It's Official: Guiding Light Won't Live On
By Jamey Giddens on July 24, 2009
Telenext Media's Vice-President Brian T. Cahill has released a statement confirming Guiding Light''s post-CBS options have dried up.
Telenext Media's Vice-President Brian T. Cahill has released a statement confirming Guiding Light''s post-CBS options have dried up.
When GUIDING LIGHT was cancelled by CBS in April, we promised our fans we would do everything we could to find a new home for the show. In the ensuing months, we have engaged in serious discussions with many networks, leaving no stone unturned in our effort to place the show elsewhere. Unfortunately, despite the urgent and dedicated efforts of many people, we have not been able to secure an outlet to carry the show moving forward.
We are extremely disappointed with this outcome, but we are confident we have exhausted every possible option. While it’s hard to imagine GUIDING LIGHT coming to an end, we’re so very proud of the amazing feat the show has accomplished with an unprecedented 72 years on radio and television. The show has made an indelible mark on broadcast history that likely will never be repeated. We’d like to thank all the members of the cast and crew who have brought Springfield to life for the past seven decades.
The good news is we have some powerful stories planned during the show’s remaining months that will celebrate the show’s rich history. We continue to appreciate our fans around the world and are grateful for their unwavering support of the show. We hope our viewers will continue to tune in to be entertained and touched by the drama, the love and the family that is GUIDING LIGHT.
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5 March 2009
3 hours 52 min
Wow...they really milked it to the last possible moment to announce what I was really hoping wasn't true, but had a feeling it was back in early June. Thanks for the bunk, crap and bs waiting game, Telenext!
However, thank you Jamey and Daytime Confidential for passing on the official word.
Good bye, Guiding Light.
2 January 2008
7 hours 30 min
wouldn't have been feasable for cbs to cut gl and atwts down to a half hour
9 July 2009
1 week 4 days
So long my friend, I'll miss you.
Michael
12 June 2009
5 weeks 6 days
known this was coming for awhile now... still sucks to see it though:(
25 December 2008
11 hours 13 min
Well I'm not surprised.
How about the focus whatever enerrgy they have to actually produce a decent show these last two months.
8 May 2008
4 hours 29 min
Well, P&G didn't want the show to be on the air anymore. I sad, but this is a wakeup call for the rest of this industry to get its act together before there won't be any soaps to watch.
29 December 2007
3 weeks 4 days
"Powerful stories", yeah right!!
25 February 2009
17 hours 17 min
Sad situation. I never got into watching Guiding Light, but the history of it, with it being on TV since 1952, wow. What a long time. I think As the World Turns is next, unfortunately. Procter and Gamble probably wants to get out of the soap business altogether and focus on their grocery products. Soaps are a dying breed. Whenever it may be, I believe that Days will be next after that. That's when it will really hit me hard....been watching that show and Y&R ever since I can remember, about twenty-one or two years.
10 July 2008
1 week 5 days
Textile didn't do its best, if it did it would have fired the two hax's that ruined it! I don't call "Jeffrey" coming back from the dead a powerfull story!
27 September 2008
4 weeks 1 day
Not exactly a surprise with reality TV being the GOLD standard and Ellen Wheeler throwing the show into utter schambles.
But if it makes Telenext and Wheeler feel better, I'll share in the blame. Because of people like me, GL couldn't escape criticism. Yeah, it was people like me that made the show the cancer it is to netowrk, cable, and the internet. Heck, I don't know what to do now.
Alas, don't worry Otalia fans. You'll have a new show that will be the same show probably.
25 February 2009
7 hours 37 min
Well, I guess we can copy Reva (from today's show focusing on Jeffrey's memorial service) and ask everyone to place something in a box that reminds us of Guiding Light..........
Hmmm.. Maybe an old VHS tape of The Wizard of OZ or some other movie that Nola Reardon Chamberlain fantasized about back in the early 1980s. Wuthering Heights maybe?
Or maybe a Coffee Cup that would symbolize the many, many, many cups of coffee that people drank at the Cafeteria at Cedar's Hospital while awaiting news ...
Goodbye GL...
10 February 2009
1 hour 37 min
In troubling times, people look for escape in their entertainment. Look at soaps these days, dark, troubling, downright nasty stories. There is no lightness at all. No wonder the ratings are down the toilet!
7 July 2009
11 weeks 5 days
Goodbye old friend
14 December 2008
9 hours 3 min
I figured it was done.
Bye GL, I'll miss you!
20 December 2008
12 weeks 4 days
First let me say Goodbye my Guiding Light. Now let me rant - 1 Fuck CBS your shitty network get's worse day by day 2 Fuck Ellen Wheeler and I hope you read this BITCH you ruined my show and killed it in the long run with your sloppy decisions and horrible production model 3 Fuck P&G I don't think you gave 2 shits about this show or you would have found it another home...this includes you Brian Cahill you go straight to hell and I hope you read this as well. Sorry for the language but I had to get it out it's not fair at all what happend to this show but the higher ups are to blame and you know you are. Sorry ATWT fans but your show is next years bye bye becuase we know what P&G are up to.
27 September 2008
4 weeks 1 day
If CBS didn't cancel the show, whoever ran it would of dropped it. Of course, would another TV outlet (I mean one that doesn't run soaps) let Ellen Wheeler run the show? Of course, Barbra Bloom and before that, MADD, wouldn't be in charge either. When you think about it, the writers hired to write GL are less to blame, because they wouldn't of ever been hired without those above them.
It might be a good thing GL gets cancelled. Telenext can now sell the rights and maybe whoever buys it can adapt the show withe the proper people. Look on the bright side.
3 March 2009
2 days 10 hours
Goodbye Guiding Light, you will be missed! Sorry you have been slowly killed by idiot producers and head writers over the past decade.
Thank you for the great stories, actors and characters over the decades. Hope the next two months of the show are good and that the show goes out on an amazingly high note!
4 February 2009
11 weeks 1 day
I am pissed that telenext/ Proctor and Gamble Lied you didn't try to find Glight a home. I however have to thank you cause I will never EVER watch CBS, buy anything Proctor and Gamble makes nor will i EVER watch ATWT after Sept 18th 2009. I will miss you GLight thank you for nearly 20 years of entertaining me. I will stick to my one soap OLTL after sept 18th 2009.
23 July 2008
12 weeks 5 days
Well : ( What do you say? Although I knew this was coming, I am sitting here with chill bumps on me, just sad. This show is, and will always be #1 in my eyes. I have, and will watch many a soap, and none of them have or will ever be as good, and just get to me the way GL does. Even on it's worse days, and believe me, we had some BAD ONES, it had a way of getting to you, and making you feel good, bad, sad, happy- just like the characters who portrayed the storylines. Oh, this is just, uhhhhhhh. Sad. 72 years GL, and I guess those wonderful 72 years just have to come to an end. Goodbye my friend :/