ellen wheeler
September 21, 2009
- Lights up. NEWBIE and OLDTIMER are discussing the final days of Guiding Light.NEWBIEOkay. First question: who was that guy with the hat who came to see Alex?OLDTIMERThat was Fletcher Reade. He used to be married to Holly.NEWBIEHolly? The same Holly who went off with Dr. Ed?OLDTIMERYes, they -- NEWBIEAnd where did that come from? I had no idea they even knew each other. They barely said ...
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April 19, 2009
- who's been taking some hits on the blogsphere for his comments to Soap Opera Digest regarding the cancellation of Guiding Light. In particular: It's a damn shame that this show is gone, as it's still a damn shame that ANOTHER WORLD is gone. The flip side of it is that you cannot reinvent the wheel. Not to name names, but in desperate times, desperate measures are sometimes the worst things to ...
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April 1, 2009
- If you're reading this, you've probably already heard the bad news. and, no, sad to say, it's not an April Fool's Day joke; but neither is the good news: NBC and DIRECTV announced a two-year pick-up for Friday Night Lights.This is particularly good news for me: the pick-up of FNL and cancellation of Guiding Light, rather than As the World Turns, means I won't have to rewrite my chapter for the ...
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March 31, 2009
- This morning I was writing when I noticed I received an e-mail. Taking a look at it, I noticed it was a forward e-mail. At first I thought oh geez, don’t be an e-mail where I have to forward it to ten friends and I’ll get lucky. No, it was Entertainment Weekly confirming a story that’s been in the air for days: Guiding Light, the oldest soap opera on the air, ...
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February 16, 2009
- I keep looking for the logic. How is it that Guiding Light ended up with a new production model and As the World Turns with a new narrative structure? Did TPTB figure that GL was so far down the shit chute that as long as Executive Producer, Ellen Wheeler, stayed within her paltry allowance they would stay out of her way? And because everyone knows that audiences complain about stories that drag ...
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February 15, 2009
- If you asked me a month ago - hell, a week ago - which of the two P&G soaps, As the World Turns or Guiding Light, had the better chance of survival, I, and astute soap observers going back more than ten years, would have said without hesitation, ATWT. GL has never fully recovered from the capricious decision to squander the show's history by killing off tent pole character, Maureen Bauer, in ...
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November 23, 2008
- There is certainly a lot to be said for the power of a subpoena. Last week, Congress sent the heads of the big three auto companies packing after they failed to explain how they would use the $25 billion of taxpayer's money they say they need to save their failing companies. Actually, what Congressional leaders said was something along the lines of, "Take a few days, say, twelve, and come ...
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