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PLANET 360 Topic: Brian Frons to Blame? Farah Fath States,"It Was Ludicrous For Him To Cancel OLTL!"

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The only person I dislike more than Brian Frons is Farah Fath.
LOl.
I totally ABSOLUTELY agree!!!
My thoughts exactly. I wish in this article it was mentioned how she and John-Paul Lavosier (Rex) sucked up to Fronz, lauding his talent and dedication, blah, blah, blah. Probably in the hopes of securing a role somewhere else on ABC daytime. Boy did that backfire bigtime. I’m glad they are not included in the re-boot. They cooked their own goose.
If these shows weren’t viable, they wouldn’t be back. However, I think the use of these two iconic shows are being used as a teaching tool to an older age group about the internet and it’s power. Viki had a line “to think I was going to hold this story for the print edition”…that’s a powerful teaching line. So, as much as I dislike that they were cancelled and gone for a long time, I like what they are now. More than just scripted entertainment, there’s a lesson and a message that’s being presented in such a caring subtle way,… Read more »
Hey Rob, from Jersey City. Can’t wait to meet you around town. Yes, what Fron’s did was not brilliant thinking and as you said, Past is the Past, but the man took a big risk and had balls galore to cancel two iconic shows like that (over so many years). Unfortunately, it was a risk that was a wrong one, costing him HIS JOB, and landing him a host of lifetime enemies. What he should have done was lose his ego (because there was ego power in his decision to do cancel those iconic shows) and I just want to… Read more »
I think it’s being used as a teaching tool how NOT TO write a soap…truly…the online versions suck. People keep saying give them time…LOL…the writers are writers…this isn’t rocket science. I was very much in Prospect Park’s corner. I’ve read the comments section on this and other forums where people have said it’s a “new” One LIfe To Live” and that they didn’t promise to bring the old show back. Well, to me…the fans fought to bring the “old” show back…not just the name One LIfe To Live with a few familiar faces. The show is boring, it’s childish, it… Read more »
correction…I DON’T think I’d be scrambling to watch
Not scrambling either! To watch anything else but OLTL! Frons is a TOAD!
Rebecca I agree with some of your comments & disagree with others. I am supporting both reboots & believe they will make it back to television airwaves. Soaps have always brought in younger viewers. Young people may catch a show when they are off from school or during the summertime, when all the soaps traditionally run youth oriented story lines. Serial dramas, daytime or nighttime have a proven hook to draw in viewers that has worked since the genre began. Nothing is going to change that. Yes, the old fans are the ones who rallied to keep these soaps going… Read more »
Grow up James. is it possible for you to participate in a grown up discussion without personal bias?
It’s not for me… I want to kick Brian Frons in the nuts
Frons had a boss though, and she is still there. Anne Sweeney. He pulled the plug, but she approved it. Then she fired him when it failed. I like Farah!
he has the blame but he didn’t make the decison to cancel them he didn’t have that kind of power cause he didn’t own the soaps. it was ABC and Sweeney’s decision.
He had some part in this.
I didn’t word that right he doesn’t have the SOLE blame
Abso-friggin-lutely!!! The Officious Troll.
Hard to see both shows cancelled. Brain Frons pulled the plug and prior to that did next to nothing to promote OLTL. It was a shame. ABC should have been more prudent and cancelled the lowest rated soap with the biggest budget first to try out ONE new talk show. IMO ordering two new talk shows at once was a gamble, and silly. Anybody remember the Revolution? How long did it last? The good news is that the fans now have OLTL and AMC back. We have to do our part to support the show and make sure this new… Read more »
I don’t believe that he should have cancelled one show over the other. OLTL was definitely me beloved by the fans….. so had he kept OneLife over AMC, than what would of been said was, ” OneLife premiered/aired after AMC, why was OnelIfe saved over AMC. If AMC was saved, over OneLife, the Susan Lucci fonder and Agnes Nixon favorite show would in full circle and on the tongue’s of everyone. So I think that canceling them both was the best decision, oppose to one over the other. Now,…… what I believe he should have done was, cut both shows… Read more »
Avidreader72, you hit it home. Yes, now have to watch and support our shows we fought to get back. And those who nitpick over how “this is different” or “why was this actor changed” just let it go and get on with watching our stories.
I like watching OLTL even if it isn’t quite what it use to be… Still enjoy Erika Slesak!
It no longer matters to me…im so over it. Both shows are back and doing fine so far. Im not into them how i used to be…im still giving oltl more time to grow on me again but i lost interest in amc. Wished they had stayed on abc as 30 minute soaps…know a few people who miss them but dont have internet!
I meant to say there are people young and old i dont know personally but ive met who are mentally or physically disabled who watched these iconic shows when they were on the networks who cant afford cable or internet but who still get the just the three networks and a few other channels.
maybe abc can cancel the chew and air edited repeats of amc and oltl…that would be a shock but i doubt they would!
tha’ts an idea…. say a network re-airs these soaps… and that network and PP can…. split the profit margin…off of commercials?
saying if this is possible…. thereby PP making the most they can off of this endeavor…
i so want that PP is successful.
Blame doesn’t help in this situation. We don’t know what all went on behind the scenes. But I will say this, I would never trust Brian Frons to do anything, not support it. I do think he’s largely responsible, but feel there had to be others at an equal level or higher up in the network. Don’t trust anything ABC has to say and won’t for a long time to come. The network never promoted their shows and now that GH’s 50th anniversary week is over, I don’t see very much advertising for it. If ABC wants my trust, they’ll… Read more »
Brian Frons was responsible for cancelling AMC & OLTL. But, Anne Sweeney does not have clean hands either.
I agree!
There is one word to describe Frons.. Frons was an ”Idiot”…
He was attempting to impress and be a hero and actually he was an ”Idiot”..
(And there are variety of cuss words that would also describe Frons 😉
I also like Farah. I do not like Frons he is just like Phelps a soap killer.
Yes I blame Frons do not watch ABC at all
Frons was only day time.. he nothing to with nighttime prime-time ..
and ABC prime time has some really great soaps/series and they are on top of great TV.
Frons should have been gone YEARS ago, If indeed the sole decision was Anne Sweeney’s, then why not invite her to comment on this and lets see what she has to say. now THAT would be interesting, don’t you think?
I believe ABC/D now knows it was one of their worst decision ever to cancel OLTL & AMC. If OLTL’s money was used to keep AMC above head then that was great. Mr. Frons went in with ABC/D in control & cancelled our soaps because that was what ABC/D wanted. We have been very angry with all the execs at ABC/D & some remain angry & I am one of them. I will say OLTL & AMC are doing great & I for am delighted. Michael thank you for the article. You have kept us abreast for so long now… Read more »
He’s a scumbag. Not only did he cancel the shows – he lied straight in the faces of the entire AMC cast and crew – he made Susan Lucci look and sound like an ass to thousands of fans. He burned a lot of bridges. No, he wasn’t alone – but he was the one who looked those people in the eyes and told them AMC was moving to the West Coast and would be fine. He was the one who assure La Lucci that the show was fine and not being cancelled amid rumors or the opposite and it… Read more »
Frons may not have made the decision to cancel but he is absolutely to blame for them being cancelled. He drove the shows into the ground. Especially AMC. Hiring writers that didn’t care about history, pushing Agnes Nixon out, not promoting the shows, the list goes on. He didn’t care about the shows or the fans. And he as much said so.
Ya know what, screw Frons and Disney/ABC! We have our shows back and we should be quite pleased about that.
i would love to see gig rex and (omg i forgot their son’s name – awkward!!) but i remember him – would love to see them back – oh yes and roxie
ROXIE most definetely!
I was shocked to discover recently ( in Wikipedia) that Fronz was once a co writer of One Life to Live with Frank Valenti. It is amazing he would desire the cancellation of a show he had creatively worked on. I hope ABC regrets the mistake they made. I hope Oprah regrets not finding a place for the shows, announcing their time had past. I hope Prospect Park leads the way with the revivals of these shows…they are not just daytime, but anytime and anywhere.
I may be wrong, but I believe it was during the writer’s strike.
Anne Sweeney has soap suds on her hands! She was Brian’s boss. She wanted out of the soap business. For goodness sakes Frons worked in soaps since the 80s. Sweeney never did. She wanted them gone and when it came back to bite her in the butt she had Frons take the fall.
Anne who pulled the strings to her puppet Frons!
I agree. But he was in charge of daytime, so they are both guilty in my book.
While Frons may not have cancelled the shows on his own, he certainly meddled enough with the creative aspects of the shows during his tenure, causing them to get to the cancellation point. OLTL lucked out with Cartini toward it’s end, but AMC was completely destroyed by his decisions for writers and characters. At one point the only characters that had anything to do were Kendall, Zach, Greenlee & Ryan. The rest of the actors showed up to talk about what were going on with those 4. While I liked those characters and actors, who wants to see that for… Read more »
Unfortunately there’s more than enough blame to go around. Anne Sweeney upheld Frons decision and that tells me that the ok went up the chain! Glad Frons lost his job but I don’t think he was the only one who take their share of the blame!
I like the two shows now. I like the pace, production and I like watching on huluplus when I want to. I keep up because it my habit. I am sure there will be times when I will the weekend marathon viewing. I do not watch the four shows on tv anymore. I was at point where I missed more than caught them so it was not too hard to let go. All my shows I watched for decades were gone awhile already. I don’t know what I will do if they also go on internet. Have to decide at… Read more »
you could have always watched your soaps online. Hulu always ran ABC’s ONE LIFE TO LIVE as well as all the other sopas…I’ve watched OLTL and General Hospital online for a few years now.
In my humble opinion, BF was the face of the cancellation decision. As much as I loathe him, I do not believe he acted in isolation. There were people above him. Anne Sweeney, President of ___ Television Group, and Robert Iger, CEO of the mouse company, are still employed. Their hands are covered with blood.
Thank goodness for the vision and commitment of PP. I am loving the online versions of OLTL and AMC.
Goes to show the order of things in our world..
When one door closes anther opens..
Cancelling and having PP take them on, was a blessing..
Both soaps are now the better from it ..
Farah Fath should go back to DAYS…
she could be either T or Brians’ sister…..
wishful thinking…
Not that it matters much because AMC/OLTL are back, but Frons was NOT let go because of the Revolution, he was let go because the original PP deal didn’t go through, IMO. Had it gone through in 2012, he would have been regarded as a hero-because everyone would have gotten what they wanted. I’m not defending him, because there’s no logical reason that The Chew should still be on the air-but, there were MANY other ways this could have been handled. I blame the shortsightedness of ABC more than I blame Frons-although his hands aren’t clean. One last thought-does anyone… Read more »
When Frons left ABC he was given a 3 million dollar bonus..
He is doing well..
I am really tired of the BF discussions. He made a regrettablly unpopular business decision that will be out there for awhile and yet… the shows are back… be it in a very different way and they will be what they will be.
Brian Frons is an arrogant prick, almost as arrogant as Jill Farren Phelps. BF did not care about soaps and in reality should have cancelled GH instead of OLTL. I only say this if he were looking at it from a budgeting aspect. OLTL had been way under budget and the ratings were climbing steadily. I despise Brian Frons.
The network canceled the two shows because they want to get out of scripted daytime shows. Brian was the front man, the decision was approved at multiple levels above him. I kind of agree one life was cancelled a little prematurity but all my children had been hemorrhaging viewers for a long time and creatively it was out of gas. If the reboots succeed they are at a different universe from network tv, they are not on TV at all. Abc is batting fifty per cent plus as the chew does well rating wise at a fraction of the cost.… Read more »
BF was the hatchet man. There must have been a lot of people at the top of ABC that wanted to cancel the soaps. If I remember correctly, FF and her boyfriend, JPL were the first cast members to speak out about OLTL’s cancellation saying it was a great opportunity for everyone and how it will lead to new opportunities. Some of the other more intelligent cast members of OLTL stated how bad they felt for all of the job losses especially all of the people behind the scenes. I don’t know how many opportunities have surfaced for these two… Read more »
Me too, Lisa.
It was canceled due to the greed of ABC executives. It’s much less expensive to put on some dumb ass cooking show where you watch people eat for an hour than to pay good actors for fun entertainment.
Only idiots watch programs like the chew. Lasting 30, 40, 50 years with dedicated fans says it all.
I completely agree….it was greed, pure and simple. TV execs are all about the money and how much they can cram into their own pockets. Reality/talk shows are cheap to make, and (in my opinion) utter garbage being shoved down our throats on EVERY channel. All I know is that, since the cancellation of AMC and OLTL, I have not watched any show on ABC, daytime or primetime. I’ve had it with the reality and talk show garbage being dished out by the major networks, so ABC can go to Hades along with the rest of the greedy networks.
Robert Iger & Anne Sweeney remain at the helm of Disney/ABC. Frons headed ABC’s Daytime Division. Under the orders of the Big Mouse – Frons as the Big Cheese dismantled OLTL & AMC. The canceling of OLTL was the most vicious because its writers were producing the most well written program on daytime. The anihilation of AMC was well crafted under Frons orders. He put Chuck Pratt in as head hatchet…hmm writer & had him kill off beloved characters & leave the remaining stories to center around the endless whining of one particular character & her young children. The remaining… Read more »
Well stated, Joann, Samantha and Diana. We’ve got these greedy SOBs’ numbers.