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I don't want to do the AMC vs. OLTL thing anymore, but I agree with you and Max... And I think we will find out soon enough that OLTL was scheduled for cancellation all along.. (I mean its obvious now anyway).

Part of me is glad that OLTL will not go out like a total ratings loser (but I guess that remains to be seen, after a cancellation announcement a soap usually goes downhill in the ratings instantly)

I can't wait to find out the details.

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I'm hoping that's not the case this time around... You can't help but notice something different with AMC's & OL's cancellations, compared to previous soaps: The response has been especially passionate, wide-reaching, and continuing for days... Perhaps because this is truly the turning-point; the mark of the end of the daytime soap era. As critical as some have been about these shows, they are responding with support. And whatever circumstances led to Broderick being reappointed as head writer (even if it was a decision of convenience, you can bet the farm that "viewer sentimentality" - as a selling point - is not lost on TPTB), I really believe we are likely to have satisfying conclusions to both shows.

But you know something? The ratings much more of a moot point now... I just want to enjoy what's left.

BTW, @ Eric, I get a little "misty" whenever I see a clip of OLTL's opening from the time I first began watching... (And when I say "misty," I don't mean in the Karen Walker sense, ok?)

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