The soap opera industry is dying a slow and very painful death.
Guiding Light
being the first casualty, and when viewers had finally digested the fact that they would no longer be able to see the characters they had watched their entire life, CBS then went and canceled GL's sister soap,
As The World Turns
. Suddenly, no soap opera was safe. Everyone began doing whatever they could to try and cut costs. Days Of Our Lives cut
Deidre Hall
And
Drake Hogestyn
without batting a eyelash, only to promote
Alison Sweeny
while her fire was hot.
