Prospect Park Sues ABC Over ‘One Life To Live’ & ‘All My Children’ Licensing Agreement

[ChitHappens]

What I mean is that all of these events took place after FRon knew of PP's interest in the characters. PP could have put a stop to all of it and/or had FRon make the changes that they claim were damaging to them.

[Errol]

Shelved soaps set for a swan-song salute: Daytime Emmys 2012

June 22, 2012 / Chicago Tribune

[John]

The agreement said they have a year. They had til Feb 2013. It doesnt matter that they suspended things once. They didnt quit on it. They were working on it for that year

[ChitHappens]

I would follow every detail of this trial. I'd be in such glee watching PP be all desperate and what not.

BTW, love reading your posts!

[Khan]

Y'all, this ain't, well, ONE LIFE TO LIVE. IRL, courtroom trials are hardly that exciting.

[Eric83]

SMH. I am not even going to read through this thread because I don't have the patience for it lol. ME, RH and KA are not worth all of this! This is so lame.

[ChitHappens]

To add greens:

How hard would it be to resurrect Cope as there were no bodies.

[Vee]

That's not the point.

The point is not what was done - all of that is easily undone if you so choose. The point is, they allegedly had no right whatsoever to do it. And then allegedly screened out PP when it came time to deal with the situation as it was in the last few months.

[EricMontreal22]

While I have no doubt PP is doing this now because of what's recently happened--I do think there's a question of audience loyalty. There were a lot of OLTL fans who, despite most on this board , followed the characters to GH to see them. I don't think bringing back from the dead, and acting like nothing happened with these characters for the new OLTL--oh and recasting several, is really the best thing to do for the audience (though I don't think this lawsuit is really about that.)

[greens_dupres]

Its like the easiest resurrection ever. We've had to believe much more ridiculous things- hello Tale of Two Todds. But more than that, do Cole & Hope really need to be resurrected? You would think they killed Viki from the language of the complaint.

[ChitHappens]

Matters not when there were no damages. This is exactly the point. PP has to prove damages - I wish them much luck with that. If they thought for a minute that FRon's actions would cause harm to the new show, they should have intervened. They did not because they didn't care. They allowed FRon to do as they pleased because they wanted to share the performers. Idiots!

Bringing back from the dead could have been done on GH and recasting was inevitable. PP was trying to avoid it because the performers were the draw - not the characters w/out them.

Nobody cared about Cope, especially PP!

[greens_dupres]

I agree with this on damages. 25 million is hilarious. But maybe PP is trying to fundraise for Susan Lucci and some additional musical guests.

[ChitHappens]

Punitive damages - $1!

[greens_dupres]

I think they should pay GH for killing Hope since saddling Starr with a baby was a huge mistake. For Cole, I will give them $20 for the original version or $30 for that cuter recast. I wish they could have just worked out an agreement where Roger went to One Life and John stayed on GH where he worked better. Then they could have flipped a coin for Kristen if really necessary.

[Errol]

My biggest ha ha over this is...

2 years ago ABC canceled 2 soaps. 2 years later, ABC is being sued over allegedly sabotaging efforts to reboot the same 2 soaps it canceled 2 years prior.