OT: Prospect Park indefinitely shelves OLTL, AMC set to return

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Prospect Park indefinitely shelves One Life to Live, AMC set to return

[Uncle Roger]

Sigh!!

I'd like to think that this will all be resolved quickly and efficiently but I'm not overly optimistic.

[Patti Feinberg]

I, unfortunately, also agree that this won't 'go away' quietly.
I think it'll be the last we see of OLTL....

Patti

[Brian]

I'm not optimistic, either.  I subscribed to Hulu+ in April so I could watch OLTL on my TV.  I cancelled that subscription today.  I hope others do, too, and maybe a message will be sent.  But I doubt it. 

[David]

In order for them to get the message, you have to tell them why you cancelled the service.

I wonder if hiding behind the lawsuit is a face saving measure? When the two shows aired on OWN this summer, AMC's ratings were high, One Life's were not.

[Patti Feinberg]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/03/one-life-to-live-not-returning-lawsuit-limbo_n_3860852.html

Boo!!

 

Patti, who also doesn't have Me-TV (cuz I get stuck w/crappy SATTELITE).

[Uncle Roger]

Maybe it isn't over yet. I spoke with Jerry ver Doren (Clint Buchanan)  yesterday and he seemed to feel that the Prospect Park/ABC lawsuit was a nuisance suit that could be resolved out of court. He felt that production could resume by the end of the year.

Fingers crossed!

[Mysterious Benefactor]

Honestly, unless I missed something along the way, I don't understand how ABC thinks they even have a leg to stand on when they're the ones that killed off OLTL characters that were just on loan to them by Prospect Park. Yes, at the time Prospect Park wasn't moving ahead with bringing OLTL back, but Prospect Park still owned the characters, ABC didn't. At the very least, ABC should have approached Prospect Park about killing off the characters. But apparently they didn't.

[Cousin_Barnabas]

Why does it matter if they were killed off?  It's another show, another company, another universe.  Just ignore it or make up a "twin" plot.  It's been done before.

[michael c]

i'm not following this little saga too much but since ABC is the one that decided to cancel these series what on earth use do they have for those characters? why do they care?


ABC should just get out of this and focus on it's own programming.

[David]

 
 

Establish that it was their parrallel time counterparts who died, or have a mad scientist resurrect their bodies!
 

[michael c]

i'm not sure what this means but I just read that an AMC actor named Thorsten Kaye who was apparently a key player has defected to 'the bold and the beautiful'...


the pivotal role of "Ridge Forrester" has been recast as the actor who originated the part since the series' premier departed.

[michael c]

sorry I cannot post a link but I recently read that both of CBSs daytime soaps, 'the young and the restless' and 'the bold and the beautiful', have had large ratings increases in in recent months...


I wonder if perhaps ABC ever regrets it's very rash decision to cancel most of it's remaining soaps.

[David]

 

All the soaps have had large ratings increases this past year.
One Life ratings were good and rising at the end of the ABC run. Brian Frons, then head of ABC Daytime, was out to destroy the soap genre, come hell or high water.
He "resigned" right after One Life left ABC and hasn't been heard from since.

[David]

Big announcement RE: both shows coming Friday the 8th.