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'Everwood' Alum Visits 'Chicago Fire'

Posted 12.07.2012 | TV
Read More: Once Upon a Time, Nashville, Treat Williams, TV News, Guiding Light, Tony Goldwyn, Lawrence Saint-Victor, The Bold and the Beautiful, Scandal, TV Canada, Gregory Itzin, Chicago Fire, Karla Mosley, David Clayton Rogers, Tv Casting, Video, TV News

Beloved "Everwood" patriarch Treat Williams will be visiting NBC's "Chicago Fire" in the new year, according to TV Guide. Williams will play Benny...

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Longtime 'Sesame Street' Director Dies

AP | Posted 11.23.2012 | TV
Read More: Pbs, Sesame Street, Emily Squires Dead, Emily Squires Dies, Sesame-Street, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Len Belzer, Tv, Sesame Street Director Dies, Video, TV News

NEW YORK -- A longtime "Sesame Street" director who also worked on soap operas including "The Guiding Light" and "As the World Turns" has died. Emily ...

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All My Children TV to Web Transfer Could Change Everything

Ed Martin | Posted 09.24.2011 | Media
Read More: Internet Programming, General Hospital, All My Children, Guiding Light, Prospect Park, One Life to Live, Media News
Ed Martin

The long-running ABC soap opera All My Children two months from tomorrow will end its run on the network -- and three days after that, thanks to an un...

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Good Fortune for Off-Broadway's Manipulation

Brendan McMahon | Posted 09.20.2011 | Arts
Read More: Cherry Lane Theatre, Off-Broadway, Actor, Theatre, Theater, Manipulation, Cherry Lane Theater, Guiding Light, Arts News
Brendan McMahon

The newest developments in the run of Manipulation at the Cherry Lane Theatre include a magnificent performance by one of our talented understudies, a...

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Daytime Disaster! Did ABC Have to Kill All My Children and One Life to Live?

Ed Martin | Posted 06.21.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: ABC Daytime, Erika Slezak, All My Children, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Robin Strasser, General Hospital, Susan Lucci, The Bold and the Beautiful, One Life to Live, Entertainment News
Ed Martin

I don't know what bothers me most about ABC's announcement that it canceled All My Children and One Life to Live.

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Lucas Kavner

Soap Operas: Can They Survive?

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucas Kavner | Posted 06.08.2011 | Media
Read More: Daytime Soaps, Salma Hayek, Jersey Shore, James Franco, All My Children, Telenovelas, General Hospital, Abc, Susan Lucci, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light, Media News

"All My Children" is hanging on for dear life. After moving the entire production from New York to Los Angeles to save money, publicly cutting the ...

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Seen 'Black Swan'? Yes, I'm In It!

Tina Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Winona Ryder, Natalie Portman, Acting, Black Swan, Makeup, Movies, Guiding Light, Ivanka Trump, Healthy Living News
Tina Sloan

So when someone says, "have you seen 'Black Swan,'" I get to smile and say" Oh, Yes I am in it" and watch them register. Oh such fun! One line!

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"As the World Turns" Cancellation Marks the End of an Era

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Cbs, Procter & Gamble, Guiding Light, Van Hansis, As the World Turns, Daytime Emmys, Entertainment News
Ed Martin

Companies put so much time and money into their efforts to establish household names that it always amazes me when they turn around and destroy one. ...

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In Brooklyn, the World Will Turn No More

Shani R. Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: NY Culture, Coney Island, Soap Operas, All My Children, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Atwt, Midwood Brooklyn, As the World Turns Canceled, New York News
Shani R. Friedman

When I heard CBS was canceling As the World Turns, I went into mourning for its escapist froth and for the effect its absence will have on Brooklyn

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Fan Mail From Prison

Tina Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Lillian Raines, The Inner Life, Prison Break, Tina Sloan, Guiding Light, Healthy Living News
Tina Sloan

It began when I was on the soap opera "Search for Tomorrow" and I got a letter in my fan mail from Marian State Penitentiary -- a brilliant letter filled with glorious poetry quoting Keats and Yeats and Shakespeare...

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"Life Unexpected": A Quiet Freshman Gem on The CW

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Austin Butler, Shiri Appleby, Dawson's Creek, Life Unexpected, Guiding Light, Tom Pelphrey, Reggie Austin, Jonathan Jackson, Britt Robertson, Friday Night Lights, Ksenia Solo, Rafi Gavron, Kerr Smith, Parenthood, Kristoffer Polaha, Austin Basis, General Hospital, Brothers & Sisters, Roswell, The CW, Entertainment News
Ed Martin

Unlike virtually all of the other shows on the CW, this one has an uncommonly ambitious storyline as its foundation and characters with so many layers to them it could take years to peel them all away.

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What's Wrong With Gay Sex?

Lesleyann Coker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Rihanna, Entertainment, Guiding Light, Janet Jackson, Adam Lambert, Gay, Procter & Gamble, One-Life-to-Live-Gay-Sex-Scene, Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve With Ryan Seacrest, Homosexuality, Gay Rights, Soap Opera, Soap Operas, One Life to Live, All My Children, Homophobia, Jimmy Kimmel, Abc, Good Morning America, Gay Issues, Entertainment News
Lesleyann Coker

ABC didn't balk after a half-naked Rihanna began her American Music Awards performance strapped to a torture device. Why was Adam Lambert's bisexually charged performance censured?

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Tiger Woods, Soap Star

Lesleyann Coker | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Tiger Woods Affair, Tiger Woods Scandal, Soap Operas, Guiding Light, As the World Turns, Tiger Woods, Entertainment News
Lesleyann Coker

Most people dismiss soap operas for their unbelievable story lines and exaggerated, some would say silly, drama. Why, then, is the nation transfixed by Tiger Woods' personal drama?

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Christmas Trees And 'Guiding Light' Memories

Tina Sloan | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Holiday, Tree, Soap Opera, Tina Sloan, Guiding Light, Christmas, Lights, Diva, Healthy Living News
Tina Sloan

Usually about Thanksgiving, soap opera actors and actresses start decorating their trees on the set of their house at the studio and usually there is something dramatic occurring 'round that tree.

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TV Tirade: Ellen DeGeneres on "American Idol," Kanye West on MTV, Jay Leno in Primetime and the End of "Guiding Light"

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Taylor Swift, Kanye West, Jerry Seinfeld, Jay Leno, Guiding Light, Ellen Degeneres, Adam Lambert, Tom Cruise, American Idol, Entertainment News
Ed Martin

The new television season officially begins on Monday -- and it can't get here soon enough.

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Daytime Emmys 2009: The Beginning of the End?

Ed Martin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Vanessa Williams, Daytime Emmys, Days of Our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, All My Children, Guiding Light, One Life to Live, Media News
Ed Martin

The genre's biggest night of the year, once a sparkling showcase for entertainment television, disappoints with a hurried, poorly directed show, telecast on one of the lowest rated weekends of the year.

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Lesbian "Guiding Light" Couple Gets Web Series After Soap's Cancellation

New York Times | LISA BERNHARD | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Crystal Chappell, Web Series, Venice, Otalia, Jessica Leccia, Guiding Light, Media News

Ms. Chappell said, "Like the audience I hated the idea of letting" the story line go. So she won't. She will try to keep the spirit of Otalia alive...

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"Let's Make A Deal" To Return To CBS In Place Of "Guiding Light"

AP | LYNN ELBER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Media
Read More: Wayne Brady Let's Make a Deal, Cbs, Wayne Brady, Guiding Light, Let's Make a Deal CBS, Let's Make a Deal, Media News

PASADENA, Calif. — The game show "Let's Make a Deal" is coming back to daytime television. CBS says that an updated version of the show will de...

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Mayor Laments The End Of "Guiding Light"

nytimes.com | Sewell Chan | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Michael Bloomberg Misses Guiding Light, Soap Opera, Mayor Misses Guiding Light, Mayor Michael Bloomberg Misses Guiding Light, Michael Bloomberg, New York, Guiding Light, New York News

At the "Made in NY" awards on Monday, Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg expressed his sadness that "Guiding Light," a drama that has been on the radio and te...

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'Guiding Light' Canceled After 72 Years

AP | DAVID BAUDER | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Cbs, Television, Guiding Light, Entertainment News

NEW YORK — CBS is pulling the plug on the soap opera "Guiding Light" after a 72-year run that predates television, the show a victim of the econ...

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"Guiding Light" Star Talks About Her Weight Loss Surgery

Us | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Gastric Band, Weight Loss, Women's Health, Guiding Light, Caitlin VanZandt, Celebrity Body, Entertainment News

After a lifelong battle with obesity, Caitlin VanZandt, of Guiding Light and The Sopranos, underwent a 45-minute laparoscopic adjustable gastric-bandi...

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