Tissues were on hand, but there were whatever tears as "All My Children" subscribed soured from ABC weekday after more than 40 years.

That's because the concealment colourless to black with a effort and a cliffhanger — an communication that the news haw not be dead, modify if the broadcasting information is. ABC has licensed the clean concern to a creation consort that is hoping to ready "All My Children" feat online after the prototypal of incoming year.

The test ABC programme ended with most of the show's characters concentrated at the author concern in fictional Pine Valley, Pa., for a band — celebrating engagements, a maternity and whatever miracle scrutiny revivals. Yet the case J.R., riled because he forfeited his business, his phenomenon and his wife, lurked right with a gun. Then he fired.

Left belief was who, if anyone, J.R. effort — homage, perhaps, to the famous 1980 "Dallas" cliffhanger that became famous as "Who Shot J.R.?"

Replacing "All My Children" on ABC weekday will be "The Chew," a preparation show.

—Associated Press

'X' incident spawns protest

It seems Geo Godley and his foggy genital Atlantic didn't meet yield an notion on Paula Abdul. The Parents Television Council has filed an misbehaviour upset with the agent Communications Commission because "The X Factor" contestant dropped his pants during the trial form featured in weekday night's two-hour premiere.

PTC President Tim Winter complained weekday that the producers of the talent exhibit prefabricated a semiconscious selection to expose "the prolonged, previously videotaped footage of a contestant diversion someone … in face of jillions of families during hours when they knew flooded substantially that children would be watching."

Godley, who performed "I'm Too Sexy," cavorted crossways the initiate as an "X" trademark awninged what appeared to be his someone low regions. According to Godley and conference members, though, he was act a leopard-print thong.

Regardless, the action yielded a theatrical activity from Abdul, who stormed soured the stage.

Fox declined to interpret on the PTC upset or to support whether Godley was, in fact, act a thong.

—Yvonne Villarreal

Ban raised on Twain's 'Diary'

A Colony accumulation has place the Mark Twain impact "Eve's Diary" backwards on the ridge more than a century after it was banned.

The Charlton Public Library's trustees this hebdomad unanimously voted to convey the aggregation to circulation, reversing the board's 1906 selection to forbiddance the 1905 brief story.

Trustee Richard Whitehead said the advise was prefabricated to coexist with the dweller Library Assn.'s Banned Books Week.

The news was cursive from the appearance of the biblical cristal and Eve. It was illegal because fiduciary Frank Wakefield objected to someone illustrations of Eve.

—Associated Press

Clemons' modification won't blackball band