I'd love to see a few characters from Guiding Light make the move to The Young and the Restless like Reva and Josh, Alan Spaulding. It would add a few fun characters to that show. I gotta admit I miss crazy fun Reva!
I'm going out on a limb and say something to the viewers of soaps. Part of the reasons why the shows are being cancelled is because people are not watching. The reason, of course, is that the quality of storylines are bad. However, if you loved it like you said you did, you would suffer through it.
Part of the blame, lies on you almost as much as the networks and slipshod writing. Just a thought.
From what happened here, soap operas have become an endangered species. Talk shows, game shows, and small claims court shows are becoming more popular daytime programs, due to it costing less to produce. The other big reason, there are more women in the American workforce than ever before, as well as in college (women being the main demographic for this genre). From all of this, soap operas will be extinct, or at least critically endangered, by the end of this decade.
cbs suxs....i couldnt bielve it when it farwell....go kic rocks....n then to really burst my bubble they turn around in do the same to as the world turns........with giveing the public no notice until the episode ended:/ i dont get it god forbid we like a GOOD SOAP OPERA!
@alwaysGLfan ABSOLUTELY 100% AGREED!!! Shame on CBS for canceling the show and shame on the writers who wrote for Guiding Light. They should have gone back on the history of the show and it's characters and gone from their. No they had to bring in all of these different story lines with different characters who were not associated with any of the Spauldings or Bauer families. BRING BACK GUIDING LIGHT, PLEASE!!
@garavaliaj just want to let you know reva { kim zimmer } is going to start being on one life to live starting oct 1st. they have a few of the old GL actors but it will never be the same.
@garavaliaj I agree with you. David Kriezman and Ellen Wheeler should be ashamed of themselves. They help put the final nails in this once great soap. I've been watching old clips of the show here on youtube and I realize the Guiding Light that I love dies a long time ago. The beginning of death for this show started with the death of maureen and the exit of Beverly mckinsey as Alexandra. Guiding light limped along on life support for many years but it truly died years ago.
they didn't have to take away one of the hottest soaps of daytime t. v. only to replace it with another game show.i like ''let's make a deal''. but ''guiding light'' is oh so much better!!!!!
I echo the many comments from fans around the country that CBS sucks for canceling Guiding Light. I truly miss this awesome soap and after ATWT leaves in September, I too will boycott CBS. What has happened to this once mighty network? They had the two longest running daytime dramas and decide to get rid of them both. JUST PLAIN STUPID!!! I hope CBS and their ratings go to the bottom. That is exactly what they deserve for committing this stupid blunder. BOYCOTT CBS!!!
How interesting to see Ron Raines as a nice polite normal person instead of Alan Spaulding. Killing him off after his change of heart, that was brilliant due to being so unexpected.
I too will miss the Light I watched it for 30yrs. its sad that its over. I keep hoping that somone will pick it up but I know that wont happen, and many of the actors have moved on to other projects already. Sad but true. Its all about the almighty buck.
It still has not quite sunk in that Guiding Light is over! I keep checking CBS every morning at 9 am just to see if they changed their minds & are airing it again. I saw online yesterday that CBS may go bankrupt. I REALLY HOPE IT DOES!!! You deserve to go completely off the air CBS for what you did to Guiding Light and its fans!!!
One reason soaps are in a decline is the same reason quality in movies and tv are in a decline. The film and TV industries have always been plagued by those there for the money who are not artists. Look at the horrid product the put out today. The cast (artists) were always fighting the producers (non-artists) to make the show good. The producers would make moves to give the appearance they were the driving force behind the show and those moves would hurt. The producers were INCOMPETENT!!!
I too am baning CBS after ATWT i Turn the channel.. till 7 at night I can miss Dr phill and Oprah in proetesst... I will not watch that stupid game show. After all what do we viewers get from it.. NOTHING at least with a show we could day dream along with them. GL I will miss tomorrow's show....forever
I was really down today not being able to watch my favorite show that I taped every day to watch after work. Lovely escape time and i cant believe that CBS would cancel a show with wonderful actors/actresses such as GL instead of some of those ridiculous other ones. I am extremely disappointed in CBS network
I, for one, am so happy to see people banning CBS! THEY SUCK! I was a GL fan for too many years to mention. Loved it and watched the last few episodes! Loved seeing Reva and Josh back together and that Alan died the hero.. I won't be tuning in again from all I'm hearing. P&G can kiss my butt goodbye also.
Well the handwriting is on the wall now for daytime dramas. Another show is gone, the Daytime Emmy awards are not on a major network anymore and cut by an hour too boot, and I can't remember the last time the Soap Opera Digest award show was aired. I wonder how long DOOL with stay on the air since it is the only one left on NBC.
I don't think it will. Early in the year that was the hope but I get the feeling that if the people behind the scenes knew that the show would have a second home on another network there would have been promo's for it or some sort of hint that the show would go on. After killing off Alan Spaulding, that to me was serious proof that there won't be a revival of the show.
if the people involved had some sort of plan to keep the show going they wouldn't have had Alan die.
I watched the very last episode of Guiding Light earlier after not watching this soap for many years. Several veteran characters were not present which is probably why the show didn´t survive. Seeing Josh and Reva again was a pleasant surprise.
by veteran what do you mean? are you talking about the age of the actors and actresses or the character's themselves? A lot of the blame can be put on the writer's but also a lot of the blame can be put on the simple fact that some character's do run out of steam. Rita Stapleton is a good example. She was married to Ed Bauer but was having an affair with Alan Spaulding...plus she was being tormented by Roger Thorpe...but she was written off because the writer's couldn't find a new story.
I am talking about actors and actresses who portrayed their roles for 20 years or more. The writers should be held responsible for the death of Guiding Light.
oh okay...in a lot of cases writers and the producers can be blamed for it. sometimes those portraying the characters want to move on. most people cite the mid '80s as the turning point on the show because the focus shifted away from the Bauer's as a core family and 95% of the stories revolved around the Spaulding and Lewis families in their business wars. The working class Reardon's were phased out to make way for the Cooper's. Charita Bauer, it's said, wanted to be written out.
I don't think Don Stewart, the actor that played Mike Bauer from 1968 through 1984, wanted written off the show. I think his character, along with his daughter, Hope, were victims of the change in direction. Then there was the killing off of Hillary Bauer in 1984. I have a lot of old issues of Soap Opera Digest and a lot of the viewer mail that was published in those magazines during the mid '80s had fans wondering what was happening to the show...
...because in a span of one year, 1983-1984, Mike, Hope, Bert, and Hillary Bauer were all written off, as was Alan Spaulding. The writers shifted to Alexandra and her side of the family with the introduction of Lujack and the Simon Hall character who turned out to be Lujack's half-brother and more focus continued around those families instead of the Bauer's which by 1985 had been dwindled down to Ed and Rick. Maureen was a Reardon turned Bauer by marriage.
let's also not forget that the writers killed off Bill Bauer in 1983 although the character hadn't been a major focal point since the late '60s...but the idea to kill him off in 1983 and this time make it real instead of a presumed death, I think foreshadowed the Bauer's eventual fate on the show. The 1983 fisherman story was uploaded on You Tube a few months back but it's no longer available. I liked seeing it again although the scene with Bill and Eli is creepy.
well bert wasnt written off so much as Died in real life, she had her leg amputated from diabetes and came back to the show but eventually succumbed to the disease and the had ed and maureen and michelle bauer. I loved alexandra spaulding, and alan wasnt written off either the original actor who played him died of aids and they had a hard time recasting him because everyone missed the original actor.
Greatest GL character was Roger Thorpe. The late Michael Zaslow was such a charismatic actor. When he became ill with Lou Gerhrig's disease CBS fired him.
Good bye CBS. . .this show was deliberately slaughtered. . .after watching the final episode of Guiding Light we took our remote and blocked all CBS affiliate channels. . .CBS sucks. . .and we are NO LONGER purchasing Procter & Gamble products. . .The same thing that happened to Guiding Light will happen to CBS. . .just you wait and see!
I just watched the final episode and I am soooo glad to see that all the main characters were brought back together. Reva and Josh! Minday and Rick! Phillip and Beth! Thanks CBS, great writing and great acting!
I watched the final episode and liked it but if there's only one complaint it's this: why wasn't there a cast farewell? Maybe one was taped but it never aired here if that was the case. After it shown Josh and Reva drive off and the lighthouse in the background it had "The End" come across the screen. After the commercials aired the credits rolled rather quick and the local news came on. I was puzzled why there wasn't a cast farewell segment of some kind if you know what I mean.
I looked over the ratings. I assume the overall rating is a combination of men and women viewers. I've never understood how they do the ratings and how they can tell if a man or woman is watching the show or not but according to the ratings during one week last month GL had a rating of 1.4/4 which I assume means 1.4 million viewers?
In the rating column for "women" during that same week it shows 0.6/4 which I assume means 600,000? Are they saying more men than women watched the show?
The most revealing thing is that of all the soaps on the air, excluding GL, is that Y&R and B&B have the biggest ratings at 3.2/11 and 2.2/7 and the #3 ranked soap was DAYS OF OUR LIVES at 1.7/6
Isn't that quite a drop in ratings? The #2 show with 2.2 million and the #3 show with 1.7 million. The #1 show had 3.2 million. In all fairness, every show from #3 to #8 all had ratings in the 1 million category with GL being rated the last at 1.4 and ALL MY CHILDREN ranked #7 with 1.5
so, if I have the ratings correct, GL was canceled because of a few hundred thousand since every show from #3 to #8 had viewers estimated at 1 million!? When you look at it from that perspective and take into consideration that the soaps ranked from #3 to #8 were all in the 1.7 to 1.4 range, to cancel a show because it ranked 1.4 and not 1.5 is kind of nit-picky. Anyway...given that all the soaps, excluding the top 2, fail to attract more than 2 million viewers, all of them look to be doomed.
Those statistics could be correct. I´m a man and I still watch soaps from time to time. One Life To Live is my favorite. General Hospital sucks. Luke and Laura were the reason why I watched and they reunite once every couple of years. Guiding Light had some great storylines back when I did watch. All My Children is trying to recreate the glory days with Jesse and Angie, but it´s too late.
I miss GL so much!
blake3b 1 month ago
I'd love to see a few characters from Guiding Light make the move to The Young and the Restless like Reva and Josh, Alan Spaulding. It would add a few fun characters to that show. I gotta admit I miss crazy fun Reva!
Intocable8306 2 months ago
I'm going out on a limb and say something to the viewers of soaps. Part of the reasons why the shows are being cancelled is because people are not watching. The reason, of course, is that the quality of storylines are bad. However, if you loved it like you said you did, you would suffer through it.
Part of the blame, lies on you almost as much as the networks and slipshod writing. Just a thought.
PeterBluth 3 months ago
They forgot "Capital" on that list!
MrJuly1990ish 1 year ago
From what happened here, soap operas have become an endangered species. Talk shows, game shows, and small claims court shows are becoming more popular daytime programs, due to it costing less to produce. The other big reason, there are more women in the American workforce than ever before, as well as in college (women being the main demographic for this genre). From all of this, soap operas will be extinct, or at least critically endangered, by the end of this decade.
CrimsonFury006 1 year ago
cbs suxs....i couldnt bielve it when it farwell....go kic rocks....n then to really burst my bubble they turn around in do the same to as the world turns........with giveing the public no notice until the episode ended:/ i dont get it god forbid we like a GOOD SOAP OPERA!
vanwoo5 1 year ago
miss this show so much
bitehua 1 year ago
We'll miss you!!
carlymypup 1 year ago
I hope CBS does the same tribute for As The world Turns.
adelgado75 1 year ago
i miss GL and stopped watching all of cbs shows i hope their damn game show flops.bring back Guiding Light always Reva and Josh
alwaysGLfan 1 year ago
@alwaysGLfan ABSOLUTELY 100% AGREED!!! Shame on CBS for canceling the show and shame on the writers who wrote for Guiding Light. They should have gone back on the history of the show and it's characters and gone from their. No they had to bring in all of these different story lines with different characters who were not associated with any of the Spauldings or Bauer families. BRING BACK GUIDING LIGHT, PLEASE!!
garavaliaj 1 year ago
@garavaliaj just want to let you know reva { kim zimmer } is going to start being on one life to live starting oct 1st. they have a few of the old GL actors but it will never be the same.
alwaysGLfan 1 year ago
@garavaliaj I agree with you. David Kriezman and Ellen Wheeler should be ashamed of themselves. They help put the final nails in this once great soap. I've been watching old clips of the show here on youtube and I realize the Guiding Light that I love dies a long time ago. The beginning of death for this show started with the death of maureen and the exit of Beverly mckinsey as Alexandra. Guiding light limped along on life support for many years but it truly died years ago.
hshawn00 1 year ago
Reva was such a hillbilly in the beginning - I love the character.
east215 1 year ago
they didn't have to take away one of the hottest soaps of daytime t. v. only to replace it with another game show.i like ''let's make a deal''. but ''guiding light'' is oh so much better!!!!!
54susieq 1 year ago
in australia no station showed the guiding light ever
halstead100 1 year ago
I echo the many comments from fans around the country that CBS sucks for canceling Guiding Light. I truly miss this awesome soap and after ATWT leaves in September, I too will boycott CBS. What has happened to this once mighty network? They had the two longest running daytime dramas and decide to get rid of them both. JUST PLAIN STUPID!!! I hope CBS and their ratings go to the bottom. That is exactly what they deserve for committing this stupid blunder. BOYCOTT CBS!!!
jgraefe1 2 years ago
What was happening in 5:07 I couldn't hear it.
proud2Bprude 2 years ago
How interesting to see Ron Raines as a nice polite normal person instead of Alan Spaulding. Killing him off after his change of heart, that was brilliant due to being so unexpected.
GOPMom 2 years ago
I too will miss the Light I watched it for 30yrs. its sad that its over. I keep hoping that somone will pick it up but I know that wont happen, and many of the actors have moved on to other projects already. Sad but true. Its all about the almighty buck.
madonnaman9 2 years ago
It still has not quite sunk in that Guiding Light is over! I keep checking CBS every morning at 9 am just to see if they changed their minds & are airing it again. I saw online yesterday that CBS may go bankrupt. I REALLY HOPE IT DOES!!! You deserve to go completely off the air CBS for what you did to Guiding Light and its fans!!!
kimmerfan 2 years ago
i hope cbs gets canceled! i loved this show for all my life!!! i hate u cbs!
allicatgonewild420 2 years ago
One reason soaps are in a decline is the same reason quality in movies and tv are in a decline. The film and TV industries have always been plagued by those there for the money who are not artists. Look at the horrid product the put out today. The cast (artists) were always fighting the producers (non-artists) to make the show good. The producers would make moves to give the appearance they were the driving force behind the show and those moves would hurt. The producers were INCOMPETENT!!!
bobisdark 2 years ago
I too am baning CBS after ATWT i Turn the channel.. till 7 at night I can miss Dr phill and Oprah in proetesst... I will not watch that stupid game show. After all what do we viewers get from it.. NOTHING at least with a show we could day dream along with them. GL I will miss tomorrow's show....forever
GaylDS 2 years ago
I was really down today not being able to watch my favorite show that I taped every day to watch after work. Lovely escape time and i cant believe that CBS would cancel a show with wonderful actors/actresses such as GL instead of some of those ridiculous other ones. I am extremely disappointed in CBS network
demsam1 2 years ago
I will miss guiding light!
pinksky111 2 years ago
its sad im mad i cant still belive it its really not wat I spected i though i was gonna have gl for many more years
liliarodbe 2 years ago
I, for one, am so happy to see people banning CBS! THEY SUCK! I was a GL fan for too many years to mention. Loved it and watched the last few episodes! Loved seeing Reva and Josh back together and that Alan died the hero.. I won't be tuning in again from all I'm hearing. P&G can kiss my butt goodbye also.
myfamilynme 2 years ago
CBS really truly is horrid. GL finally was getting good again, and the final episode was amazing. Best in a LONG while!!
CBS better pick it up because now ATWT is now rumoured to get cut.
DegrassiInstantStar 2 years ago
Hell with CBS.
mjguz 2 years ago
What burns my ass is all this is based on the crap antiquated nelsen ratings.
argeets 2 years ago 9
So sad to see to see the lighthouse beacon extinguished after 72 years...
MiguelDante 2 years ago
Well the handwriting is on the wall now for daytime dramas. Another show is gone, the Daytime Emmy awards are not on a major network anymore and cut by an hour too boot, and I can't remember the last time the Soap Opera Digest award show was aired. I wonder how long DOOL with stay on the air since it is the only one left on NBC.
Mojowrk 2 years ago
Maybe it will come back on a different station?
WCWite 2 years ago
I don't think it will. Early in the year that was the hope but I get the feeling that if the people behind the scenes knew that the show would have a second home on another network there would have been promo's for it or some sort of hint that the show would go on. After killing off Alan Spaulding, that to me was serious proof that there won't be a revival of the show.
if the people involved had some sort of plan to keep the show going they wouldn't have had Alan die.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
wah!
kgrueschowjr2009 2 years ago
CBS SUXXS i hate u guys u mADE a HUGE mistake
TheMegaLoverTwins 2 years ago
I watched the very last episode of Guiding Light earlier after not watching this soap for many years. Several veteran characters were not present which is probably why the show didn´t survive. Seeing Josh and Reva again was a pleasant surprise.
hondolespaul 2 years ago
by veteran what do you mean? are you talking about the age of the actors and actresses or the character's themselves? A lot of the blame can be put on the writer's but also a lot of the blame can be put on the simple fact that some character's do run out of steam. Rita Stapleton is a good example. She was married to Ed Bauer but was having an affair with Alan Spaulding...plus she was being tormented by Roger Thorpe...but she was written off because the writer's couldn't find a new story.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
I am talking about actors and actresses who portrayed their roles for 20 years or more. The writers should be held responsible for the death of Guiding Light.
hondolespaul 2 years ago
oh okay...in a lot of cases writers and the producers can be blamed for it. sometimes those portraying the characters want to move on. most people cite the mid '80s as the turning point on the show because the focus shifted away from the Bauer's as a core family and 95% of the stories revolved around the Spaulding and Lewis families in their business wars. The working class Reardon's were phased out to make way for the Cooper's. Charita Bauer, it's said, wanted to be written out.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
I don't think Don Stewart, the actor that played Mike Bauer from 1968 through 1984, wanted written off the show. I think his character, along with his daughter, Hope, were victims of the change in direction. Then there was the killing off of Hillary Bauer in 1984. I have a lot of old issues of Soap Opera Digest and a lot of the viewer mail that was published in those magazines during the mid '80s had fans wondering what was happening to the show...
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
...because in a span of one year, 1983-1984, Mike, Hope, Bert, and Hillary Bauer were all written off, as was Alan Spaulding. The writers shifted to Alexandra and her side of the family with the introduction of Lujack and the Simon Hall character who turned out to be Lujack's half-brother and more focus continued around those families instead of the Bauer's which by 1985 had been dwindled down to Ed and Rick. Maureen was a Reardon turned Bauer by marriage.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
let's also not forget that the writers killed off Bill Bauer in 1983 although the character hadn't been a major focal point since the late '60s...but the idea to kill him off in 1983 and this time make it real instead of a presumed death, I think foreshadowed the Bauer's eventual fate on the show. The 1983 fisherman story was uploaded on You Tube a few months back but it's no longer available. I liked seeing it again although the scene with Bill and Eli is creepy.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
well bert wasnt written off so much as Died in real life, she had her leg amputated from diabetes and came back to the show but eventually succumbed to the disease and the had ed and maureen and michelle bauer. I loved alexandra spaulding, and alan wasnt written off either the original actor who played him died of aids and they had a hard time recasting him because everyone missed the original actor.
madonnaman9 2 years ago
Greatest GL character was Roger Thorpe. The late Michael Zaslow was such a charismatic actor. When he became ill with Lou Gerhrig's disease CBS fired him.
jvarela965 2 years ago
yes I love Roger Thorpe he was my favorite vilian I was angry they fried him. also Reva Shane is also a great character also
elphiechan808 2 years ago
Good bye CBS. . .this show was deliberately slaughtered. . .after watching the final episode of Guiding Light we took our remote and blocked all CBS affiliate channels. . .CBS sucks. . .and we are NO LONGER purchasing Procter & Gamble products. . .The same thing that happened to Guiding Light will happen to CBS. . .just you wait and see!
GriffinElliot 2 years ago
I hope CBS knows the big mistake they made when they cancelled this show.
heels2479 2 years ago
I just watched the final episode and I am soooo glad to see that all the main characters were brought back together. Reva and Josh! Minday and Rick! Phillip and Beth! Thanks CBS, great writing and great acting!
selaina48 2 years ago
I watched the final episode and liked it but if there's only one complaint it's this: why wasn't there a cast farewell? Maybe one was taped but it never aired here if that was the case. After it shown Josh and Reva drive off and the lighthouse in the background it had "The End" come across the screen. After the commercials aired the credits rolled rather quick and the local news came on. I was puzzled why there wasn't a cast farewell segment of some kind if you know what I mean.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
I expected some sort of a cast farewell also.
hondolespaul 2 years ago 5
Nooooo! I don't want to accept this. Hrmph I will miss.
musicaldramaqueen 2 years ago
My favorite show is...gone...sad day for me!
melanie2461 2 years ago
WHy Why Why ??????????
derossi2200 2 years ago
I looked over the ratings. I assume the overall rating is a combination of men and women viewers. I've never understood how they do the ratings and how they can tell if a man or woman is watching the show or not but according to the ratings during one week last month GL had a rating of 1.4/4 which I assume means 1.4 million viewers?
In the rating column for "women" during that same week it shows 0.6/4 which I assume means 600,000? Are they saying more men than women watched the show?
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
The most revealing thing is that of all the soaps on the air, excluding GL, is that Y&R and B&B have the biggest ratings at 3.2/11 and 2.2/7 and the #3 ranked soap was DAYS OF OUR LIVES at 1.7/6
Isn't that quite a drop in ratings? The #2 show with 2.2 million and the #3 show with 1.7 million. The #1 show had 3.2 million. In all fairness, every show from #3 to #8 all had ratings in the 1 million category with GL being rated the last at 1.4 and ALL MY CHILDREN ranked #7 with 1.5
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
so, if I have the ratings correct, GL was canceled because of a few hundred thousand since every show from #3 to #8 had viewers estimated at 1 million!? When you look at it from that perspective and take into consideration that the soaps ranked from #3 to #8 were all in the 1.7 to 1.4 range, to cancel a show because it ranked 1.4 and not 1.5 is kind of nit-picky. Anyway...given that all the soaps, excluding the top 2, fail to attract more than 2 million viewers, all of them look to be doomed.
ACcountryFan 2 years ago
Those statistics could be correct. I´m a man and I still watch soaps from time to time. One Life To Live is my favorite. General Hospital sucks. Luke and Laura were the reason why I watched and they reunite once every couple of years. Guiding Light had some great storylines back when I did watch. All My Children is trying to recreate the glory days with Jesse and Angie, but it´s too late.
hondolespaul 2 years ago
the sinking of the uss guiding light
josh111274 2 years ago
shes hott
06Chevy88 2 years ago
I remember my parents watching this all the time
magic4j 2 years ago