OLTL: Jean Passanante joins writing team

[Eric83]

Oh it's still on death's door it just isn't going this year like so many have speculated.

Why bring on a possible new HW if the show is over in 6 months?

I predict OLTL to air it's final episode in September 2011.

[Sylph]

Well, I've been saying this ever since Toups announced it.

However, as I said also, I bet her contract has some sort of a clause about "premature" cancellation or something like that.

[Juliajms]

Isn't JP considered a show killer? I know I see her that way, which is part of the reason I thought this announcement was a cruel joke. If anything, I feel OLTL actually is in jeopardy now.

[Sylph]

She is.

[All My Shadows]

If OLTL goes this year or next, then I fail to see how the blood would be on JP's hands and not Ronald's, that is, if you believe that bad stories contribute to bad ratings.

Whatever happens to OLTL within the next year and a half rests at the feet of Ronald, right next's to Nelson's tongue.

[dragonflies]

Isn't that what ATWT's did in a sense? They brought on DK after GL was cancelled, and low and behold ATWT gets cancelled not long after that

[Eric83]

That's different though. OLTL is owned by the network which means they made this choice, and they also will cancel it when they want.

ATWT was owned by P&G, they had no idea if CBS would renew them or not.

Despite what many others thought, I thought there was a SLIGHT chance at renewal for ATWT.

Also maybe there was some clause in DK's contract that P&G had to continue paying hIm, so they just put him to work at ATWT.

[bbmm]

This depresses me. I loved 99% of Ron's stuff on Oltl. I had a feeling Ron's day as a HW were probably going to end soon, but I'd hope if the day came, they'd replace him with someone good. I still have hope she doesn't become the next head writer.

I also don't get why they keep hiring the same people over and over. Why not bring some fresh blood into Daytime?

[Quent]

Hmmm.... JP is leaving ATWT and coming to OLTL. Wonder what other actor currently at ATWT she will bring back with her to OLTL?

[Eric83]

Roger Howarth?

[DRW50]

I doubt we'll ever see Howarth on OLTL again. The role is TSJ's for better or worse, and if Howarth did return that would mean playing a very different Todd, including a Todd who is a major horndog. I don't think Frons has interest in dumping TSJ, bringing back Howarth, or doing the "two Romans" stuff that bombed on DAYS.

[Ryan Chamberlain]

Bye bye OLTL. Death is on your doorstep!

[Soapsuds]

Exactly ..yet the talented vets they refuse to write for are left without a job. Where is the justice in that????

[Soapsuds]

Coming Soon

Jean Passanante...New Head Writer

Chris Goutman...New Executive Producer

Out

Ron Carlaviti

&

Frank Valentini

[Ann_SS]

You would think that Frons would learn after Sarah Brown's disastrous stint as Claudia on GH, but I'm not holding my breath.