From cnn, "The World" is coming to an end. After a 54-year-run on television, "As the World Turns" will air its final episode today.
Following its debut on CBS in April, 1956, the daytime drama, set in the fictitious town of Oakdale, Ill., went on to become a huge hit, spawning a 1965 spinoff, "Our Private World," and becoming a significant part of pop culture, reports the Huffington Post.
Besides inspiring the "As the Stomach Turns" sketch on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the 1970s, it got a shout out in last season's "Mad Men" episode in which Walter Cronkite interrupts the soap to announce President Kennedy's assassination.
The sudser also served as a launching pad for several famous faces who went on to even bigger careers in movies and music, including Martin Sheen, Lauryn Hill, Dana Delaney, Emmy Rossum, Parker Posey and Julianne Moore, who won a Daytime Emmy for her dual roles as half-sisters Frannie and Sabrina Hughes, and recently returned to "As the World Turns" for a guest appearance as the former character.
"The View"-inspired chat show "The Talk" will replace the departing soap opera, but it won't soon be soon forgotten by fans.
As Barbara Bloom, senior vice president of daytime programming for CBS, said, "The true legacy of 'As the World Turns' will be the fictional characters and stories of a small Midwest town that resonated every day with millions of viewers over multiple generations, becoming a treasured daytime institution in the process."
4 comments:
Good riddance to crap TV.
Sigh. I recall there being soaps watched in our house, and much fighting over the TV as a result. And I recall realizing that my sister's (not DCD but another one) love of serialized nonsensery was not much different than my own love of comics.
Except that soaps totally SUCK, of course. Bleah, yuck.
I like KISS, professional wrestling and Archie Comics. And yet I still feel the right to look down on people who watch soaps with complete and utter contempt.
It was either this or General Hospital that I despised the most, because my afternoon babysitter would make me sit through this mindless tripe until 2:30, when Star Blazers finally came on. I think I hated McHale's Navy for the same reason.
It was a lot like going to church, where you marvel at the elastic nature of time, and how one simple hour can stretch on into infinity.
However, they've replaced a 54-year-old show that was at least written and acted (albeit moronically), with yet another four yapping dingbats like The View, talking about nothing, and bringing nothing. With a stupider title.
For myself, I didn't think you could take the soap opera audience and make them dumber, but they're obviously going to.
Yet another sign of the coming apocalypse.
(sigh) I'm gonna go watch the Star Force blow some shit up with The Big Gun until I feel better.
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