All My Children and One Life to Live revivals? Hope is alive after rights to the soap operas were returned to ABC, following the dismissal of the 2013 lawsuit by Prospect Park Networks, per Soap Opera Network:
In their claim at the time, Prospect Park alleged that ABC “has been breaking the licensing agreement and sabotaging Prospect Park’s efforts to continue ‘All My Children’ and ‘One Life to Live’ online.” The company initially asked for $25 million in monetary damages before the value was upped to $95 million following Prospect Park’s decision to amend the lawsuit with “a declaration that Prospect Park’s continued payment of the licensing fees under the Agreement is excused; that Prospect Park is entitled to an extension of the License Agreement; and that the term of the License Agreement is tolled, from the time of ABC’s breach until the breach is fully remedied.”
In response, ABC demanded a motion to strike that claim. “Here, Prospect Park is not asking this Court to resolve an unsettled question by interpreting the Agreement,” said the network. “Instead, it is doing the exact opposite: asking this Court to rewrite the contract to unsettle something that parties have already firmly determined — the term of the License.”
While ABC has yet to comment on the prospect of bringing the soaps back, revival campaigns are inevitably in motion.
Stay tuned as we monitor the TV afterlife for signs of All My Children and One Life To Live revivals…
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