After a lot of debate and months of concerned speculation among its still numerous fans, CBS has just announced that ‘Guiding Light‘ will be put out for good on September 17.
According to The Guinness Book of World Records, ‘Light’ debuted on NBC Radio on January 25th, 1937, then moved to CBS Television in 1952. Created and sponsored by the soap manufacturers, Procter and Gamble [whose connection gave the genre its name,] it is now the longest-running continually-produced television show in the nation’s history.
I’ve never been a fan of the genre myself, but anything that causes unemployed Actors is poison to me. And the show gives a large swathe of people – last measured at 2.1-million – some well-loved and harmless enjoyment, so its undeserved closure after 72-years is also a slight and a very sad loss to those loyal viewers.
Apparently CBS has plans to replace Guiding Light with an updated version of The Pyramid Game – which was last on the air in 1988. So their brilliant idea is to cancel a show that’s followed and loved by 2-million people and replace it with one so vastly unpopular, they already canceled it once!
