Editing One Life to Live (section)

==Transition to ''General Hospital''==
On December 1, 2011, two weeks after ''One Life to Live'' finished taping its final scenes,<ref>{{cite magazine|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/18/one-life-to-live-exclusive-final-taping-abc|title='One Life to Live' says goodbye to its ABC studio|last=West|first=Abby|magazine=Entertainment Weekly|date=November 18, 2011|access-date=January 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107003227/http://insidetv.ew.com/2011/11/18/one-life-to-live-exclusive-final-taping-abc/|archive-date=January 7, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> ABC confirmed that former executive producer [[Frank Valentini]] and head writer [[Ron Carlivati]] would assume the same roles on ''[[General Hospital]]'' effective January 9, 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://abc.go.com/shows/general-hospital/GH-Valentini-Carlivati |title=Valentini and Carlivati to Take the Reins at "General Hospital" |access-date=2012-01-01 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120207224412/http://abc.go.com/shows/general-hospital/GH-Valentini-Carlivati |archive-date=February 7, 2012 |df=mdy-all }}</ref>

Several former ''One Life to Live'' actors - [[Kassie DePaiva]], [[Roger Howarth]], [[Michael Easton]], and [[Kristen Alderson]] -  moved with Valentini and Carlivati and reprised their characters on ''General Hospital''.<ref name=ghtrans>{{cite news|last=West|first=Abby|title='One Life to Live' finale: A look at the final day of taping|url=http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/13/one-life-to-live-finale/?iid=rcfooter-tv-%27one+life+to+live%27+ends%3A+what+we+saw|access-date=January 14, 2012|newspaper=Entertainment Weekly|date=January 13, 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120115030335/http://insidetv.ew.com/2012/01/13/one-life-to-live-finale/?iid=rcfooter%2Dtv%2D%27one+life+to+live%27+ends%3A+what+we+saw|archive-date=January 15, 2012|url-status=live}}</ref> With the exception of DePaiva, all of these actors were eventually put on contract and stayed permanently with the show. On May 9, 2012, [[Florencia Lozano]] joined the cast, reprising her ''One Life to Live'' role of [[Téa Delgado]] in a recurring capacity.<ref name="OLTLInvasion">{{cite book |chapter=Comings and Goings |title=Soap Opera Digest |page=10 |date=May 14, 2012 |publisher=(Vol. 37, No. 20)}}</ref>

On April 18, 2013, after Prospect Park had announced they would be reviving the series, Prospect Park filed a lawsuit against ABC, alleging ABC failed to honor its part of their licensing agreement. Among the issues named in the lawsuits included ABC's alleged attempts to sabotage Prospect Park's revival of the soap by killing off ''One Life to Live'' characters loaned to ''General Hospital'' (Cole and Hope Thornhart), failure on ABC's part to consult Prospect Park on storylines involving ''One Life to Live'' characters (breaking up popular ''One Life to Live'' couple John and Natalie to pair Michael Easton's John McBain with former ''Port Charles'' love interest, Kelly Monaco's Sam Morgan, the death of Tea Delgado's baby and the subsequent switching of her baby with Sam Morgan's live baby, orchestrated by Howarth's Todd Manning), as well as claiming one ''One Life to Live'' character Tomas Delgado was actually ''General Hospital'' character, Lorenzo Alcazar.<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/Documents/ESQ/PROSPECT_ABC_Complaint_WM.pdf | work=The Hollywood Reporter | title=Prospect Park Networks, LLC vs. American Broadcasting Companies, Inc. | access-date=October 24, 2014 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924215205/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/sites/default/files/custom/Documents/ESQ/PROSPECT_ABC_Complaint_WM.pdf | archive-date=September 24, 2015 | url-status=live }}</ref>  Effective immediately, the three ''One Life to Live'' characters bound to contracts with ABC were to exit the show, and the three actors who played them, Kristen Alderson, Michael Easton and Roger Howarth were rewritten back onto the  ''General Hospital'' canvas playing new characters, while Howarth also crossed his character of Todd back over to ''One Life to Live'' for its inaugural season.

On September 3, 2013, Prospect Park announced that production of ''One Life to Live'' would be on hold until their litigation with ABC was settled.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2013/09/03/breaking-news-prospect-park-shelves-one-life-to-live|title=BREAKING NEWS: Prospect Park Shelves One Life to Live|work=[[Daytime Confidential]]|access-date=February 28, 2015|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222171758/http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2013/09/03/breaking-news-prospect-park-shelves-one-life-to-live|archive-date=February 22, 2014|df=mdy-all}}</ref>