ABC should bring them both back in 30 minute formats produced in NYC. Everything else has flopped and these were proven shows. The archaic 18-49 slot is meaningless in 2014. 50+ spends and watches and is their audience. JUST BRING THEM BACK ABC. It’d be a very smart thing to do. Please.

Prospect park made money from the licensing agreement.

PP has no idea what they are doing. If they brought them back, there would be something else go wrong. It isn’t fair to the actors, crew to be brought back only to have something else go wrong.

I hope that Prospect Park nails ABC to the wall. There is NO WAY ABC would put either show back on the air.

I don’t get how PP has any claim on ABC.

I think if abc gets the rights back they will be gone forever.

I hope to see OLTL and AMC on Prospect Park. As a loyal fan I was pleased to be able to see the online shows after ABC cancelled them. If PP still is able to produce the shows, I will watch wherever they are. Soap fans are loyal, ABC should have considered that when they cancelled them in the first place.

The rights ultimately belong to ABC and PP were never suited to handling the task of producing 2 shows on a daily basis. They didnt have sufficient money. ABC will ultimately retain the rights. That nonsense about them killing off characters on GH is weaker than water. Once they get the rights back if they’re smart they will license the rights to an actual network that has the resources to produce the shows or sell them to the highest bidder ( that is if anyone is still interested). Sitting on the rights and doing nothing would be financially stupid because… Read more »

In a perfect world I would like PP and ABC to work together. Maybe a Bell/Sony/CBS Relationship. PP could be granted complete creative control but air exclusively on ABC. The profits could be split between the two. That said, PP can have the option of distributing the episodes outside of TV any way they choose as they were doing. I feel PP is bolder than ABC in most ways they just had a tendency of jumping the gun.

At this point I do not trust Prospect Park anymore. However I trust ABC less than -100%. I do not trust ABC to do anything with these programs and I think they just don’t want anyone else to have them. I don’t trust Prospect Park because they did not communicate with their legion of fans who did everything we could to help their programs. Wrote repeatedly to Prospect Park asking what was going on and also showing how I was supporting their programs. Our biggest either the biggest idiots in the world or extremely disrespectful of theirs Fanbase.. prospect Park… Read more »

I just want to watch OLTL again, and although I would prefer to see them on TV… I have reservations about ABC.

Can someone explain why ABC even wants the rights to both shows since they cancelled them and replaced them with CRAP?

If ABC no longer want the show, why should they care? I have never understood since it was Brian Frons decision to cancel the show, why not let both shows continue on another channel or the Internet. Since the show that replaced OLTL died a quick death and now Katie has been cancelled, could it be that ABC now realizes the level of their mistake?

I hope ABC gets them back and brings both back where they belong. This was a huge mistake of theirs, but it can be repaired. If they love the fans BRING back our soaps!!!!!!!!!

I hope to see both shows return somehow.If only they could have worked together,both shows could be done in Stamford cutting production costs and put back on ABC.

It would be so great if we can see the soaps either on tv or online we are true fans

I hope ABC never gets their hands on AMC or OLTL again. They did their best to tank the shows when they had them these past 10 years and then did their best to see that Prospect Park had as many problems as possible.

While Prospect Park certainly had their share of problems and mistakes, they, at least, did their best to reboot the shows and give them more life.
ABC did the exact opposite. Frons and Sweeney ran AMC in particular into the ground. Why would we want to see their grubby hands on either show again?

Michael, one way or another I’d like both shows back. It seems like one spoiled tug of war and soon the rope is going to give in either direction.

I want both OLTL and AMC to come back, but I’m not convinced anymore that PP is the right outfit to bring them back. PP has had major problems with how they communicate to the audience, they hired the wrong HWs initially for both shows, they have misled their actors (not to mention the audience) several times about their intentions to resume production, and there is a new rumor out there from Jeff Kwatinetz’s lawsuit that the investors at PP want to recoup their costs and get out of the soap business, while Jeff K. (and seemingly him alone) wants… Read more »

I don’t really care what network produces AMC or OLTL just as long as they are in production with quality. If ABC doesn’t want to produce them anymore, then set them free. I have always thought ABC licensed them to PP just to appease upset fans and never expected PP to pull it off. Now ABC ran scared when PP launched that it might be a success and really make ABC look bad.

AMC & OLTL, should return online & via the OWN network. I think they had a nice setup there and both OWN & PP made money through advertising.

We will watch OLTL and AMC anywhere either on TV or online, we are hoping they will settle this lawsuit soon.Thank Michael for keeping us informed.

I hope ABC never has the right to touch OLTL and AMC ever again..
ABC will never bring the soaps back, that is very obvious..

The only hope to air the 2 soaps once again was through PP ..

When they did are they were done well for the internet, and in the top of HuLu for as long as they ran, and that is a very big bravo~~!!

I feel– if PP wins their law suit they will have way more than enough to launch the soaps again, and I do believe PP would do just that..

PP was a train wreck from the beginning and in the process they managed to screw up GH by forcing them to change the characters of the three actors who came from OLTL – they need to just go away and stop tormenting the fans of AMC and OLTL – those two soaps will never come back the way they were – GH, Y&R, B&B and DOOL are the only soaps left and the focus should be on keeping them around as long as possible.

I hope this means ABC wants to bring them back! I miss OLTL so much. It needs to be back on ABC. I think AMC and OLTL as half hour lead-ins to GH would be HUGE. ABC’s winning line-up resurrected!

I think ABC has no intention of bringing back All My Children nor One Life To Live. We now know that All My Children and One Life To Live can not get the same grand audience online as it did on the ABC Network, but at least it was free on HULU and broadcast on OWN cable network. Maybe All My Children and One Life To Live can have another resurrection, but without Susan Lucci, I had stopped watching All My Children part 2. Jill Larson as “Opal” and Lindsay Hartley as “Cara” held my interest.

The think that TPTB at ABC heard, maybe even felt, the backlash of disgruntled fans when they foolishly chopped AMC and OLTL. I think there’s money to still be made from these properties (and I apologize for writing about them like a business, but that’s what they are to the network). Honestly, I don’t trust PP with the shows anymore and I don’t know if ABC would have the where-withal to bring the shows back in the thirty minute format. I do wonder, however, if they’d be willing to do occasional “events”, like giving the fans a movie-like update on… Read more »

I’m so confused! Why would ABC not want to allow Prospect Park to relaunch AMC and OLTL again? ABC are the ones that CANCELLED the shows! Have they decided that they want the rights back to re-air the shows on ABC??? I don’t get it. It’s true that ABC and Brian Frons really screwed up, angered and alienated their viewers and replaced them with The Chew and Katie Couric – seriously??!! I would love to see AMC and OLTL back on the ABC network, but enough! Figure this out!

As a fan I feel cheated. I enjoyed watching on both ABC and PP. But I feel bad for the actors. I wouldn’t trust ABC if they did attempt to bring the shows back, which I don’t feel they would do. Some of the actors already have other jobs. I’m sad.

When PP brought the shows back, they ruined them! They were like a bad acid trip.

I just want the shows back. I’d watch them anywhere, anyplace, anytime. I know ABC won’t put them back on tv, so the only reason I imagine they want them is so they can use the characters on GH. Just a guess.

ABC shouldn’t have cancelled the shows to begin
with. They should have no say in what Prospect Park
does with the shows as they cancelled them. I just want
them to return weather by Prospect Park or by ABC,
30 minute shows for a total of an hour. Then again,
as mentioned above by another fan, who knows if we can even trust
ABC with them. Bottom line….I hope they come back!!!

If ABC doesn’t air AMC and OLTL, the least they could do is bring back Todd, Starr, and McBain and get rid of Franco, Kiki, and Silas on GH. Lobe the idea of thirty minute AMC and OLTL as lead ins to GH.

AMC and OLTL should go back on ABC and replace with the boring cooking shows.

I want these show back… but ABC/DIsney is only interested in TALK SHOWS…
I think Prospect Park should re-launch these shows… But I feel ABC/Disney will block them… “SAD” — Refused to watch TALK SHOWS — they suck….

I may be a minority opinion, but I thought PP brought vibrance and life to AMC. I’d love to see Ginger Smith remain at the helm and the show on any network other than ABC. ABC pissed on AMC for years and it was just plain boring the decade before PP intervened. Let us remember that AMC and OLTL were complete goners until PP came into play. Sure PP made mistakes, but they have persevered more so than the many “loyal” AMC fans who didn’t or wouldn’t even sample the show online. Let PP produce and another network carry the… Read more »

ABC made a terrible mistake by cancelling these two soaps and I’m sure that they have felt the sting left behind from the shows’ fans. They tried to feed us crap and we turned them off. This network will NEVER admit they did wrong and apologize to the fans. It just won’t happen and they will not bring these shows back should they obtain the rights to them. As for PP, they changed the storylines so much because of the unavailability of the actors from the original soaps, that it was almost like starting a new show with new characters.… Read more »

Those two ships have sailed.

I so want the shows back. I have tried to watch GH just so I can see the OLTL 3 but I must admit I cannot stand their characters. It breaks my heart to see Michael Easton as Silas Clay. UgH! He is and always be John McBain so difficult to see him with Sam. I keep waiting to see him with his fiery redhead. I miss him and Melissa SO MUCH, DAMN!

I would watch AMC1 anytime,anyplace. I do not trust ABC or PP. However, I think PP wanted to make these shows successful but they made so many mistakes. I am sure ABC did not want PP to be successful because it would make them look stupid,which they are. I do not watch anything on ABC including GH. I am a fan of AMC and it was very clear that AMC was the least favorite soap of ABC. If PP brings back AMC, puts the vets in the background and promotes the new young actors, then it is not my AMC… Read more »

I would love to see ABC put the shows back on regular TV, but I trust them about as much as I trust a rattlesnake. I think they will get the shows back and let them die permanently. ABC sucks

I don’t think ABC expected PP to be able to put the shows on last year and they were probably pissed at the success PP had with both shows on Hulu, where they consistently were in the top 10 most watched episodes each day. That said, after the horrible writing on ABC for the past 10 years or so, I found both AMC and OLTL shells of their former greatness by the time they went off the network. PP at least hired great headwriting teams for each show and imo AMC 2.0 in particular was on fire online, easily telling… Read more »

I just want my shows back. I don’t think abc will do anything w/ them if they get them back.

What a friggin’ mess!

Honestly, I love AMC and OLTL but if I cannot have them in their original form, I can accept the cancellation and move on now. The reboots were OK but something lacked . We knew it would not be the same but you know, I would rather have an all-new daytime drama or two than trying to revive what seems to be quality shows best left behind.

We will never see light of day between PP / ABC having our shows back on tv or the Net. I for one did not like the net rendition. It didn’t even come close to being anything I would want to sit down and watch. They trompled all over the original!. Bar scenes sex scenes, total puke.
Maybe they could place it on nighttime, like Bravo, or something and someone with a sack of talent for producing and directing can place our beloved soaps back on top.
Til then, I’ll read a book.

Stick a fork in it.

Both shows are gone for good.

I have faced the fact that both shows are done. Im enjoying the soaps we have left. Thanks for trying prospect park.

If an abc exec is monitoring this…. hear is my opinion.

I will always yearn to watch a quality scripted show in the afternoon.
OLTL was an example this. Nothing has replaced my viewing habits since January 2012. News has it’s place, talk does too.. but there is a surplus of both of these.

Reality shows are ok, but you can’t build a long term relationship with them, because they are just basically stupid people doing stupid things to their stupid friends.

Bring back OLTL now that you’ve got a gaping hole in your lineup.

I’d rather have great memories of AMC and OLTL in their heydays than another half-assed relaunch by PP. Keep in mind that if PP won the $95 million lawsuit, there’s nothing to guarantee that either show would be relaunched. More likely the execs would skip off with the cash.

ABC/Disney lost billion over the boycott for the soaps. They may not care, but the share holder the advertiser does care. Disney, always own the soaps they refused to sale, the soaps needs to come back to their time slot as they were in hour length, same director, same cast, same crew. Or their alternative file for bankruptcy.