The Worm Turned Again? Valentini is FUCKED!

This is the best thing ever. Read this:

Prospect Sues ABC

Ah, you won't click, so I'll put it here with full credit to The Hollywood Reporter who broke the news:

A $25 million legal brawl has broken out over the transition of soaps from ABC to online. 

Producer Prospect Park, which licensed One Life to Live and All My Children from ABC and plans to re-launch them as Web-only series beginning April 29, claims in a lawsuit filed Thursday in Los Angeles Superior Court that the network has sabotaged the re-launch and is trying to cause it to fail.

Read the complaint here.

Prospect argues that it has been dealing with ABC in good faith, allowing it to use OLTL characters on General Hospital until the relaunch, but ABC actively has caused problems, including refusing to transfer the website addresses for the shows and failing to consult on story lines.

"In the ultimate act of bad faith, ABC killed off two OLTL characters on loan to General Hospital by having their car forced off a cliff," the complaint states.

The suit seeks more than $25 million in damages.

I've never had more fun reading a complaint. All I can say is "I TOLD YOU, DUMBASS!"  I know I shouldn't be pleased but I just love being right. Frankie Boy overstepped, and then overstepped more, and finally, he's fallen in it. He's in shit. Deep shit. And he doesn't have a leg to stand on. 

He's fucked!

This is such an entertaining complaint. In it, PP claims that ABC did not act in good faith. In other words, it lied to PP. It degraded PP. It tried to destroy it's launch. It ruined it's characters and stories. In summation, it's what many of us thought and I've been saying. Frankie and his henchman, Nimnuts, went too far. And now it may be too late.

They're fucked!  Read this:

"With regard to the character Todd Manning, after telling Prospect executives that his role on GH would be limited, ABC made him one of the most central characters on that show, and even moved the newspaper he owns, The Sun, from Llanview to Port Charles, where GH takes place. This in turn has impacted Manning's transition back to OLTL and made it near impossible to keep him without alienating the fans."

There's so much to highlight, I could write a Masters Thesis on it. But, for the moment, I'll say this.  

PP is right. And ABC is fucked!

This has been a complete clusterfuck from the jump. And this week, they finally did it. The crap about the relish and "names" and the new characters and, my God, I can't list it all. There's too much. Even a first year law student could see this one coming. It's called "bad faith bargaining". You see, in negotiations, you're required to meet at the table in "good faith". This means you come to the negotiations really trying and being as honest as possible. You don't come to the table, agree to something, but never mean it. You don't come to the table, cross your fingers underneath it as you promise to X,Y, Z, and then do whatever the hell you want. That's acting in "bad faith".  And Frank did it. And then told people. And then put it on the air. And then went to the press.

I guess it's true. "These guys just aren't very bright". But this part just feels good:
 
"ABC damaged OLTL characters [...] by, among other things, creating absurd story lines, having characters do things they would never do [...] and destroying critical character relationships popular with soap fans." 

Thank you. Todd Manning is not a manwhore. And Nimnuts claimed Howarth was now "Zen" about the character.....hm. Was he? Was he Zen? Notice who's on PP's payroll? Notice who's people kept insisting he was going to be Todd Manning on GH? Who was that, Ron? Let's think about it. Was it the Zen Master? HM. Maybe, but maybe not. Maybe it was a pissed off actor who's screwing you. But, I don't know the man. But what I do know is a legal tactic when I see it. Howarth's people insisting he was Todd on GH, then going all silent about this new character shit, and PP using his name, face, and likeness all over the place in the interrim got my radar up.  

Know why they didn't confirm his grand return to GH??? Because they didn't want to!!! You dumbasses. You think they didn't see this coming? A smart lawyer stays quiet and watches the morons on the other side screw themselves.  By this I mean Frank and Nimnuts and that idiot, Laura Wright, who seemed to be touting the "destroying critical character relationships popular with soap fans"  in the press when she claimed Todd and Blair were the past and Todd and Carly were the future. Really? Really, Laura? Have another glass of wine, Toots, you'll need it when you get called for a deposition as proof of these idiots violating their agreement. You moron!!!

In other words, SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE!!

Look, it comes down to this. ABC- via Valentini and his dancing monkey, Nimnuts- have acted irresponsibly. They didn't honor their agreement. They used every trick in the book to get their way. It was outrageous from the get go. They lost and they should have let the characters and the actors leave and  have it be done. That was not the case, it seems. And there is no legal standing for anything they've done since.

In other words, they're fucked!

I'll write more about this as it continues. I guess I'm like Michael Corleone in the hideous Godfather 3- "Just when I try to get out, they pull me back in"! The drama continues. But, legally, I think it may have stopped. And I wouldn't hold my breath for the "Livers" to return in any way, shape, or form. That was ridiculous from the start. 

What I would watch is whether or not Craptini, as they're called, have a job in the near future. I bet they may be unemployed soon- for stupidity. Hopefully, ABC dumps them and saves GH, sticking a sock in Ms. Wright's very large mouth. But I wouldn't be so sure.

Next up- ABC's response. I can't wait!

Oh, and watch PP on April 29th!!