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Welcome back to The Sandbox. As promised, I didn’t leave the playground, and I’m ready to give Part 2, a retrospective on OLTL. Just so you know, we are going on the fifth day of the news about the cancellations, and I still feel a profound sadness when I think about losing AMC and OLTL. By Katrina Rasbold I would like to encourage all ABC soap fans who feel passionate about the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live to please read RavenBeauty’s latest column regarding the effects of boycotts. I definitely could not have said it better myself, so I refer you directly to her: [...]
Once upon a time there were two sleepy little towns in Pennsylvania, named Pine Valley and Llanview. In these towns you had love, secrets, lies, affairs, people coming back from the dead, wrong paternity tests galore, chimeras, un-abortions, trips back in time, trips to heaven, ghostly visits, billionaires, celebrities and almost every story imaginable. Even though these sleepy little towns didn’t have vast populations of people, millions around the world knew about and loved to visit them on a daily basis. Unfortunately, one day a stealth cancer, Fronskemia, invaded these towns and slowly poisoned them from the inside out. Fronskemia is a very deadly, insidious form of cancer that attacks especially women and there is no known cure. After a valiant effort by the residents and the visitors to fight Fronskemia, on Thursday, April 14, 2011 these towns were handed their death sentences. http://www.newstalk1010.com/ Our own Kate Brown will be interviewed today (Friday, April 15) at 12:07 EST time about the cancellations. Click on the “Listen Live” link to hear. Update: Kate did a wonderful job. The show’s host was a jerk, however.
It is with a very heavy heart that I report that ABC has officially announced the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live. AMC’s last air date will be sometime in September, 2011 and OLTL will go off the air in January, 2012. In their infinite wisdom and unending compassion for the viewers, ABC is replacing these iconic shows with The Chew, a food program and The Revolution, a health and lifestyle show. With every fiber of my being and in all sincerity I hope these two shows fail miserably.
Welcome to the Sandbox my fellow playmates! Let’s dig in! All I can say about OLTL is…AMAZING! This is the show that is possibly up for cancellation? ABC thinks another stupid reality or talk show could replace this and we would watch it? As my mother would ask, “Do they have rocks for brains?” As for the doings in Pine Valley, I vaguely remember watching some of it, but for the life of me I can’t recall much. It was that boring.
Welcome to The Sandbox! Let’s dig in!! Happy birthday to me. Happy Birthday to me. Happy Birthday to The Sandbox. Happy Birthday to me! Yup, that’s right, I have been writing my column for a year now as of March 30. What’s more, ABC decided to give me the best gift I could a have hoped for…DS & DK are out as head writers and Lorraine Broderick has signed a MULTI-YEAR contract as the new head writer!! Picture me doing the Cabbage Patch happy dance!!
Welcome to the Sandbox. Let’s dig in! To be or not to be? That is the question! My apologies to Mr. Shakespeare for borrowing his famous line from Hamlet and applying it to AMC, but we fans of the soap world are tired of ABC not really answering that question. Who knows, we may even need it answered for OLTL! The San Diego Entertainer has posted an article stating that AMC studios is adamantly denying ongoing rumors of cancellation (of course). The internet world has been convinced for weeks now that an announcement will be made any day about the end of the show’s lengthy run. All My Children actors are NOT convinced that [...]
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By Sandi Kelly Showalter
By Kate Brown
The following is the letter I am sending to Anne Sweeney, President of ABC Television. I don’t know if it will do any good. The chances of Ms. Sweeney, herself actually reading it are probably slim to none, but I felt that I must at least try. I also encourage all of you to write a letter, even if it only ends up in the “support for AMC and OLTL” pile.
AMC Spoiler Commentary
Spoilers compliments of the Official AMC Fan Club for the week of March 28…
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