Media / Guiding Light CBS Axes As the World Turns Soap ends 54-year run in September By Nick McMaster, Newser Staff Posted Dec 8, 2009 2:02 PM CST Copied Van Hansis, left, as Luke Snyder and Jake Silbermann as Noah Mayer on "As the World Turns". (AP Photo/John Paschal-JPI Studios,Proctor & Gamble Productions) CBS is canceling As the World Turns, ending a soap saga that has run for more than half a century. The last episode will air in September. The network's move, coming 3 months after the cancellation of Guiding Light, will leave just six soap operas on the air—and ABC's One Life to Live is rumored to be next, Entertainment Weekly reports. (More Guiding Light stories.) Report an error