After over 50 years on air, the CBS soap opera that launched the careers of Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, and Julianne Moore finally closed shop. Today was it's 13,858th and last episode. Happy endings for everybody!
Long-running soap opera As the World Turns has taped its 13,858th and final episode
Soap operas do everything over-the-top, and obviously alcoholism would be no exception. As The World Turns' take on drunk will put your drinking this weekend into perspective—as long as you don't look like this you'll be okay.
CBS actually dropped the ax earlier today so by the time David Faber talked to Moonves, he'd probably already heard the show will end next September. But it was probably a call from his wife, Jenny: Jenny Faber's mother is Marie Masters, who started in the role of Dr. Susan Stewart in 1968. She left the show in 1979…
This morning CBS announced that it would be canceling the soap, which has been on air for over 50 years. Earlier in the year, it ended the longest-running soap of all time, Guiding Light. Are soaps dead?
Eric Burns, NOT pictured, plays dreamy police officers on soap operas like All My Children and As The World Turns. To unwind, he sometimes likes to spend some time relaxing at a club — say, after a few cognacs and four shots of vodka, as was apparently the case one night in August at Club Mansion. Then, around 4:50…
The Times noticed something about the soap opera As The World Turns, which has featured three oh-so-groundbreaking gay kisses in the past year: It is the only soap opera that has gained young viewers over the past seven months. All the other soaps lost young people and are basically left with olds and adult diaper…
Luke and Noah, the young gay couple on As The World Turns, finally got to kiss again. They had a landmark make out many months ago, but then endured a long dry spell that had fans on the edge of their wicker seats. Speculation (or, you know, fact) abounded that Procter & Gamble, the show's sponsor, had put the kibosh…
Much like on Will & Grace, where Will was scared of pee-pees and never wanted to see (let alone touch) one, As The World Turns geigh couple Noah and Luke never want to kiss. OK, to be fair, they have kissed, in "groundbreaking" fashion, making them the first gay men to kiss on a daytime soap. But the last time they…
