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One Life To Live Discussion Group
It will apparently be around to celebrate it's 50th Anniversary next April. I'd like to believe that all of the fans who made a fuss when OLTL & AMC were cancelled influened this decision. ABCDisney certainly wouldn't have welcomed more bad publicity and I believe they would've received it in droves had they cancelled GH. I'd rather OLTL had survived, but I"ll take this very limited, short-term victory for soap fans everywhere!
Good news -- but reports using the word ''renewal,'' ''renewed,'' etc. are technically incorrect. Since D-ABC owns and produces GH, they don't really renew the show. With them, there's no second party involved where they sit down and contract to make a financial commitment to buy 250 episodes to be produced and broadcast for another year. They simply opt to either keep the show on the schedule (or not), for however long they want (or don't want). And we all know they have no problem removing a show mid-season, such as in January, like they did with OLTL. And where people are coming up with this ''another year'' is a mystery. Nowhere in the original report at Deadline does it say anything about ''another year.'' Note: that both the reports at SON and Daytime Confidential bring these points up. The editor at SON puts the word ''renewal'' in quotes, and Daytime Confidental questions the notion of a ''year.'' And both reports cast suspicion over what this temporary ''GMA in the Afternoon'' could portend for the future. As Maurice Benard just told TV Guide: ''For all we know, we've only bought ourselves six months,'' and reporter Michael Logan brings up the ''renewal'' issue as well: http://www.tvguide.com/News/General-Hospital-Interview-1046065.aspx
My preference would have been for AMC and OLTL to both still be around (I was a long-time viewer of both, AMC since almost day one, though I got bored with it early 90's; now I watch bits and pieces of what they call "classic episodes" on SoapNet, lol).
Glad that GH will be around at least another year, especially since that would be its 50th anniversary. (I was also a long-time viewer of that one also.)
Can you believe that in the hey day of soaps I think there were about 12-14 of them, now it's down to a mere 4 and if GH eventually gets canned, that would leave only 3, two of which are on CBS!
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