Gay Couple Written Off One Life

It's a dumb show to begin with. I didn't watch it when there weren't gay characters, I didn't watch it when there were gay characters, and I won't watch it now. I won't even miss it, when it gets canceled.

I stopped watching last month when they made Mitch Lawrence all powerful, able to do anything and getting away with everything. The powers that be are using the gay story line as a scapegoat for the show's troubles. At this point, OLTL has jumped the shark and I will not miss it at all. Erika Slezak is a supporting player now and Robin Strasser is a stupid cartoonish character now. They were the core of the show so I will not miss it once it's deservedly cancelled. The writers and the producers blew it big time. It's dead, long live OLTL.

This is the first step on the road to OLTL's cancellation. In the next few months when ABC announces the demise of the show, they will somehow indirectly point to the ratings decline due to "the gays" as the top reason the show is leaving the air. I say Brian Frons will annouce the cancellation in mid-July.

A friend of mine stated last week that this would happen. She created and is directing a new drama for LGBTQ people because she said that the gay stories available in mainstream are always on the cutting board. Everytime something is wrong with ratings, the gay characters are the first to go which leaves the community to feel even less accepted and does more damage than good in the move toward acceptance, tolerance, and equality. When mainstream media shows that you can just write off the gay characters, that translates directly into real life situations where people "write off" non heteros. Very frustrating. Hopefully everyone that cares about equality will watch Infamous Ruse to show your support. www.infamousruse.com Twitter is @infamousruse I don't know the date that the first episode will air, but I think it will be great with all sexualities represented, different nationalities, and body types. I'm going to go volunteer with the show after reading this article!

This is a true disappointment - I began watching OLTL again last year because of the KISH storyline, it is a very real love and while I do love the NUKE storyline I just think KISH has that masculine, man to man love that truly exhibits what it means to be gay. Very sad to see these characters go :(

I don't expect much support from Frank Valentini...the executive producer of OLTL because its well known that he's a big closet homo! And Frank's ego supersedes all else! (I used to work in the NYC soap opera world) If the storyline had been a huge success than he would have taken full credit for it but he needed to throw someone under the bus so that would be the easy target...the gay storyline. Just sayin...

As a long time viewer of One Life To Live, I have to say that the ratings decline was probably due to the Mitch Lawrence story – it was sadistic, cartoonish and a very weak echo the the original Mitch Lawrence saga from the '80's – which was quite great at the time. The Oliver and Kyle story has been, for the most part, very lovely to witness. Bad move ABC Daytime.

well we know exactly why they're being written off the show, it's because they're concluding the drop in ratings is due to the gay story line. Let's face it the main audience for soap opera's are Middle America, you know those that don't do anything all day.

They are being written off of the show thats not giving them a fond farewell.Thats the same thing as when actors on sitcoms used to go upstairs and never came back down like Judy Winslow on Family Matters.They are not coming back thats the point .All the sugar coating and rationalizations do not help one bit.

I am sad to learn this news. These characters were the most interesting characters on OLTL. I doubt that I will continue watching because the rest of the show just isn't that interesting to me. But if the writers/producers change their minds and decide to keep the characters working I will change my mind and continue to Tivo the show. Decisions like this one make me wonder who is watching television in the United States. Are most Americans really as simple and narrow-minded as Nielsen ratings might have us think? Has there ever been a study into how Nielsen calculates its ratings? Are certain socioeconomic groups over-represented in Nielsen surveys? With the decisions that keep being made I am thinking that lower educated, lower income, socially conservative homes are over-represented in the Nielsen surveys. I would be highly interested in Advocate or New York Times conducting an independent analysis of the Nielsen ratings system to learn why shows keep getting altered or canceled.