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
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-Melanie/SoapOperaBabble/daisyclover