‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life To Life’ won’t air new episodes online after the latter wraps its run on ABC in January 2012, Deadline is reporting. Prospect Park, the company that signed a deal with ABC in July 2011 to broadcast the canceled series on the Internet, has decided not to create an online soap network anchored by the two shows.
The decision comes after Prospect Park’s Rich Frank and Jeff Kwatinetz tried to secure financial backing for their Online TV Network. They also tried to lock in the actors and writers from the departing ABC soaps, and sign agreements with the Hollywood unions. Ultimately, doing all three close to the television finale dates proved impossible.
Prospect Park released a statement regarding their decision. It stated “After five months of negotiations with various guilds, hundreds of presentations to potential financial and technology partners, and a hope that we could pioneer a new network for the future, it is with great disappointment that we are suspending our aspirations to revive ‘One Life To Life’ and ‘All My Children’ via online distribution.”
The statement added that the company knew it would be hard to launch the online network, and “unfortunately we couldn’t ultimately secure the backing and clear all the hurdles in time. We believe we exhausted all reasonable options apparent to us…we failed to find a solution.”
Written by: Karen Benardello
