![]() We’d relaunch One Life to Live as a primetime drama, too - one which owes a debt to Aaron Sorkin’s spectacular 2012-14 HBO series, The Newsroom. Look at what’s going on with All My Children, which is being remixed and rebooted as a primetime series by married alums Kelly Ripa (Hayley) and Mark Consuelos (Matéo). ![]() The end of One Life to Live on ABC and then its web counterpart doesn’t have to be the capital-T capital-E The End. (You can relive a few of them via the video below, from the soap’s last episode on ABC before the noble experiment that was The Online Network.) But the fact of the matter is that the writer’s tapestry of haves and have-nots, wannabes and already-ares, served as a backdrop for approximately a cajillion compelling stories of love and loss, revenge and redemption. We know: By the time we typed “socioeconomic backgrounds,” your eyes had glazed over. So she laid out the Philadelphia suburb of Llanview as a true melting pot, where characters of different ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds could and would mix and mingle. But Nixon was tired of the same-old, same-old - in other words, white folks with white-folk problems. Per Christopher Schemering’s The Soap Opera Encyclopedia, All My Children’s future mother was asked by the network - impressed by her success at Another World - to create a new soap. But as it was, in 1968 she launched just One Life to Live on ABC. In retrospect, Agnes Nixon should probably have called it Two, Maybe Three Lives to Live. “She got lupus and didn’t properly take care of herself, and that eventually led to her death.”įor more on what your favorite OLTL stars are up to now, keep reading the ABC edition of Soaps In Depth magazine.One Life to Live Faves Offer Update On Their Characters: 'If Blair Was With … ’ “I feel that the writers were good about clarifying that Megan wasn’t dying from lupus,” the actress maintains. Tuck remains proud of the impact that the story had and especially of the message it imparted. “And the fact that Megan died in Jake’s arms… There was a finality to it. “At every turn, it was expected that ‘Oh, this is what’s going to save her.’ Then ‘Oh God, this is what’s going to save her,’” Tuck said. ![]() Jake had it transplanted to the hospital where he decorated it with Valentine’s Day hearts, and carried Megan to a window to see. Together, the lovers remembered their wedding day and the tree they’d planted outside the church. “I didn’t want to show a lip-gloss version of what it means to be at end of life, because I felt that would be disrespectful to those who actually were suffering.” “I remember saying, ‘Not only do I not want makeup, but I actually want you to put dark circles under my eyes, and I didn’t wash my hair,” Tuck shared. Sadly, the transplant didn’t take, and Jake made it back home to find Megan near death. “Megan’s passing was emotional for me because OLTL had become my home,” Tuck recalled. “There was a mother/daughter dynamic at play there,” recalled Tuck, adding that the show “addressed the question of, ‘How does that get pushed on when one of the people in the dynamic is facing a deadly situation?’” Unfortunately, Megan didn’t follow precautions and wound up needing a kidney from Viki.
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