I love it!

What's the point of having the three characters on OLTL if they're going to be recast?

Some of you have to stop and think about how ridiculous your suggestions are. I hope you aren't serious.

On the weekend of the Super Bowl look at the GH/OLTL situation this way....if you are about to play a major game you are going to want your biggest players. There is a reason that GH took Starr, Todd & John. In focus groups they scored the highest with fans and are the right ages to be viable leading characters. They are an ingenue, villian and hero. Why wouldn't PP want what they paid for. These are 3 standard categories needed on any soap and these particular 3 have history with Viki, Dorian, David, Tea, Blair, Natalie. It makes perfect sense. If PP is going to be paying millions in fees year after year to ABC they should have the team in place that they want so they can make their money back. Obviously, a lot of you don't know much about business. Sorry to be harsh, but you are acting like brats. If you can't have 3 characters on GH then f*#k the reboot of OLTL. Before Todd, Starr and John there was Viki, Clint, Dorian, Nora, Bo. So much for faithful fans. You would rather these people who built the show not have a fighting chance in the game because you prefer the varsity squad being on GH??

Suggesting Carlo, Tina, Andrew, Cassie all characters 50+ as viable to relaunch a show is idiotic. TV Gord, I have always found your comments spot on in the past few years, BUT I hope you aren't suggesting that Alderson is a good actress. She is atrocious and is only employed because she grew up playing the role.

Time to eat ice cream and calm down.

@Marcelle....Todd has been recast before and the audience didn't seem to mind....check out Trevor St. John's paycheck for a decade. As for Starr, the character and soaps would be well served if she were recast. The girl can't act.

Todd was recast, yet look how readily folks were to have RH back. Again, if they don't have either RH or TSJ, then what's the point?

There are enough characters remaining on the show for a successful relaunch.

OMG IMO it makes most sense for ABC & PP to allow these actors to play these characters on both shows To share them. However the fault here lies with ABC. Im sorry yes PP failed the first time but they still had the lease til Feb 28th 2013 to get the shows up & going & they did. They are in their legal right to take those roles back. ABC knew that. GH knew that and the actors knew that, now we are saying they are victims please.

Both sides take ur egos down 100 notches & do whats right for all involved. Work it out.

Time to eat ice cream and calm down.

Works for me! Sigh....

After visiting this site for a year, I finally had to get a log in and respond. Nysam you need to relax, today you said that many of the post were ridiculous just because they had a different opinion than yours. It's amusing that your multiple post have resorted to name calling with telling others they are stupid and brats, with that said your post are the only ones worthy of ridicule.

As for the situation, I applaud ABC for licensing OLTL and AMC to PP and giving them the needed extension (something they did not have to do). Good for PP for getting the financing and actually making it happen. That all being said I support the right for PP to utilize the character's from OLTL which they paid for but more importantly I completely understand if ABC just renames Todd, Starr, and John. I chose where I work based on what's best for me and my family; RH, KA, and ME deserve that right as well (while I'm @ it good for you SB).

BTW....in case your wondering, yes I know how business works.....my degree and profession support it that statement.

One last note.....daytime fans I have to say job well done, your passion for the towns and characters that you love are bringing about a revival.

LOL....I never claimed to be an English major.

@Nysam I agree with your whole post ...what amazes me is that i see some fans on twitter wishing that it fails.It really disappoints me that we only care about these 3 actors and not about the other actors who are really excited about coming back to work that wants a steady paycheck also.SMDH

My viewpoint is that Yes I will watch the new OLTL. Although, I don't think I will watch it everyday. If PP could get RH, KA, and ME back or wrote them off to GH and gone with other Fan favorite characters then I would have started watching everyday.

I don't think PP is making a wise decision going into the unproven arena of putting major soaps on the web on a daily basis and not having it's A game of characters ready to go. By this I mean having major Fan Fav characters on the canvas. What they shouldn't do is antagonize fans by recasting popular characters. Also by upsetting ABC they are foregoing whatever promotion that having those characters on GH could have given them. It would have pointed GH and new fans to the online show by having the writing team make mention of AMC and OLTL storylines and characters.

If OLTL had been pick up the day after it was cancelled by PP or CBS etc then I would have a different viewpoint on this. The PP reboot of OLTL and AMC is not a continuation in my mind but a new show that needs to get off the ground.

I KNOW you can't be talking about me, because I have always said--as much as I loved them both--it was time for AMC and OLTL to go, because they could not be sustained from a business point of view. And I don't think this sketchy (yes, sketchy Prospect Park mafia is going to be able to make it work over the long haul, either. They may have a bunch of fools to invest in this hopeless venture to start out, but it will all fall apart when they see how little money is coming in to cover the cost of what they are trying to do.

And yes, I do this Kristen is a good actress. If you don't like her personally, have the courage to say so, and stop hiding behind the bullshit that she's not a good actress, because the last time I checked your wallet, you weren't Lee Strasberg.

And I'm a vegan, so I don't eat any cow-pissing ice cream.

I like have my Gh/OLTL back with actor's/characters. I hate the rewrite for Gh with OLTL rewrite, its very stupid

@TvGord....I have nothing against Kristen personally. I have actually met her a couple times over the years. She is quite pleasant. My comment is about her in professional terms. She isn't a strong actress and in all the years she has played "Starr" she hasn't grown. She doesn't have range. Her best work has always been opposite actors who she has grown up around....Kassie, Roger, Robin, Erika... For the record I work in TV and have spent a lot of time in casting. Eddie Alderson is a strong actor that is why he isn't on a soap right now. He is auditioning because he has the potential to make it in film and primetime. Kristin is limited and the only reason she is still on GH is because she grew up playing "Starr" and it is for the "crazy" fans who fondly remember her as a child and not for her performances. She is no Amber Tamblyn or Jonathan Jackson.

Nysam are Todd and John viable leads because of the characters or the actors? You seem to think what pp is doing is just business but why should me and rh take the cut in pay? Isn't that too "just business" and why can't pp base their leads around josh Kelly and Ted king who also are in valuable demos. Too if pp is so hot to recast why not recast victor since tsj has said he won't be recurring. And again that would be the right demo that you speak of. I just don't see pp only having a limited use of these characters as sending in the jv squad.

Nysam are Todd and John viable leads because of the characters or the actors? You seem to think what pp is doing is just business but why should me and rh take the cut in pay? Isn't that too "just business" and why can't pp base their leads around josh Kelly and Ted king who also are in valuable demos. Too if pp is so hot to recast why not recast victor since tsj has said he won't be recurring. And again that would be the right demo that you speak of. I just don't see pp only having a limited use of these characters as sending in the jv squad.

@Ya'll can b mean...welcome to posting on DC. If we all agreed the internet and blogs wouldn't exist. Get over it. In the future if you are going to quote me please get it correct. Looking at my previous posts I did say "dumb" and "ridiculous". I didn't call anyone "stupid". I still believe that many posters are being "brats".

As for "ridicule" bring it on. I wouldn't post on a blog if I couldn't defend my position.

Enjoy your freedom of speech.

Best,

Sam

Hi EET! I believe that there are very few roles that can't be recast. I know we all love certain actors in roles, but in some cases there are GREAT chracters that solid actors can step into the role and own. Here's a list of iconic characters who've had one or more actors in the role. Some you may have liked. Some you might not have....

Victoria Lord Buchanan
Dorian Lord
Lucky Spencer
Dixie Cooney
Carly Jax (4 actresses have played the role and 3 have created their own version)
Kendall Hart (2 very different and popular takes on the role)
Alexandra Spaulding
Beth Raines
Betsy Andropolous
Frannie Hughes
Rachel Corey
Jill Abbott (2 great portrayals through the years)
Jack Abbott (Both Terry Lester & Peter Bergman have had successful takes on the roles)

I could go on. There are few characters that have been owned by 1 talent and are really untouchable....Luke, Laura, Erica, Marlena.

"Todd" since he is tied to the Lords and Blair valuable and needed. He is one of the most iconic OLTL bad boys. The role has been recast before and can be recast again. It is such a strong role that an actor who can act can come in and make it his own. Ask Trevor St. John.

"Starr" just like her cousin "Jessica" is ripe for a recast now that Alderson has grown up. Erin Torpey's "Jessica" needed to evolve hence Bree's casting. I would suggest the same could be done for "Starr".

I like Easton's brooding, but I believe that there are plenty of hot, smoldering actors who could play the part.

I like Cutter and Tomas, but both were on the show less than a year and don't have the ties and history to be as valuable to OLTL re-boot...at least not now. Give them time and they can be built.

As for cut in pay...none of us are their agents and lawyers. I'm not privy to what they are being offered.

I actually agree with you about any role can be recast (I used to get into arguments with other fans about it all the time at other forums). However my opinion about recasts is based on all conditions being optimal. In the case of the OLTL relaunch PP is not in the best position to do recasts of Todd, Starr and John because the last thing an iffy venture like this needs is to start off with any type of situation that could turn off potential viewers.
Looking at this from a business minded point of view, the best option for PP is to try and do some sort of talent sharing deal with ABC so that PP gets to use the characters, have them played by the actors that are most recognized in the roles and also gets the added benefit of having GH as a promotional vehicle for their online show.
Taking the stance that they have the rights to the characters and not really giving a damn that the actors have no interest in signing on because all it will take is 3 new actors in those roles and thinking that won't turn some fans off is very naive on PP's part.

And also discussion of who is or isn't a good actor is just a matter of opinion and really does not have a damn thing to do with the subject at hand. Whether KA is the next Erika Slezak or the second coming of Yvonne Zima really doesn't matter because she is popular and who most fans want to see as Starr.

Nysam I'm not saying a role can't be recast, fair enough, but if that's the plan why not bring on nu Kevin instead of john and instead of Starr recast Langston or Jessica or even Kelly. They could also bring back joey b greg e out of prison or michael mcbain. If you need ties to the lords recast victor since tsj has no intent to return. My point is bringing on Todd is way more valuable with rh in the role. If the idea is to recast Todd with say Michael park why not use park as victor? Todd gets a call from dani that victor may be alive he finds nu victor and together they take down the threat that is endangering their family. Todd realizes that tea can never fully forgive and Blair is going to marry Tomas, so he returns to port Charles. Heck they could even have Todd take a break from the investigation because of something pressing in PC to spread it out. Remember this is only an every six weeks for 30 minute. That's a ton of story given the limited time and I would think gh could easi
Y work around that

The same is true for John. Once he does the custody hearing why do they need him. Can the reasonably do more than the tale of two Todd's the custody suit the destiny is a prostitute story and still service the other characters that have been announced in the first 8-12 months?

Dupe - stupid ipad

Dupe - stupid ipad

I agree with Daniel about conditions needing to be optimal. Had they recast Jason before sbu went to y&r I think fans would have lost their minds. Now I think they might accept it. Fans never warmed up to ep in the role of Dorian in part because of the controversy over contracts with rs. I really think if pp forced gh to drop the actors and then recast fans would object and that's buzz they don't need

As for contracts, while I have no idea what pp is offering I can't imagine a speculative venture like this could pay what abc is able to, not to mention that gh has more staying power - if the hybrid succeeds and gh gets cancelled I'm sure pp would pick up gh. If the hybrid fails gh is looking like a lock for another two years at least. I'd want to stick with the surer bet

It's all still just your opinion. If others think she is a good actress, who's right? It's all just opinion. It's like saying a show is a bad show when you just don't like it. If others do like it, it can't be that bad. Just because you work in TV, it doesn't make you any more qualified to judge than anyone else.

Why are some people saying that RH, ME and KA would be taking a pay cut if they went to PP? I don't think that is totally accurate. I know that PP is trying to produce AMC and OLTL cheaper and more cost effective then they are on the networks. There are many ways that can be done without cutting the salaries of their actors. Also the trend in soaps has been reducing salaries of actors over the past decade. I think that PP will pay competitive market rates for their major characters. It was even reported that they offered Susan Lucci the same salary she was making at AMC during their first attempt to launch these shows online. While I know that she is in a status of her own and is a major draw for audiences and publicity in following these shows online. I think PP may be wise enough to know that the one area they would not want to skimp is the salaries for their major stars because they are the ones that will bring viewers to the online versions of these shows initially.

Actually I think these three could actually make more money if they agree to participate in both shows through the sharing concept being discussed. They are already being paid by ABC. If they also appear on PP's online show they would be paid by PP too. I'm sure their agents/management would make sure the salary that they would be paid by PP would more than make up for any reduction in their ABC salary for their reduced participation in GH.

TEAM PP!!! LOL!

I love it. Anyone and anything that can screw ABC Daytime is OK in my book!

Sorry to loyal viewers/fans of these characters and actors, but ABC bailed on me; I have no loyalty.

CBS Daytime for LIFE!! (As well as those fantastic folks over at Prospect Park!!!)