It's OK. Susan Lucci is now 65, so she can start collecting Social Security and Medicare.
She will have to pay out of pocket for the botox treatments though.
Soaps have been dying since the early Eighties, I'm afraid. When the soaps' main viewers started taking full-time jobs, it was a matter of time. (I dated several soap opera junkies in my youth, and they kept up only via VHS. These days, the DVR gets a workout, if they have the time to watch after they get home from work.) I figure that these might come back, as Samuel noted, but probably as subscription services via iTunes or Hulu.
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No, no - actually they're replacing it with
"All my Grandchildren"
Posted by ralph woods | April 14, 2011 2:30 PM
It's OK. Susan Lucci is now 65, so she can start collecting Social Security and Medicare.
She will have to pay out of pocket for the botox treatments though.
Posted by portland native | April 14, 2011 3:18 PM
Who cares???
Posted by Bob S | April 14, 2011 4:05 PM
I never went to my TV for a nooner.
Posted by Major Dewche' | April 14, 2011 5:15 PM
Eh. Not to worry.
Remember convertibles?
They went away and came back. So will soaps. Nothing new under the sun.
Posted by Samuel John Klein | April 14, 2011 6:03 PM
We'll always have Paris, Err, The Young and the Restless!
Posted by Bad Brad | April 14, 2011 9:25 PM
Soaps have been dying since the early Eighties, I'm afraid. When the soaps' main viewers started taking full-time jobs, it was a matter of time. (I dated several soap opera junkies in my youth, and they kept up only via VHS. These days, the DVR gets a workout, if they have the time to watch after they get home from work.) I figure that these might come back, as Samuel noted, but probably as subscription services via iTunes or Hulu.
Posted by Texas Triffid Ranch | April 15, 2011 8:12 AM
They're cancelling "All My Children."
I'm trying to decide if that's a new motto to protest worldwide radioactive fallout.
Posted by Tenskwatawa | April 15, 2011 9:36 AM