ABC Cancels Soaps All My Children and One Life to Live
(HMG Celebrity News) – How is Susan Lucci going to get nominated for Emmys now? ABC announced that long running daytime mainstays All My Children and One Life to Live will go off the air in September and January, respectively. Both soaps are being replaced by health-related talk shows. The twin cancellations will leave James Franco’s playground General Hospital as the network’s only remaining daytime drama. And just four soaps total will be on the air — General Hospital on ABC, Days of Our Lives on NBC, The Young & The Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS.
The network also announced the shows’ replacements, are a Mario Batali-hosted food show called “The Chew” will premiere in September, and a health/lifestyle transformation show called “The Revolution” featuring Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, trainer Harley Pasternak and Kimberly Locke, who completed in the second season of American Idol. Premiering in January these hosts and a revolving pool of contributors will “help viewers transform all areas of their lives, from relationships to family, food, style, home design, finance and more,” according to ABC’s announcement. So are Soaps a dying breed now or will they get popular again in the future?
I feel sick about this I grew up watching these soaps and ABC is my favorite channel. Now it will be like ever other channel. Following the crowd it not always postive. If it is not broken don’t fix it. You ideas are lame and what you are replacing them with I will not be watch you station these are shows I am not interested in. Sorry about your decision. I am morning a great loss that can never be replaced. I guess the consumer does not matter for we a subjected to what you decide to air.
I’m really disgusted with ABC and Brian Frons. We have the Food Network and Cooking Channel for your food replacement show and there are so many channels with reality shows already.
Ditto to Beth’s comment. ABC does not care about the consumer and they have lost another viewer.
i am so very sorry to hear of theese cancellations.
i am a general hospital fan..
i used to be a daytime watcher of all of these.
i realize that the network must move with the times and revenues are the name of the game,
however, what a shame after all these years.
hope abc finds the number they are looking for with the new shows.
saop fans have a loyalty to thier programs.
that loyalty will not be there with other entities.
i am grateful for general hospital being left alone for right now.
i am sure the concern is there.
shirley
I TOO GREW UP WATCHING THE SOAPS (ALL MY CHILDREN, ONE LIFE TO LIVE, GENERAL HOSPITAL, YOUNG AND RESTLESS, BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL, LOVE OF LIFE, SEARCH FOR TOMORROW,LOVE IS A MANY SPLENDID THING, EDGE OF NIGHT AND RYAN’S HOPE) TO TAKE THESES TWO LONG RUNNING POPULAR SOAPS OFF OF ABC DOESN’T MEAN THEY CAN’T BE VIEWED ON NBC AND CBS, OR EVEN A&E OR ION. COME ON PEOPLE, I THINK WHAT SHOULD HAPPEN IS, THE PEOPLE THAT ARE AVID ONE LIFE AND ALL MY CHILDREN FANS SHOULD BOYCOTT CHANNEL 7 (ABC) AND NOT WATCH ANYTHING THAT IS SHOWED ON THEIR NETWORK. AND IN RETURN I ALSO THINK WE SHOULD START A PETITION TO KEEP OUR SOAPS FROM BEING DISCARDED. IF YOU ARE READING THIS COMMENT/COMPLAINT VOICE , JOIN ME ON FACEBOOK AND LETS SUPPORT OUR DAYTIME SOAPS (ALL MY CHILDREN AND ONE LIFE TO LIVE)!!!!
I am so mad that these to Soaps are going off. I think that ya’ll shouldn’t cancel because some people like to look at these two soap and some only look at these two. SO DON’T CANCEL ON ME PLEASE ITS BEEN TO LONG TO CANCEL
I’m not to hurt by this announcement because GH is the best soap live. However, my mom and aunt are big fans of OLTL so in some ways this is upsetting. My only question is what does Soap-net plan to do about this. Will they pick the shows up and have them run from that network. I think this would keep the shows alive and the shows would still be available for those die hard fans.
I have not watched these shows in particular but I have watched Days for nearly 35 years and I wonder how long before NBC drops it too. I wonder why they could not be produced on another cable channel — like the law n order types
How can they cancel One Life and All My children_Who is running ABC_Children under 40!!!
CRAZY NUTZZZZZ
Too many health talk shows could mean that we”ll be watching the same thing over and over. I guess we’ll just have to see what it is.
You people are really not thinking straight.Bring All My Children & One Life To Live BACK! Your ratings will be going down. We have enough of those Reality Shows They’re TERRIBLE Please listen to your customers.
I agree I am so sick to have lost these shows. I am 41 years old and starting watching these shows as a child, so sad to see them go they were almost like a family. I would just die if they take General Hospital off! Sonny, Jason, Carly and Sam are the best! I can wait to get home from work to watch my shows….BAD JUDGEMENT ABC! Cooking shows? Who cares?
Please save All My Children!!!!!!!
thankyou,
Cindy N