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CBS renews Guiding Light for another year

Harley and CyrusIt's with a big sigh of relief that I report that Michael Logan at TV Guide has confirmed that CBS has booked Guiding Light for one more year. That'll make it 72 years of continuous broadcasting -- radio and television. No program can match Guiding Light's longevity, and I would hate to see CBS cancel a show with this kind of legacy.

That said, Guiding Light needs to have a better year going forth than they've had looking back. In fact, since tying with The Young and the Restless last June as Outstanding Daytime Drama at the Emmys, the show has been going through major transitions. The new style of filming, shooting on locations in a New Jersey town that's being used as the fictional Springfield, began on February 29, and it hasn't been welcomed by the critics or viewers.

Logan asked CBS Daytime chief Barbara Bloom about the format. Her response? "I agree that some of the camera work is shaky and frenetic and some of the close-ups are too tight - and that maybe we've broken rules that didn't need to be broken - but this is a work in progress. We're just a few weeks into this new production model. I think everybody who's complaining needs to lighten up."

Al-righty then. Seriously, if the storytelling improves -- and I have faith in headwriter David Kreitzman and Executive Producer Ellen Wheeler that it will -- the camera work won't seem as distracting. The fact that the entire Phillip Spaulding coming back to town story has turned out to be a hoax is a disappointment. I would have liked to have seen Grant Aleksander's return. But, as Ms. Bloom suggests, I'll give the show a bit more time with the cinema verite stuff. I'm just glad CBS is committed for one more year.

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