Guiding Light is getting a new look

February 17th, 2008 | Category: Daytime

CBS’s daytime drama Guiding Light celebrated its 71st year on the air on January 25. First, on radio, soon after and now on television, that grand old soap opera has never stopped telling its stories, making broadcast history. Production goes on, but starting February 29, 2008, viewers will be seeing Guiding Light in a sort new light. Led by innovative Executive Producer Ellen Wheeler, Guiding Light it busting out of the studio to starting filming in

a more realistic, cinema verite style. “Soap operas have been shot, by and large, the same way since the 1950’s, the same way I Love Lucy was shot - with pedestal cameras, in just a few interior sets,” said Ms. Wheeler recently. According to her, the “[it’s] old-fashioned, and it isn’t working anymore.”

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Original post by Allison Waldman

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