CBS cancelled As the World Turns Tuesday. The first As the World Turns episode aired in April 1956 and has broadcasted 13,661 episodes. In August, the President of CBS, Nina Tassler was considering cancelling the show stating that ratings were down, and she didn’t know when it would be cancelled, but thought it was inevitable. The last episode of As the World Turns will air in September 2010.
CBS cancelled Guiding Light earlier this year for Let’s Make a Deal because it was just more popular with viewers.
With the popularity of reality TV and with more working moms in the workforce, daytime dramas are slowly being phased out. CBS will now only have two soap operas, The Young and the Restless and the Bold and the Beautiful.
The buzz on this story is hot today because CBS announced the cancellation of the show this morning and because the fans of As the World Turns will miss their favorite characters.
Source: The New York Post and the Huffington Post
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I want it to go on forever!
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I am so sad. I have been an avid As the World Turns viewer since 1983. I tape the show every day and watch it as I am getting ready for work. It is my escape from reality on hour a day. I do not know what I will do without it. I feel like a little piece of me died today. I will definately miss this show!!!
As the World Turns has been on the air almost as long as Guiding Light was next April will mark it`s fifty-fifth year and my mother has watched it most of that time. Soap Operas are like putting ordinary people in a hall of mirrors there are always births, weddings and deaths and sometimes "undeaths" as when the nefarious latecomer James Stenbeck (from the early 80s to maybe even now) being presumed dead but aren`t. Doctor Bob Hughes could be ready to retire but others would take his place. Consider the things this show has done to stay alive over the years not all of which I personally agree with... yet we are all ordinary people. Two and a half million households may not be that many to Columbia Broadcasting Company`s president yet I don`t find it that small. So We get yet another actor in a semi- slump hosting a quiz or reality or talk show or maybe they just add another news program or even show reruns in the time period. My hope is these replacements fail to gain an audience.
I have as a young girl listened to the program on the radio and then when it was on television taped it in my working years so I could watch it later....I will miss it...Nancy, Dr Bob, Lisa I suppose it is retirement time for them but I give them credit for the faithful years on the program..Wish there was something we could do to change the minds of the sponcers.
I am very sick of reality shows...what will be their replacement?
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Well this is the second time a Soap was cancelled but with this day and age working people tape the Soaps to watch later because there is any thing good on in the evening that I want to watch
I have watche As The World Turns since I was a teenager. All my working years, I have never missed an episode as I always taped it daily on me VCR. I always watched it in the evening to relax.
I will sure miss the show. It was very interesting and held my interest for many years. I will deeply miss watching it, as I do not watch any other shows in the evening. Very sad in Wisconsin.
I have watched As The World Turns forever since I was little. I watched it with my grandmother. I will miss watching ATWT. This really stinks.
VERY SAD IN ROME, GEORGIA
I have watched the show since it's inception. My babies would take their naps and it would be my time for my favorite show. When on vacation over the years, I recorded it and came back to maybe 2 or 3 weeks to catch up. I hate the fact that this show is now off the air. I cried a bushel of tears Friday saying goodbye to all my favorite friends on the show. What dumb show could possibly take it's place. I won't be watching CBS in that time slot anymore. Just tell us where all the actors are going.
I have watched As The World Turns for thirty or more years and will truly miss it. I like many others worked and watched the recorded show in the evening. I did not agree with some of the things the show focused on in the last few years. This could have been the reason for the low ratings that resulted in it's cancellation. I wish the actors well in their future.
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