As vice president, Creative Affairs, for NBC Productions, he launched "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and had creative oversight of "Saved by the Bell."

Oy.

As vice president, Creative Affairs, for NBC Productions, he launched "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and had creative oversight of "Saved by the Bell."

Of course. Zach/Slater.

Of course. Zach/Slater.

oh boy. I used to watch Save By The Bell all the time as a pre-teen when TBS ran re-runs at 7am in the morning. What else was a kid to do while eating his cheerios before school? I can't believe Frons had a hand in that.

Chew sounds like a 5 year old came with that dumb name.

I'd love seeing her on B&B, especially if it cleared out the failed attempts at camp (Amber, Donna, Jackie). I would cast her as some new fashion mogul with an axe to grind with Stephanie, and possibly put her with someone like Eric or Clarke.

She'd be a very natural fit at B&B.

Frons probably wrote his own bio, like he wrote the joke of one that is Ryan Lavery's

http://www.theawl.com/2011/04/we-should-publicly-fund-dying-soaps

Surely you've heard the recent news that long-running daytime soap operas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” are being canceled. Sad. Yet not that sad because no one watches American daytime soaps anymore, right?

Wrong.

I'm that person who still watches them. Well, by “them” I mean “One Life to Live." I'm devastated by its demise and you should be too. We're losing a national treasure. This is akin to tearing down the gilded Penn Station to make room for the depressing Madison Square Garden. The daytime soaps are a national heritage that should be protected and cherished.

I first learned of Llanview (the fictional Philadelphia suburb in which “One Life to Live” characters go about their business) when I got an internship in the show’s writing department. Years later, I was hired to write for SOAPnet.com and I was quickly handed the Llanview beat. Thusly, it was my job to go to ABC headquarters every day to watch “One Life to Live” and then blog about it. Obviously, this was a pretty good job (and sadly, like travel agents, a profession that is soon to be gone with the wind).

And so I watched. Not just with the casual attention of a low-functioning housebound recluse, but with the ardent, deep concentration I would have given a Robert Altman movie in film school. I became so well schooled in “One Life to Live” that I once gave an hour-and-a-half lecture on its history and storylines to a rapt (OK, likely bored) audience of ABC employees.

LOL, so they're telling Kelly Ripa and The View ladies to shut up about the cancellations. It's a network debacle.

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Of course. Zach/Slater.

My Two Dads

I'm that person who still watches them. Well, by “them” I mean “One Life to Live." I'm devastated by its demise and you should be too. We're losing a national treasure. This is akin to tearing down the gilded Penn Station to make room for the depressing Madison Square Garden. The daytime soaps are a national heritage that should be protected and cherished.

What a sickening, pathetic screed.

This is a perfect example of a soap fan who makes me embarrassed to be a soap fan and the type of writing that drives people away. The moment you tell people how they should feel you've lost a huge part of your audience. You can't bully people into feeling your pain. And the overblown, end of the world, "It's the rapture of soaps!!" bullshit that comes right after serves no purpose except to make all soap fans look deluded and utterly narcissistic. The government should subsidize soaps? OMG, step away from the bong. I'm not surprised that this guy is a OLTL fan. He sounds just like Nelson and Jamey.

Anyone who knows me can vouch for the fact that I'm a sad, lonely person and you should probably pity me.

I'm too busy being disgusted by you to pity you.

If he goes I'd say it's because he's no longer needed and also because this has been a PR disaster for ABC that has gone on day after day - it must have been bad for Baba to wring her hands for him on The View.

A bunch of online soap fans bashing Brian Frons and reacting to everything that he says and does not a PR disaster make. Most soap fans have no clue who Brian Frons is and never hear a thing that he says. Disney and ABC have bigger fish to fry. If anything, his bosses probably laugh and say better him than them.

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A bunch of online soap fans bashing Brian Frons and reacting to everything that he says and does not a PR disaster make. Most soap fans have no clue who Brian Frons is and never hear a thing that he says. Disney and ABC have bigger fish to fry. If anything, his bosses probably laugh and say better him than them.

Normally you and I are likethis but I think once clients/sponsors started getting involved it became a PR issue. Not exactly a disaster but definitely a problem. I don't believe for one second that Hoover pulled ads out of some kind of solidarity but they ARE using AB C's bad handling of this to their marketing advantage. The money they pulled from ABC is a pittance compared to the value of the free advertising they've gotten. (My local paper picked up the AP story.) and when they do start advertising again it'll cost them less money.

Oprah Responds to why she can't save the soaps:

http://youtu.be/Gg2-AtKvQeQ

I can't believe people have harassed her to the point where she has to tell people to leave her the f!ck alone. Embarrassing.

I agree AMS, I'm cringing in embarassment

Poor woman was basically harassed to the point she made a statement