Another soap says goodbye (Photo by Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for DATG)
It’s Friday the 13th and a very unlucky day for another legendary soap.
Agnes Nixon is losing two of her creations in the matter of 4 months as ABC ends One Life to Live after a 43-year run on daytime television today.
The series helped launch the acting careers of Marcia Cross, Laurence Fishburne, Tommy Lee Jones, Judith Light, Blair Underwood and so many more. Erika Slezak, one of the mainstays in Llanview has been there since 1971!
The end of One Life To Live is also closing another era for New York City-based TV soaps, which date all the way back to 1950′s “The First Hundred Years,” CBS’s first ongoing serial daytime drama about two couples who were next door neighbors.
The only soap left standing on ABC after today will be General Hospital, which has a cloudy future when Katie Couric‘s show starts in the fall, and there are only four daytime soaps on the air in total: The Bold and the Beautiful and The Young and the Restless on CBS, NBC’s Days of Our Lives and ABC’s General Hospital.
One bit of positive news for OLTL fans is that some of the characters will move over to General Hospital!
Producer Frank Valentini says Roger Howarth, Kassie DePaiva and fan favorites Michael Easton and Kristen Alderson will reprise their characters for a new storyline on “GH.” Production with the soon-to-be-former OLTL/new GH stars begins at the end of this month.
Meanwhile, The Revolution, a new one-hour daily talk show focusing on weight loss will premiere Monday in the time slot.
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