ABC Cancels Soaps All My Children and One Life to Live  

How is Susan Lucci going to get nominated for Emmys now? ABC announced that long running daytime mainstays All My Children and One Life to Live will go off the air in September and January, respectively. Both soaps are being replaced by health-related talk shows. The twin cancellations will leave James Franco’s playground General Hospital as the network’s only remaining daytime drama. And just four soaps total will be on the air — General Hospital on ABC, Days of Our Lives on NBC, The Young & The Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful on CBS.
The network also announced the shows’ replacements, are a Mario Batali-hosted food show called “The Chew” will premiere in September, and a health/lifestyle transformation show called “The Revolution” featuring Project Runway’s Tim Gunn, trainer Harley Pasternak and Kimberly Locke, who completed in the second season of American Idol. Premiering in January these hosts and a revolving pool of contributors will “help viewers transform all areas of their lives, from relationships to family, food, style, home design, finance and more,” according to ABC’s announcement.  So are Soaps a dying breed now or will they get popular again in the future?
Source - HMG