Can you post a link to the TV guide interview, Please?

It's in the mag itself, I get it in the mail every week

That NBC tidbit just keeps rearing its ugly head, doesn't it? They started getting out of the soap biz 12 years ago by cutting 1 of their 3 shows, then a 2nd one 4 1/2 years ago. I guess I missed where ratings have gone up, production costs decreased, the economy turned around, and advertisers were clamoring to climb back on board.

Not sure if this is common knowledge or not but Cat Hickland says in the new TV Guide that after the cancellations the cast was under a gag order, and she wasn't and didn't care if she'd worked again or not by speaking out, she said there was nothing keeping her from telling the truth

A gag order regarding what? PP? Frons? Ending spoilers? And how long are/were these gag orders good for? Because we've seen some serious truth telling from the AMC actors like MEK,McClain and Willey but nothing from the OLTL actors. I assume that's because this "gag order" is in effect until after the last show airs. I hope that after the final episode others will step up. (No. I don't count IK asking why Oprah didn't save the soaps "stepping up.")

This is becoming idiotic. It's a goddamned canceled TV show.

This is becoming idiotic. It's a goddamned canceled TV show.

Becoming? It's been ridiculous for weeks.

This thread makes me laugh. And drink. LOL.

This thread makes me laugh. And drink. LOL.

Heh! I'm drinking a brandy concoction right now, LOL

A gag order regarding what? PP? Frons? Ending spoilers? And how long are/were these gag orders good for? Because we've seen some serious truth telling from the AMC actors like MEK,McClain and Willey but nothing from the OLTL actors. I assume that's because this "gag order" is in effect until after the last show airs. I hope that after the final episode others will step up. (No. I don't count IK asking why Oprah didn't save the soaps "stepping up.")

I dunno, it doesn't say anything specific, just that there's a gag order LOL

I dunno, it doesn't say anything specific, just that there's a gag order LOL

Sorry. My questions weren't directed at you specifically. LOL! I realize that came off sounding like an interrogation.

Beware there are spoilers about her return, so if you're spoiler free don't click the link

TV Guide Magazine: Why were you so vocal in your blog about the cancellation? You even joined fans on an anti-Frons picket line. It was a whole other side of Catherine Hickland we hadn't seen. You were really out there!

Hickland: And I was happy to be out there! I didn't really care if I ever acted again so, for me, it was no big deal. Everyone else at OLTL and AMC was under gag order and had the fear of God put into them. There was nothing keeping me from telling the truth. When I saw our wonderful viewers being yanked around like that I just couldn't take it anymore. They are the bread and butter of this business, the very reason soaps have remained on the air for decades, and they deserved to know what's really going on. I guess that was the reason behind my snap, so to speak. I just didn't have any idea it would be so far reaching and cause such a fuss. I was just saying my thoughts, blogging like I have for ages. I spent a lot of years at OLTL being told, "Don't say this. Don't say that." This is America, may I remind everybody. To not be able to speak your mind is very frustrating. If you don't let your feelings out, that's where sickness lies. I had already moved on. It's not like I felt anyone owed me a career. It wasn't about that at all. I just felt that the audience was owed simple respect, something we all owe each other — in business and in life.

http://www.tvguide.c...ve-1041148.aspx

Edited December 29, 201113 yr by dragonflies

This thread makes me laugh. And drink. LOL.

Have you changed that list of SONers you want to get drunk with yet?

As I mentioned in the other thread...

Great interview !!! Bravo to Catherine Hickland as well as Ilene Kristen and Robin Strasser previously, for all speaking their minds on the cancellation of OLTL, ABC and Brian Frons. It's refreshing to hear what the actors really feel, instead of ABC's public relations spin.

cathickland Catherine Hickland

Everything from OLTL trashed and gone. Evil. I would have been happy to pay to take it ALL, they could have put it up for auction. UGH.

So I guess PP has nothing then, and by that I mean sets, wardrobe, whatnot

Edited December 30, 201113 yr by dragonflies

How much could have been used for charity...people would have been willing to spend hundreds or more for things of interest. The coats at least were donated to a good cause. So basically PP paid for all that stuff and then threw it out, wow I would have thought they would have used some of it for the shows they have in production.