ellen dolan played kim on as the world turns.
ellen dolan played kim on as the world turns.
who played kim on as the world turns?
ellen dolan
as pressure to court the audience of younger-skewing abc daytime increased, various former-abc daytime stars were hired by "as the world turns" during the sheffer era. by 2004, it was felt by fans and executives that these stars were beginning to dominate the show and sheffer started making efforts to include longtime actors such as kathryn hays, don hastings, and helen wagner back into the story (although two other long-time actors, benjamin hendrickson and larry bryggman, who had a combined 54 years on "as the world turns", left the show that year in contract disputes.) under sheffer, "as the world turns" secured daytime emmy awards for outstanding drama series in 2001 and 2003, and for outstanding drama series writing team in 2001, 2002, and 2004. the sheffer era can probably be split into pre- and post-summer 2001, when mary alice dwyer-dobbin dictated changes in the writing staff. hal corley, stephen demorest, and richard j. allen were fired from the writing staff and replaced by female writers, in an attempt to "soften" the program. sheffer was against this move, stating to the media that he was "surrounded by women" in the "as the world turns" writing room.
history of as the world turns
although the eventual hit game show "family feud" ran against "as the world turns" from july 12, 1976, until april 22, 1977, it did not become a hit for abc until its move to the mornings. only when abc made its first move to a one-hour soap with "all my children" did trouble really began for "as the world turns" (and "days of our lives"), since abc kept that serial's starting time at 1:00/noon, meaning that fans of that serial who tuned to nbc or cbs would miss the last half of that day's storyline (or, contrariwise, would not, if they watched until the mid-program commercial break and then changed channels, pick up the "as the world turns" or "days of our lives" activities from the episode's beginning, since abc strategically placed its break several minutes after the bottom of the hour). further, "all my children's" emphasis on youth-oriented, sexier story lines provided a sharp contrast to the domestic, almost quaint tone of "as the world turns" (and to a lesser degree, the melodramatic, somewhat topical "days"). on january 16, 1978, abc ballooned its decade-old "one life to live" to the 2:00 pm/1:00 pm starting time, compounding the other networks' headaches. these factors helped contribute to the fall of "as the world turns" from the top spot in the ratings at the end of the 1978-79 season. after finishing the previous season tied with "another world" for number one in the nielsens, "as the world turns" fell to fourth behind "all my children", "general hospital", and "the young and the restless".
as the world turns