Catherine Hickland Says "Soap Fans Are Being Heard"

Interesting - former One Life To Live actress Catherine Hickland rally's fans saying that they are being heard by people in charge, especially at other networks, and that there is still a possibility of these shows coming back.

Now was this just wishful thinking and trying to put herself in a good light or is there actually a shot at these shows returning? I would love to be an optimist and say "there is always a chance" but at the same time I kinda feel like the optimum time for One Life to Live to have returned has past, and that while there are still fans out there that would follow it, the show has lost the momentum it would have had, if Prospect park had continued on with their efforts.

What do you think? Do you think the shows will come back or is it all done? Let me know in the coments below

RavenBeauty Holiday Extravaganza on Silas Kain BlogTalk Show

It's not often that a BlogTalk Radio show gets me all teary-eyed, but that's what happened when I listened to Silas Kain's RavenBeauty Holiday Extravaganza. Most of you ABC Soap fans know RavenBeauty. She's a hugely popular soap columnist/spoiler diva that's been around forever. Silas Kain is known to soap fans as the mastermind and driving force of the Coupon Campaign to Save Our Soaps. They're together again on his BlogTalk Radio show to celebrate soaps, soap fans and RavenBeauty herself.  It was great to hear so many people showing their love and appreciation for RavenBeauty, who has been dealing with health issues recently. It was really very touching.

And there were some celebrity appearances! There was a Nora/Lindsay reunion (Hillary B. Smith and Catherine Hickland are so sweet and hilarious), Andrea Evans talked about her iconic role as Tina on OLTL, as well as her battle with cancer, and Ilene Kristen smack talked Brian Frons, discussed soaps and soap fans, and talked about her experiences at OLTL and what she would have liked to have seen for her character Roxie (a love interest, a more adversarial relationship with Vicki, for Jessica to have been Roxie's daughter.) And while she had very positive things to say about OLTL Exec Producer Frank Valentini and HW Ron Carlivati, she did mention that no one informed her of the Echo/Rex story and felt she'd been thrown under the bus in a way. I hear Michael E. Knight was on too, but there were a few times when BlogTalk was acting crazy for me (BlogTalk hates my computer for some reason), so that must have been when Knight called in because I didn't hear him at all...

If you'd like to listen to the show Click Here

Check out RavenBeauty's facebook page Here and her spoiler site Here

Click Here to check out Silas Kain's site for more info about the Coupon Campaign

Talk to you soon!
-Melanie/SoapOperaBabble

OLTL's Catherine Hickland Rips Brian Frons a New One!

Brian Frons should know better than to mess with a Daytime Diva! Catherine Hickland (OLTL, Loving/The City) has been very vocal about the cancellation of OLTL and AMC on twitter, and now she's written a very revealing (and passionate) piece on her blog about it. It's called "No More Love in the Afternoon" and boy has she ripped Brian Frons a new one!

Here's just a little taste of it:

“The ratings kept declining” he will spin. And I say

“Yes, well that was the plan, wasn’t it?” Isn’t that what you have been doing with all of your character assassinating and lame story telling? Isn’t that what you’ve been doing micromanaging your producers, writers, and staff to insanity? Business 101 teaches that you hire super competent people and let them do their job. Control freaks find this nearly impossible, which is why they ultimately fail. Its pure arrogance to think that you know what the audience will accept on shows that they knew far, far better than you. They didn’t accept mediocrity, and for that, the viewers were punished? What’s wrong with this picture?

To be fair, she never mentions Brian Frons by name (why bother?), but it'll be clear to everyone who she's talking about. She also goes on to say, "In 30 years as an entertainer, I can not recall a more reviled executive." Wow.

While her comments about Frons are what are going to make headlines, there's so much more here. She perfectly voices our anger and sorrow over the loss of our shows and her treatment by HIM mirrors the way fans have felt they've been treated all these years. It's clear that Miss Hickland respects the genre, the people that work in the industry and the fans. She loves soap fans and I love her for that. She's talented, intelligent and has a kind and caring heart! My only regret? That this means we're probably not going to see Lindsay returning to One Life To Live before the finale (full disclosure: I'm a huge fan of the Nora vs. Lindsay rivalry - I love them both!)

Here's a link to the blog
Here's a link to Catherine's twitter
To visit Catherine's site, click here

-Melanie/SoapOperaBabble/daisyclover