CBS recently announced that the last episode of Guiding Light will air on September 18, 2009.

Guiding Light ran for 72 years and had over 15,000 episodes. A statement on CBS didn’t disclose the reason for pulling the series of off the air and didn’t give further information on what will fill the time slot.

The show stars Tina Sloan as Lillian Raines, Ron Raines as Alan Spaulding.

CBS Entertainment president Nancy Tellem said, “Guiding Light has achieved a piece of television history that will never be matched; it has crossed mediums, adapted its stories to decades of social change and woven its way through generations of audiences like no other, this daytime icon will always be an indelible part of CBS’s history…. Its contributions will always be celebrated and never be forgotten.”