The Edge of Night to me now is a distant memory. I do remember it being canceled which I thought was a terrible shame. There is only 1 half hour soap on television today. So I am going to write about the importance of daytime drama to the New York City entertainment community. It was the backbone and a place for actors and actresses to work their days at a show and work evenings on stage doing theater. Sadly, the New York City entertainment community is not growing as it once did before. Most people can't afford to live in the area to begin with and opt to work in Los Angeles or Toronto. I wish New York City Film and television would pay attention to these soaps cancellation as a warning that they shouldn't be happening. The Edge of Night was a brief memory. I remember coming home and it would be on at 4:00 P.M. and now it's Oprah. I do not mind talk shows but I do the growing choices of daytime dramas. I still think these shows have produced some of the finest actors and actresses today. At 28 years, the network yanked it off the screen and replaced it with Loving which would be canceled in less than 10 years later. Maybe they should have kept Edge of Night on along with the others. Every time a soap gets canceled, I just feel like losing a member of my family. I don't remember much about Edge of Night but the last episode. Now NYC only produces 4 soaps, the youngest soap of theirs being All My Children at 35. At least L.A. has 5 and it's youngest is 7 years old. I don't care where American soaps are made but that they are made.
Review of The Edge of Night
The Edge of Night
(1956–1984)
On the edge of your seat! Another longtime soap bites the dust!
2 May 2006