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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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For goodness sake’s ABC, don’t take One Life to Live off the air. I hope OLTL finds a new home in the cable channels.
I will follow AMC and OLTL when they go online and would be thrilled if they would make it back to television. Both of these shows have a loyal fanbase and ABC made a big mistake removing them from their daytime line-up. They will find this out soon enough, when they start scrambling for replacements for the ridiculous shows they are putting in the place of the beloved daytime dramas. Thank you Prospect Park for picking up our soaps and for the possibility of returning them to television. You will be making many, many people happy.
This is great news! I agree NBC or CBS should pickup One Life to Live. It is, by far, the best soap on television.
Pairing it with Days of our Lives, would be a good idea.
I’m 14 and I been watching OLTL and AMC since I was a born and now their taking it off air and replacing it with talk shows,We already have like a million talk shows and no one cares for talk shows,they want daytime drama they can relate to!!!!
I agree with you totally. There are way to many talk shows. People do not take into account many people DVR the soaps. I would bet more then talk shows. If I’m wrong God help us all. Reality television please. When was the last time reality was like what is on reality shows. I don’t think so.
I’m 14 and I been watching OLTL and AMC since I was a born and now their taking it off air and replacing it with talk shows,We already have like a million talk shows and no one cares for talk shows,they want daytime drama they can relate to!!!!
New life for OLTL!
The show they are replacing one of the soaps with sounds horrible. It is called The Chew. The trailer is loaded with chef and design hipsters that will tell you how to entertain people in new and exiting ways.
I agree, the Chew has so been done already, I have enough recipes I will never try and using an old tea tin as a flower vase is just not that compelling. Just seeing the ads have stirred up resentment toward anyone involved in the Chew because it is the reason AMC is/was going off the air.
In the meantime, like someone commented, I learned that IF you have a new enough TV you can buy a cord to connect a laptop to your TV to watch online-streamed AMC on your existing television. But, I think keeping it on broadcast TV for as long as possible will help since “in these economic times” a lot of fans, not just seniors, can’t afford to upgrade their electronics or don’t really want to put their money towards that right now.
The soaps have always been the best thing going on free television. It would be great to keep it that way. I want to keep watching All My Children, as so many other people do too!
Let this be true! ABC has upset so many loyal viewers with its idiotic decision to cancel AMC and OLTL. The only reason I will tune in after January is for General Hospital – and I pray that will continue, though I have little faith in ABC execs to keep it on the air past its contract date. Please let another network be smarter than ABC and realize that soap fans are loyal and soaps do matter – we WILL watch. Stop with the garbage talk shows!!!
I really hope they find a television home for One Life to Live. Internet is okay. but I doubt I will have the patience to search for the website and watch it buff. but TV is the comfort way. push a button lay on the couch and relax after a hard days work. I am on internet for a few minute and off, then on iphone, then off. hard chair, strain on the eyes. keep on praying for someone to SAVE Our OLTL. GH.
The soap genre is dead. I don’t know anybody who still watch soaps. I don’t think any cable company will be stupid enough to pick up two canceled shows. If ABC didn’t want them, why should a cable company keep them. Soaps ratings are declining. Stop the crap. 2 million viewers daily is not good. There was a time the average soap had over 7 million viewers daily. So, that is nothing to brag about.
Its not over till its over!! We (soap fans) r fighting hard to keep our storys on TV!! I won’t give up!!!
I think nbc should pick up all my children and one life to live. Along with days of our lives they would have one powerhouse of a daytime lineup
One Life to Live to cable or maybe Direct TV, a welcome and smart move.
I was skeptical when I first heard the shows would only be on the internet. If they run on cable afterwards the business model now may make sense, although I am sure the actors and production staff will still have to work for less money. I have to believe that some basic cable network will pick up the shows, even during the daytime, as it would give the network great publicity and they may even make some money out of it.
One Life to Live is doing great. They have wonderful, talented actors and writers. I agree with Kathy J, who says that ABC made a big mistake removing AMC and OLTL from their dayitme line-up. Every day when I watch OLTL at 2pm, Eastern time, I check my “active” button on my DIRECTV remote control. It shows the most popular shows at that time. One Life to Live is ALWAYS NUMBER ONE!!! How’s that for ratings? It has been NUMBER ONE ata that time, for MONTHS. Thank you, again Prospect Park, hope that you can return these 2 iconic shows to TV.
Did you go back in a time machine 25-30 years?
They better make a decision quick… Before all the actors we love leave for other jobs!
I firmly believe that these two shows and their legacies (especially AMC) would be much better off by bowing out with dignity when they leave ABC. The quality of both on TV has slid steadily downhill over the last 15 years, and they’re shells of what they once were back in their heyday. They’ve each had tremendous 40+year runs that should be celebrated, but they’re way past their expiration dates and should be retired. Nothing lasts forever. Going forward, the production of both is guaranteed to be diminished even more than now with budgets and salaries drastically cut further across the board, and they’ll play to audiences far smaller than the dwindling number that watches now. How will this whole online venture make money?? They’ll limp along for another year or so, then be axed for good. Sorry to say this, but I don’t see this PP experiment working out at all. It’s merely a last-ditch effort to rescue the Titanic from sinking to the bottom.
Oh please, please, please, that’s what we’ve been praying for! I would happily pay a monthly fee to have the AMC on cable!
I would love to see them both on Nbc That could be really good move for days! to have more soaps on there network! even if Gh goes off abc sometime ! maybe NBC can be the network to keep soaps on track! days is 1pm so OLTL is 2pm! Amc ! 3pm! and whenever Gh needs another network it could change it at nights instead of days! but in the mean time its` a great place for soapnet to place all of the soaps on the network! when Gh ends soapnet could help them out! but Thats` only in the near future hopefully not soon!
I’m hoping this news is true! I’ll follow All My Children and One Life to Live where ever they go, and I’ll always remember ABC’s treachery. Since the news of AMC and OLTL’s cancellations, I only watch my soaps, including GH. I turn ABC off during all other hours, and I find that I don’t miss the network at all. I used to be a very loyal ABC viewer, but since they aren’t loyal to me as a viewer, I’ve changed my way of thinking.
Let’s be realistic about a few things here. Nobody watched these shows on SoapNet but a few million people. That is a very small amount of people when you narrow it down to a viewing audience. If SoapNEt could nothold an audience which does have a group of intelligent viewers believe it or not. Why would a cable network be able to do so? And why would Prospect Park Rebranding this series be able to wave a magic wand and save this online? some of these people who watch these shows a lot of them do not even own computers. And this is not going to attract a college audience or a new audience. So It is a 50/50. Yes THe internet is a new way of trying out shows and One Life to Live, AMC, and GH is a very cheap experiment in trying to do so. But trying to sell it to a cable station in reruns is perhaps trying to make back money some how on money already being lost. None of it makes sense. Yes it is sad that the daytime dynaimic is failing. But it has failed it self by the Man at ABC who has run it into theground. And the lady who is under neath him in charge of East Coast Daytime. Not to MEntion th elovely lady who was finally fired after getting rid of As THe World Turns and Guilding Light at CBS. I am watching all of my friends lose their jobs, and their homes. File Bankruptcy and it is sad. SOme of my older firends are on recurring and they do not mind because they have pensions. I for one have a different kind of job and got out of it long ago because all of my suggestions got shot down or were emailed back with a no thank you. Hopefully this will work Because what is being done by these guys at prospect park is wonderful. They are a dynamic, vibrant creative team. And they are doing something that is amazing, Keeping unions and giving people jobs.
Never mind these…I WANT GUIDING LIGHT BACK!!!! That was the BEST soap ever!!!!
Yippee! Yippee! Yippee!
I love these shows! Please have them show on the Soap Opera Channel. That is what I watch because it shows at a convient time.
They FINALLY bring Todd back to OLTL, and then they cancel the show?!? SO WRONG!!!!! I was incredibly happy to hear that it would live on online, and this news is even better!! Soapnet should be the home of all the soaps, but honestly, I don’t care what channel as long as it’s one I am already getting with my cable plan!!!!