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‘General Hospital’ Producer Says ABC Supporting Show: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 26, 2012 @ 12:39pm PDTTags: ABC, All My Children, General Hospital, Katie, One Life to Live, TCA

Ray Richmond contributes to Deadline’s TV coverage.

Frank Valentini General HospitalThe cast and executive producer of the ABC soap General Hospital appeared before critics this morning at TCA, looking and sounding like people thrilled simply to still have jobs. The fate of most of their cohorts on One Life To Live and All My Children weren’t so lucky, with only a few of the cast members — and producer Frank Valentini — absorbed into GH. It was touch-and-go whether even General Hospital would survive the ax. But it’s back, and as Valentini said, the fact a panel for the show was arranged shows a certain support for the show going forward. “They invited us here, and to me that’s a great sign,” he noted. “They’re behind this 100% and very excited about the 50th anniversary coming up. I’m pretty confident. You just need to watch the show to sort of catch the energy and the momentum that we have, and the network’s a big part of that.” One of the challenges for the show going forward is that it’s being displaced from its longtime 3 PM perch by Katie Couric’s new syndie talk show Katie. But Valentini did his best to put a positive spin on things, calling the time slot change “great” in that it will “shake up the lineup a little bit. And the network is doing a big push to inform the audience about the change.” READ MORE »

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Four ‘One Life To Live’ Characters Check Into ‘General Hospital’

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Wednesday January 11, 2012 @ 10:18am PSTTags: General Hospital, One Life to Live

With One Life To Live off the air and prospects for a new life online all but gone, four actors from the ABC soap opera have been snatched up by General Hospital to reprise their roles as part of a … Read More »

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Team Of ABC Daytime Show ‘Revolution’ On Potential Backlash From Soap Fans: TCA

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Monday January 9, 2012 @ 2:00pm PSTTags: ABC, One Life to Live, The Revolution, Ty Pennington

Diane Haithman is contributing to Deadline’s TCA coverage.

It’s rare that a new TV show is more notable for what it replaces than for itself, but such is the case with ABC’s The Revolution. The daily inspirational makeover program replaces the long-running One Life To Live, and the soap’s die-hard fans are militantly unhappy. At today’s TCA, the first question to the Revolution panel was about how the show would deal with the backlash and keep the angry fans from switching over to NBC’s daytime drama  Days Of Our Lives, which airs against The Revolution. “We can’t replace that show, but what we offer is something different,” said co-host Ty Pennington, the resident design expert whose long-running reality series Extreme Makeover: Home Edition was also recently canceled by ABC. “Extreme Makeover was a show that got canceled too, and that was something that was really, really special to me. It’s about change, and The Revolution is certainly about change.” Read More »

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‘One Life To Live’ Executive Producer And Head Writer Join ‘General Hospital’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday December 1, 2011 @ 11:59am PSTTags: ABC, Frank Valentini, One Life to Live
Nellie Andreeva

While it is ending veteran soap opera One Life To Live, ABC is keeping 2 of the series’ key players, executive producer Frank Valentini and head writer Ron Carlivati, who will assume the same positions on ABC’s only remaining daytime … Read More »

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ABC Sets Premiere Date For ‘Revolution’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday November 28, 2011 @ 7:00am PSTTags: ABC, One Life to Live, The Revolution, TV Schedule
Nellie Andreeva

With One Life To Live slated to air its final episode on January 13, ABC has set a January 16 launch date for the soap’s replacement, one-hour daily lifestyle talk show The Revolution. The show has tweaked its concept since … Read More »

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WGAW & AFTRA React To ‘AMC’ & ‘OLTL’ Not Continuing Online: Don’t Blame Us

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 23, 2011 @ 3:16pm PSTTags: AFTRA, All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park, WGA
Nellie Andreeva

‘One Life To Live’ And ‘All My Children’ Won’t Continue Online
The WGAW and AFTRA just issued statements in response to Prospect Park’s decision today not to proceed with its plans to continue to produce … Read More »

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It’s Official: ‘One Life To Live’ And ‘All My Children’ Won’t Continue Online

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 23, 2011 @ 11:55am PSTTags: ABC, All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park
Nellie Andreeva

Online Soap Opera Network May Fold Ending ‘OLTL’, ‘AMC’

Sad news for soap fans just before Thanksgiving — One Life To Live and All My Children won’t get a second life online. Prospect Park, … Read More »

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ON THE BRINK: Online Soap Opera Network May Fold, Spelling The End Of ‘OLTL’, ‘AMC’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday November 23, 2011 @ 10:16am PSTTags: All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: This is potential very bad news for soap fans who feel thankful this Thanksgiving that canceled ABC series One Life To Live and All My Children may continue online. That now may not be happening. It was considered a … Read More »

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Ty Pennington Joins Upcoming ABC Daytime Show ‘The Revolution’ As Co-Host

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday October 3, 2011 @ 11:04am PDTTags: 3 Ball Productions, ABC, ABC Daytime, One Life to Live, The Revolution, Ty Pennington
Nellie Andreeva

Ty Penningtom had been looking to do a daytime talk show and developed a daytime format last year. Now the Extreme Makeover: Home Edition host has joined ABC’s upcoming daytime show The Revolution, which will replace soap One Life … Read More »

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‘One Life To Live’ Head Writer, Key Cast Members On Board For Online Launch

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Friday September 30, 2011 @ 12:50pm PDTTags: One Life to Live, Prospect park, The Online Network

Prospect Park has been busy securing talent in front of and behind the camera for its relaunch of One Life To Live, which it acquired with All My Children after the soaps were given the boot by ABC Daytime. It also has given its online network a … Read More »

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Prospect Park Names Its Internet Network

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 27, 2011 @ 9:16am PDTTags: All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park, The Online Network
Nellie Andreeva

Prospect Park’s upcoming Internet-delivered network will be named The Online Network. It is slated for a January 2012 launch with new episodes of canceled ABC soaps All My Children and One Life to Live as well as first-run entertainment and lifestyle shows, with plans to add reality, scripted … Read More »

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Frank Valentini Inks Deal To Continue As Executive Producer On ‘One Life To Live’

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Friday September 16, 2011 @ 12:42pm PDTTags: Frank Valentini, One Life to Live, Prospect park
Nellie Andreeva

EXCLUSIVE: Prospect Park, which in July acquired rights to ABC’s soon-to-be canceled daytime dramas All My Children and One Life to Live, continues to lock in key players from OLTL. One Life to Live executive producer Frank Valentini has signed a deal with the company to continue with the serial drama when it moves online. Additionally, Valentini has also been named VP Serial Dramas for Prospect Park’s new online network. In this role, Valentini will work closely with Prospect Park partners Jeff Kwatinetz and Rich Frank and their executive team on programming strategies, including the upcoming relaunch of All My Children. “Frank’s successful track record both creatively and produce-orially with One Life to Live has been stellar and we are honored that he has also agreed to take on more responsibilities at our new network,” Kwatinetz and Frank said. “Under Frank Valentini’s stewardship, One Life to Live’s popularity and ratings continue to increase, and his commitment to us is another milestone in our commitment to relaunching One Life to Live with the best possible quality and storylines for audiences everywhere.” Read More »

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Four Actors Sign On To Continue On ‘OLTL’ While Susan Lucci Turns Down ‘AMC’ Offer

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday September 6, 2011 @ 11:42am PDTTags: All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park, Susan Lucci
Nellie Andreeva

One Life to Live‘s Michael Easton, Ted King, Kassie DePaiva and the cast’s doyen Erika Slezak have become the first actors to sign deals with Prospect Park, the company that in June acquired the rights to continue to produce soon-to-be-canceled ABC daytime dramas One Life to Live and All My Children online. Prospect Park just announcement the pacts with the four actors. (See statement below.)

Meanwhile, I hear that, after a two-week deliberation, All My Children star Susan Lucci has turned down Prospect Park’s offer to stay on the show. The offer was for a salary identical to what Lucci currently makes at ABC, but I’ve learned that she tried to gouge the producers for more money while also asking to work fewer hours and get a commitment for a primetime series. In light of that development, I hear that Prospect Park may reevaluate its short-term strategy for the two soaps and put its muscle behind the higher-rated OLTL, while moving AMC to the back burner. Prospect Park’s original plan was to re-launch both OLTL and AMC online in the first quarter of 2012. Lucci made headlines over the weekend with a leaked new epilogue to her book All My Life, in which she blasts ABC Daytime president Brian Frons over the series’ cancellation.

On OLTL, King plays Tomas Delgado, Easton portrays John McBain, DePaiva plays Blair Cramer and Slezak plays the matriarch of the Lord family Victoria Lord. Slezak has been on the show since 1971 and has won six Daytime Emmy awards for the role, an Emmy record. Here is Prospect Park’s statement on the quartet’s new deals: Read More »

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TCA: ABC Daytime’s Brian Frons Says Outcry Over Canceled Soaps “Proves We Did A Good Job These Last 40 Years”

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Sunday August 7, 2011 @ 1:51pm PDTTags: ABC, ABC Daytime, All My Children, Brian Frons, One Life to Live, TCA Press Tour, Television Critics Association, The Chew

Ray Richmond is contributing to Deadline’s coverage of TCA.

The not-altogether-surprising intense protest sparked by ABC’s announced axing of its long-running soaps All My Children and One Life to Live demonstrated to ABC Daytime president Brian Frons that “we actually did a good job (promoting and nurturing them) for all of these last 40 years,” he told Deadline privately during a TCA lunch designed to promote one of the soaps’ daytime successors, the food show The Chew. “I think we’ve spent 40-plus years trying to keep the soap-opera audience happy. So in an odd way, (the outcry) is actually good. It’s just sad that we don’t have a solution.” However, a deal with producer Prospect Park has been cemented to relaunch both soaps during first-quarter 2012, and there’s been talk of enlisting a second production partner in cable television as well. But that remains uncertain.

Frons said that after the Prospect Park deal fell into place, All My Children‘s producers were forced to scramble to make the series ending more open-ended rather than final, since the series would now be continuing on after all. (All My Children is scheduled to leave ABC on Sept. 23; One Life to Live in January.) He added that the cancellations became necessary due to diminishing returns at the network. “We were at that point where we had to sit and look at what we were doing, and see if there were different opportunities for us in terms of serving a bigger audience. We looked at what was happening on cable — in the food space, the lifestyle space, the talk space, the reality space — and we just saw a very large audience and an opportunity.” Read More »

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‘All My Children’, ‘One Life To Live’ To Return To TV? Soaps Shopped To Cable Networks

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Wednesday August 3, 2011 @ 3:55pm PDTTags: All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park
Nellie Andreeva

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.) Read More »

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Prospect Park Deals With Guild/Union Issues As It Eyes Q1 2012 Relaunch Of ABC Soaps

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Monday July 25, 2011 @ 1:20pm PDTTags: All My Children, Hollywood Guilds, Hollywood Unions, One Life to Live, Prospect park
Nellie Andreeva

UPDATED: Rich Frank & Jeff Kwatinetz’s Prospect Park, the company that announced several weeks ago that it has licensed canceled soaps One Live to Live and All My Children from ABC to continue producing them for online distribution, is finding just how hard is to transfer broadcast network series to the Web. The company just released a statement addressing some of the guild and union issues it faces in trying to continue to produce the two series for what I hear are target re-launch dates during Q1 of 2012. (All My Children will end its run on ABC on Sept. 23, One Life to Live in January 2012.) The statement was timed to coincide with the two soaps’ return from their planned hiatuses. With the casts and crews back to work, reps for Prospect Park have started to meet with casts and crews to discuss the move, with conversations with the guilds and unions involved also underway. (Unions, including AFTRA, also have been setting up meetings with current employees from the shows to advise them on the provisions of their current bargaining agreements.) Under the terms of the arrangement between Prospect Park and ABC, Prospect Park has committed to “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 One Life to Live and All My Children. Here is the statement: Read More »

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ABC Licenses ‘All My Children’ And ‘One Life To Live’ To Prospect Park; Shows Will Continue Production And Move Online

By THE DEADLINE TEAM | Thursday July 7, 2011 @ 11:26am PDTTags: ABC Daytime, All My Children, One Life to Live, Prospect park

BURBANK, CA – July 7, 2011 – ABC has licensed its iconic soaps, “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” to Prospect Park, it was announced today by Brian Frons, President, Daytime, Disney/ABC Television Group & Janice Marinelli, President, Disney/ABC

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Soap Opera Fans Protest At ABC’s Upfront

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Tuesday May 17, 2011 @ 8:22pm PDTTags: ABC Upfront, All My Children, One Life to Live
Nellie Andreeva

While inside Avery Fisher Hall the ABC brass were touting the network’s new primetime schedule, outside, fans of All My Children and One Life to Live protested the network’s new daytime lineup, which will soon have reality series The Chew … Read More »

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Gone Too Soon? ‘One Life To Live’ Grows In Ratings Post-Cancellation

By NELLIE ANDREEVA | Thursday April 28, 2011 @ 9:21pm PDTTags: ABC, One Life to Live, Ratings
Nellie Andreeva

For the first full week since ABC’s April 14 cancellation of soaps All My Children and One Life To Live, the latter, which had been the stronger performer of the two, showed big ratings gains. OLTL was the third most … Read More »

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