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Haven't listened yet but I was just thinking, "Damn, that sure is an awful lot of 'hosts' to be sitting in on one interview", and then I remembered The View.

With all of that in the room (plus Luke, Jillian, Regan, and Melodie), I'm sure RC's ego is off the charts.

Edited January 15, 201213 yr by All My Shadows

Didn't transcribe, pulled this from a fan site for L&L:

"I love OLTL, but in no way is my goal to turn General Hospital into One Life to live. First of all I couldn't do it if I tried, they are two completely different shows, with their own history, with their own style, and that's going to stay true. The goal is not to 'Oh my show ended, and now I'm going to turn GH into OLTL'. I want to bring some of these characters in because it's exciting, and it makes for exciting story. And to see, in this time when ABC Daytime is changing so dramatically, with 2/3 of the soap line up gone, I think we have to do anything in our power to save the one that's there. And if bringing a few characters from OLTL gets anymore viewers to the show than that is obviously a good thing.

I mean part of soaps is the mixing it up, and throwing new characters into the mix to see how your favorites will deal with them, and how they're going to react. This is story for the characters of PORT CHARLES, and what happens when these people come to town. Just because they're characters that already existed on another soap...you know it's no different than if we brought in a new family to mix it up with these people. I think it just makes it all the more excited to bring in characters, for a lot of ABC viewers, they already have such history and affection for.

http://www.examiner.com/soap-opera-in-riverside/is-abc-planning-a-merger-of-one-life-to-live-and-general-hospital

http://www.examiner....eneral-hospital

DC Interviewed RC Today. Im Putting More Credence In this Interview Than An Opinion Piece

Thank God they didn't do the original idea of having Tina take all the Lord money and get framed for Victor's murder.

I am not convinced by RC. GH and OLTL are such distinct shows. It is hard to see how the Mannings and McBain can be integrated into GH. McBain, especially, is the one that I cannot see fitting in at all. He has always been the hero cop putting away the bad guys. On GH, the mob is led by Jason and Sonny who are protrayed as anti-heroes so they cannot never go to prison. However, if the introduction of the OLTL gang pushes the mob back a bit along with bringing some OLTL viewers to GH and buying the cast and crew some more time, it is all good.

Edited January 15, 201213 yr by Ann_SS

Okay, I really did grin hard and LOL at the idea of Dorian as POTUS and David killing the former Prez with a golf club. Maybe these things just sound funnier on paper.

I feel bad for RB. Reading the link inside the link, she sounds very sick and yet still so young.

Anyway, the interview sounded ok to me, he said everything right.

Is RC bringing along some of his breakdown and dialogue writers? I'm interested in seeing how his writer's voice is translated through GH's writing team. OLTL had a broader, dare I say less sophisticated, sound. GH has a darker, more intimate quality.

Listening now and I cant believe RC originally intended to have Todd frame Tina for the murder instead of Tomas! He wanted Tina and Cord's wedding to be interrupted with Tina getting arrested and taken away. What an awful end to the character and thank god he did not go there

Dorian as President of the United States? LMAO!

I am not convinced by RC. GH and OLTL are such distinct shows. It is hard to see how the Mannings and McBain can be integrated into GH. McBain, especially, is the one that I cannot see fitting in at all. He has always been the hero cop putting away the bad guys. On GH, the mob is led by Jason and Sonny who are protrayed as anti-heroes so they cannot never go to prison. However, if the introduction of the OLTL gang pushes the mob back a bit along with bringing some OLTL viewers to GH and buying the cast and crew some more time, it is all good.

and one of the biggest complaints about GH is how the mob is glorified and the cops are treated as idiots. Maybe John joining is the beginning of the change in balance. Id love it if he, Anna and Robert clean up PC

Edited January 15, 201213 yr by Cheap21

I could get behind Todd framing Tina if she were a regular character on the show and it wasn't getting cancelled. It could spark an exciting rivalry and help Tina grow up and go in a more serious direction. Andrea Evans would kill that material. But with it getting cancelled that obviously wouldn't be the way to go.

Did they make any mention of Ellen Holly returning or if he ever thought of it? I'm only about 13 minutes in.

I could get behind Todd framing Tina if she were a regular character on the show and it wasn't getting cancelled. It could spark an exciting rivalry and help Tina grow up and go in a more serious direction. Andrea Evans would kill that material. But with it getting cancelled that obviously wouldn't be the way to go.

Did they make any mention of Ellen Holly returning or if he ever thought of it? I'm only about 13 minutes in.

He says he ultimately didnt go with it bc that would make Todd even more hated then he is with what he did to Tomas and I would agree with that. Also he wanted AE and JL on longer but they live on the west coast which made it difficult. Had he gone that route, Tina's last scene might have been being carted away, left to rot in jail. You are right in that it might have been better had she been a regular character but in the small capacity she was utilized as, it would have been an awful final send off.

Nope so far no Ellen Holly talk

I haven't listened to the interview yet, but I don't think I would mind Todd framing Tina. That or they could have not killed Irene and have her do it. Tina could have been arrested after marrying Cord, escape during the prison break and prove herself innocent with the show ending the same way and Tina and Cord still getting a happy ending. I would have preferred that to Tomas missing and Tea dying for him to come back.