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EXCLUSIVE: ABC’s canceled daytime dramas All My Children and One Life to Live may be returning to television. I hear that Prospect Park, the company that licensed the soaps from ABC and plans to relaunch them online in the first quarter of 2012, is meeting with cable networks — both big-tent, general entertainment networks and female-centered nets — about TV sales of the two series and is getting interest. Under its agreement with ABC, Prospect Park has the right to carve out a traditional TV window, which, at least for now, is expected to come after the episodes premiere online. Prospect Park has cable ties — the company co-produces the hit USA Network drama Royal Pains. Repeats of All My Children and One Life to Live have been airing on cable, on Disney’s SoapNet, which will be rebranded to Disney Jr. early next year, around the time the two soaps migrate to the Web and possibly another cable channel. Prospect Park is currently talking with unions, trying to hammer out the terms of collective bargaining agreements for the cast and the crews of the two series. (Despite reports, the company does not have a deal with ABC to license the network’s other daytime drama, General Hospital, if the network cancels it.) Prospect Park has said that All My Children and One Life to Live will “continue to be delivered with the same quality and in the same format and length,” meaning that the company plans to deliver five broadcast-quality episodes a week each of the two soaps. All My Children will end its run on ABC on Sept. 23, One Life to Live in January 2012.
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NBC should pick up the two soap operas.
I hope they can find a cable channel for AMC and OLTL!!! I really don’t look forward to watching the shows on a smaller screen.
Soapnet should be the channel!!!
PLEASE!!!!!
SoapNet is going away. It is being rebranded as Disney jr. so there will be no more Soapnet.
Where did you read this?
There have been a ton of articles. Disney has lost its mind! At one point it was to be a new “women’s network” called “Carrie” as in “Bradshaw.” Apparently Lifetime, WEN & OWN aren’t enough, or are doing such lucrative business that Disney wanted another.
…before they didn’t. Wonder if their lawyers looked at “Carrie” and saw “Lawsuit!” Now it’s yet another Disney channel with 2 (maybe 3) soaps replace by “the Chaw,” “the Revulsion” and a new Katie Couric vehicle that manages to be less alluring to me than the previous two duds.
DISNEY, I WILL NOT TAKE MY GRANDCHILDREN TO YOUR D. WORLD PARK AGAIN EVER!!!!!
Oh grow up for crying out loud!!! Don’t punish the kids over a tv show !!
If you have a flat panel TV and a notebook computer, you can buy a cable to connect the two. Then you can stream video using your computer, and you can watch the program on your big screen TV. Any geek at BestBuy or Fry’s Electronics can show you how. Easy!
Where on the web will be able to watch abc soaps whats the web page??????
I, and MANY other people I know, agree with you and hope they return to television and not just online. PLEASE, PLEASE bring AMC & One Life to Live back as soon as possible !!!!!!
what can i say i mis all my children i hope it returns i believe abc made a big mistake.
A night time cable channel should pick up OLTL and AMC
I agree, All my children and One Life to live should go on soapnet. At least they had good stories behind them.
NBC cancelled Another World in 1999 and started this whole mess. I wouldn’t want an NBC exec anywhere NEAR my favourite soaps!
HONESTLY IT WASNT NBC. IT WAS PROCTOR AND GAMBLE FOR WANTING OUT OF THE SOAP OPERA BUSINESS. THATS WHY GUIDING LIGHT, AS THE WORLD TURNS, AND ANOTHER WORLD WENT BYE BYE UNFORTUNATELY.
I’d love to see them bring back Another World as well! It will never happen but that was always my favorite!
I hope soap fans will boycott the new shows on ABC and make them
think twice abput what they have done. I did a soap opera talk
show for years and soap fans are the greatest and most
supported fans .
I have stopped watching ABC except for the soaps since April 14th. ABCFamily and the umpteen Disney channels are blocked on my satellite box.
I will not watch any thing on abc if they take my soaps away… I will find any thing else to watch but their shows…
Instead of quitting ABC, why don’t you just stop using Proctor & Gamble’s products. They did all the cancelling, not ABC. DUH!!!
what about cbs picking up both amc and oltl
CBS axed two iconic, long-running soaps in the last two years. Why would they take on ABC’s castoffs? Not happening. The reality is that with escalating production costs and declining viewing levels, most soaps are no longer financially viable to stay on the air. I’m sure CBS has no regrets replacing GL and ATWT with the much cheaper-to-produce Let’s Make a Deal and The Talk, respectively. Even though the ratings are roughly the same as the soaps, both of the latter shows are profitable for CBS, where the soaps weren’t anymore. That’s business.
It really doesn’t matter who picks up AMC and OLTL as long as they’re both still on. (been watching both soaps for 28 yrs). I definitely will not be a fan of ABC anymore. I hope their ratings hit rock bottom…..
Totally agree once OLTL is finished on ABC my tv will never be on that channel again.
I am finding that after these two Favorites are off the Air the ONLY good thing on ABC, will be Wipeout.
I don’t know anything about watching tv on the internet. How will we be able to access the shows. The only thing I can find on Prospect Park are the stories about them taking over the show but nothing else. No website with a list of shows or how to get to a show, Someone help??
I agree with this comment, too. I will never watch “The Chew” and as little as possible on ABC. I hope their ratings PLUMMET !!
I agree TOTALLY!!! CBS should take on AMC & OLTL, CBS is the main channel I watch in general and they seem to know what they are doing as far as entertainment…I HATE they are taking these two Soaps away from us HIGHLY DEVOTED fans…COME ON CBS, PICK THESE BABIES UP!!!!
Or Fox or Lifetime….someone. On the cabe TV Guide Channel tonight they had on TV’s Biggest Blunders. They said NBC x’ld Baywatch after one season and then it was picked up in syndication and continued on for 11 years. Perhaps these soaps could be one of ABC’s ‘biggest blunders’. Whoever picks them up (someone should be smart enough) can steal all of ABC’s daytime viewers!!
I think that someone will pick them up. Lossing these shows are like losing part of your family. They have been around for generations. ABC have lost a GREAT thing. My family will follow AMC and OLTL where ever they go and cancel ABC. Everyone need to do something to bring these show back to TV.
I will watch OLTL where it lands, and have stopped watching all ABC programming except OLTL and GH. I hope their new talk shows bomb and OLTL and AMC continue. even if they go to 1/2 hour each, it is better than being cancelled. OLTL to better than any night time show and better than ever. I Love the 2 Todds and of course David Vickers.
So many of my friends and I so hope Prospect does put OLTL on t.v. Why have this Soap Network just to put on re-runs. CBS, ABC will never convince me that their ratings for The Price is Right and another Women’s Gab show make any ratings worth adv. dollars. Sometimes the Soaps have too many “family” story lines going on like Y&R has with tired old Geanie Francis on, and releasing Maura West.
Keep me posted.
Judith Hart
I agree. I will not watch “the chew” on ABC nor anything else.
Respectfully, Dayle in Fla.
I agree with you Nbc should pick it up..it will pick up their ratings..Thats how abc got so popular with soaps..
plz let the soaps back on,dont really matter what station.
Please bring back the soaps -cable or internet!!!
I was so sad to see these two soaps go as I grew up with them. Working the night shift, these two soaps were like part of the family. Had hoped Oporah’s network would of picked them up as from what i understand, her network is not doing so well. If she had picked up these soaps, imagine the viewers that would of tuned in. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK!!!
IT SEEMS THAT THE NETWORKS ARE CANCELLING THE SOAPS AND GOOD DRAMAS FOR REALITY SHOWS WHICH I NEVER WATCH. I MISS ALL MY CHILDREN!!! I WATCH MORE CABLE CHANNELS, TNT, USA, ETC, SINCE THEY NOW SEEM TO HAVE THE BETTER SHOWS ( ROYAL PAINS, WHITE COLLAR, RISOLLI & ISLES, FALLING SKYS AND MANY MORE). SOON THE NETWORKS WILL BE OBSOLETE.
Bring this back to TV
Thats 2 showes i would love to see start from the begging.
I have been campaigning for this via letters to anyone I thought might have influence. Great IDea!!!!!!!!!!
nbc or cbs should pick up these soaps nbc so they have more then just days. though odds are the things could wind up on lifetime or even oprahs network or . given that prospect park produces for u.s a maybe they can work out a deal there. this just proves soaps are harder to kill.
Oprah has already said no to picking up the soaps and
Lifetime is owned by Disney who also own ABC so I don’t think they will pick them up either.
i would love pp to find a home on tv for our soaps,love it,it would best for them, best for the actors, plus imo best for the soaps that will keep going on, one thing please make sure you get good creative writers,i know the reason why amc is going off on abc because they brought in bad writers that killed the other soaps,they only want mostly reality tv,on they sabatoge the soaps to make the fans mad and leave ,plus oh one more thing do not make a soap g rated, that also killed it imo! Btw on whoever said send to Opera she has already turn them down, she only wants cheap reality crap tv, and that why her tv station is not doing good you have to have mix in your line up!but anyway orah having major problems with her network duh plus she really should not been so harsh on soap fans, they were only grasping and hopeing she would help,i am sure she was getting million of ppl begging she had to do something ,but imo she could have been nicer just my opinion! but bring on the soaps on tv, it i a must!
Actually, Lifetime is owned by A&E Television Networks (yes, that A&E); Disney does have a stake in Lifetime, as Disney and Hearst Corporation (who owns the ABC affiliate where I live) are both majority owners of AETN/Lifetime with 42.5%, NBCUniversal owns the remaining share that Disney and Hearst don’t.
Didn’t Disney sell its interest in Lifetime?? Anyway, Prospect Park already has a hit show, Royal Pains, on USA. It would make sense to air the soaps there.
I also believe they do Wilfred, which is hilarious.
That is what Oprah gets for being soooo greedy. I would have been a loyal viewer of her channel, if she hadn’t been so ugly to us soapers. I’m glad her channel is going down. Also, she doesn’t ever have anything good on her channel. She got bad advice when she sold Oxygen.
If Prospect has Roayl P..on USA, I agree, why not have OLTL – I don’t watch AMC on USA. Just because P&G didn’t want to produce the shows doesn’t mean they weren’t watched. As I said in a previous comment, they have too many Families going on sometimes, i.e. like dragging out tired old Geanie Francis on Y&R which I have always watched vs. letting Maura West go that I watch on ATWT from the time she started.
I never saw Oprah in my life, but with her gazillions of dollars, and her own network not doing well, you would think she would want to produce the soaps
It wont be on OWN, Oprah said day after cancelation notice that she would not save the soaps
a) Oprah never starred in a soap.
b) They would be in competition with any future endeavor of hers.
Oprah didn’t star in a soap, but she played a day gig on AMC as a TV host.
Who cares what Oprah thinks we dont need her help in saving soaps.She is not doing that well in Own anyway..its boring.
There is alot of channels in cable..I think nbc should pick it up it will boost up their rating.Thats why abc rating is high..
Any soap would certainly be better than Oprah”s friend Rosie, who takes up most of the time on OWN.
I wouldn’t watch Rosie if she was the last tv personality in the world.
The broadcast networks don’t want soaps, illiterate delusional moron–GET A LIFE!
You get a life! Why would someone waste their time to post about something they don’t care about? Looks like you’re the delusional moron, not us.
ABC is foolishly jumping into daytime “reality” shows at a point when the genre is losing the public’s interest & with less than inspired offerings, to boot. It was, however, wise of them to license the soaps so that when the crap they’re replacing them with fails, they can admit stupidity & bring them home.
The bar is set rather low for The Chew and The Revolution in terms of ratings, and ABC will give them ample time to get their footing. Even if they garner ratings slightly below those of the soaps (which ABC even expects), they’ll still be more profitable for them because they’re much cheaper to produce than the soaps. And even if one or both new programs ultimately fail, I’m sure ABC will plug in other low-cost talk, reality, or perhaps game shows until something clicks. It amazes me how delusional many soap fans are about the current waning state of the genre. It stands to reason that many of you wouldn’t know the first thing about what it takes to be successful running any kind of business in the real world, let alone in broadcasting.
It you knew what you were talking about then maybe you would make sense. You’re the IDIOT, not the soap viewers!!
Have you seen whats being offered???? wrestlingin creeks with Catfish that are 60 lbs? PIcker sisters?????? to say nothing about…Swamp wars…or Rattle snake round ups? WHAT ON EARTH is going on with the networks WHO IS HIRING THESE OBSURB PEOPLE who are dreaming up such stuff and calling it entertaining. TODDLERS AND TIARAS??? Dancing Moms??? Chefs who are so foul mouthed and abusive to thier hopefuls its shameless…Take a look people…no wonder our government is so messed up? DEMAND MORE MEANINGFUL programing…DEMAND HAPPY, GENTLE FUN. DONT BUY THIER ADVERTISERS PRODUCTS til they say OK OK…WE GET THE POINT. LOOK at how long quality Programing lasts…how long have the Golden Girls been Rerunning? how many times have you seen each episode? AND I Still watch them im preference to REALITY TV. funny thing I still laugh. WAKE UP NET WORKS>>> AND AMERICA!!! TAKE BACK THE TELEVISON AND OUR GOVERNMENT…SPEAK UP…we can do this…
I agree with you 100%.trash tv,just because they want to find the cheapest shows possible tv is going down the tube.Flip anywhere its so bad flip to movie channel.I like reality shows that are real like deadliest catch,whale wars etc.Not stupid scripted bad acting wanting 15 minutes of fame shows there putting on.Now karoke night.Give me a break.Its getting so overdone can’t stand any of them anymore.Who’s baby daddy,fighting housewives.partying adult acting like idiots.Our kids have nothing but trash tv to watch.
NBC I think is happy with Days, as the show is revamping in the fall and will get a boost from that and not having AMC/OLTL competition.
Oh please I hope for this!
Quit dangling this stuff in front of soap fans, the shows are over and so is the medium. Let it go and move on! It’s just like prime time fans who won’t let go of Arrested Development, Friday Night Lights, etc. IT’S OVER
The Soap medium is not done. This would be great news if it comes to pass.
Hey Enough, why the sour grapes? We love our shows and want them where we can get them. Get over it!If you feel that way why are you here?
Exactly! People love to be negative I have found. More people will take the time to complain about something than to compliment it. I for one will follow these two soaps wherever they go as well.
I think you should take your half empty cup and ride away in the sunset!
Stop watching reality TV.
No I do not think it is over, we wil at least get them online. I think ABC/Disney realized the loyal viewers would BE loyal and not stand for cancellation of a piece of history
YOU ARE AN IDIOT
Why are you reading about soaps if you’re convinced that they’re passe? Most soap fans have an attention span greater than five minutes.
This shows that PP are fully committed to giving their audience what we want!!! If you haven’t yet, mail out your coupons for The SOS campaign… available in Globe Magazine this week!!!
This is a great turn of events, I’m so glad Prospect’s deal included television rights.
NBC should pick up One Life To Live and pair it with Days of our Lives! NBC just look at OLTL ratings!! ABC should never have canceled it!
Yes, just look at its ratings: majorly stinky! The only soap that is not doing crappy is Y&R. The reality is, the OLTL is tiny. It’s sad that so many viewers have turned away from soaps. I’ll be a diehard who’s there at the end.
Not sure where you are getting your ratings info, but OLTL ratings have been on a steady incline for quite some time. They have come in second place with B&B on more than one occasion recently.
You’re wrong. OLTL is the third most watched soap. It’s ratings are better than most cable programming. What do you think cable daytime ratings are like? They come nowhere near what OLTL or AMC offer. Moreover, by airing the soaps, a cable channel builds instance goodwill from soap fans, which they can leverage.
not sure where you’re getting your info either. OLTL last week was up 350,000 more viewers than the same time last year. 3rd well beating Days.
I read that “One LIfe to Live” ends its run Friday, January 20th, 2012.
omg i really hope that pp can get amc/oltl on another cable channel that would so great for the fans to see amc.
YESSSSS!!! This is just what I was hoping for! I’ve been wondering if Prospect Park had the full broadcast rights, not just the right to show these soaps on the web. It makes so much more sense for the millions of fans who still watch their soaps on TV. Many fans who do watch online also watch on Soapnet or ABC. I believe the soaps on Soapnet are among the highest rated cable shows. Their presence on the internet is essential for promoting the soaps both here and abroad and keeping them going in the long term, but their presence on TV shouldn’t be phased out completely.
This is such good news! Congrats to the network with the highest bid! You won’t be sorry!
I so hope this is true! I will watch online or wherever, but I know there are many elderly people, people in nursing homes, people without internet access, etc., who want so much to see their shows. I am so grateful to Prospect Park!
To the person above who said that the shows are over, I strongly disagree. Please everybody, support the coupon campaign at sudz.tv.
Advertisers don’t want elderly people and they pay the bills, delusional moron–GET A LIFE!
What a JERK.
There you go again. Why are you posting? Elders do pay bills and buy stuff, you idiot. What you are like twelve?
Also, I have three degrees and totally enjoy watching my escapes. I just happen to watch eight soaps, four from the US and four from England. Oh! And I’m self employed and I’m working on my Ph.d in semiotics. So soapers are not ignorant fools, only the people who post about us being ignorant fools are the fools. Fool.
I agree. I love how people always claim the soap genre is dead, when in fact it is going gangbusters in other countries. (unfortunately in the U.S., it is just about greed. They can put on cheap crap and make more money) I watch 3 soaps from England, two from Australia and one from New Zealand. Also, the telenovelas are going equally strong on the Spanish speaking networks.
Why call people names? EVerybody has a right to their opinion. Soaps are a comfort for a lot of people. It is hard to explain and you wouldn’t understand it anyway. There are lots of channels and if some people want to watch soaps why should it matter to you? You may hate them….thats ok. Why insult those who do like soaps? Sure soap’s ratings have been down, but there are still a million or so people a day who watch these shows. So- miilions of people watch soaps.
Why do you people not realize that elderly people matter and they certainly are a growing demographic.
CBS should pick up OLTL……….they would have a real powerhouse
block of shows along with the Young and the Restless and Bold and the Beautiful.
CBS cancelled two soaps, delusional moron–why would they want another one? This is not 1989, 10 million viewers a day aren’t watching, more men are home these days than women AND THEY’D RATHER WATCH COURT SHOWS OR SPRINGER THAN SOAPS! START LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD AND GET A LIFE!
Is that all you can do – call people names? I think it’s you that needs to get a life, jerk.
Mark, I am not a fan of soap operas, at all. Alas, you’re a d bag for going onto this thread and bashing soap operas. Get a life.
@Mark Jeffries, I fought cancer and everyone at the cancer center watched soaps All My Children, and One Life to Live.It helped us keep our minds on something else beside REALITY. Also, We love our soaps. What do you watch Mark? …Jersey Shore, or are you on the Chew.
To the networks, PLease keep our shows. I will follow you wherever they go. Goodbye ABC if you really stop AMC and OLTL
Mark Jeffries: You are a first class jerk. Is it really necessary to call people names because they like something you don’t? Did your mother force you to watch soaps when you were a child? If this subject is so repellent to you, please get off this site.
Delusional moron????? Why do you care in such a hateful manner?
They should pick it up because they would have #1 #2 & #3.
Soap fans are very loyal………
Awesome news!!!! Will watch these two shows anywhere I can!! No better shows on TV. Thank you Prospect Park for saving these Iconic shows. You have our loyalty!
Yah!!!!! I will follow them anywhere even if I have to pay for an online subscription. I have watched OLTL for 25 years, my mother for 40 and my kids for 5 yrs. It is and excape from reality. I dont know about all of you but once My soap ends on ABC I will never watch there chanel again. Just becasue a few people want to save a buck, does not mean we have to support them. The old philosophy you have to spend money to make money still hold true today. ABC will be sorry they canceled them. I say we all boycot there channel. If they fold all the better. And here is to PP please do all you can to save my soap.
It is not the same. Amc has been on for over 40 yrs. A large percentage of us work so we record and watch later. We are in the millions. I am sick of talk shows. Sorry will not watch the chew and will continue to fight fir Amc
I’m not sure about anything anymore, but I do know for sure one thing, and that’s that the Chew isn’t going to make it, and will be cancelled before the year is up IMO.
I would be excited about OLTL except that the true talent on that show is the writer Ron Carlivati who will be moving over to GH in January. The show sucked big time before he came along. If he could come back, that would be an exciting package!
Brad, I met Ron at the fan party for OLTL’s 43rd anniversary, and he said that he’d love to stay if it could be worked out. He was more than willing to stay with OLTL. That was July 15th.
ABC execs Sweeney and Frons made a ghastly programming decision by canceling OLTL and AMC. Currently OLTL is ratings top of the remaining 3 ABC soap operas. News of the internet transfer made us hard-core fans rejoice but it would be even better (and welcomed by many viewers) if the future airings would continue on television. One must seriously question the integrity of ABC management to cancel these excellent scripted dramas to be replaced by inexpensive-to-produce talk show tripe which already clutters the airwaves. Once the cancelled serials disappear from ABC’s schedule I (and everyone in my household) are determined to avoid all ABC programming, day and night, as the network has even treated its few good primetime shows to cancelled runs for several seasons. Why watch a program which will be removed from the schedule after a few airings?
I TOTALLY agree! After this move I have NO REASON to watch ABC.
I don’t watch ABC since they removed All My Children! All My Children needs to come back to TV!!!!!! not online crap! I don’t give a crap about the Chew!
Philip, I feel the same. I have already removed all ABC programming from my DVR and will not be watching ABC except the soaps until they are gone and then will never watch ABC again. I am so tired of them starting new shows and then cancelling them, they are the worst network for that. So good riddence ABC! But cancelling the soaps was the last straw, what morons!
I won’t be watching the chew. The nerve of them to advertise the show during AMC. The positive side is they are reminding me when not to tune into ABC…..
Soaps will make a comeback just like everything else. People will get sick of reality….
I am so ecstatic to hear this news! Thank you so much Prospect Park!
Yeah, that’s what I’m talking about
This is what we have been hoping for. I do hope it eventually happens. Time will tell. The shows are so worth it.
Yeah like soapnet has repeats of Ryans Hope
I love the reruns of Ryan’s Hope. I wish some other company would start a channel like Soapnet and put on reruns of AMC & OLTL.
I will add that OLTL is the only soap that has grown in viewer ship as of late and that includes Y&R!
I love AMC, I have watched since 1976, and was devastated when I heard they were cancelled. I wrote several times to ABC letting them know how disgusted I was and promised I would never watch ABC again, so I’m very happy that PP is trying to get them on a cable station. I just hope and pray that it actually happens! Are all the AMC cast willing to wait around to see if this happens? Not sure but I thought I heard a few of the stars have new jobs lined up so what happens with their roles? New replacements or will it end up falling apart? I just hope I’m wrong!
I was absolutely floored when heard of cancellation of AMC! I have watched and recorded every show for so long can’t remember when I started. These people are real to me even though I can escape into a world of fantasy as I watch. I have cried, laughed, and experienced great anger as the story goes up and down. I so hope PP does pick it up and will get as many of the original cast as possible. I hate ABC..they always interrupt AMC at the time I watch with Obama newscasts. I never was able to see the part missed. Who are they to decide “nobody wants to watch soaps in their current format”?!! Who did they ask?? Go PP!! I’ll support you and your sponsors.
The only thing that surprised me a bit was that AMC and OLTL were both axed on the same day. To those people in the real world, AMC’s cancellation was not unexpected or shocking one iota. Its writing quality went so far downhill in recent years and it became downright unwatchable. Also,media/viewing patterns changed drastically, especially among potential young viewers. AMC’s overall audience dropped by 30% this past season (down by 1 million on ABC since 2006 to 2.4 million),and its 18-34 female audience this past season was about 1/10th of what it was in 1993. Look it up, the numbers don’t lie one bit. With the ultra-high cost of producing a soap every weekday year-round (roughly $50 million/year or $1 million/week), that’s a formula for a big pink slip. TV is a business, not a nostalgic scrapbook. Networks have to air profitable programs, and the truth is that these soaps no longer are. I don’t blame ABC one bit for dropping them. Yes, it’s sad to lose TV programs that aired almost every weekday for more than four decades, but nothing in this world lasts forever and they were clearly past their expiration dates. And this PP-internet (+ possibly a cable channel) deal is just merely postponing the inevitable, akin to attempting to hold back the Titanic before it hits the bottom of the ocean.
I love One Life To Live and All My Children since i was little when it was summer vaction me and my little sister wanted to watch cartoon but our two olders sisters had to watch OLTL and AMC i think i was 12 at the time i got into it and i couldnt stop watching and still cant and im 37 now so please put it back on tv even cable i wii always have my cable paid NBC. CBS USA TNT TBS but the best place for it to be is SOAPNET it already has a time slite thanks
Meet the typical soap watcher–an illiterate delusional moron who knows nothing about the broadcasting business. GET A LIFE AND START LIVING IN THE REAL WORLD!
Jerk.
Wow Mark you realy are a troubled person. Why should it bother you so much if people like soaps? We have a right to like what ever we want. If you dont like soaps what are you doing on this website? Most of us are here to find out whats going on & to vent.
Hope you figure yourself out so you can enjoy life. GBWY.
@ Jeffries, You really use your computer time wisely in prison don’t you! Why not lift weights or go out into the yard for some sun. You poor lonely man.
Mark Jeffries is an idiot for the insulting thing he says on this blog. One live to life is a great escape show that has wonderful stories and acting. It is the #1 soap on ABC and I think it will survive on the web and I hope on cable. All my children has turned around 1000% in the last month and I hope it too survives.
Are you the person who came up with THE CHEW??? Do you work for ABC??You seem very defensive about us airing our views on the situation. You seem to have forgotten that this is America. The beauty of that is we are all diffent. We all like different stuff. So you like reality tv it does not mean that every channel has to be flooded with it and we have to watch it. Why do you think HBO and Showtime have Trueblood or the Tudors. Drama and sex sells. We all like to watch fantasy and get away from reality. We live reallity everyday. Why would we want to watch it?
Jeff just because you have no life and friends and have to go to a meesage boards to find somee attention you aren’t going to get to us.Knock on your neighbors door and ask t=hem to be your friend sent your so lonely.You need to get alife
We all do not have friends. That is why we have TVs . And when they took off the soaps . Come on CBS pick up these babies Please.