GH: The Intervention

On Thursday, April 28, General Hospital staged an intervention for the character of Luke Spencer (Tony Geary). The character had hit rock bottom due to his alcohol use. During the 3 PM eastern broadcast of the program, there was a pre-emption for a Presidential speech, so I watched the episode in full on the same day SoapNet airing.

OLTL: The Special Viki Episode

On One Life to Live, they honored Erika Slezak’s 40th anniversary with a special episode focused on her character that aired on Wednesday. Here are my thoughts on the show.

Books on TV: Boob Tube

Thanks to Soap Opera 451 for the book suggestion entry. Here is a direct link to their entry on it. Boob Tube is a 2010 ebook novel by Mark and Lesleyann Coker. The story takes place in LA in the soap opera industry. The plot is fictional, but inspired by real life.

Days: How they wrote off Nathan, Stephanie and Philip

The title of this blog entry is self-explanatory. I’m going to summarize how these characters left the Days of Our Lives canvas in the last few weeks.

AMC & OLTL: Soaps, ABC & the Legacy of Disney

Dropping in with yet another topic on the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live. The difference is this is about Disney’s ownership of the network and how ironic it is that they would be allowing shows with such legacies to end.

AMC & OLTL: More Cancellation Thoughts

It has been over 48 hours since the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live have been announced. Hopefully in the next couple of days, I can write about other topics, but for tonight I needed to touch upon this situation again. This entry may not be 100% sane, due to the late hour it is being written, but I felt the need to get out of my system.

AMC & OLTL: The Cancellation News

Earlier today, it was made official that All My Children and One Life to Live are going off the air within the next few months. The topic has been trending on twitter, go on Facebook or look around message boards and alas it is no longer a rumor. I had scrapped what I was planning on writing and posted this instead. Here are my initial thoughts about this situation.

AMC: Susan Lucci's Memoir

This week I took time out to read Susan Lucci’s memoir All My Life, which was co-written with Laura Morton. The over 300-page book had some interesting tidbits. In this entry I am going to share some of it and my other thoughts on the book.

All My Afternoons: 70s Book Search for Tomorrow

Here is my fourth write-up on All My Afternoons by Annie Gilbert. The book is copyright 1979. This entry will summarize the Search for Tomorrow chapter, which is broken into five sections: general show history, “Happy Birthday SFT”, Mary Stuart, Larry Haines and The Soap Opera Kid.

AMC: Angie has a baby

This entry is through April 1st episode of All My Children. This past week, Angie Hubbard gave birth to a baby. Sadly the child was stillborn. I’m still processing all of this, but I wanted to write about my thoughts at this point.