My old journalism professor always said to wait 24 hours before you write about something you feel passionate about. Well, forget that. In 1996 when he was teaching me those lessons, the Internet was just a place where you looked up pictures of your fave celebs naked, and/or chatted on ICQ. Today is a new day and I want to share my thoughts on All My Children's breathtaking finale while I'm still reeling from the excitement of it all.

In a word, I thought the finale was wonderful, simply wonderful. After decades of seeing soap operas limp to the finish line in their final weeks, All My Children gave us some of the best episodes we've seen in years during the past month. While, I wasn't a big fan of the umbrella story that got us here (David Hayward bringing back several characters from the dead),  boy-oh-boy did those beloved characters shine, as this soap headed for the cliff, where executive producer Julie Hanan Caruthers (Someone I don't praise often!), Agnes Nixon and Lorraine Broderick expertly perched it, in hopes that fans will follow the soap online when Prospect Park hopefully debuts it this January. READ MORE

The Cleveland Plain Dealer has a poignant interview up with Canary—as well as TV Guide's Michael Logan—discussing both Canary's epic run on the series and the legacy of Agnes Nixon's All My Children — the first soap to mix humor with social relevance. Said Canary on his dual role:

"Playing twins on a five-day-a-week show was one of the best gigs of my life," Canary said from his home in Connecticut. "It forced me to stay in shape, both physically and mentally. I 'made believe' in more acute angles than I thought possible. I played two people at once, and I knew them both from their loftiest dreams to their nastiest schemes. It was a gas. And, man, was it fun." READ MORE

Remember that two-hour finale for All My Children I  told you would be happening? Well it looks like it's being scrapped, now that AMC is set to continue online, courtesy of new production company Prospect Park. According to sources, AMC will now only be getting a normal one-hour finale on ABC Daytime.

In other news, I'm hearing what was planned to be lengthier story arcs featuring such fan faves as Adam Chandler (David Canary) and Brooke English (Julia Barr) had to be shortened due to budgetary constraints.

"Agnes[Nixon] and Lorraine [Broderick] wanted Adam and Brooke for three weeks, but it ends up being only a handful of episodes, because of the budget," says a source.

All My Children's star-studded network television finale airs Sept. 23.  Prospect Park has stated they plan to launch an online continuation of the serial just three days later on Sept. 26. 

I am in denial. Today is the day one of my all-time favorite actors, David Canary, and his character Adam Chandler jet off into the sunset of retirement on the arm of the wonderful Brooke English (Julia Barr).

Contrary to what readers and listeners might think, it wasn’t Rebecca Budig’s Greenlee that hooked me on All My Children in the late 1990s, it was David Canary and Adam Chandler. Thanks to Canary’s dynamic performances as both Adam and Stuart, Adam’s plotting and corporate raiding and every single one of Adam’s many wives, even when the show was AWFUL – and it has had several periods of awfulness since I started watching – I still tuned in to find out what Adam would do next.

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