Peter Kafka reports in All Things Digital that Jeff Kwatinetz of Prospect Park Productions doesn’t really have the dough to put “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” on the internet as planned. http://allthingsd.com/20111103/can-one-life-to-live-get-new-life-on-the-web-heres-the-pitch/ This is not a surprise, but it is a shame. ABC was wrong headed to dump the shows, and replace them with junk like “The Chew.” (Same for CBS and “The Talk.”) There was a glimmer of hope that Prospect Park could pull this off. But apparently Kwatinetz has not been able to convince regular Hollywood investors to cough up the funds. So he’s turning to Silicon Valley. Let’s hope it works.

Prospect Park has announced more cast signings for “One Life” but very few for “All My Children.” Money is obviously at the root of everything here. Susan Lucci and “One Life” stars Robin Strasser, Bob Woods, and Hilary Smith don’t have deals–they would be expensive. Most of the actors signed so far are the less pricey ones. Kwatinetz is going to have problems if he can’t sign the heavy hitters. He’s no doubt hyper aware of this. But Strasser keeps Tweeting that she has no offer–maybe not realizing that Kwatinetz has no money.

http://allthingsd.com/20111103/can-one-life-to-live-get-new-life-on-the-web-heres-the-pitch/

http://www.showbiz411.com/2011/11/04/broadway-soap-operas-affected-by-bad-economy

What an embarrassment to promote the fact that both AMC and OLTL are going online and then not to have any money. It'll be interesting to see what happens. I still don't' get why they don't just shorten these shows to a half hour the way they used to be. I'm sure that would save money and they wouldn't have to cancel them or come up with some big elaborate storyline.

Sad, but not entirely surprising. As much as I want it to work, it will take a miracle to get AMC and OLTL up and running on the Internet...and to be able to sustain it for very long... :(

The more I hear about the move to online only and the problems coming with it, the more I think they should've just ended on ABC. It's sad that they were cancelled in the first place, but I was at peace with it. I just knew this s*** was going to happen.