Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, left, and convention CEO William Harris unveil the stage and podium for the 2012 Republican National Convention, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)
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Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, left, and convention CEO William Harris unveil the stage and podium for the 2012 Republican National Convention, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)
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Members of the media conduct interviews on the floor after the unveiling of the stage and podium for the 2012 Republican National Convention, Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. (AP Photo/Scott Iskowitz)
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FILE - This June 15, 2012 file photo shows Michael J. Fox speaking at the Middlesex Community College Celebrity Forum in Lowell, Mass.Fox is coming back to series TV more than a decade after he left to concentrate on fighting Parkinson's disease. His new comedy series, based loosely on his personal life, has a 22-episode commitment from NBC and is set to premiere in fall 2013, the network announced Monday, Aug. 20. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer, file)
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FILE - In this Friday, Aug. 21, 2009, file photo, the NBC logo glows in neon lights among other iconic signs at its headquarters in New York. Comcast said Tuesday, Feb. 12, 2013, that it's buying General Electric's 49 percent stake in the NBCUniversal joint venture for $16.7 billion several years early, as the company takes advantage of low borrowing costs and what CEO Brian Roberts called a "very attractive price." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews, File)
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FILE - In this file image released by FX, a scene is shown from the FX original series, "Sons of Anarchy." Television executives who spoke to the media recently about the tragic shootings in Newtown, Conn., and Aurora, Colo., say the events bothered them, but none offered concrete examples of how it is changing what they put on the air, or if that is necessary. FX President John Landgraf said he was in favor of further study about any correlation between entertainment and real violence. Landgraf pointed out that the zombie series "Walking Dead" and brutally violent "Sons of Anarchy" are both very popular in England and that country has far fewer gun murders than the United States. (AP Photo/FX, Prashant Gupta, File)
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FILE - This July 26, 2012 file photo shows actor Steve Burton at the Disney ABC panel for "General Hospital" in Beverly Hills, Calif. Burton, who played Jason Morgan on the ABC soap for 21 years and left the show the last fall to relocate his family to Tennessee is joining the cast of “Young & The Restless.” Burton first made the announcement Monday, Jan. 7, 2013, on CBS' “The Talk.” (Photo by Todd Williamson/Invision/AP, file)
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The cast of One Life To Live is seen in an undated photo provided by Ferencomm for The Online Network. The Online Network (TOLN) announced Monday, March 11, 2013 the highly-anticipated online debuts of the beloved long-running serial dramas “All My Children” and “One Life to Live” for Monday, April 29. (AP Photo/Ferencomm for The Online Network)
'Children,' 'One Life' get reborn online April 29
NEW YORK (
AP) — It's not uncommon for soap opera characters thought dead to spring back to life. Now, a pair of soap operas thought dead are being resurrected.
Venerable daytime dramas "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" will soon be reborn online after getting the ax little more than a year ago by ABC, which had broadcast them for decades.
Prospect Park's The Online Network has set its debuts of both long-running soaps for April 29. Both will appear each weekday with new 30-minute episodes available to stream on computers for free on the Hulu website.
Subscribers to Hulu Plus can watch them on a variety of other devices. Episodes will also be available on iTunes.
Production began on "All My Children" last month, and shooting starts for "One Life to Live" next week. Both series are produced in Stamford, Conn.
Agnes Nixon, the soap opera pioneer who created the shows more than 40 years ago, is serving as creative consultant for their online revivals.
"I am so pleased that our dream of bringing these two series back to life is coming to fruition," she said.
Prospect Park partners Jeff Kwatinetz and Rich Frank are promising "new and creatively ground-breaking episodes that both the fans, as well as legions of new viewers, will love."
Joining new cast members, a number of favorites from the long broadcast run of each soap are returning.
Veteran "All My Children" stars include David Canary, Julia Barr, Jill Larsen, Cady McClain and Debbi Morgan. Fan favorites back on "One Life to Live" include Erika Slezak, Robert S. Woods, Robin Strasser and Hillary B. Smith.
The broadcast version of "One Life to Live" premiered on ABC in 1968 and aired through January 2012. "All My Children" ran from January 1970 to September 2011.
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