. I do wish there had been more communication between the company and those who’d signed on. We were finding out a lot in the press.”

I wish there had been as well HBS..

From Jerry Ver Dorn

Hello everybody.Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes. I enjoyed the day prepping for the Thanksgiving Feast. Much to be thankful for and a little something to grumble about. Don't blame Prospect Park but rather blame the economy. They lost some financing that was too hard to replace. Start-up money is near impossible to find these days. Who knows what may happen. I guess my birthday present this year is retirement. Love to all.

From Jerry Ver Dorn

Hello everybody.Thank you all for your kind birthday wishes. I enjoyed the day prepping for the Thanksgiving Feast. Much to be thankful for and a little something to grumble about. Don't blame Prospect Park but rather blame the economy. They lost some financing that was too hard to replace. Start-up money is near impossible to find these days. Who knows what may happen. I guess my birthday present this year is retirement. Love to all.

JVD, I hope you have an enjoyable retirement. Few deserve it more than you. Thanks for the spectacular work you did as Ross and Clint.

Edited November 24, 201114 yr by Max

Just found out that PP doesnt have the rights or access to the archives, That means no DVD releases...nor classic online streaming either....

Edited November 24, 201114 yr by Soapsuds

The Revolution is filming in OLTL's studios. PP never rented them out.

Hmmmm....

Nice of JvD to get on Facebook considering it is his birthday to announce his retirement. Thanks for bringing that over here, I will miss watching him act, but if not for OLTL this would have happened years sooner.

ABC not only unloaded the shows they didn't care about, they actually made money on the deal by selling the rights to PP. Frons will get a promotion out of this.

Frons getting a promotion is the worst. First The Chew has been inching up in ratings now this and he still comes out a winner. Will that man ever pay for his incompetence. Of course Disney has a horrid rep as an employer so he fits right in

Ugh...what's with these multi endings [!@#$%^&*]...it's not Dallas people.....lol

Soapsuds you crack me up.

df, deleted your last post as the full statement from Prospect Park was posted on the SON website around 3 PM this afternoon:

http://www.soapopera...ne-life-to-live

Now we'll never [!@#$%^&*] know who the [!@#$%^&*] JR shot. [!@#$%^&*].

I'm sure PP wanted mass killings..but Agnes gave them only one shot with JR. I am sure Agnes is a savvy woman and had to know this was a long shot. I wish she would have chosen a different ending for the show.

Edited November 24, 201114 yr by Soapsuds

Disappointing development. However, there is actually something practical that soap fans can do here. Since the problem is that PP needs money, Soap fans can create a company, (maybe even get 501©(3) status) dedicated to saving and promoting the soaps. If one million soap fans donated $100 each to this company, the total sum would be sufficient to partner with PP get AMC and OLTL off the ground.

Disappointing development. However, there is actually something practical that soap fans can do here. Since the problem is that PP needs money, Soap fans can create a company, (maybe even get 501©(3) status) dedicated to saving and promoting the soaps. If one million soap fans donated $100 each to this company, the total sum would be sufficient to partner with PP get AMC and OLTL off the ground.

Three months??? December and half of January doesnt equal 3 months....lol

On Planet Hinsey, it's 3 months.

What a lousy thing to do to Slezak and the other actors who lent their name and "star power" to the project. They had just finished taping last Friday. Now there can't be any do-overs. I'm grateful that FV/RC started weaning me off my 42yr. OLTL habit shortly after last Thanksgiving when they suddenly started taking a hatchet to Charlie and shoving Viki back to prop duty and babysitting. Then I heard OLTL was going to cease production this year which explained why they did that. By the end of May sweeps, my habit was broken. It's still very sad to see OLTL and its long-time hardworking cast and crew treated so shabbily once again. Reading PP's announcement just before I watched today's show made Viki's tearful last Thanksgiving blessing at Llanfair seem like that was the finale to me.

USA TODAY: "'All My Children' online deal is scrapped" Once again, as far as the mainstream media and public is concerned AMC was key because of SL.

It's so disappointing that OLTL got shafted. I'm still bummed about the announcement this afternoon. So in essence we're down to three soaps. GH is toast because of Katie Couric. Let's hope soap viewers start tuning in for the other three.

Edited November 24, 201114 yr by edgeofnik

ABC not only unloaded the shows they didn't care about, they actually made money on the deal by selling the rights to PP. Frons will get a promotion out of this.

I have my doubts that Frons had anything major to do with it, given his general incompetence.