General Hospital's Frank Valentini on One Life to Live and All My Children: "Maybe You Haven't Seen The Last of Them"

I hope this works out because there are a lot of out of work actors and crews from the cancelled soaps.

i hope P&G/CBS sells their soap opera rights to ABC so that Guiding Light, As The World Turns, and Another World can continue on General Hospital.

i would love if characters from those cancelled shows were regulars on GH.

if OLTL is allowed to be on GH, then the others soaps should be given the same chance too.

SwanQueen59 wrote:

To quote Mr. Valentini: "Maybe you haven't seen the last of them." Is he alluding to more "transplants" coming in to GH? Now to include people from AMC? I'd like to call a moritorium on "tranplants" before they completely change the look GH. ME's McBain has been a nice shot in the arm, but beyond him, I'm not exactly thrilled. Will I soon not recognize my beloved GH? Any way to pin him and RC down as to this "equity" he's espousing? Balance and "equity" are one thing. Tipping the scales in favor of people from your former show, at the expense of your current place of employment, isn't going to win you any good will amongst us fans who are still loyal viewers. Even those of us who have been willing to give these gentlemen the benefit of the doubt, have our limits...

SwanQueen - Very well said and I totally agree!

I've been a loyal viewer of GH for 39 years and I've also watched both OLTL and AMC for over 30 years. Each soap has their own personality and their own characters and history and I do not want to see a mash up of GH and OLTL and possibly AMC!!! It is unacceptable to this long time fan and I'm already seeing the disastrous results on GH!!! I hope the OLTL fans can carry the ball if or when most of the GH fans stop watching this hot mess!!! Rape, DID, baby switch, paternity switch, rape, crazy female murderer, reality tv show, rape, 20 somethings who can't act but look good with their shirt off, Todd being Todd, rape. All poorly done OLTL stories being repeated with GH characters substituted for the OLTL ones!!! So far Frank Valentini and Ron Carlivati have been nothing but a major disappointment to me and many others!!!!!

Not only were they married on AMC, but they had a baby together (Leora, who died). Also, David's final storyline on AMC had him actually bringing back people from the dead through some mysterious medical technique he had developed (that's how they brought back so many "dead" characters for the final months). He was holding many of them in some kind of secluded medical facility. SO....

...wouldn't David Heyward be an ideal way to bring back Robin for Anna?...

Anna hasn't even mentioned her daughter Leora when Robin died or when she and Liz were talking about dead kids, or when Sam's baby "died".

Yeah, that's a glaring oversight by the writers, The_Moustache. I guess they don't want to muddy the waters by bringing up past baby deaths (after all, there have been SO many of them)!!!

GORD - I remembered all that, but I got confused about who it was. Didnt Anna have a twin sister? Who was it that came into town with Dimitri - Anna or her sister. I remembered Davids marriage and the baby, but MENTAL BLOCK...was it Anna or her twin sister? I have to check this out. As far as David bringing Robin back, thats what he does. I wonder who else he has in that dead room of his. We still didnt find out who B was. Damnit!!!

Anna has a twin sister, Alexandra Devane, but she was never involved with David. Alexandra went back & forth with Edmund Grey and Dimitri Marick, ultimately ending up with and leaving Pine Valley with Dimirti.

it would be nice if GH brought on more of Anna's family. her sister Alexandra, brother Gabriel, and nephew Aidan.

Aidan would be a great return! Since Aidan Turner is still on good terms with ABC (doing Dancing With the Has-Beens, and such), that's a possibility.

If Alex's return means Dimitri in tow, that'll never happen (since Michael Nader burned his bridges with ABC by suing them). Also, with all the soap cliches on GH these days, I don't think we need another twin storyline right now.

OK I got that straight. I wish Dimitri. But Michael Nader was on Oprah right before the show was cancelled as part of all Erica Kanes Hubbys. Maybe it was ok.

i think Oprah probably didn't know the whole story with Michael Nader.

but if she did, then someone must've told her that Michael was Dimitri to everyone, not the re-cast who took over the role for a short term.

More ABC spin from ABC hired mouth pieces. I'm not sure if he's greasing us up for more crossovers or he's still trying to play both sides of the fence with Prospect Park but none of it makes GH better (and that's the main issue at hand). GH faces certain cancellation, is last in the ratings, and is currently highlighting multiple stores of rape and rapebabies, parading gang rapists around shirtless as if we are all supposed to salivate while also being completely devoid of romance.

Fix the damn show you're hired to produce instead of playing the spin game. Produce a good show and soap fans will come. We know. It's not a merger. We know you REALLY do love GH. So show it. Stop trying to use GH to give CPR to cancelled shows.

First step: fire your craptastic re-run of a writer and replace him with someone who knows how to further plot without rape, without misogyny and without head scratching stupid soap cliche. I hear Claire Labine is looking for a soap job. Is a feminist even allowed to work for ABC daytime anymore?

Give GH fans a decent show as a parting gift for a decade of piss poor soap opera. Be the soap god bloggers and the soap press worship! But for all that is good, just stop the spin. No one believes it anymore.

@soapfan616-great post!

soapfan616 (#42) and Sassy(#33-addendum)-Excellent observations. TV Gord-Thanks for the refresher on Alex Devane. As much as I'm distrustful of these "transplants", Aiden Devane would be a character I could deal with, since he's tied to Anna. Provided they can write decent story for him. Of course that's what we're waiting for with so many others. Just sayin'...

I would like him coming back if they REALLY tie him to Anna somehow. They never really had that kind of bond on AMC (which, really, was a mess at that time). Aiden's a good actor, too. Oddly enough, for all the decades I watched AMC, the ones I miss most these days are Aiden, J.R. Martinez...and (because I'm a heteroguy) Chrishell Stause.

She's a beautiful young woman. She reminds me a bit of Natalia Livingston (ex-Emily/GH). As for J.R. Martinez, he's just adorable. I think his ship has sailed out of daytime thanks to DWTS. Anybody's guess where he ends up...

Swan- I heard he will be on army wives

Ooh! giogio! That may be an episode that partially illustrates a slice of his own life experiences. No acting there as he's already lived it. Thanks for the heads up, darlin'...

SwanQueen - J.R. will be on the season finale of Army Wives in August.
Mr. Josh Kelly will also be on this season at some point.

Both of them on this show just puts quite a toot in my horn.

I appreciate Frank's positive attitude but unless he knows something on the horizon I wish he would keep it zipped.
DON'T PLAY WITH US. HAVEN'T DAYTIME VIEWERS BEEN PLAYED WITH ENOUGH??

does anyone know where John Paul Lavoisier is or if he is still with Farah, or did they break up. I thought for sure I would seen either one on GH.

ABC should have jumped on the opportunity to put JR in a post-Iraq drama. Anyone who remembers China Beach would know the value of rejuvenating that kind of show...and with a REAL war hero??? It couldn't miss. Unfortunately, ABC DID miss it. Oh well...should any of us be surprised...?

I have to say how I personally love all the bashing everyone does on these blogs about how they are done and how they hate this and hate that. Too funny if you ask me. Each and everyone of you are complaining about how horrible the show is and yet find the time to one watch, two read about it on the web and finally write about it. That to me tells me you enjoy it. So shut up and stop being so negative. If GH was gone then you would have lets guess 8hrs of your life back a week? That being said stay positive and look for what is good. You cannot please everyone so find what pleases you.

I personally find GH the best it has been since before they burned down the PC Hotel and started killing everyone off - save from Laura's horrible exit SL. Thankfully in the wake of her leaving we were blessed with Jane Elliots return but at the cost it was not worth it.

GH has it is ups and downs for me but I am open to see where things pan out. Remember shit is in the can for a long time. Once storylines happen one cannot simply erase them as easily. I myself would love a Dallas/St. Elseworth Dream Storyline for the past better half of a decade and undo everything that went wrong. Let's begin at that point that we find out it is 12yrs after Lucky's death. Luke is hunting Helena and Laura is a striving business woman off in Europe until her return(come home Genie!) to get her revenge on that wretched witch. Of course we find out that Lucky is much alive and that throws a wrench in Elizabeth's life as her and her husband Jason now have to deal with her undying love for Lucky. Long Live LL2!

The Q's would be much alive and well and twist of twist Dorian Krammer has surfaced in Lanview upon learning her daughter Starr after the death of her boyfriend and father of her daughter Hope has come to town. She then sets her sights on Edward as she see's another meal ticket! Sadly she falls deeply in love with him.

Bring back Robin - Let us relive the love story that her and Patrick. In the past 8yrs that is the only good Guza did!

I am up for David bringing her back alive to Anna as it is revealed that she never died in some horrid accident.

With Georgie alive and Maxie trying to be (the sami of GH) Felicia can return to deal with leaving the kids. That way we can play out a proper reconnection of her and Mac with the kids wanting it. I never got the whole forced chemistry of Alexis and Mac. Personally I thought that Alexis should have been in a triangle with Luke. I would rather see Luke and Alexis together VS Luke and Anna. Imagine Luke with Alexis, a reveal that Stephan ever died and Stephan bringing Laura home! Interesting!

I don't mind them bringing in a very select few characters from other shows, but I want to see our own vets first, and I DON'T want to see mass firings of our current faves. I don't think that's too much to ask for.

Thanks, acespencer, for taking up SO MUCH SPACE to spread your own brand of shade, considering not all of us are being as negative as you suggest we ALL are. Some of us are making constructive criticism (mind you, not on the skillful par of your passive aggressive criticisms under the veil of jaunty little diatribes). Carry on, though. I'm sure it's bright and sunny everyday in your world...and you've probably got a fanbase who will lick you boots. That is always comforting, in lieu of actual ideas.

Gord- Short, sweet and to the point. (Unlike me. )....

Ryan-Scott-In honor of J.R. Martinez and Josh Kelly, I say toot away, darlin'! Thanks for the date for J.R.'s appearance...

thank you for all that shade AceSpencer!

The sets from both AMC and OLTL were dismantled and salvaged for parts. Once the Prospect Park fell through, ABC opted to get rid of the sets instead of paying for storage on something that had no prospects of being used.

Soon, Llanview will be depicted on General Hospital but we will not recognize those sets as much as we might think we would seeing that it's Llanview. Like a pretty RECAST who looks like the former actress but can't act, these sets will definitely look like Llanview but with budgets so tight they won't satisfy our desires for more OLTL.

As for Valentini's remarks on AMC and OLTL, don't you all think if either one of those soaps were coming back on the air in any shape or form that this blog or Soap Opera Digest or any newspaper would have heard the news already? Seriously, if that truly was the case, the marketing/PR departments of what ever network or production company would be slipping out bits of info to the press to get a buzz and tons of excitement going.

Sadly there is no buzz. AMC and OLTL are out to pasture. Plus, Susan Lucci's Marc Cherry drama was just picked up and AMC without her will never happen and Erica Slezak won't move to California to do OLTL, neither would a lot of the other cast. To up and move their families... some with kids ... to LA to film this show (LA is cheaper than NYC) would be too risky for a format that is proving not to be viable in the network eyes.

If anything, AMC and OLTL characters will start popping up in Port Charles whether directly or indirectly (Llanview of Pine Valley). Either way, GH is not going to be the same and we, the fans of that show and some not of the other 2 shows, will suffer.

Im somewhere in the middle. Im pleased to see so many returning vets - we've seen more of mac, im thrilled to see anna back, heather is the best villain we have had in ages, roberts stay was wayyyyy to short but i was still glad to see him, felicia is back, lorenzo is rumored to be back and the nurses ball is possibly being revived - so my gh loving heart is happy. where im displeased is the retelling of so many oltl staples - did, two rapes, more dead babies and the idea of david haywards project orpheus back from the dead tail being woven in makes me nuts (thats so not gh, we have our own masterminds for crazy stuff like that). Im glad that weve cherry picked some of the better characters from oltl, but now pick some of the best talents from amc and instead of keeping them as amc people recast legacy GH characters if thats what you want to do and weave them in to stories that better reflect the nature of GENERAL HOSPITAL. Id rather - just as an example - see daniel cosgrove as maybe dillon or the guy that played tads long lost son as recast ethan than to have them come over as scott chandler or as a martin if they want to add guys in that age range.