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AMC: Daytime Confidential confirming production moving to LA


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As I previously reported, All My Children is moving to Los Angeles. Sister soap One Life to Live will now move into AMC's former New York studio, with both soaps getting streamlined production modules and facility improvements. ABC Daytime President Brian Frons just broke the news on the set of AMC to the cast and crew! Keep checking back with Daytime Confidential as this story develops!

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F*CK Frons. He has had it in for AMC since day 1 and has finally sealed the deal.

I bet this is the first time he has ever set foot in AMC's studio in his 7 years at ABC.

Just cancel the damn thing.

Does anyone still have the nerve to claim that OLTL is the bastard child of ABC Daytime? There is no way Frons would have made OLTL be the one to make the move because then some stars might leave and we wouldn't want to harm OLTL.

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They might as well cancel the show and quit torturing everyone. This is just another step closer to cancellation, which IMO is what Frons is aiming for.

They're gonna lost most of their cast with this move. I honestly don't see SL moving to LA. With Susan on OLTL, I don't see TK moving, AM is having a baby, I don't see her moving. Cam does hosting gigs on GMA, I don't see him moving. RPG and CS, I don't see moving, especially if CS is out at the end of the year.

What's the point of continuing the show if they lose most of their cast

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First off I'm sorry for you Zendall Fan because I agree I can't see TK or AM making the move for the reasons you mentioned.

I bet you though that Frons checked with CamMat to see what he would do before the final decision was made :angry:

Now they can claim they tried everything. "We brought in a big prime-time writer like Chuck Pratt" (Pratt sucks, but they can still claim they went for a big writing talent). "We made the tough decision to relocate the show to LA" (which they knew would result in the show losing all its talent, but they can still claim they made the decision to save the show). It's the same thing as GL's new production model. It wasn't done to save the show, it was done so they could claim they tried to save it, all the while knowing it would flop.

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I hate to say it, but this is actually worse news for OLTL.

AMC is moving because in NY, they need expensive union workers to strike the sets and put them back up everyday. A move to L.A. saves them money, makes their bottom line look better.....and buys them time (they'll also likely switch to HD with the move).

OLTL, on the other hand, will be the more expendable show at that point....still shot in NY, more expensively....still shot in standard definition.

It sounds like Frons has made his choice: when ABC cancels a soap, OLTL will be the first to go.

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So are OLTL's production costs cheaper than AMC's, cause how cost effective can it be for OLTL to take over AMC's studio, I don't get how that saves them money either

Eh sorry I can't agree, AMC is probably going to lost most of it's cast and SL most likely too(I don't see her moving away from her kids and grandkids), so this actually HURTS AMC more than it does OLTL

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Well this should be interesting. I can't decide if this is worse news for AMC or OLTL. AMC is going to lose a lot of talent and it will probably kill the show but at the same time it shows that ABC thinks enough of the show to invest some energy in it, much like GH's upgrade to HD.

That's what I think. OLTL moving into AMC's studio is like giving your cousin who still sleeps on a futon your old couch when you get a new one.

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ABC does NOT want to kill AMC...I wish everyone would stop with this "the networks are trying to kill the soaps" stuff, if they wanted them gone, they would come out and cancel them.

I think AMC moving to LA could cost them a lot of their cast, but at the same time it might make people like Chrishell Stause, Rebecca Budig, Eden Riegel, etc. more open to doing the show whilst trying out for primetime stuff and even doing primetime gigs.

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I would agree with you if AMC was going to arrive in LA with its entire cast in tow. But it's not going to. And it's going to be the big names, the vets, the David Canarys and Michael E. Knights who are not going to go. And it's going to be the Denise Vasis and Adam Mayfields who do.

That is going to do far more damage to AMC than any disadvantage taken on by OLTL.

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