It’s a simple rule of parenthood: whatever you deny your kids will become their addiction later in life. My genius mom and dad prohibited TV, and now television is my crack (apparently they majorly denied me Cadbury eggs and Internet porn as well.)I love TV night and day, even though lately the medium has been crushing my heart. "Arrested Development" and "Studio 60" were yanked off the air. NBC moved Leno to 10 p.m. And now, my favorite soap will be no more, as “Guiding Light” is being cancelled.
Including its original radio version, GL has been on for the air for 72 years. I chose it over other soaps back in college because it had the most fabulous chicks on afternoon TV.
Today, for me as an actor, the cancellation doesn’t bode well as more and more jobs disappear. “Guiding Light” produced some big stars, including James Earl Jones, Calista Flockhart, Hayden Panettiere, Kevin Bacon and Taye Diggs.
The show’s final episode airs September 18th. The Jets had better have won their opener that week, or I’m climbing into a clock tower with a bolt-action rifle and picking off pedestrians.
