One Life To Live in it's last year?

It is not being canceled. The following was posted September 29th.

Fans have been in an uproar since a rumor stating that One Life to Live was going to be canceled in 2010 swept the internet. However, to calm the fears of fans, and our Soaps.com readers who have posted with worry on our message board, an ABC Daytime Spokesperson has told Soaps.com…

“The only upcoming move ‘One Life To Live’ is making is to the ‘All My Children’ stage after that series relocates to Los Angeles. This will give ‘One Life To Live’ more room and increase their production value.”

So you see, fans, there is no reason to worry about the show's cancellation, as the network is making an obvious move to help the show continue to prosper.

This kind of rumor has been floating around every few months since the writer's stike a while back. It's one of those publicity things used to hype up the ratings so people will start watching again. And of course, they economy is what they use for blame.

ABC soaps have really sunk an all time low in my opinion for a long while now especially AMC and GH. OLTL, I think has been the strongest despite some of the lack of interest lately.

Man, I hope not. This rumor has surfaced pretty much every 6 months for the last 5 years. At this point, OLTL is scheduled to move into the studios AMC currently occupies when it moves to Los Angeles. Hopefully, the fact that they're moving into better digs is a good sign, but with the suits in NYC, who can tell.

Is One Life to Live in danger of cancellation? It depends on who you ask. According to a popular soap columnist, the show is very much in danger. An ABC rep says OLTL's only move is to a new studio. Meanwhile, one of the show's stars says she hopes it's all just one big rumor.

In a week where shocking soap opera news has appeared to be the norm, a report that One Life to Live is in its final year on the air seemed to catch everyone by surprise. Daytime viewers, still reeling from the cancellation of the 72-year-old Guiding Light, went into panic mode.

The shockwaves started with a report in this week's Soapgeist, written by TVGuide Canada columnist Nelson Branco. In the column, Branco cited a network insider as having revealed that Brian Frons, president of the Daytime division of the Disney/ABC Television Group, "had to make a Sophie’s Choice, and he chose to save All My Children by moving it to L.A." The implication, referencing the 1982 Meryl Streep movie, was that saving All My Children meant sending One Life to Live to its death.

As previously reported, after All My Children packs up production and heads to Los Angeles at the end of the year, One Life to Live will move across the street and down the block to AMC's old studio. While AMC's old studios are too small for it, the space is still about 40% bigger than One Life to Live's current studio.

Branco went on to say that the reason the network didn't announce One Life to Live's cancellation when it announced AMC's relocation is that the network didn't have a replacement show ready at the time. Once a replacement show is available, Branco states that several key One Life to Live stars will be relocated to the West Coast and become part of the All My Children cast. The rest of the cast -- and One Life to Live itself -- will be cancelled.

“One Life will be cancelled next year barring a ratings miracle," Branco added. "Frons will most likely move Trevor St. John, Kassie DePaiva, Michael Easton, the Kish boys, and maybe Brandon Buddy and Kristen Alderson to become a part of AMC. He will not merge both shows into two half-hour soaps.”

Alderson, meanwhile, tells fans that she doesn't know anything more than they do.

"From what I've heard, the cancellation of the show is pure rumor...but they wouldn't tell us anyway I'm sure," Kristen Alderson (Starr Manning) told fans on her Twitter page.

This isn't the first time that Branco's sources have reported that an ABC soap was close to cancellation. In January, Branco reported that All My Children had been "Real close. Scary close." to cancellation, a claim the network vehemently denies. Earlier this month, Branco also reported that ABC was mulling the possibility of chopping All My Children and One Life to Live's running times to 30 minutes each.

Though the network initially declined comment, as talk of One Life to Live's possible demise began to spread, ABC released a statement hoping to calm fans' jittery nerves.

“The only upcoming move One Life To Live is making is to the All My Children stage after that series relocates to Los Angeles," a network spokesperson tells soapcentral.com "This will give One Life To Live more room and increase their production value.”

Some fans, however, remain worried, noting that the ABC statement doesn't deny that One Life to Live is on the chopping block. If fans are concerned about the fate of One Life to Live, the easiest thing to do to help save the show is to tune into the show every day. Encourage a friend or family member to watch. Support the products and companies that advertise during the show. Fans do still have power, but tuning out or badmouthing the show definitely won't keep the show on the air.

I hope it is just a rumor, I never watched that soap, but I do watch Days and I just don't want Soaps to become a thing of the past.

Last I heard is that OLTL is moving into AMC's studio when it moves to LA in Jan.'10.

On soapcentral.com it is saying this is just a rumor! I hope so, bc OLTL is the best of the ABC soaps!

According to Soapzone.com, this is just a rumor & the show will only get better with it's move to the AMC set.

So far there has been no news about cancelling the show, they are just changing the production location.

nope its just a rumour although it sounds like it might go under after the move.