As the World Turns

Conroy is best known for his role on Guiding Light as James Spaulding and on As the World Turns as Leo Morrisey. He was on Gossip Girl as Ben Simmons. ...

Soapdom Soap Opera First Looks/Fresh Peeks Week 12-28-09 blog) Keep your eyes peeled to As the World Turns this week and see. As The World Turns is pre-empted on December 31, 2009 and January 1, 2010 due to CBS network ...

Going, going, gone: First Guiding Light , then As the World Turns and next well, who knows? Gone crazy: It's a toss-up for year's worst finales, ...

MassLive.com (blog) Turning the focus on Casey MassLive.com (blog) CBS has pulled the plug on the venerable daytime soap, “As the World Turns,” which co-stars West. The last episode will air on Sept. 17. ...

Maura West's (Springfield) spin as the self-destructive heroine Carly is the best reason to mourn the imminent loss of “As the World Turns. ... and more »

CBS became the Grim Reaper of soaps, first pulling the plug on Guiding Light and then announcing that As the World Turns would cease to exist in September. ... and more »

The taping came a few months after final episode of the long-running "Guiding Light" and just before CBS announced it would cancel "As the World Turns" next ... Hayes and Hyman perform golden hits at Golden AppleCalifornia Chronicle all 2 news articles »

On CBS, all shows will air new episodes on Christmas Eve. On Christmas Day, As The World Turns airs a new episode, while The Young and the Restless airs an ...

Tiger Woods, Soap Star blog) In 2009, both the venerable 72-year-old Guiding Light and 54-year-old As the World Turns were canceled. During their heyday in the 70's and 80's, ... Soap operas hurt by truth stranger than their fictionNorman Transcript all 2 news articles »

8: After 54 years, "As The World Turns" drops out of heavy rotation as CBS announces the show will end in September 2010. This leaves only two CBS soaps ... and more »

You might have read that the longtime soap opera, As the World Turns , is being canceled after 54 years.

In those days, As the World Turns and Guiding Light were done live, meaning soap operas had to hire real actors who could memorize their lines and do ...

The days of watching soap operas are slowly coming to an end. It seems that one be one the soap operas are being canceled by the networks that show them.

CBS ended the daytime soap “Guiding Light” earlier this year. “Guiding Light” and “As the World Turns” were the last two produced by a subsidiary of Procter ... and more »

After “As the World Turns,” Nixon went on to write “Guiding Light” and “Another World” and create “One Life to Live” and “All My Children,” among several ... Readers Mourn 'As the World Turns'New York Times As the World Turns' canceledLos Angeles Times

Globe and Mail CBS axed its daytime soap after 54 years on TV. Tiger Woods' drama, on the other hand, is not yet two weeks old, but it seems as if the tawdry tales of ... Tiger Woods: More drama every dayMiamiHerald.com all 3,905 news articles »

By editor@buddytv.com Long-running soap operas seem to be getting the axe these days, as CBS has pulled the plug on another one: As the World Turns.  First it was Guiding Light that was canceled, and now here's more news of termination. After 54 years and more than 10,000 episodes, it comes down to this.  The network...

By seth_blog2005@yahoo.com (Seth) Daytime as a medium will be down to just six soap operas. The usual hype about finding the show a home somewhere else is starting up, but we heard the same thing for Guiding Light, Sunset Beach, Another World, and probably just about every soap that was ever canceled. In recent years, only Pass...

Kings of Leon and Black Eyed Peas top the itunes best-seller list for 2009 Metro Canada - Toronto NEW YORK - CBS cancelled "As the World Turns" Tuesday, putting the company that coined the phrase "soap opera" out of the business of making daytime dramas ... and more »

By seth_blog2005@yahoo.com (Seth) This month's edition of the True Colors Cabaret concert took place last night and was hosted by Van Hansis. It featured two Glee stars, Lea Michele and the openly gay Jonathan Groff (or maybe I should say one current and one future Glee star, since Groff hasn't debuted on the show yet).Seeing...

RTE.ie The drop in soap opera ratings has made daytime producers think out of the box this past year, such as "As the World Turns" changing its format to film with ... Thursday, November 19, 2009 - Updated 18h agoBoston Herald all 37 news articles »

By seth_blog2005@yahoo.com (Seth) Cyndi Lauper hosted the October 26th show, which featured one of my favorite Broadway men, Gavin Creel. Another one of my very favorite men in entertainment, As the World Turns' Van Hansis, will be hosting the next show, on November 29th, and that show will feature Glee and Spring Awakenin...

By noreply@blogger.com (PGP Classic Soaps) Come see Michael Park ("Jack"), Maura West ("Carly") and Mark Collier ("Mike") as they travel to Greeville as part of their multi-city “As The World Turns Never Surrender” tour. Join the cast on location at the Greenville Pickens Speedway on Wednesday, October 28 from 11:30 AM - 5:00 PM. Lo...

P&G moves soap opera genre online With the demise of "The Guiding Light," which ran on radio and then on TV for 72 years, P&G owns only one soap, "As the World Turns. ...

Plus, is Jake Silbermann (Noah) leaving As The World Turns? If he does, who will serve the citizens of Oakdale their coffee? GOOL THEATER – It's another big ...

By seth_blog2005@yahoo.com (Seth) Today was a Nuke day on As the World Turns. Luke, tired of staring at the clock and waiting for Noah's flight to arrive, showed up at Grimaldi Shipping, where he's still technically employed, though he hasn't been working since Holden's 'death'.

By seth_blog2005@yahoo.com (Seth) Today was another Nuke day on As the World Turns and it started with Luke telling his Grandmother Lucinda about how badly Lily was taking the news of Holden's 'death'. Luke explained that Lily wouldn't get out of bed and that he'd spent the last hour trying to get her to talk or eat something.

Details for next year's edition of the ever popular As The World Turns fan club luncheon have been announced. As with every year, this will feature lunch with the cast as well as an autograph and photo session. The event will take place on Saturday April 17, 2010 from 12:00 PM until 4:00 PM at th...

Former As the World Turns Nicholas Galbraith (Zac Finn) has been busy on stages around the country lately. We told you earlier about his recent appearance in "Mother Tongue," now audiences in San Francisco will have the chance to see the young actor in person. He will be appearing in Scott Ne...

And As the World Turns added another gay character. Are you aware of Luke and Noah over on ATWT and what a huge phenomenon that became? SE: I heard stuff about it and I know it's there and gets a lot of coverage. Which is exciting, but to say ...

Lynn Herring, best known to Daytime audiences as Lucy Coe on General Hospital and "Port Charles", is returning to soaps, but this time, she will be coming to Oakdale. It has just been announced that the veteran actress has been cast as Audrey, the money-grubbing mother of As The World Turns...

By seth_blog2005@yahoo.com (Seth) The other surprise was that One Life to Live was not nominated for Outstanding Show, in spite of nominations for Outstanding Writing Team and Outstanding Directing Team. The show certainly has had its rough patches lately, as all soaps do, especially when faced with network interferenc...

By noreply@blogger.com (PGP Classic Soaps) Rose's travails became so popular that on October 16 of that same year, GL creator Irna Phillips spun Rose off into her own radio show, The Right To Happiness. Though initially owned by P&G, the company sold all of their radio soaps to CBS in 1956 so they could focus on developing two bran...

By noreply@blogger.com (PGP Classic Soaps) Holden and Lily's impasse about Craig partially contributed to their split and Holden's subsequent affair with Julia. Lily stood up Holden on New Year's Eve to help rescue a kidnapped Craig, which is when Holden first faced his attraction to Julia and decided to leave Lily.

By Maytha(noreply@blogger.com) What is this? I Love Lucy redux? America's sugar-coated fifties fantasies re-hashed for the 21st century's daytime TV crowd? To continue to follow the storyline, just simply visit youtube and perform a search on  "ATWT and Ameera." Most of the episodes are there. 

By noreply@blogger.com (PGP Classic Soaps) As the World Turns is perhaps the best example of what’s possible in this regard. There are actors whose version of their characters debuted on the show in the 1950s and early 1960s (Nancy Hughes, Bob Hughes, Lisa Grimaldi); the late 1960s (Susan Stewart); the 1970s (Kim Hughes, Barbara Ry...

By noreply@blogger.com (PGP Classic Soaps) Both Paul and Parker have some pretty intense relationships with their fashion designing mothers. And both their mothers were married to Hal Munson. And John Dixon. Parker's adoptive dad, Jack, came back from the dead. I don't think I need to draw the parallel to Paul's dad, there. Paul went on...

ABC took home the most Daytime Emmy Awards this year with 14 total, as "General Hospital" and "One Life to Live" bringing home honors in entertainment categories. CBS won the most entertainment Emmys tonight with five. ABC pulled in four entertainment awards tonight at the 35th Annual Day...

Hey there, soap fans, welcome to Soaps.com's 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards live blog for As The World Turns! This is the night many of us have been waiting for for months! I'll be here, blogging about the stars on the red carpet, who won from our shows and anything else that seems like fun, so...

As The World Turns" Nuke Gay Kiss Outrages The American Family ...  Canada - ATWT has been telling the story of Luke as a gay character on the show for two years now, which has included effects on his relationships with family and ...

By lukey2 Summary: This goes a little faster than in ATWT. Characters: Sunny (green writing) and Luke (black writing), Noah, Maddie. Genre: Romance Warnings: not one. Disclaimer: This site is no way associated with "As the World Turns", CBS, P&G, ...

Every soap opera fan obviously has their favorite show, along with their preferred characters. While we all look forward to watching our soaps each day, we can’t help but get upset when those we depend on for entertainment suddenly up and leave. Whether their departure is a result of an endi...

By Justin Van De Kamp The tender love story of Luke and Noah on CBS' "As the World Turns" continues to delight me. Unfortunately, I am beginning to wonder if that sad bunch of homophobic losers who keep writing to the network and the show sponsor Procter & Gamble (now you know why they call them soap operas) to...

The five-second kiss between Luke Snyder (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann) on As the World Turns made history as the first gay male kiss between two teenagers on daytime television. ATWT made headlines 19 years earlier by introducing one of daytime television's few gay male c...

As the World Turns' Van Hansis breaks new ground on daytime ...  Jamaica - The writers and producers of ATWT took a very big and brave step when they decided to bring on a male love interest for young Luke. While in the real world ...

On As the World Turns, Carly mourns after finding out she has a fatal lesion on her brain the day before ex-husband Jack marries Katie. Even though Carly and Jack have been married and unmarried before, and the brain lesion is another soap cliche, attention must be paid to one of the great soa...

Jake Silbermann and Van Hansis (Noah Mayer and Luke Snyder, As the World Turns). Yesterday my friend Chris reminded me sixteen times that today's episode of ATWT features the first-ever male-male gay kiss in daytime history. Participating in this historic event are the very young charac...

Pop Stuff: Yancy Butler does daytime!   United States - But there is at least some professional good news - she's got what appears to be a temporary gig on "As The World Turns," which is one of my stories, ...

By Raye, CBB Contributor After a stint on As the World Turns last year and a lead role in the upcoming ABC Family original series, Greek, Spencer Grammer's career is taking off and dad Kelsey will surely be watching her every step of the way. The 23-year-old daughter of the Frasier star and dance instructor Doreen Al...

By natethegreat@gmail.com (dj eminemjamesuk) By the way, if you are interested, we are about to post up the "Episode 17 - The Original One", a.k.a. The Comeback Kid, our comeback episode that was instead replaced by the interview and the line of other episodes that are totally irrelevant to comebacks. So...yeah. We'll be posting that one up soo...