courtesy Everett Collection
+Television | January 13, 2012

Farewell One Life to Live: 13 Stars And Their Soap Opera Stints

By TIME Staff

As One Life to Live ends its 43-year run, we look back at some celebrities who served their time on daytime soaps.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Television | November 23, 2011

No More Lives to Live: Prospect Park Abandons Plan to Save ABC Soaps Online

By James Poniewozik
Rick Rowell / ABC / Getty Images

The company that was to rescue cancelled ABC soaps All My Children and One Life to Live pulls out, citing financial and logistical hurdles in putting broadcast-quality series online.

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | April 14, 2011

No Soap: ABC Cancels One Life to Live, All My Children

By James Poniewozik

Over 80 years of cumultive soap-opera story will be ending on ABC, as the network has announced it will cancel both All My Children and One Life to Live, as of September 2011 and January 2012 respectively. The network announced the axings by way of announcing the shows’ replacements, a food show called The Chew [...]

Tuned In
Tuned In+Uncategorized | December 9, 2009

The World Has Turned: Why Are Soaps Dying?

By James Poniewozik

The latest casualty of the Great Soap-Opera Die-Off was named yesterday: CBS’s As the World Turns. Along with the closings of newspapers and the killing of Gourmet magazine, this is one of those epochal-sounding media deaths that drives home the big changes going on. I mean, count the rings on this baby: ATWT will be [...]