Well, it’s the end of an era. If you’re anything like me, you grew up watching All My Children and One Life to Live with your mom or grandma or aunt or that one sitter whose name I can’t remember because it’s been a million years. They became a strange sort of comfort. The kind of thing you got a little excited about being your guilty pleasure when you were home sick. Well, that sometimes ritual is coming to an end, because like every other facet of television, daytime soaps are experiencing the sting of viewers’ shifting needs. Hence, two soap staples, All My Children and One Life to Live, are getting the axe.
The shows have both been on television for over 40 years and will now make room for two new lifestyle-focused shows as ABC tries to stay along the same vein of their very successful show, The View. The Chew (does anyone else find it ridiculous that it RHYMES with The View?) is a show all about food the way The Doctors is about all things health, while The Revolution focuses on lifestyle transformations. The Chew will take over one time slot in September this year while The Revolution will start in January of 2012.
ABC promises to wrap up the stories of both booted soaps, so the folks who’ve been loyal viewers won’t be left without a resolution. I think some people are going to be a little upset, but hey there are other really, really ridiculously long, dramatic series you can get into. You know, you could start reading Lord of The Rings or Harry Potter or something. (They’re way more fun, anyway.)
Source: TV Line
