One Life to Live to Write Off Their Gay Couple - Sitcoms Online Message Boards

Brian Damage · 03-11-2010, 01:09 AM

This won’t go down well with the LGBT community. One Life to Live stars Brett Claywell and Scott Evans—who play gay couple Kyle and Fish—are being written off the show and will be gone by mid-April.

“We are concluding the story that we set out to tell with Kyle and Fish,” says executive producer Frank Valentini. “We are very proud to have broken new ground with a same-sex couple on daytime.”

Word is, the decision to drop the duo didn’t come easily. Kish has been a big success with the media and the show’s gay fans, and gay-advocacy groups have showered OLTL with awards for creating the trail-blazing couple. But sources at the network say the duo failed to resonate with the mainstream audience. Ratings for the ABC soap were particularly dismal in late 2009 during the weeks that Fish came out of the closet and he and Kyle officially became a couple. Also playing simultaneously was a sprawling plot that had Robin Strasser’s character, Dorian, pretending to be a lesbian in order to win the gay vote in the Llanview mayoral race. A case of gay overkill? Perhaps.

http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps...kish-4337.html

catlover79 · 03-11-2010, 01:46 AM

Somehow I'm not surprised. Then, you have the other daytime gay couple on ATWT hanging on until cancellation later this year.

snowcreature23 · 05-02-2010, 11:06 PM

I liked the gay story line on One Life To Live and if people don't like to wacth dont wacth,but OLTL mabe loose gay viewrs they do have a big fallowing, I really hate Jessica anmersna, the stripper got married to Clint but,she is leaving and now the baby thing they need to get rid of GIGI but, now Todd got beat up by Cole which is a good thing Todd is such a slezze bag any ways can't beleve Star is sticking up for him but,his to former GFBlair and whats her name may not want him to be alive any more.

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Brian Damage I'm Rich Bitch Forum Icon Join Date: Feb 03, 2002 Location: What Ain't No Country I Ever Heard Of...They Speak English in What? Posts: 63,108	One Life to Live to Write Off Their Gay Couple This won’t go down well with the LGBT community. One Life to Live stars Brett Claywell and Scott Evans—who play gay couple Kyle and Fish—are being written off the show and will be gone by mid-April. “We are concluding the story that we set out to tell with Kyle and Fish,” says executive producer Frank Valentini. “We are very proud to have broken new ground with a same-sex couple on daytime.” Word is, the decision to drop the duo didn’t come easily. Kish has been a big success with the media and the show’s gay fans, and gay-advocacy groups have showered OLTL with awards for creating the trail-blazing couple. But sources at the network say the duo failed to resonate with the mainstream audience. Ratings for the ABC soap were particularly dismal in late 2009 during the weeks that Fish came out of the closet and he and Kyle officially became a couple. Also playing simultaneously was a sprawling plot that had Robin Strasser’s character, Dorian, pretending to be a lesbian in order to win the gay vote in the Llanview mayoral race. A case of gay overkill? Perhaps. http://www.tvguidemagazine.com/soaps...kish-4337.html Attached Images
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05-02-2010, 11:06 PM	#3
snowcreature23 Jason is waiting. Forum Regular Join Date: Oct 16, 2007 Location: Kenai,Alaska. Posts: 758	I liked the gay story line on One Life To Live and if people don't like to wacth dont wacth,but OLTL mabe loose gay viewrs they do have a big fallowing, I really hate Jessica anmersna, the stripper got married to Clint but,she is leaving and now the baby thing they need to get rid of GIGI but, now Todd got beat up by Cole which is a good thing Todd is such a slezze bag any ways can't beleve Star is sticking up for him but,his to former GFBlair and whats her name may not want him to be alive any more.
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