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BREAKING NEWS: Prospect Park Suing ABC Over All My Children & One Life to Live Licensing Agreement!

The behind the scenes soap opera continues between Prospect Park and ABC!  As the story goes, ABC canceled both All My Children and One Life to Live back in 2011 and licensed the rights to Prospect Park.  Prospect Park has now readied the shows for their online premieres on April 29th amidst several issues with the licensing agreement between the two business entities,  one of which has been the issue of the usage of original Llanview characters John McBain, Starr Manning, and Todd Manning.

In an item from Deadline.com this afternoon, “One week before Prospect Park is set to launch online soaps All My Children and One Life To Live, the production company is filing a breach of contract lawsuit against ABC, which licensed the shows to Prospect Park, the company of Jeff Kwatinetz and former Walt Disney studios president Rich Frank, two years ago. In the complaint, which has been filed with the Los Angeles Superior Court, Prospect Park claims that ABC has been breaking the licensing agreement and sabotaging Prospect Park’s efforts to continue AMC and OLTL online.

The lawsuit won’t derail the plans for the AMC and OLTL re-launch on April 29. “These shows will go forward, and Prospect will address its right sin Court,” the suit said. “Regardless of how successful Prospect may be,the fact remains that ABC did not deliver what it promised, Prospect did not get what it paid for,and Prospect is now entitled to recover millions of dollars in damages for ABC’s egregious conduct.” The complaint seeks monetary damages of at least $25 million.

The lawsuit follows a couple of months of building up tensions and threats of legal action between Prospect Park and ABC centered on OLTL actors who had been starring on ABC’s General Hospital since the cancellation of OLTL by ABC. Prospect Park attempted to get them back, which created a standoff with ABC. The last straw came last week when ABC announced that OLTL’s Kristen Alderson, Michael Easton and Roger Howarth will return to GH on May 10, presumably as new characters. According to the lawsuit, after taking over AMC and OLTL in 2011, Prospect Park, in “a gesture of good will”, allowed ABC “to borrow seven OLTL characters to appear on a limited basis” on the network’s soap General Hospital for the actors playing them can have employment. (It is understood that, despite having the characters on a temporary basis, ABC signed the actors playing them in long-term deals, making their return to OLTL even more difficult. Howarth recently made a short-term deal with Prospect Park to do a stint on OLT before returning to GH.) Prospect Park claims that in the arrangement, they retained “approval rights over ABC’s use of the OLTL characters. But “for over a year, ABC outright failed and refused to consult with Prospect on any storylines involving these characters, rendering Prospect’s approval rights meaningless.” With that, “in the ultimate act of bad faith, ABC inexplicably killed off two OLTL characters on loan to GH by having their car forced off a cliff. ABC effectively killed another major OLTL character, who was not even licensed to ABC, by revealing that this long-standing OLTL character is in fact another character (alter ego) on GH.”

Prospect Park also claims ABC breached the two side’s licensing agreement by refusing to hand over to Prospect Park the URLs for the two soaps the company had purchased, onelifetolive.com and allmychildren.com. “These URLs are not only critical to establishing public awareness for the re-launch, but they are part of the rights paid for by Prospect. It is understood that ABC also recently declined to air ads for OLTL because it features prominently an actor who is on GH.”

Despite the fact that ABC retains some ownership in AMC and OLTL under the licensing agreement, Prospect Park argues that ABC is trying to sabotage the two show’s transition online. The complaint claims that “at least one ABC executive” involved in the decisions to how to handle OLTL actors on GH, “has openly declared his desire to see Prospect fail” and suggests that the network’s actions may be driven by “a basic fear of embarrassment if Prospect succeeds.”

On-Air On-Soaps will keep you abreast on the further developments of this breaking story!  So soap fans, do you agree that at this point, Prospect Park should sue ABC?  Do you understand where Prospect Park is coming from in their claims that ABC is sabotaging their online efforts with the two beloved shows?  Wouldn’t it be good for the soap industry in general, if these two companies could reach an agreement somehow, especially at a time when GH delivered an amazing 50th anniversary celebration and Prospect Park is about to relaunch two soaps?  Let us know your thoughts on it all!

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Amazing way to promote the new shows, PP. I knew this was coming. This will be on all the news shows and websites. Perfect timing and a smart PR plan. Way to go PP. Sometimes you have to fight dirty.

dirty indeed on PP’s part. I hope ABC counter-sue them

Do tell Tarly what can PP be sued for???

I wonder how do the actors at AMC and OLTL really feel about PP’s actions as of late? Seems like PP doesn’t care about the rest of the cast. They just spend all their energy to these three actors whose already moved on. Let them go already and pay attention to those who has remained with the shows.

I’ll BET any amount of money that the CAST is FULLY behind PP! Do you really think these actors give a shit about ABC after what they did to them????
Erika S said how wonderfully they treat the CAST! Something ABC knows nothing about!! So I’m sure they have no problem with them SUING ABC!
BTW read the lawsuit because it is getting ridiculous how many ppl think this about ACTORS!

Are you kidding me? I have been waiting for AMC and OLTL for 2 years to come back. You will be crushing alot of people if they don’t continue!! Get over yourselves!

I think PP is totally justified in what they are doing. ABC are the ones fighting dirty. PP just wants what belongs to them. ABC had slowly destroyed all of the characters that have come on the show from OLTL, all PP is trying to do is save what is left of them. I agree I think all the actors are fully behind PP since it’s PP who has their best intentions at heart unlike ABC who just wanted them all to disappear.

Great post Nik 1296 I completely agree!!!!!

Totally agree. PP is not exactly innocent in this and why not just wait another 2 weeks (until the shows have been airing) to sue ABC? That just doesn’t make marketing sense to have this type of negative publicity surrounding the premieres of these shows. Makes you wonder if they are in need of the $25mm.

I agree.I dislike aBC as much as anybody but they can’t tell me they had no clue what was going on with the characters and there delay for over a year made people go elsewhere for jobs.Think they need to take blame here to.I am sad we lost alot of AMC characters and alot haven’t even been ask to come on baord.They want a dtifferent AMC,But i will watch and back it.Its all we got and its better then nothing.They promise in the beginning it would be in the same format and it is not.I’m just gonna watch my soaps ad let PP and ABC throw stones at each other.Been threw enough for the last year and half from both of them..

Moshane do you read the articles or skim read? Try reading…

How do you know moshane?? How do you know whom has been contacted and who doesn’t??? You don’t!

The three OLTL characters are one thing, the trio of actors who play them is quite another. Prospect Park seems to be suffering from the illegal illusion that it can force actors to work on the rebooted OLTL when two of them — Kristen Alderson and Michael Easton — have made it clear they want no part of the Internet soap. TPTB at PP would serve themselves well to take a look at the 13th Amendment to the Constitution which not only outlawed slavery but indentured servitude as well. ABC was perfectly within their rights — and the contract agreement with the actors’ union — SAG/AFTRA — to sign the actors (Alderson, Easton and Roger Howarth) to long-term contracts. In fact, hope the union steps forward to protect its own and put Prospect Park in its place by threatening to sanction any union member who appears on any PP production.

I have not heard any of these actors express not wanting to be apart of PP reboot of OLTL. ABC has a choke hold on all of them and I’m sure does not want any of them speaking on what they really want. If you actually read the lawsuit you would have seen and I quote “PP is also informed and believes on that basis alleges that in breach of the implied covenant, ABC entered into long- term contracts with certain actors known for their characters in OLTL thereby preventing those actors from working with PP and effectively removing any incentive for them to do so, ABC did so knowing full well that it had short-term rights to the OLTL characters and without disclosing to the actors PP right to get the characters back. PP is informed and believes and on that basis alleges that at least some of the actors moved their families to LA not knowing that their characters were on short-term loan to GH and that PP had rights to get characters back. PP is also informed and believes, and that basis alleges that ABC induced certain OLTL actors not to cooperate with PP by, among other things, casting PP in a negative light and suggesting incorrectly that PP is somehow negatively interfering with their careers. Indeed, in the middle of PP’s negotiations with certain actors, ABC went so far as to offer actors different roles on GH simply to induce them to not work with PP.” So basically what I get from this is that the actors were FORCED to stay on GH because ABC lied to them yet again. All PP is doing is fighting for what is RIGHTFULLY theirs. That’s all.

It is so nice to see someone with some brains and logic on here Nik 1296

I agree! Finally, PP shows some balls. This should prove that the whole thing was ABCs ruse to kill them and shutup the fans. IMO Ron and Frank were unethical using OLTL characters and material as long as PP had paid for the rights. I read that Ron was an attorney b4 becoming a writer so he should know better.

This should prove ABC/Disney doesn’t want OLTL/AMC to succeed. PP is already doing a much better job than Disney. I am predicting that on April 29, so many people will go to Hulu the site will crash. Let’s make that happen. 😉

I completely agree Sam! Great post!!

Agree!

Ron may have been an attorney before becoming a writer, but none of this would have been his final decision, it would have been ABC’s. Whether he “knows better” or not would have, unfortunately, been totally irrelevant; ABC has its own team of (practicing) lawyers, and they would have been the ones who were consulted and whose opinion would have counted.

Ditto on whether Frank and Ron behaved “ethically” or not–they undoubtedly did exactly what ABC asked them to do, and it’s ABC’s ethics that are in question, not theirs. ABC’s decision was a smart one–but only if they could count on Prospect Park’s never being able to get the online OLTL off the ground (and that’s sure how it looked at the time of OLTL’s cancellation). Capitalizing on the popularity of certain characters/actors from OLTL made very good sense if OLTL was never coming back in any form. However, I guess they chose to disregard the very real possibility that they were jumping the gun–and now they’re stuck with the consequences. Legally, I would imagine Prospect Park is absolutely right here–they bought rights to the show that was leaving the airwaves as of January 2012, and what they have now is substantially different because of ABC’s actions in the meantime.

It isn’t so much the legal contracts with the three actors–I think Prospect Park is probably on much weaker legal ground with that part of the lawsuit. But the fact that ABC has not consulted with Prospect Park on what was done with the characters, if it is in fact in Prospect Park’s contract that it would have approval rights, seems pretty flagrantly to be a contract violation (assuming, again, that Prospect Park is characterizing the contract accurately).

I do think ABC has been sabotaging Prospect Park. Which is sad–but exactly what one has come to expect from ABC. (Even though it would seem logical that ABC would have a stake in the success of AMC and OLTL online, since they still have ownership rights, I think their stake in the success of General Hospital means much more to them, and if they have to undercut Prospect Park to do it, oh well. And I think it’s an appalling attitude–but it doesn’t surprise me in the least.)

I am all for PP succeeding. When ABC cancelled these shows they did not care about the viewers. They shot themselves in the foot by cancelling these daytime staples. ABC disappointed MANY viewers. Get over yourself and let PP pick up the ball that you dropped

“I think Prospect Park is probably on much weaker legal ground with that part of the lawsuit.”
Michael I think you would think differently if you read the Lawsuit…

Is the lawsuit itself available somewhere to read, then? I hunted around a bit but didn’t see it available, and I don’t see a link above.

Here Michael here is a quote from the lawsuit about the actors….
““PP is also informed and believes on that basis alleges that in breach of the implied covenant, ABC entered into long- term contracts with certain actors known for their characters in OLTL thereby preventing those actors from working with PP and effectively removing any incentive for them to do so, ABC did so knowing full well that it had short-term rights to the OLTL characters and without disclosing to the actors PP right to get the characters back. PP is informed and believes and on that basis alleges that at least some of the actors moved their families to LA not knowing that their characters were on short-term loan to GH and that PP had rights to get characters back. PP is also informed and believes, and that basis alleges that ABC induced certain OLTL actors not to cooperate with PP by, among other things, casting PP in a negative light and suggesting incorrectly that PP is somehow negatively interfering with their careers. Indeed, in the middle of PP’s negotiations with certain actors, ABC went so far as to offer actors different roles on GH simply to induce them to not work with PP.”

I think ABC is a bully. They gave up the shows and should honor their agreement. Of course, the continuity (or lack of) on General Hospital, with the abrupt departures of central characters and the possible return of these actors in different roles is laughable. But then it is a soap! Best of luck to Prospect Park and to a new and robust future for OLTL and AMC and their terrific cast of actors.

will everyone b able to watch the soaps on the channel free or do we have to pay to watch them?

You can watch it on Hulu ((FREE)) Hulu Plus 7.99 a month, Itunes and if you are in Canada you can watch it on FX. Hope that helps!

Please, ABC, don’t become like other networks (NBC). Can’t you all just get along. Are you that money hungry? How big do you have to be? General Hospital is your last soap. Why did you decide to keep it? You threw AMC to the curb without regard for anyone. You moved the actors to California and then screwed them. Let me correct myself…Evidently you are already as bad, if not worse than NBC.

Yep. Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do but really ABC don’t have the right to be like that how would they feel if they got done that way and i’m a big fan of both of them soaps I’ve watched every show until I didn’t see it on tv im not like’n this and I do hope that AMC and OLTL get’s back on tv because i really like to watch my soaps so i hope the soaps gets it not ABC go get’m soaps and ABC it is not fair for the soaps not to be aired so be adults and allow them back on tv please.

Abc disney sucks..long live amc and oltl

Yep. I have not watched ABC since they cancelled the soaps. I think it is now time to boycott all things Disney too!

Who cares if ABC advertises it now, they couldn’t be bothered when they had the shows. It’s not like they have a lot of daytime audience left to show the ads to anyway.

I hope PP wipes the floor with them!!

I read disney has an interest in hulu which carries both soaps!

ABC,NBC and CBS own hulu..

NBCUniversal Television Group (32%)
Fox Broadcasting Company (36%)
Disney-ABC Television Group (32%)

I agree.

Yes!

ditto! “Long Live, AMC & OLTL.

Ditto Scott!

Yes they should sue. Enough is enough. ABC not only cancelled the shows, totally disregarding their fan bases, but are seemingly saying “we don’t want these shows but we’ll be damned if anyone else has them either.” They want to make the money on the licensing while making sure it’s worthless.

The fact is ABC will be, and should be, embarrassed when these shows succeed far better than they did when they had them.

I agree!

Love everything you said!

I doubt ABC will be embarrassed if the shows succeed far better than when they had them because the standard for a web series and a TV network is very different. PP’s lawsuit will likely be thrown out of court, not only because ABC can afford to drag it through the courts since they no doubt have more money than the PP company but also because there’s no proof of them sabotaging Prospect Park’s efforts to relaunch the show. The only thing that they did that affects OLTL is that they will be keeping RH, ME and KA as employees (the OLTL writers can easily bring Cole and Hope back from the dead) and PP will have the difficult job of successfully recasting the roles but that’s not really ABC’s fault since they can’t force RH, ME and KA to go back to OLTL.

How do you know what they have?? Are you ONE of their Attorneys? I’m sure if they are going after ABC they have more than enough proof of what they claim……ALL OF IT IS ABC’S FAULT!

“here ye, here ye”

well said….

ABC be damned” should they hinder PP’s accomplishment.

I totally agree! ABC/Disney cancelled these shows stating no one watched them. Then when all the complaints started rolling in they tried to save face. They now want to cash in on the success GH has had since a lot of people watched it because of the OLTL characters. I for one did not watch GH until they added those characters. Now they want it to fail online so they don’t look like the fools they were to cance these 2 shows. I am glad they decided to sue. They paid for the rights the characters were on loan and they need to admit they were wrong!

Great post I completely agree! Sorry anyone that backs ABC or thinks they did nothing wrong needs to have their head examined!

No one is saying that ABC did nothing wrong but your blind alligiance to PP is not accurate either. We do not know both sides of the stories. And yes, I do have some inside information on how this went down and both sides have been a bit unethical. Bottom line is that this is a business – people are out there to make money so don’t be so quick to throw blame until you know the whole story. I find it frustrating that instead of waiting 2 weeks that PP, one week before the shows air, decides to air this dirty laundry. Makes me wonder if they need the cash. Also, of course the actors are going to say everything is great and that they are treated nicely – that’s what they were saying about ABC, and how the fans should not worry, right up to the day they announced they were being cancelled so I wouldn’t put to much stock into what the cast has to say on the subject. Hope it all works out.

It sounds to me like PP has every right to sue. ABC is bullying and needs to face consequences of it… apparently not enough that they cut AMC and OLTL from network TV, but now that PP has done the work to relaunch our shows, they (ABC) want to trip it up following their neglect in following the original agreement.

who cares about Cole and Hope and characters come back from the dead all time.

exactly. No body was found. Those two can come back from the dead easily. Obviously, PP is just playing dirty.

They probably wouldnt use them anyway.

The point is not that GH killed off Hope and Cole, the point is ABC agreed to consult PP regarding how the 7 LOANED characters were going to be used. After all PP is paying millions of dollars to ABC/Disney for the licensing of AMC and OLTL and that included all of their characters and all of past storylines.

I truly believe that Cole and Hope Are alive.

UH maybe the people who paid for the rights and control of the characters?????
Easy enough it will probably turn out that Irene is alive and caused the crash and took Hope and Cole just like she did with Todd

Thanks for keeping us up to date, Michael. Should we be surprised by this? Look at how ABC treated OLTL and AMC while they were on the air.

I don’t think ANY of us are surprised by ABCs actions. They treated everyone (including the fans) like scum under their shoes. I love GH but the heads at ABC really suck and they should already be embarrassed because our soaps will succeed!

I agree Lisa!

Definitely. ABC has done NOTHING to support these new shows, and in fact, after reading the complaint, it seems they have tried to destroy OLTL systematically. I am glad PP finally has stood up to at least spell out the TRUTH.

That Lawsuit is very interesting reading and it most definitely sounds like ABC tried to sabotage PP every step of the way!

i know cole & hope were killed when thier car ran off a cliff but who is this long standing oltl character that was revealed as another character (alter ego) on gh????
anybody know?

I think they are referring to them making it look like Tomas is really Alcazar.

Lorenzo Alcazar or Skye Chandler?

Thomas/Alcazar

John Mcbain alter Stephan Clay/Caleb Morley i believe!

ding ding no more calls we have a winner…..JIM!

thomas delgado, according to the lawsuit , ABC and GH killed of the character of Tomas by revealing he was GH Alcazar.

Lorenzo Delgado was said to really be GH character crime lord Alcazar.

Hahah, I mean Tomas Delgado…

I think is was Caleb was a alter ego

Thomas was reveled to be alkaza

I think Caleb is the alter ego …

The long standing OLTL character that was referenced was Thomas Delgado played by Ted King. They revealed him as “Alcazar”, on GH. I’m so glad Prospect Park is suing ABC, I only watched GH after they cancelled OLTL and was very disappointed how they destroyed the storylines. Killing off Cole & Hope was not the best way to bring over the OLTL characters. They also killed off Tea’s baby. ABC is dirty and so glad they are being sued. I will not be watching GH after they stole the actors who play Todd, Starr, and John.

Looking forward to the premiere of OLTL on April 29th.

He wasn’t long standing character!

They’re referring to Ted King who played Alcazar on GH but was Tomas Delgado on OLTL. They had a plot where Skye and Carly recognized Tomas as Alcazar.

John McBain.

Ethel, I”m trying to figure out the same thing!

Blair’s love interest when OLTL ended (Tea’s brother- can’t remember his name now) was hinted, but not quite revealed as far as I can remember, to be Alcazar from GH. Both were played by the same actor (Ted King?) Not sure, but I’m guessing that’s who they’re referring to…

Tomas was his name, and the last this was mentioned on GH, Blair, Tea, and Skye Quartermaine were going on a road trip to track down Tomas and see if he really was Lorenzo Alcazar, as Skye and Todd believed.

I assume they were talking about Tomas/Alcazar. They could also sue over Tea’s dead baby I guess but from the preview video it seems like they are running with that story.

Michael Easton aka Vampire whatever his name was!

Ted King played Tomas Delgado was not a long standing OLTL character! Michael Easton had been there 10 yrs.

I think it might be Tomas.

I am not a GH viewer, but from what I have read it appears to be Michael Easton’s role. It says above that “ABC effectively killed another major OLTL character”. Does not mean the character is dead. I guess that would be John McBain. Hasn’t ME been playing a character he played before on “Port Charles”?

Michael Easton played vampire on gh spinoff port Charles) 2001-2003

I would like to know that, too.

Ted King’s character on OLTL Tomas was revealed to be his GH character Lorenzo.

Tomas Delgado

They are referring to Tomas being Alcazar.

They had Tea Delgado brother be Alcazar

they also killed Tea’s and Victors baby which I think alot of viewers were looking forward too

The only one I can think of is Tomas/Alcazar.

I am thinking they are speaking of Tomas Delgado who they revealed to be the Alcazar character from GH when Carly, Skye and Todd visited Blaisr in Llanview.

I am guessing they are talking about Michael Easton/John/Caleb/? forgotten the other name. My guess will be heads will roll over on the set of GH FV & RC are the ones who brought them over gave them love interests and wrote story for them for three characters who were OLTL even including Tea & Blair maybe they PP did not want Tea to lose her baby you see where I am heading with this. It is going to get real nasty now they say hey we are bringing the actors back to GH as new characters when they created these roles on OLTL if I was PP I would be probably royally pissed. I mean OLTL fans can you accept other actors in these roles. Problem indeed!

Just read on another board maybe they are talking about the character of Tomas/Alcazar?

I think they are talking about Thomas/Lorenzo alcazar s/l, when I think of all the s/l b.s. and sabotage of the endings on OLTL that was set up to be the reboot I think I don’t blame PP

Tomas,it was suggested on GH that he may actually be Lorenzo Alcazar.

Don’t forget they killed off Tea & Victors baby as well…as far as the alter ego, I have no idea what they are talking about. Unless they are meaning the whole Caleb/John story…but who knows??

yes, they are talking about Thomas/Alcazar (ted king, who played both characters on each show)

Tomas Aka Alcazar

Tomas aka Alcazar

On GH Carly & Skye went to Llanview & told Tea that her Tomas was really their mutual ex Lorenzo Alcazar. The joke was that actor Ted King played Lorenzo on GH first before going to OLTL & playing Tomas.

That Tomas Delgado is Lorenzo Alcazar.

Tomas Delgado/Luis Alcazar (or Lorenzo Alcazar, never could keep em straight!)

The long standing character who also had an alter ego on GH… the only one i can think of would be Alcazar/Tomas Delgato?????? anyone?
PP should sue the pants off ABC.. !!! VIva la OLTL and AMC!!!

Tomas Delgado was not a long standing character on OLTL, maybe a yr and half.

On an episode of General Hospital, Skye Quatermaine and Carly Jax saw an article in the Sun about Thomas Delgado and Blair’s wedding and they revealed to Todd that it was Lorenzo Alcazar.

I would like the answer to that as well. I just can’t think of who it is and I never miss it. There goes the ‘Ol memory! Can anybody answer that for us?

Yeah, they are talking about Tomas Delgatto.

I’m guessing they are talking about Tomas. They implied that he was really Alcazar.

The alter ego was Tomas who GH implied was really Lorenzo Alcazar (Ted King played both roles).

Tomas Delgado. GH wrote that he wasn’t really Tomas but a GH character named Lorenzo .

Tomas…Alcazar…?

They mean how Blair’s fiance was a dead ringer for the character of Lorenzo Alcazar on GH. The strange part was when Skye, Blair and Tea left GH to find Tomas and were never seen again on GH. Unless I missed those episodes.

Tomas/Alcazar

That’s what I was wondering too. I wish someone had answered. Doesn’t anybody know what they’re referring to on that?

It was Tomas I think the actor also played a few characters on GH.

A storyline on GH around the holidays strongly suggested that a longtime GH character, Lorenzo Alcazar, was going by the alias of Tomas Delgado, the OLTL character played by Ted King (who had also played Alcazar). Heck, I was surprised Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini even went there, considering one of the characters so wrapped up in the resemblance, Carly, is played by Laura Wright. Her character on Loving/The City, Ally, had an on-again/off-again relationship with Danny, played by … Ted King! So …. Since GH recognizes The City continuity (via the Tracy Quartermaine/Gino Soleito mob storyline), it’s interesting no one noticed the resemblance of Alcazar, Tomas and Danny Roberts. Gotta love soap casting!

could it be John ,who was Calep on Pc 10 years ago.

Holy cow! The behind-the-scenes is playing out like a juicy soap opera plot line!! 😉

It actually sounds more interesting than the soaps!

In fact, I think the Pickle Lilla storyline is kind of similar. ELQ owns the rights to the relish so Tracy is just going to change the name and A.J. is going to just change the recipe. Just like P.P. has to change the actors but gets to keep the name and GH gets to keep the actors but has to change their character. Did anybody else catch that?

yes, i was lmao

.LOL..DIDNT GET THAT

I caught that as well, and chuckled

Of course keeping their name out there just a few weeks before launch isn’t all about Publicity. You know what they say even bad publicity is publicity.

ABC was wrong to cancel the shows in the first place, but I don’t see the point in sueing them because GH killed off Cole and Hope (their bodies weren’t found) and Kristen Alderman and Michael Easton didn’t want to uproot their lives to work across the country for several months. But the dumbest thing is the connection between Thomas and Alcazar. Just say it wasn’t true.

I like both shows and think Prospect Park just needs to accept they will have to recast Starr and John and maybe Todd or just ignore the fact the OLTL characters ever moved to Port Charles much like GH is doing now with not mentioning them by name.

Out of the whole BIG article that is what you saw, the characters?? Is that is what you think this is all about? Starr, John and Todd???

oh god, ms know it all joliefan forever has always something to say, look, oltl can start off where it last ended on abc, recast those 3 characters and ignore everything abc and GH did. so stop crying a river, oltl fans are so melodramatic.

Holy smokes! This is better than any drama on any soap currently airing! I admit I was reticent about getting behind AMC and OLTL with Prospect Park because of them dropping the ball originally and especially in the case of OLTL, the ABC version ended so perfectly. But I have since changed my tune as it looks like Prospect Park has really turned itself around and have made a herculean effort to bring these shows back in a smart way and, especially in the case of OLTL, luring back the core cast. I’m actually getting excited for the reboots and have faith that Prospect Park is now on a great course. I thought there might have been some sour grapes going on, especially when GH basically threw their hands up in the air and decided to cut all ties with the OLTL characters. I admired Ron Carlivati and Frank Valentini for keeping OLTL alive and thought that this was a boon to Propsect Park as they attempt to relaunch AMC and OLTL. But if the allegations are true about the characters being “temporarily” on loan to GH, and that characters were killed off and no attempt was made to inform Prospect Park of the story direction for these characters, then I say, “Go, Prospect Park!” And hope ABC has to pay up big time because they are the idiots who let these shows slip through their fingers in the first place.

well said…

seriously…

it’s like…. ABC/disney… let’s trim the budget and cut daytime up…

and let’s ALL watch abc “prime-time” fail together.

and notwithstanding… this is happening all over prime time… on the “major” networks….

cable is eschewing… what once was.

cable is taking over…

and the networks don’t have a clue.

if this is a new era… ie: internet… we can’t fault this….

AMC and OLTL tribute and staying power on PP.

true colors revealed on PP. GH was happy and already moved on without the characters. Instead of focusing on their shows, they keep clinging on to GH and the trio. I hope ABC counter-sue their behind off.

Counter Sue them for what?? Taking back Characters ABC tried to Steal? ABC has NOTHING and PP I hope wipes the floor with them it long over do for ABC to be put in their place!!

Good answer! It’s hard to imagine people cannot see the real story here. Legally, PP is totally in the right.

Thanks Kim. I agree and ya know if they actually read the Lawsuit they would not make such silly comments. I think a lot of them don’t read it because they don’t want to see what ABC has done……

this is like a soap opera, whose the villian? well seems like ABC, but are they really? this is so confusing, sure gives all 3 soaps, ABC and PP alot of press coverage, so who is really the winner and loser here. more likely the viewer, who now has to see what kind of results all this feuding will end up in.

Totally agree with Prospect Park! Hope they kick ass!

Me too!!

no, I don’t think they should sue. they should be damn grateful that they are finally going to get their project off the ground, and should concentrate on making a success of it.

as far as Hope & Cole, they can, as GH has many times, find them alive and being hidden away from society by some kook — I’m thinking Allison Perkins may have a little zoo of her own started.

and the other character, is someone else on GH? is that the Caleb/McBain deal? did they even watch the show? Caleb (michael easton) was originally on another ABC soap, long before John McBain showed up in Llanview! And they were different people, as we all learned, and Caleb is dead (is he really?) and McBain went off on FBI assignment. So John McBain is still John McBain, but just won’t be in Port Charles.

I don’t see what the problem is… The fans of Todd, Star and John on GH are the ones put out, not PP, we get to keep the actors, but not the characters. PP can use the characters, GH can have the actors.

so what’s the problem PP?

BREACH OF CONTRACT that is the Problem!

How you…or any OLTL fan, can side with ABC on ANYTHING is beyond me. ABC CANCELLED OLTL! PROSPECT PARK…is the ONLY company…NOT OPRAH…NOT any other CABLE station…thought it was worth the financial risk of producing OLTL (or AMC)!
Prospect Park SHOULD BE GRATEFUL!!!!???? They are a business…they spent MILLIONS of DOLLARS to get these things back on! ABC isn’t doing them a favor!!!! Grateful? For what???!!!!
And news flash…it’s a business opportunity for Prospect Park. They’re not a chairty existing to give fans back their soaps! They envision a wave of the future…whioh is more interent programming…they saw a huge fan base and outcry…and they’re savvy businessmen. They have every right to sue…they had a business deal..and I for one am in their corner all the way!
Great to see they have the chops and balls to go up against a media giant like ABC…and from last I read they already won one part of their suit…ABC gave them back the rights to the URLs Onelifetolive.com and Allmychildren.com.
I repeat…what is wrong with any of you that would criticize PP…
It’s because of them…ONLY because of them…that these soaps are coming back. You should be behind these guys 100%.

ooh, ouch! obviously hit a nerve with you. Sorry. I’m not siding with ABC, just thinking that a company that was struggling to get their project off the ground and is just getting started would want to concentrate on the project and not spend money on suing a huge company like ABC/Disney (more Disney than anything). Not criticizing them, just concerned about their money going against the big guns before their show has even hit the web live yet.

I’m behind the actors and crew… all the people that lost their jobsl because a few dumb a**es at ABC didn’t think anyone was watching soaps anymore. you know we had an earlier story that PP tried to work things out on sharing the characters of Todd, Star & John, but if they were actually in the start of suing ABC, I kinda wonder about that earlier report.

and yes, PP should be grateful, they should count their lucky stars every day, for their own ability to get their project off the ground after that whole year plus. The fans are grateful. I’m making purchases just to watch it’s return, I just don’t want them to get into money problems – suing is not cheap and going against that giant mouse is not going to be a picnic.

If you’ve read my comments over the past year, you’d know I was not kind with my regards to ABC for what they did to OLTL, a show I watched and loved for 43 years, so no, not siding with them, just concerned for the little guy (PP).

And you know, there must have been agreements over a year ago when PP let ABC use some OLTL chacters — just seems odd that ABC would choose to bring Cole & hope over just to kill them off… there could have been other ways to get Star to Port Charles. I mean, in some writer’s room… ‘let’s bring them in and they have an accident and the 2 fall over in the car and are killed’ ‘can we do that? we’re just borrowing the characters’ I mean didn’t anyone have in writing what characters could be used and how? And would love to know what ABC’s license to PP says about ABC’s rights to characters – they’ve retained some rights, but I don’t know what. The whole Hope & Cole deal was over a year ago and they’re just now bringing it up?

it’s just unclear about references to the characters eluded to in the top story… and as far as Star & John McBain are concerned, they’ve left Port Charles and are out there available to show up on OLTL. Todd already went back to the show for a while. And who knows what PP will do to Todd – recast or what.

but like I said earlier, since we never saw hope & cole dead, they could be elsewhere all this time. On OLTL Cole had to leave town so he wouldn’t have to go to jail. I still think it would be super if Allison Perkins had Cole & Hope & Victor!

I will back PP because they are airing AMC/OLTL, not their foolish behavior. They already have the characters back (which I’ve never argued). But why PP REFUSES to recast characters they have rights to mystifies me. Any judge worth his salt will throw this out in five minutes

agree Christy oltl gh FANS GET THE BAD END OF THE SICK THEY MADE STAR IN MID COVERSATION WITH MICHAEL SAY IM LEAVING AND DONT TRY TO FOLLOW ME IM NEVER COMMING BACK TODD JUST JUMPED ON A JET SAYING IM TAKING YOU TO L,A AND AFTHER FINDING OUT CARLY WAS STILL INLOVE WITH HIM GET NO EXPLANTION AND MCBAIN AFTHER A SIZZLE YEAR WITH SAM EVEYONE WANTING THEM AND LICKING THER LIPS FOR THEM TO BE TOGTHER BEACUSE OF THERE OSO HOT ATTRACTION TO EACH OTHER HE JUST STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF ALMOST MAKING LOVE AFTHER SO LONG AND GOING THROGH SO MUCH TOGETHER SAY I NEED TO GET MY LIFE IM GONE AND THATS IT WE ARE THE ONE THAT GET CHEATED HOW DO YOU END JUST LIKE THAT THEN COME BACK AS ALL NEW CHACTHERS SO ONE LIFE TO LIVE CAN EVEN GET ALL NEW PEOPLE IF THEY WANTED AND STILL BE OK THE STORY WOULD COME TOGETHER JUST FINE THEY STILL HAVE THE NAMES GH FANS ARE STUCK HAVING THOSE ACTORS INTERACTING FOE OVER A YEAR THEN SHOW BACK UP WITH ALL NEW IDENTITES IS GOING TO BE JUST CRAZY

There is two sides to every story…i really would like to hear ABCs side of this before making a fair judgment but how come PP waited this long to mention they didnt have storyline approval or say anything sooner about them killing off Cole and Hope? They couldve went to court much sooner to have the characters removed from GH if they disaproved of how the characters were written(seems like PP wasnt sure they could do the reboots then when they finally do they argue how the characters were used?)! So i blame both sides for that! By the way Disney, which owns abc, ironically has interest in hulu which carries both soaps!

How do you know they have not been trying to do that behind the scenes? There is a lot of stuff that goes on behind the scenes that we don’t know about. So for all we know they have been and ABC would not budge which is not surprising and finally PP has to take this action…..Jim they have legally taken back the characters a long time ago…..Has an Interest IN Hulu…I fully blame ABC!

I agree much of the blame is on ABC but i still like to hear their side of the story. PP couldve been doing a lot behind the scenes for all we know but i still think we couldve heared about this sooner! I doubt itll hurt the shows! Anyway i think this negative stuff between the two is actually good publicity!

Hi Jim
Sorry I have no desire to read more BULL from ABC……Since the lawsuit has been filed for ABC to say they have not been served is a Crock! They said that because they can’t LIE their way out of it…..Facts are pretty cut and clear, Contracts don’t lie. Read the Lawsuit Jim you will understand why they are suing now, they exhausted every other avenue.

I imagine Disney has an interest (tie-ins) in many companies we don’t know about. 🙂

you mentioned reading the lawsuit… do you have a link to where it is?

Christy there are 2 links on here I believe one is From Susan…..It’s an interesting read

ABC is the largest pig what can be.No offense to animal,because they are much better than those crooks on ABC.

gees if anyone should sue ABC, it should have been the fans of AMC and OLTL long ago! ha

i can turn off abc and disney for good , NO PROBLEM ! they think they can run the show. for me, it’s easy to watch hulu, cbs, nbc, fox and a wide variety of other channels. so kiss off abcd.

Here, here catz24. The scum will never get another second of my viewership (the alphabet network) or my money (the mouse company).

my viewing isn’t even counted – digital tuners con’t count. I watch GH, Dancing with the Stars and Castle and my local news. Sometimes I catch the Wed comedies, but usually just watching DVDs… but soon I’ll be watching what Hulu has to offer too!

and I like Castle because 2 OLTL’rs are on the show!

Good for PP! To me it seems like ABC/Disney has been trying to sabotage PP’s efforts. Is a shame the actors chose to remain with ABC/GH. I’ve never watched OLTL so I have no loyalties to the characters/actors that went to GH, so personally I’m glad they’ve left the canvas – their storylines were awful. AB C was trying to jam them down the throats of GH viewers even though there was no chemistry between GH and OLTL characters. I am looking forward to watching AMC and I’m glad ABC is not screwing with that show’s characters.

I am so behind PP doing this. I feel that ABC acted irresponsibly and disrespectfully to fans and the actors themselves. They should have honored their agreement the way it was originally written. While I did watch and enjoy the story on GH, I knew that they were messing with OLTL character history. After all, I have watched OLTL for 35 years!!! Shame on ABC for their unprofessional actions, especially since they will profit from the revival of the show!!

Exactly Glenn….They are just a disgusting shady crooked company!

we have known for so long that ABC/Disney is a dirty rat! This goes to show you how right we were….I wish PP the best in this

Also, in my heart of hearts, I believe that the reason why so many of the other regulars from both shows have been apprehensive about joining back on the cast is because they still don’t trust the whole situation. I believe that they are fully aware of the egg that’s on ABC’s face, and they realize how badly ABC wants to take down both shows, to save face, so they are holding off just until the success of the reboots are proven. I think around the 6-9 month mark, we will all see more and more people joining on….once they see that AMC & OLTL are here to stay. I think that they are afraid to jump in blindly, and I can’t blame that for that. But just know, we soap fans are not going anywhere and we are here to give our full support to the shows that ABC left out to dry….

Here Here Torrey!!

why is pp making such a big deal about all this? if they want their 3 characters back then so be it, you have them back. theres nothing written in stone that says, they have to explain the 3 oltl characters history with GH ,in fact they don’t even have to follow up on it. They can pick up Oltl with the 3 characters where OLTL ended with them when they went off the air on abc, so star and hope, and cole can be in los angeles, john still part of Natalie and their son life and Todd out on bail after being arrested for killing victor. There you have it , take it from there and stop being a baby just cause you havent’ figure out how to play with the BIG BOYS!

It’s so funny how many on here have no idea how to comprehend simple articles! Just pathetic how many of you post thinking this is all about 3 characters!

It is just about three characters, you just refuse to accept reality

The long standing oltl character that was revealed as another character (alter ego) on gh is Tomas. Todd, Carly, and Skye revealed to Blair and Tea he was really Lorenzo Alcazar and he was recalled to the CIA before they could confront him.

abc sucks. they will lose. karma is a bitch lol

Yes it is Ricardo!

I think it is very unfortunate that they can’t work out an equitable deal and co-exist together for the success of the shows and with money to be made by both parties.

The more unfortunate situation is the adverse affect on the actors that are being restricted and harmed in the process! I hope they get to work soon!

BTW… the Soapnet website is a very sad state of affairs and has missed out on the GH 50th opportunites and the opportunity to assist PP with the start of OLTL and AMC on TOLN. It’s not like it doesn’t help Sony with their soaps. What a waste of a website! Those of us who don’t have Soapnet on cable could at least get good content on Soapnet.com but another ABCD missed opportunity!

How are the Actors being Harmed???

The lawsuit is new and hasn’t hurt them yet… but the whole war going on between ABCD and PP has hurt them in many ways! The fact that a lawsuit is added into the mix makes the situation even worse and will have repercussions with the three roles/characters and will ultimately affect the actors. Then there is the stress of this whole thing continuing on after the supposed resolution and anoucements of the 3 actors coming back and completing their contracts with ABCD. These actors have moved across country and uprooted their families lives and for what they thought would be some security for at least 13 weeks up to a year or more. Actors go through these types of risks all the time but when a soap actor like ME or KA who have been on OLTL for 15+ years makes a move across the country for what was believed to be a less risky and more secure contract role… it is unfortunate that they have to worry about this and any other legal shoe that may drop causing them to miss out on more work for weeks or months. They just lost out on at least a month of work and maybe more. The legal war between the two parties may even be affecting their abilities to get other acting gigs to fill in during the time they are on the bench waiting for these two companies to get their act together and co-exist! I feel the most emotion for the three actors and their families!!! In this economy… I want them working and hopefully having a great time doing it! These 3 have established great friendships with cast and crew at GH and it’s sad they can’t just get back to work and have some fun!

JolieFan – I’m wondering if YOU read the article and the lawsuit. Seems to me you are VERY quick to lash out at anyone who disagrees with you. I think everyone needs to hear both sides of the story before making snap decisions. So far we’ve only heard PP’s side of things. I think we all need to chill out and listen to what ABC has to say in response. I’m not saying that ABC is blameless but I, for one, would like to hear both sides and make up my own mind.

READ THE LAWSUIT!

I’m pretty sure the oltl character with the alter ego on gh is Tea’s brother. Todd, Carly and Skye show up at Blair’s telling her the man she is going to marry is really Lorenzo/Luis Alcazar.

Well, well, well ~~ why doesn’t this surprise me? ABC will never learn will they? Glad to see it wasn’t just the soap fans who found out what the true ABC executives are like. $25 mill? You gooooo PP! I’m on your side all the way!

Here Here!

Just as predicted when ABC decided to drop AMC and OLTL…..what goes around comes around. ABC you should have listened to your fan base. Prospect Park listened and now they are delivering, quit being spoiled sports!!! LONG LIVE PROSPECT PARK!!!

I will stand behind PP for anything that they do. I hated the story lines that they had some of the OLTL 3 in.

This is going to be soooo damned good to watch come down to…??????

No matter what; nobody owns the actors ..
If they have contracts they are obligated, but not owned..

Being ABC still owns the soaps and is leasing them and yet still have holdings of profit from both soaps with PP that ;eaves a big ??????
ABC has really good media law legal teams, I mean excellent, and they wrote up the contracts, so we need to wait for the hidden loop holes to come out..

What is actually in the contracts, which we probably will never know, will be the outcome..
I hope the trial will be on HSN LOL yah .
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OK– the Betting Booth is open, place your bets..

The winner will be;
…. ABC
…. PP

SU try reading for once…..ABC retains some ownership in AMC and OLTL…..PP OWNS THE MAJORITY! Do you work for their Legal Teams? If they were so excellent they would have had all of this Squashed A LONG TIME AGO!

Further evidence abc could not have sunk lower and continues to spit on iconic shows that made it millions. Tinkle on them

sounds like a huge pissing match between to teenagers

OMG!! This is ridiculous!! What is ABC’s problem?? They have essentially stolen the OLTL actors. Even though I have, unfortunately, become invested in several of the GH storylines, I doubt I will continue to watch once the OLTL actors return as different characters. It just flat sucks. Those actors for me will always be Starr, John and Todd and I simply cannot accept them as anyone else.

Grow up

Agree with Scott & clh.

i hope abc loses. that will teach them for cancelling one life to live and all my children. karma to abc finally. the chew what a awful show. the hosts are so dumb and no sence of humour.

ABC doesn’t care about the fans! If they did they would not have canceled either show.

Wow, more PP and ABC drama–the plot thickens. Sounds like PP has a case against ABC. Can’t wait to hear the outcome. If ABC is ordered to pony up the $25 mil, it wouldn’t surprise me. As a soap fan I don’t trust ABC as far as I could throw’em. Who are the OLTL 7? We know the 3, Hope and Cole, who are the others? Tea’s unborn baby? Who’s the 7th?

Def keep us posted Mr. Fairman. Thanks!!

John, Starr, “Todd”, Blair, Tea, Cole, Hope….

the only reason i started watching gh after 10 yrs was because of star,todd, and john. because i wanted to hold on to oltl. and if they are going to return to gh as new characters and storylines. i’ll turn it off again.

Thank you catz!! I basically said the same thing. Funny, Troy didn’t tell you to ‘grow up’?

Thank you as always for your reporting on this and your insight Michael! This is going to be as good as our soaps!!! Soap fans grab your popcorn and put your feet up – Mr Toad’s Wild Ride is about to begin! Prospect Park has MILLIONS of fans behind them who have no love lost for Disney/ABC. I for one will do whatever I can to see Prospect Park prevail. They also have Rich Frank – who knows Disney from the inside out… Trial by jury! HAHAHAHAHA! Love it!

To quote a friend, I want a seat on that jury.

ME TOO!!!!

ABC is upset they won’t get a piece of the pie. They cancelled these soaps which they shouldn’t have in the first place. Now they are still whinning over OLTL characters on GH.
They never cared before or ever for our beloved soaps. Abc should leave our soaps alone
and move on! They are so money hungry! Abc is losing their grip..And the lousy shows they put on primetime are left to be desired(pure garbage)! They made their bed now they have to sleep in it. They are a bunch of two-faced liars! Take your marbles ABC and go home and leave our beloved soaps alone! 4/29 12:00p.m. Yeah!!!!!

Great post Susan!!

ABC/D just can’t admit that it made a huge mistake canceling AMC & OLTL. So now they want PP to fail in order to “prove” they made the right decision in the first place. How asinine is it not to let PP advertise AMC & OLTL on ABC? Soap fans won’t forget what ABC has done and is doing!

I haven’t and won’t!

It all seems silly and petty. Hopefully, this can be settled out of court. Fighting over soap opera rights in this day and age is like J. Howard Marshall’s son and Anna Nicole Smith battling for custody of the old man’s ashes. OLTL can certainly proceed without Starr, John, or Todd — they have a Robin Strasser and Hillary B. Smith for God sake! Let’s not forget Prospect Park fumbled the ball early on. ABC had to proceed in light of the reboot’s uncertainty.

ABC had to ABIDE by the AGREEMENT and contract((s)) they have with PP and they didn’t!

Rickie-I agree with you wholeheartedly. It’s just too bad that SOME OLTL fans can’t accept reality

Can’t wait to hear the outcome. Goes to show you how far good faith and abc don’t go tog. If the judge rules in favor of PP may abc get whats coming to them! As a burned soap fan, truly can’t wait. What goes around…….

Thanks Mr. Fairmam, no doubt you’ll keep us posted.

It’s so poetic how ABC cancelled these soaps cold heartedly and now their new owners are suing’em. Biting’em back in the a$$. You can’t make this stuff up!

LMAO Emme! You are so right!!

ABC is embarrassed and JEALOUS. Go Prospect Park!

Wow pathetic on both sides. Can we please put all this stuff aside and get back to storytelling!

yeah…forget about those silly lil millions that are involved…forget about breach of contract…forget about screwing around with the rights of stories that were bought and agreements signed…let’s just put on those stories cause we’re a charitable organization and the fans are waiting. DO YOU HEAR YOURELF? LOL…PP is a BUSINESS!!!! They don’t exist to GIVE you your stories…They exist as a business TO MAKE MONEY AND PROFIT…AS IS THEIR RIGHT AND THEY SHOULD…to give you your stories.

Ditto!

Double Ditto!

OMG! so excited for PP, I hope they win and then some. I can’t see them losing, ABC was playing dirty from the get go. I am only confused on the longstanding OLTL character. are they talking about Tea’s baby? that’s the only part I don’t get. Long live PP, OLTL & AMC, may they make ABC look like the ultimate fools! in court and on the internet!

Absolutely ridiculous ! Seems like ABC wants to have it’s cake and eat it too…….I started watching GH after so many years of not watching because of the crossover…..and been living off of the re runs on Soap Net for OLTL……I was also watching AMC but because of DVR space, had to give one up.

To bring back Kristen, Michael & Roger to Port Charles as new characters is going to be really strange…..Kristen (as Starr) just dumped Michael Corinthos over a phone call and Michael & Roger left too…..now they are coming back ?? I was really looking forward to them being back on OLTL, especially if Cassie (Blair) ,Jack & Sam will be there. Roger Howarth IS the ONLY Todd Manning !

I am so totaly on PP’s side, ABC canceled them in the first place and what happened to all the characters on GH was a Horrid, totaly trashed the ending and history of multi OLTL characters and couples, this is my list, Tea’s baby killed-no permission from PP, Hope/cole killed – no permission from PP, Jolie trashed – no permission from PP, Todd’s character messed up – No permission from PP, Blair used to prop GH and OOC – no permission from PP, John made to be ridiculous dead beat and cheater – again no permission, then the talk of OLTL character like Natalie, Clint etc – no permision from PP and these are the Highlights! I am so happy that PP is suing I could do a little dance!!! I think ABC wants them to fail so they won’t have to answer to the embarasment of the original canelation – thought this before the article

I’m with ya Lynn! Jolie is a Great point, Just before John left he found out that Liam was his son and him and the love of his life finally got back together, then he goes to get “Todd” and bring him back and he “falls” for Sam and Had to find out what the connection was between them essentially forgetting Liam and Natalie and that is not John McBain…..I hope PP Hammers ABC in Court!!!!

Agree!!!

Can’t we all get along???

OHHHHHH!!! Thomas/Alcazar!!!! I figured it out!

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Carol Burnett Talks About Being a Superfan of ‘All My Children’ on ‘Live with Kelly and Mark’

In a heartfelt reunion, of sorts, the one and only Carol Burnett appeared on Monday March 25th episode of Live with Kelly and Mark.

Burnett had first met Kelly Ripa (Hayley) and Mark Consuelos (ex-Mateo) back when they all appeared on All My Children together. Carol played Verla Grubbs first in 1983 and then again in the 90’s.

Host Kelly Ripa (ex-Hayley, AMC) noted to Burnett that “we go back a long time”. She also described Burnett’s character of Verla Grubbs, “extraordinary in every way.”

Carol’s love for All My Children is well-documented, hence legendary soap creator, Agnes Nixon, created the role of Verla for Burnett.

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Speaking on how her passion for All My Children began, Carol told Kelly and Mark, “It started with my kids. They would watch at noon. I said, ‘What are you guys doing?’ I sat down and I started to watch and I got hooked!”

When Carol’s family decided to travel through Europe during one summer, the comedic legend recalled thinking, “How am I going to last if I don’t know what’s going on in Pine Valley?” She revealed she had a friend, “who sent me a telegram to the (different hotels) on Fridays to bring me up to date.”

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In a hilarious moment from the segment, Carol recalled receiving a late night telegram while in Lake Cuomo when there was a knock at her hotel room door from the hotel manager who was shaking.

Carol related what it said, “Erica is still in a coma. Mark slipped again and ran away from rehab.” As Kelly and Mark broke into laughter, Burnett continued, “Chuck has learned that Donna is carrying his baby, who was once a hooker.”

Check out Carol explaining how she became an AMC Superfan below.

Now, let us know, did you enjoy Carol as Verla Grubbs? What show do you consider yourself a Superfan of? Tell us in the comment section.

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Malachy McCourt, ‘Ryan’s Hope’ and ‘All My Children’ Actor, Dead at 92

If you watched Ryan’s Hope through its 14-year-run, you know that Kevin the bartender became a beloved “member’ of the Ryan clan on the defunct ABC daytime drama series. The character of Kevin MacGuiness became so loved by the fans because of the actor who portrayed him, Malachy McCourt.

Sadly, according to his wife Diana McCourt to The New York Times, Malachy passed away on Monday from a heart condition and battling cancer. The actor was 92-years-old.

Playing Kevin on Ryan’s Hope was not much of a stretch for McCourt, because in his lifetime, he was the owner of 1950s Irish pub Malachy’s on Third Avenue in Manhattan. Known as one of the city’s great story-tellers, patrons from longshoremen to the actor Richard Harris would stop in and talk all things Irish with . On Ryan’s Hope, Kevin was best friends to “Ryan’s Bar” owner, Johnny Ryan (Bernie Barrow) and he tried to keep Delia (Ilene Kristen) on the straight and narrow.

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In his soap opera career, McCourt also was widely-known for his role of Father Clarence McCourt on All My Children especially come Christmastime. Was Clarence, actually St. Nick? That was always the proverbial question. McCourt also appeared on the New York soaps: One Life To Live, Search For Tomorrow and Another World. Other roles included: Devil’s Own, Brewster’s Millions, The Molly Maguires, and Starman, to name 

Later in 2006, Malachy ran for governor of the state of New York as a Green Party candidate. He tackled social issues of the time including being an advocate for gay and lesbian groups to march in the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade.

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McCourt’s childhood was recounted within his brother Frank McCourt’s Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir Angela’s Ashes, which detailed their mother’s attempt to raise the four of their surviving seven children in poverty in Limerick, Ireland. Later, Malachy wrote his own memoirs: 1998’s Monk Swimming, and 2000’s Singing My Him Song.

Malachy is survived by his aforementioned wife, Diana, daughter Siobhan McCourt; sons Malachy Jr., Conor and Cormac; stepdaughter Nina Galin; nine grandchildren; and one great-grandson.

Share you remembrances and condolences for Malachy McCourt via the comment section, but first check out this scene from a 1983 episode of “Ryan’s Hope” featuring the late actor with Ilene Kristen.

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‘Live with Kelly and Mark’s’ Annual ‘After the Oscars’ Show Brings Backstage Interviews, Fashion Review and Red Carpet Arrivals from Movie’s Biggest Night

Monday morning, Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos took to the stage at the Dolby Theatre in Hollywood for the talk show’s annual Oscar post show.

However, this time it would be Consuelos’ first time as the co-host of ‘Live’ for an Oscars episode. Mark took over the gig from Ryan Seacrest to team with his wife back in April of 2023 and since then the show has seen a ratings spike hitting several all-time highs.

The After the Oscars show opened with a tribute to the movies were the former All My Children stars took on iconic roles from: Sharon Stone in Basic Instinct to Barbie and Ken in Barbie, to the Cameron Diaz and Ben Stiller role’s in the romantic comedy Something About Mary and more.

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During After the Oscars, Kelly and Mark were shown in clips backstage as the first stop for the newly-anointed Academy Award winners including: Finneas and Billie Eilish and Da’Vine Joy Randolph. The Bachelor host, Jesse Palmer was the talk show’s guest correspondent who spoke to the nominees, and celebrities as they were entering the Dolby Theatre on Sunday night.

Singer Andy Grammar took to the stage and performed on Live’s  After the Oscars show as well, and Project Runaway’s Elaine Welteroth shared her thoughts on the night’s Oscar fashion.

You can watch the full ‘Live with Kelly and Mark After the Oscars’ show below, plus the full movie parody below that. Now let us know, what do you think of Kelly and Mark’s first post-Oscar show together on ‘Live’? Share your thoughts in the comment section.

 

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