Former 'One Life to Live' Writer Sues ABC Over Royalties

Sam Hall says he struck a deal for a weekly payment so long as the soap opera was broadcast, but never got anything when it began appearing on Hulu. The legal soap opera over One Life to Live has taken another twist. Allison "Sam" Hall, who served as a co-head writer of the soap opera in the mid-1980s, has filed a lawsuit in New York state court over royalties allegedly owed by ABC after OLTL was shown on Hulu, iTunes and briefly on the Oprah Winfrey Network. According to the complaint, ABC made...