Topic: We're lucky they didn't do this to us, frankly
Topic Posted by: walter curtin
Date Posted: Mon Mar 10 17:08:31 2008
Additional Comments: P&G is now literally killing Guiding Light. They've ripped out the sets, thrown the actors into the woods, and started to assassinate the characters. Rikcy Paul Goldin has just left, and Beth Ehlers is sure to follow. On ATWT, the tide is also turning in this direction. We're kinda lucky, AW went out pretty much heads held high.
Posted by: Rosebud1 Date posted: Fri Mar 14 16:55:01 2008
Message: I don't see that AW was treated any better than GL. P&G planned, for yrs, to dismantle AW & make it unwatchable. Now they've done the same w/GL & ATWT. I said for yrs that the fans of ATWT & GL needed to embrace what they had when it was good (not excellent, but still good) because it COULD easily be worse. Now it is.
AW had a lot of blame put where it didn't belong, since EPs & HWs, just like now w/ATWT & GL, didn't have the power to change P&G's mind about the value of AW & soaps in general. They liked having the fans blaming EPs & HWs for their decisions--as though any of those EPs or HWs had any power to change the course of P&G's agenda.
Remember, P&G told the fans, cast & crew that there were NO PLANS to end production, just week(s) before the official announcement was made that AW had only 6-8 weeks of production left!