One Life to Live
Since the agreement made between ABC and Prospect Park was not limited to internet television and did allowed "One Life to Live" to be broadcast on traditional television, there was an announcement on August 3, 2011 about a possibility of "One Life to Live" airing on a cable channel. On October 5, 2011, the project to bring "One Life to Live" to cable was reiterated in a "New York Times" article, where it was revealed that Prospect Park planned to first air episodes on The Online Network, then make them available on television on demand and, then weeks later, on cable television.
One Life to Live
In 1999, Daytime Emmy Award-winner Linda Dano returned to "One Life to Live" as Gretel Cummings, a character she had previously played on the series from 1978 to 1980. In a 2000 move of network synergy designed to "entice viewers to tune into soap operas that they might not have usually watched," then-President of ABC Daytime Angela Shapiro orchestrated Dano's concurrent appearance as
Gretel on the three other ABC daytime dramas at the time — "All My Children", "General Hospital", and "Port Charles" — in an extended crossover storyline which was the first time a daytime character had ever appeared on four series. Gretel's search for the child she had given up for adoption takes her to "All My Children", where she discovers in 2000 that her own birth mother is Pine Valley's Myrtle Fargate. Following clues to "Port Charles" and "General Hospital", Gretel finally finds her daughter back in Llanview on "One Life to Live": Skye Chandler, herself a former "All My Children" character who had relocated to "One Life to Live" in 1999. Skye's adopted "All My Children" father Adam Chandler appears on "One Life to Live" in 2001, and Gretel initially identifies Skye's biological father as Alan Quartermaine of "General Hospital". Both women subsequently appear on that series, with Skye moving to "General Hospital" full-time in 2001 and Gretel returning to "One Life to Live" until 2004, making some appearances on "General Hospital" later in 2002 and 2003.