Summer is almost over, and for the most part, the majority of the soaps have survived cancellation.
Whew.
Of course, Guiding Light will fade out after 72 years on Sept. 18 in what will surely be the saddest event of the year.
However, Crystal Chappell’s October arrival on Days of our Lives as Carly Manning may be the light at the end of the tunnel for daytime TV.
And All My Children prepares to make its big move to La La Land at the end of the year.
What will happen? Who will die? And will anyone be watching?
Enjoy TVGuide.ca’s untraditional fall preview and see if you agree with our choices of the season’s stars to watch!
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Nelson Branco is a Toronto freelance entertainment journalist, who regularly contributes to Hello! Canada, The National Post, The Los Angeles Times' theenvelope.com, TV Guide USA, tvguide.com, Inside Entertainment, OUT, and fab magazine, along with spearheading the soap coverage for TVGuide.ca's popular daytime TV hub. After graduating from Ryerson University in 1997, he moved from Toronto to New York in 1998 to take on the roles as senior news editor at Soap Opera Update. Branco first freelanced for Soap Opera Weekly as an intern in 1994, and after leaving Soap Update to help create and launch Bauer Publishing's In Touch Weekly in 2003, Branco continued to freelance occasionally for its sister publication, Soaps In Depth. Most recently, he helped create and launch Canada's first celebrity magazine, Weekly Scoop in 2005 as its news and entertainment director. Branco is also a contributor to a new TV show titled Planet Soap to air in Canada and America.
