look back and see how far we've come
It was our time to shine
And nobody could hold us down
They thought they'd see us fall
But we, we stood so tall
And no we won't forget

Whenever you remember times gone by
Remember how we held our heads so high
When all this world was there for us
And we believed that we could touch the sky
Whenever you remember, I'll be there
Remember how we reached that dream together
Whenever you remember

Yeah, Oh

We claimed the brightest star
And we, we came so far
You know that we, we showed them all
And no they won't forget

Yeah

Whenever you remember times gone by
Remember how we held our heads so high
When all this world was there for us
And we believed that we could touch the sky
Whenever you remember, I'll be there
Remember how we reached that dream together
Whenever you remember

Whenever you remember

Oh, whenever you remember"

So I'll go through and give each category its due, based on availability of scenes, put in as many characters that the fans loved as possible, and "Whenever You Remember" will be the grand finale, of sorts.

And hopefully, the GL fans will enjoy it.

Amy
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In the wake of the cancellation of Guiding Light, Entertainment Weekly.com has a list of 12 soaps that fans have loved and lost.....shows such as Ryan's Hope, The Edge of Night, Dark Shadows and of course Another World. Nice tribute to the genre but I think I would have included Search for Tomorrow or The Doctors before Passions, Sunset Beach, or The City.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20269720,00.html

~~~Thanks for posting this *t_l* Cool

I was able to leave a comment without "signing up".
I wish hulu was as *open*.

http://www.ew.com/ew/gallery/0,,20269720,00.html

Nettie, I forgot to mention Linda...so go for it! Mr. Green

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