YES, this definitely was the worst move ever made for daytime TV. I still hold out hope for OLTL to come back but realistically know it won’t. On Friday’s GH when Nora Buchanan guest starred and made all the references to life continuing on in Llanview, I was thrilled and smiled all day! Thank you, Frank Valentini!!

Still pray every day that ABC right this terrible wrong, definitely the biggest mistake they ever made!

It was a huge mistake by ABC to cancel these beloved soaps. Millions of fans are still boycotting ABC and clamoring for these dramas to be returned to daytime. Refer to the Facebook page, “Save AMC & OLTL” for more info.

If can’t revive both shows then,yes,cast members from both shows should do a soap that combines the elements of the original shows. Besides,I’ve always wanted to see Susan Lucci and Erika Slezak share scenes together.

It’s the biggest screwup ABC daytime ever made. I was shocked. My husband was really ticked because he loved AMC. When he worked evening shift I would have it on and he got hooked. We were watching our local news when I heard it announced. Total BS.

I loved AMC and OLTL and I would be so happy if they resumed production of them. I haven’t watched the ABC network since.

I miss this show so much

I miss all my Children so much and one life to live !!! It really stinks they took th off the air

I thought I was going to DIE.

I would love to see the shows brought back on. I still miss watching them. I do not watch all that talk crap that is on now and never will. ABC made a big mistake and they should correct it.There is too many talk shows on tv. With soaps you have a reason to tune in tomorrow but with talk shows there is really no reason. Please bring them back before it is too late.

I say bring back oltl and amc,,,obviously, the shows that replaced it couldnt survive,,,,it was a bad descision on abc’s part.

It’s always a disappointment when a soap opera is cancelled. Admittedly, I was not and still am not a One Life to Live fan, so their cancellation did not upset me. However, canceling both soaps in a one-sweep kick was horrendously insulting. The online reboots of both soaps, while horrible handled in terms of production, were well written and acted. It was nice seeing American soaps handled in new light, and it’s sad that TOLN could not produce second seasons of each.

As for ABC reviving them, I ultimately say “NO” to that, because time has moved on, and it just does not make sense in my book, especially when many cast members have passed on and moved to other gigs. Now, if ABC were adamant about reviving them, I’d do so in a one-hour merged platform on primetime for a six-week run during the summer, to help experiment with some edgier storylines and production values.

Ultimately, let both of the soaps live in their eternal afterlife, and let’s focus our efforts on supporting the four remaining soap operas, and make them better than they are right now, because they all need it!

Cancelling the soaps, was the worse thing, that abc, and Brian Frons, ever did. I use to enjoy, abc, day and night, and now, I only watch one hour of General Hospital. I have been boycotting abc, day and night, ever since they cancelled our soap operas, and will continue to boycott abc, until they put the soaps back on.

This was the biggest mistake that abc made and loyal fans of amc and oltl will never forget as they were like family

My daughter and I absolutely adored All My Children.” We referred to the show as “The Children“. It was something we could share and talk about with each other. We enjoyed reading about it, watching it, hearing about the actors lives and following each and every storyline. The actors seemed to become part of our family. We continue to miss the show but the first five years were agony without “The Children.” We would definitely support a comeback!!!!!

Learning of the cancellations was one of the worst days of my life. For me, it was like a death in my closest family. That may sound silly to some people; but, I watched One Life to Live from day one and All My Children intermittently for years. There is no excuse for the action taken by the alphabet network/mouse company. There were numerous alternatives to cancellation. The powers that be need to rectify this horrible action. Either bring back AMC and OLTL as half hour programs each. Or combine them into one hour long show. Either way, I hope they don’t try to do it on the cheap. Personally, I’m for a combined program. Both were created by the brilliant, forward thinking Agnes Nixon. Both are set in Pennsylvania. They have a history of crossover stories. Both shows have sadly lost important cast members due to death. I’d call the combined show All My Life to Live.

Now, where to shoot the show is an issue. Studio space in NY is prohibitive and it’s not cheap in LA. What is Prospect Park doing with the facility they built in Connecticut?

Totally agree

Of course it was and still is the absolute worse decision in soap history. But , you know, the media has kept a tease of returning OLTL & AMC to their fans. Well, we are still here and still hanging onto the hope for their return. So to the power people what’s happening? You know the fans want this!!!!!!!!

It was a shocking, destructive, insensitive move. Time has passed, bring them back to ABC at 30 minutes a piece, for starters. #RebootAllMyChildren #RebootOneLifetoLive

So many bad things happened in my life. Just hearing the opening music lifted my spirits. I would love to have the two soaps revived. When they returned online I watched and cried at the same time. The online show was horrendously produced but I watched because that was all we had. I still America broken hearted over the loss of our beloved soaps. These shows lasted some fourth plus years. Their replacements didn’t make it four years. Pretty bad decision ABC!

I balled and balled when I heard they were cancelled and again on the finales, was horrible. I wish they would bring them back. It wouldn’t be the same since some wouldn’t be available since they moved on or passed away, but do what they can would be awesome or combine the two as one soap even. In the meantime I’d love if they brought back more past characters from both to general hospital from time to time.

I am in hopes of All My Children and One Life to Live returning to ABC. I miss the shows. I watch the other shows but it’s not the same. My days are completely messed up without my shows.

I was and still am mad about it. I refused to ever watch an episode of “The Chew”.

It was so dumb to take them off the air. There is nothing worth watching in the time slots except for other soapies that I now watch as an alternative. But still I miss the others. It’s awesome tho that some of the characters still live on in the other soapies. Love that!!

Brian Frons, a man with an odd personal loathing of soaps, made the biggest mistake in daytime television history. He is no longer with ABC, a network that continues to struggle in both daytime and prime time ratings. Of course the new ABC executives should bring these iconic shows back–for their own preservation. I’ve consistently suggested that Atlanta, a major city of 6 million people, in a state with 30% tax rebates, and only a 2-hour plane trip away from NYC, is the answer to production costs. Both stars of AMC and OLTL, Susan Lucci and Erika Slezak respectively, have recently worked there. It can be done.

As to the first question regarding consolidating daytime and making the “remaining shows stronger,” there was absolutely no positive benefit to daytime or any remaining soap! Many great soaps have been thus cancelled over decades, primarily because of waning ratings. But the spin given when OLTL and AMC were cancelled was particularly ludicrous and insulting, not only to viewers of these landmark soaps, but also to the daytime TV community as a whole.

I think that many of us are disgusted by what passes for daytime entertainment these days. Political allegiances aside, I find much of the so-called “talk” shows not really worth the “view.” The constant bickering and jockeying for position, only to have a “moderator” cut to commercial each time she hears something she doesn’t like, are headache-inducing. And by all means, let’s give ubiquitous, overexposed TV personalities/sportscasters/singing-competition-hosts as many new shows and as much airtime as is possible… The phoniness in the “banter” and contrived nature of these shows are pervasive to the point of nausea. I’m not a fan of the courtroom shows either. I don’t care about these people or the know-it-all, overpaid judges.

Which brings me back to the soaps. Soaps feature characters about whom the audience cares. This endearing feeling and allegiance can last decades. Give me back the days when the number of soaps on the daytime airwaves numbered in the teens, with a few clever game shows thrown in for good measure. And all such soaps could tell their gripping, engrossing stories in half an hour each day. But if we must settle on the four remaining soaps and, if we choose, enjoy them for as long as possible, so be it.

As much as I miss AMC and OLTL, I can’t ever see them ever coming back…at least on ABC. It is much too costly to produce soap operas these days, and the networks bow down to the almighty $dollar$, so it ain’t gonna happen1

If there was some way to have a Daytime Soaps web service, it’s possible they could bring back some of the soaps, and possibly move the four remaining network soaps to that service.

I don’t know how or if a streaming service would work for soaps. I’d rather have a new episode of each show air every day, M-F, with the shows available for a couple weeks if you miss any.

I’m fine if things stay the way they are, with the four on network TV. I watch three of them, and that’s enough.

Miss these show and all the people on them. I sure wish you would bring them back. I watched them everyday.

ABC created the glory days of soaps with its Love in the Afternoon brand and I cannot understand how it unceremoniously messed its own bed. The loss of four soaps (AMC, OLTL, and CBS’s ATWT, GL) in a few short years was disastrous. Daytime used to really matter, the daytime dramas, network game shows, ABC’s Afterschool Specials! Now it seems we have an endless sameness of courtroom train wrecks, rotating talk show hosts who never seem to click, watered down morning show leftovers… If television with all this cable, streaming, and such is enjoying some sort of golden age, why can’t broadcast make the most of its own legacy? Daytime matters. In fact, even as a working man, I have such treasured memories of daytime, its stories and how they entertained, informed, and taught. I really do believe a network can succeed with a new daytime drama if it only tries and makes smart choices about it.

Personally, I think it was a major mistake for yanking One Life To Live and All My Children! We see other shows coming back and doing this idiotic “Reboot” ( which seems to be the new thing, but when a show like Roseanne came back, it was not a reboot, that was just diving back in and telling more stories )…..I believe that ABC could totally fix this and bring back the soaps, which would not only be a pleasing thng for fans, but it can show the other networks that it CAN be done and that soap fans CAN be HEARD!

The end of Guiding Light was the worst move for me!

Stupidest move ever. I was in my home when i heard the news and went into shock. I thought there had to me some kind of rumor but found out quickly this wasn’t a joke. I loved the shows but I love all the soaps on the air since they have been my life for so many years. I don’t think reviving them would do any good because of the years that have gone by but I hope ABC learned it’s lesson. They left a very bad taste in the viewers they had for the network. I think the best they can do is to allow GH to do what they have done which is to bring the characters from those shows over for visits to the only soap they have on the network. I am still praying that Franco Baldwin and Hamilton Finn will morph back into their better characters Todd Manning and John McBain. Any sign of AMC and OLTL will make me a little happier because I’m still feeling the sting that was pulled 8 years ago.

Yes. I loved both shows and still miss them. They need to either bring both back,or make it into one soap and bring everyone back that they can.

abc daytime has never recovered

i was never an ABC soap watcher, so for me the worst move was the cancellation of Another World– it was the first of the longest running soaps in the modern times to be cancelled. I remember Lindo Dano saying at the time something like, ‘if they can cancel Another World they can cancel anything’ and she was right.

From what I read and heard from fans of these shows, was it wasn’t just the fact ABC cancelled the shows, it was the manner and the attitude in which they did it. It was like they were trying to kill the genre all together, and had no respect for daytime drama, for those who work in it or the fans that loved it.

I don’t see ABC ever bringing these shows back to television, but with more and more of the viewership heading toward streaming platforms, I could see these shows being reborn there– I would love to see a rebooted AW– using the old scripts, just update them, add a few more “adult” situations, with a new cast, playing the characters- soap stories are stories– that are timeless– how many times has Shakespeare’s plays been redone over the centuries–to see the story of Alice, Steve and Rachel told again, from the beginning, even with different actors, I would subscribe to platform that offer that.

Terrible decision! I hate them for doing it . The only other one I watched is General Hospital and it’s still the only one I watch.

I still miss OLTL and all of its’ actors. It was a terrible loss to daytime.

I think canceling these shows was definitely the worst decision. I have been a fan of GH for 42 yrs, as I was also a fan of OLTL and AMC. ABC and Disney, please give us back our soaps.

It was the worst move in the history of daytime television. Brian Frons made the actors relocate to LA from NYC and then a year later, cancelled the show. “AMC” had one of the best casts. I loved the JR/Babe/Jamie storyline, as well as Crystal/Adam, Erica/Jack, Erica/Opal, Bianca, David, Greenlee and any scene with Julia Barr. I wish both shows would come back, even as 30 minute soaps, the way many started out.

I would LOVE to see some excellent Daytime Drama vs
The View
The Talk
The Real
Ellen
Family Feud
And I was so delighted to see @NoraBuchanan on GH this week
#BringThemBack!

I was fortunate enough to watch AMC 39 of its 41 years. When it was cancelled, I was lost. If ABC doesn’t bring AMC back, could they at least release year by year dvd sets? I would buy them, and I’m sure others would also.

I would like to see OLTL and all my children back on ear that was a stupid move

Yes I watched those soap’s growing up and watched them with my mom when I got home from school

AMC AND OLTL are gone, forever.
They can come back if they did return it would be the biggest disappointment in your lifetime.

The cast/actors, the people that made those soaps your family are no longer.
If, they came back people would not recognize their soaps..
A great many of the core are no longer viable.

I assume some of the older actors/the favourites, have health problems, have died, have become older and tsimplr retired and the extremes of travel, hours, the long hours demanded of soap acting would no longer be of interest for the older.
The younger have moved on..

The pay would be minimal – to keep 3 soaps profiting is impossible, the money would not be there.
ABC could not keep/maintain 3 soaps..
ABC struggles to keep their one soap profitable, yet 3 soaps, not going to happen.

Soaps rely mostly on the Boomers, the vet fans to keep them alive.
There are no new viewers of numbers that would make a numbers difference.

AMC and OLTL will never return..
There is not a network that would take on the financial burden of a dying gender.

Without the original loved cast and writers the 2 soaps not be unrecognizable and would be a huge disappointment, if they returned.

ABC made a huge mistake in cancelling both shows. Case in point, both shows that replaced them have been canceled and the shows currently in their place are getting abysmal ratings. Brian Frons is a grade A evil moron who just wanted to kill soap operas and go for cheap entertainment even though soaps can be low cost and earn a profit. My hope is that the powers that be regret their decision and bring back our shows.

Please ABC, just bring both shows BACK !!!

Bring the soaps back. Looked forward to that relaxing 1 hour show during the day.

OLTL had the bigger target on its back, being the last NY based production and least buzz worthy of the ABC 3. However, as Michael alludes above, they were the highest rated ABC soap — producing a quality product.

AMC had lost its creative direction with poor writing and casting decisions that caused the show to nose dived in the ratings. Business wise, there was no logical way Frons, who was determined to cancel OLTL, could permit the lowest rated one to continue. Frons actually toyed with cancelling GH, too. But the Revolution bombed in the ratings and GH survived. And yes, credit does need to be give to Frank Valentini for his part.

I try to forget the short seasons Prospect Park produced for both shows. The actors did their best, but the production values were rather poor.

My mom, sis and I were all devastated when we heard about AMC being cancelled. We would tape it on the VCR and discuss it, sometimes in a 3-way phone conversation. I still watch Young and Restless, but AMC was one of a kind with their fast-moving action packed stories and love stories, like Kendall and Zac, Nina and Cliff, Jesse and Angie, Jenny and Gregg, and Erica and all her men. The villains also made the show so watchable, like Billy Clyde Tuggle. Nothing like it since! It was truly an escape from real life.

My husband and I occasionally reminisce about AMC characters and storylines. When AMC had character-driven storylines it was the best show on TV, period. Prospect Park’s AMC reboot on Hulu brought back the magic with beloved actors and storylines. Unfortunately I thunk AMC was once again a little ahead of its time asking viewers to watch the show on Hulu (now such a common everyday experience).