The Two long-running ABC soap operas — One Life to Live and All My Children — have been saved from oblivion by the Internet.
ABC and Prospect Park, the people behind USA’s Royal Pains, issued a joint press release on Thursday that the shows will be distributed beyond their planned finale dates “via online formats and additional emerging platforms including Internet enabled television sets.” The soaps will continue to run at the same lengths and “with the same quality,” according to the release.
ABC announced it was axing the soaps in April after steady ratings declines, while viewers fled to talk shows and the Internet. All My Children was set to go off the air in September and One Life to Live’s finale was set to run in January.
