IA. And he got what he wanted out of it and got to play the victim.VI was a gentleman and let it pass.

If anything it might have helped fuel Lucci making her stmt.

Oh I agree there--I'm not rady to give Jamey the benefit of the doubt.

Here's the edit to the original: http://www.soapoperanetwork.com/news/irizarry-responds-to-claim-that-hes-behind-reported-2-0-pause

I softened some wording ever so slightly due to Irizarry using "terribly misquoted" in reference to the original statement he responded to. I also added what needed to be added.

While PP sure seems to be a badly handled company, I think it's even more paranoia than I can invest to suggest that they were somehow created by ABC to make soap fans leave ABC alone...

There's no doubt that Prospect Park and ABC are not peas in a pod. The only thing that unites them is shitty business practices. It was just very fortuitous for ABC that Prospect Park wanted licensing deals for the soaps. ABC doesn't look inherently evil, though of course it is, while Prospect Park attracts most of the negative publicity. Perfect for ABC.

Lurking the web, I saw variations of a conspiracy theory, due to one of the people at Prospect Park having recently been high on the food chain at Disney. I should have been clearer, I apologize. While that opinion is extreme (Prospect Park doing ABC/Disney bidding), weirder things have happened. (Perhaps part of this comes from what went on with P&G fueling false hope about ATWT, but moreso GL being possibly picked up by another outlet with new episodes.)

I just don't see Prospect Park as benevolent or even malicious, but as a business, who wants money. Even if neither soap comes to fruition, a whole lot of people have heard about the company that never would have otherwise, potentially helping them in the future. That said, I must admit I don't have a positive impression of Prospect Park at this time because of how everything is up in the air. OLTL's last day of taping is this week and the union situation is still not settled, and who knows if they will even have funding. What we know and don't know doesn't make me feel confident about Prospect Park's ability to even start an Internet portal with original programming.

It really surprises me that they haven't reached out to Lucci from as far back as September 8. It's disappointing to know they did nothing to counter multiple sources more or less stating Lucci was in ongoing negotiations or/and pointing the finger at Lucci for playing hardball in the negotiation process.

I still don't believe there's malice with Prospect Park for some reason, but that did make me do a double take. If this is the way they've been handling negotiations in general it's telling to why they haven't made more progress.

I still believe this may be a case of them taking on much more than they can handle or much more than they know how to handle and not handling it all that well. It could simply come down to something like if they had hired someone from the "AMC" side of the equation for a lead position within their company instead of somebody from "OLTL" (Valentini as VP), the script would have been flipped.

If this all crashes and burns, I still say no hard feelings towards Prospect Park. It's not like they won out a bidding war with several other competent production companies who wanted to try their darnedest to save AMC and OLTL. Looks like they got in over their heads, and if they fail, they fail. No one wants to look like a failure so I wouldn't discount the effort being made here, even if it hasn't been made highly visible to the public.

LOL now Jamey's kissing VI's ass on twitter basically saying he's been a fan of his for a long time and would never write something that would make him look bad

It's really pretty pathetic "I've loved you ever since a tv miniseries that many have probably forgotten so it PROVES what an uber fan I am!"

IMHO this more about Money and maybe and just is just me , OLTL seemed more attractive to investors, I dunno. Maybe Susan relaying her thoughts will open talks with not only PP but also Investors. It could be a win-win-win

Investors are funding the network not the show. I doubt any of them told PP that they want their money going towards OLTL rather than AMC or that PP even gave them that option.

I'm glad that actors are making statements about their intent and making it clear rather than info just coming from soap media and their sources

IA. And he got what he wanted out of it and got to play the victim.VI was a gentleman and let it pass.

For real. Jamey ran his mouth (again), got smacked down (again) and VI is letting him walk away with his ass intact.

Hopefully when Jamey gets done groveling like Dr. Frankenstein's Igor he'll think twice before trash-talking AMC's actors (again) but I doubt it.

Never mind.

Edited November 17, 201114 yr by Khan

Is Kassie DePaiva done with the show?

No. She was one of the first to join PP

Is Kassie DePaiva done with the show?

Isn't OLTL wrapping tomorrow? I assume so until PP gets going with OLTL.Same as the rest of the cast who signed on with PP I assume.

Edited November 17, 201114 yr by JaneAusten

No. She was one of the first to join PP

Thanks. I read this and was confused by this

http://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/abc-oltl-actors-get-out