The Associated Press reports that "CBS is cancelling the soap opera 'As the World Turns' after more than a half-century on the air. CBS says the final episode will air next September, in its 54th year. Daytime dramas have been in a long-term ratings decline, and CBS ended the daytime soap 'Guiding Light' earlier this year.
Through the years, actors Marisa Tomei, Meg Ryan, Parker Posey and James Earl Jones have appeared on the show. The cancellation will leave CBS with only two daytime dramas: 'The Young and the Restless' and 'Bold and Beautiful.' "
Historically the show is one of the first thirty minute soaps and is also the program that was interrupted by a CBS News bulletin announcing that "...three shots have been fired at President Kennedy's motorcade..." on that fateful Friday in November of '63.
My hope is that they go out with a huge bang as opposed to a whimper like Guiding Light did. My choice is to have a meteor hit Oakdale, Illinois, the fictional town where the show is set, and wipe 'er out.
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