He'll now portray Patrick's brother, Ian Thornhart. Kaye was a regular on One Life to Live from October 1995 to September 1997. Recently, Thorsten Kaye signed to appear on Port Charles. Cummings found some longtime friends, among them Alan Quartermaine, and several more clues to her daughter's whereabouts. In Port Charles, the fictional town where both GH and PC are set, Rae continued her search for her missing daughter, a daughter that was stolen from her shortly after birth.

From there, Rae completed the quadrafecta and skipped to Upstate New York and the final two ABC soaps - General Hospital and GH spinoff, Port Charles. On AMC, Dano's character established ties to a long-time Pine Valley Resident she is the daughter that Myrtle Fargate gave up for adoption. AMC's studios are virtually around the corner from OLTL and Pine Valley is just up the road from Llanview. It wasn't a far trip either in real life or on the small screen. After her stint in the fictional town of Llanview, Pennsylvania was complete in October, Dano joined the cast of All My Children and the make-believe town of Pine Valley. Her character, Rae Cummings, debuted on One Life to Live in June of 1999. Though Christopher's cross-soap appearance may have been the first, it was Linda Dano's addition to the ABC Daytime lineup really got the ball rolling. The only hitch was that this time Skye wasn't making the rounds on All My Children - she was on One Life to Live.

The first of the many ABC crossovers started in July 1997, when Robin Christopher reprised the role of Skye Chandler, a role she'd played on All My Children from 1987 to 1991. So if you're a network executive looking for a way to increase the ratings all across the board, what do you do? If you're the folks at ABC, you take some of your fan-favorite characters from one show and transplant them on another. ABC's shows are a bit closer in the ratings, with General Hospital usually leading the way for the network. For CBS, The Young and the Restless is - and has been for the past ten years - the top daytime serial on the network. As with any network lineup, some shows get more viewers than others. With the exception of NBC, both CBS and ABC broadcast four daytime drama per day three full-hour soaps and one half-hour program.

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