I really wish some network with buy syndication rights from P&G and show some classic episodes from when, you know, when GL was good.

Great idea dude. Some digital substations desperately need standard definition content on their streams.

ETA: LMAO @ the Little Shop of Horrors clip.

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Damn, how tasteless. Couldn't they have at least waited until April, 2. A Friday no less.

GL's ultimate cancellation was a joint effort by everyone who has worked or been associated with the show since JFP and Lucy Johnson to now.

It's not too late to let Faye Dunaway play Alex for the last couple months!

You think I'm joking.

At least they're trying to keep the light shining...maybe Fronsie would take it on as a half hour soap!

There were ways to retool the production model that did not simultaneously alienate and demean both the audience and the cast and crew. Ellen Wheeler was also the wrong person to do the job. But more importantly, GL would not have gotten to a place to have to retool without years of bad management by a variety of people.

Indeed!

Oh, little old me? I didn't make the actors change clothes in the back of a family sedan, Mark.

Calling the game rigged and impossible is promoting the kind of apathy the production staff expects from itself and from its audience. As long as everyone stays lethargic, they'll be able to move on to the mythical fantasy land of primetime or film work that much sooner. Daytime has always had a hardscrabble road. But the format, the serial doesn't die unless people want it to, unless they don't want to do it.

LMAO about the sedan . "Sweating my balls off...".

You know what. I HOPE you are right. I really, sincerely do. I love this genre. If only I could fine ONE example of a show that "picked itself up" and regained audience share and viability. The last example I can think of is GH in the late 1970s/early 80s...but lots of people call that "the final death knell for the genre".

Anyway...sad day, no matter what.

It's not too late to let Faye Dunaway play Alex for the last couple months!

You think I'm joking.

I hope you're not! I love La Faye.

Damn, how tasteless. Couldn't they have at least waited until April, 2. A Friday no less.

ITA. How many people are thinking/hoping this is a twisted April Fools joke?

I have no faith they'll be able to find a new home, sad for GL fans, I know. But it's time to let go, no small network will ever give this show the type of promotion CBS did or could have given it.

Great idea dude. Some digital substations desperately need standard definition content on their streams.

ETA: LMAO @ the Little Shop of Horrors clip.

Okay. So the future of these shows' legacies is f*cking Youtube, eh?

ITA. How many people are thinking/hoping this is a twisted April Fools joke?

I'm thinking March 31 must have been some internal CBS deadline for the budgets for the next fiscal year. Seriously.

But honestly, when would be a good time? I think maybe the TVWeek story sort of forced the hand...

I never thought this would happen. So sad. I'm sorry to see it go.

F-U-C-K trying to search for a new home. It didn't work for Passions, Edge of Night, Search for Tomorrow and it won't work for GL. Just write the hell out of this show for the next few months and give us a send-off that will make our toes tingle.

No. I think Frons has his eye on Jeff Branson, Marcy Rylan and Gina Tognoni for ABC's current soaps. Maybe Crystal Chappell. Maybe Cosgrove. Definitely Tom Pelphrey. But GL as a whole? No.

I will always maintain that the format, the daily serialized home and family or story, is immortal. It goes back centuries, maybe longer. It's how it is utilized and presented. The vehicle, the process may change; the appeal of the serial never will. Children, mothers, college students will always be lonely, will always want to turn on the TV and find a family or a town if it's presented with humanity and intelligence. If they do it on iTunes or YouTube or Hulu next, they'll still do it, whether the show is on at 12 or 2. It is up to the stewards of the format to help it navigate. The problem is, most of the stewards just want to be working someone else.