Agreed. I guess since all three were (to varying degrees) at the top of their game, soaps were at their peak still, etc, that both the network and they themselves just seemed to think everything would work out. Still, management issues like the mix up with making sure they had a studio are pretty unforgivable. I respectfully disagree with @dc11786 that the Nixon article is a rant and unflattering... I appreciate its honesty and matter of factedness and after all, I assume the assignment was TVGuide wanted to know what it was like to launch a soap!
You're right that Marland seemed to forget that they bring up the Lily story again a few months later. However, I don't think that really changes what Marland says as one assumes after that TV movie aired (did anyone watch it?) ABC wouldn't really care or be paying attention to what they do.
I did find it interesting how he insists he WANTS to only be at one show for a few years at a time. Have other writers said this? Is it because most of the shows he worked at weren't his own and maybe he wasn't as attached (though we could argue Loving was one he helped shape and of course there's New Day in Eden :) ) At any rate he did end up of course at ATWT for a significant amount of time, and I've always assumed the assumption was that he'd have stayed there, if he hadn't died, as long as they would have let him.
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