Well, first CBS extinguished the Light, and now the corporate giant has stopped the World from turning.  Sounds like media executive edicts of biblical proportions.  What’s next, they make the Bold move to eat their Young?  Not much would surprise me.

Now that ATWT has been canceled, I wonder what will take its time slot?  Let’s Make a Deal, is there an overwhelming desire to bring back Match Game?  After all, CBS needs somewhere to put it’s pseudo celebrities from Big Brother and Survivor.  Perhaps a talk show?  I heard Balloon Dad has hot air to share.  No matter, daytime programming is losing its history to cheap imitations of warmed over mush the likes for which I have no appetite.   As long as daytime network programming continues to offer up dollar menu selections, I will continue to find my fill from the full plate that cable and the internet provide.

As the World Turns will air its final episode in September of 2010.  Will ABC’s OLTL follow All My Children’s once and future king, Charles Pratt, to the unemployment line?  Move over Venice and Gotham.  By 2011, I’m predicting many more series with municipal monikers will populate the world wide web, thus freeing up creativity from the stifling clutches of standards, practices, and just bad management.  It wouldn’t surprise me a bit to see Procter and Gamble, hat in hand, trying to ride the Tide.

Stay tuned…