As The World Turns has clocked up over 13,000 episodes in its time on air but recent years have seen ratings tumble down. It is currently the lowest rated daytime soap alongside ABC series One Life to Live. Despite its low ratings the series still has a loyal, if small, following and one of the most popular storylines of recent years has been the gay romance between Luke Synder (Van Hansis) and Noah Mayer (Jake Silbermann)—affectionately dubbed ‘Nuke’ by some. Fans of the super-couple are hoping that the finale of As The World Turns will include a sunset ending for their favourite gay couple.

Here are several more articles about ATWT’s replacement (without Nuke mentions):

1. CBS Orders Daytime Talk Show to Replace “As the World Turns”
2. “As The World Turns” Replaced By Chat Show Featuring Julie Chen
3. CBS To Debut Panel Talk Show For Moms
4. CBS Announces “View”-Like Talk Show
5. CBS to Launch Celebrity-Hosted Daytime Talk Show

See the slideshow here!

A small selection of highlights are below:

A few highlights from June 3^rd:

I apologize for being so slow with screencaps lately. I plan to catch up and cap the episodes I’ve skipped soon. And I’ll try to be quicker about screencaping future episodes too. Hopefully, I’ll have caps from today’s episode posted very soon!

A few highlights from Wednesday:

I apologize for falling behind with the screencaps. I’ll try to catch up as soon as possible. Screencaps from today’s episode will be posted by tomorrow!

There’s not many since Luke and Noah only shared two scenes together.

Luke and Noah kissed for the 53^rd time in the episode. See caps of that kiss here!

Luke and Noah shared their 52^nd kiss in the episode. See screencaps of it here!

Screencaps from today’s episode will be up by tomorrow!

Sorry these are so late! Screencaps from today’s episode will be up as soon as possible.

The Hook-Up: They’re the soaps’ first gay teen supercouple. Out Luke feared he had fallen for a straight guy when his feelings for buddy Noah started to deepen, but when the two shared a “pretend” kiss, Noah began to realize his true feelings for Luke, and soon after, fans started referring to them by their supercouple name, “Nuke.”

And They Lived Happily Ever After?: They’ve certainly weathered more than their fair share of drama, most notably attempts by Noah’s homophobic dad to kill them and a recent accident that left Noah blinded, but Nuke has so far managed to stay together and engage in daytime soaps’ first (and second and third) on-screen gay male kiss.

See the full list here. Several other As the World Turns couples made the list (including Holden and Lily).

I also added screenshots from the episode that aired on May 20, 2008!

I also posted screencaps from the episode that aired on April 23, 2008. You can see those here.