AMC and OLTL Canceled!

[DaytimeFan]

Robin is unbelievably sensitive, over the top, eccentric and dynamic. I just find her hilarious in the most self aware way. Her Hotline is unbelievable and her Twitter is going to be, dare I say it, even more epic.

[marceline]

Just read it for yourself....

[SFK]

Hmmm... should I give JPL credit for crafting a cleverly nebulous suck-up/sarcasm line? It would be easier to buy if even one person had thrown out the sarcasm possibility. Maybe his "joke" just failed.

*BTW, why can't he write his own emails, and was that even an email from the REAL FF or just one of JPL's hopelessly devoted? I'm getting to the point where I won't believe any statement short of a Skype'd one.

[Adam]

Speculation at this point built on some pretty strong theories. The fact that Anne Sweeney apparently wanted GH gone as well, the fact that GH totally does not fit with the dynamic ABC Daytime is going forward with, its ratings are only a hair better than OLTL and AMC (and most likely will tank without their soap lead-ins).... and Errol said its unofficially official. Unless The Chew and The Revolution totally tank I don't see GH lasting beyond 2012.

[You're Soaking in it]

When I first read it, I thought he had to have meant it sarcastically... because it was just a little too glowing of praise.

But one of the most important things a good publicist will coach celebrities on is to be careful about (or altogether refrain from) using sarcasm in any interview that's meant for publication... because sarcasm is really difficult to translate to print (sans emoticons!). If you are sarcastic, you're at least to advise the interviewer to be certain to specify that it was intended as such. Otherwise, they're sort of free to print it in an open context.

It's probably just something JPL wasn't thinking about at the time.

[Vizion]

Err, Frons can't tell Oprah what to do lol. Oprah is a CBS Television Distribution show that is syndicated.

She decided to end her show as the 25th season coincides with the end of her contract with CBS Television Distribution.

It is my suspicion that she always planned it that way.

Season 25 would be the last, she would re-up with CTD until then and after that she would end and start something new (OWN)

[You're Soaking in it]

Though it is by vast majority airing on ABC affiliates, Oprah's show is syndicated. It's actually ABC that took the news poorly about Oprah ending her series: Most of those affiliates depend on Oprah as a lead-in for their afternoon/evening news casts. As I understood it, the affiliates were lobbying the network to expand the Daytime line-up by an hour with something strong to replace Oprah (which is probably where "The View moving to after GH" rumor came from).

ETA: Sorry, Vizion - you and I responded simultaneously!

[Bella1974]

Jamey Giddens and others reported that Sweeney wanted to cancel all three shows. I think like NBC, ABC just wants out of the soap business. Even if she didn't want to cancel them, GH, just like all of the other soaps, is going to be gone in the next 1 to 5 years.

[dragonflies]

Julia Barr on AMC's cancellation:

http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/julia-barr-amc-cancellation

[Marco Dane]

Personally I am a fan of Farah but I just don't like the way she is treating some of her fans on the SON and TWOP board.

But JPL just needs to shut up

[Errol]

I must have been the only one who read JPL's comments as sarcasm. No one would say something like that four days after just learning they'd be losing their job in a few months. Also, I spoke with Farah Fath a few weeks ago about her "finger" comments from last year. We both joked about it and laughed it off. It wasn't meant to be serious.

[All My Shadows]

For the record, I'm down with any soap star going absolutely bonkers and calling b!tches out. Working in television -- working in daytime, especially -- has to drive ANYONE out of their mind. And that's not a bad thing.

Robin Strasser/Victoria Rowell reality show? YES please.

Random, but why is SOD's new logo an ampersand?

[shadow]

I am down with that too, now if Strasser is doing it 5 years from niow like Rowell and others, then I gots a problem

[Carolyn1980]

I don't know...I don't think he was being sarcastic based on this SOD interview:

John-Paul Lavoisier Clarifies Statement

By SOD • Posted: Apr 18, 2011

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Quotes posted earlier today from John-Paul Lavoisier (Rex) to sod.com about OLTL/ABC's cancellation and ABC chief Brian Frons has set off a firestorm on the Internet. Here, the actor clarifies his statement: "The point wasn't to make anybody mad or anybody happy. The point was for everyone to interpret my comments in any way they want to, at least the last part of the quote. If you're not happy with my quote, think of it sarcastically. And if you're happy with my quote, take it literally. It's a neutral quote that can be taken in either way. But the rest of the quote can be taken literally. Farah [Fath, Gigi] and I are going to L.A. We are going to pound the pavement and I was very blessed to have worked on the final nine years and seven months of a long-running, great show that has a great family. As an actor, it gave me fun stuff to do. The first day that Brian Frons became president of ABC, he could have fired me right off the bat. I spent every day working for ABC under the possibility that Brian could have fired me. So I do thank Brian for not firing me during his reign. I thank him every day that he never made the decision to fire me and I do thank him for bringing on Farah. But everyone needs to understand that you can't bite the hand that feeds you. There is a lot of world left to live and a lot of jobs to still be had and you never know who's going to become the president of what. I don't want to burn future bridges with the professional people who will someday hire me for other jobs."

[Adam]

Classy lady that should definitely be approached to be somehow involved in AMC's swansong.

Not saying you are wrong Errol, I am sure she played it up huge that they weren't meant to be taken seriously She may have been saying the comments sarcastically, but she had to have known the controversy she'd set off with them. And she kept fanning the flames from what I recall. She knew what she was doing.