- Guiding Light, As The World Turns and All My Children have gone off the air. Low ratings, alleged low interest and escalating production costs are the reasons given. Fans disagree regarding low interest, but the reality is that at least in the case of Guiding Light and As The World Turns, the demographic that used to purchase the products that the show sponsors are selling has changed and their numbers are fewer. Procter and Gamble is one of the companies that put the soap in soap opera. Their target market has changed. All My Children has been picked by a production company, Prospect Park, and will hopefully be resurrected online, a reflection of the fact that many soap fans watch episodes online at any their convenience.
- Jake, the "love child" of General Hospital's Jason Morgan and Elizabeth Webber, died in a car accident, which the mileage varies on how well it was written. I felt like it was contrived. Others did as well especially since it was a bad retread of a prior storyline concerning BJ Jones and her cousin Maxie.
- Despite my ferverent prayers, Robin Scorpio remains married to Patrick Drake. To make matters more revolting, now the writiers look like they are making the psycho character Lisa pretty much the Sheila Carter on General Hospital. Meanwhile Sam is being terroried by Jason's favorite stalker, Franco. At this point, I think that Robin and Sam ought to divorce their husbands, get married, take Robin's daughter Emma and RUN.
- Speaking of General Hospital, Guza is out as head writer and Wolf is in. People have been happy for the most part with his changes-even me though there are some things as the above statement indicates, I want them to change.
- Young and the Restless, possibly listening to the gazillion tweets remembered that they had some characters of color, decided somewhat clumsily to connect them to the larger canvas again, especially through the longtime character Devon, who is now known to be the son of Tucker, who is the son of tent pole longtime character Kay Chancellor. One Life to Live, while not perfect, seemed to do better with using characters of color on their show. That is, integrating them into the main storyline versus their stories being segregated as they can be on Young and the Restless. So much so that in the Twitterverse the rare days in which the Black and other minority characters show up on Young and the Restless are known as CFD or Contract Fulfillment Days.
- Telenovelas. If you aren't watching La Casa al Lado, then you need to get with the program.
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