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Post by MiketheMechanic on Apr 21, 2017 4:03:04 GMT
THat's the truth Mike. I never thought any of these shows would be gone because they all had over a half century of history. I used to buy the soap opera weekly and soap opera digest and if I knew something big was happening I'd check out AMC or GH or Days, but those 2 CBS shows were must see tv every day. But I guess it all goes in cycles either way.
A friend of mine worked on GL from 1990 to 2002 and he's biased and thinks those years are the best. Even during those years, there were several regime changes and basically every three years it was reinventing itself. The Guiding Light of 1990 is several versions removed from what it was at the end in 2009. A show shouldn't have to change so much just to keep up. Personally I think 1997 to 2002 under producer Paul Rauch was the last renaissance period. It goes downhill quickly from 2002 to 2005, then with Wheeler for those last few years it was nearly unwatchable. Y&R and GH are still on the air because a lot of viewers are still (by habit) watching but that doesn't necessarily mean that they're good television. Not every show on television has to be good to survive many, many years. I too have watched GL since the late 1970's and it's been one heck of a roller-coaster ride. They took a chance with Ellen Wheeler and she deserves props for trying but it was too little, too late. By the time she became EP soaps as a whole were becoming a dying breed. But even with that said I still would have taken Pam Long over Ellen Wheeler! |
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