Members John Posted June 11, 2011 Members Share Posted June 11, 2011 When NIGHTSHIFT proved popular in 2007, SoapNET almost ordered a OLTL spinoff that centered around the Llanview PD but decided just to renew NS for a second season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 SoapNET's original plan was to do spinoffs of both OLTL and AMC like they did with Nightshift Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LoyaltoAMC Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 I don't think they ever planned an AMC spinoff, the reason being there would be no central place to set the show. GH had the hospital and OLTL had the police station, but there was nothing like that on AMC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 I believe an idea for an AMC spinoff was Fusion Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Gray Bunny Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 Sounds like Aaron Spelling used that idea as inspiration to create Melrose Place later that year...? Sounds like Aaron Spelling used that idea as inspiration to create Melrose Place later that year...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 Jackie Collins & Aaron Spelling could not see eye to eye is the word on the street Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BingCherry Posted June 15, 2011 Members Share Posted June 15, 2011 It seems as if the germs of the planned Spelling/Collins series led to Melrose and 2000 Malibu Road (which ended up airing on CBS at the same time Sunset West was going to). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 16, 2011 Members Share Posted June 16, 2011 And Joan would have most likely made her primetime soap return then instead of a couple years later on Pacific Palisades. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted June 17, 2011 Members Share Posted June 17, 2011 I guess there was actually a pilot for Claire Labine's Heart & Soul Shot but never aired Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 19, 2011 Members Share Posted June 19, 2011 Here is a Digest article from sometime in summer 1991, on The Women's Group: A New Daytime Soap Is On The Drawing Board For ABC A brand-new, half-hour daytime soap opera, tentatively titled THE WOMEN'S GROUP, is being developed by veteran writer/director/producer Linda Yellen and author Erica Jong (Fear of Flying) for ABC. "We've never done daytime, but we're very excited," says Yellen, who spent time with Jong visiting soap sets. Yellen has high hopes for the show, which she says will focus on "the way women talk when they're alone together. It'll be more nineties, more honest, and will have the look and spin of a nighttime show." Yellen and Jong plan to submit the "bible" (a description of the show's characters and history) to ABC in early July. "It's thrilling...something that reaches so many people," says Yellen. "We hope to be up and running by fall." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted June 19, 2011 Members Share Posted June 19, 2011 I wish this would have happened. Sounds like a great concept Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 19, 2011 Members Share Posted June 19, 2011 It does. And it would have been interesting to see how well they pulled off that "the way women talk when they're alone together" thing which was a charming aspect of AMC back in the day. Trying to ape SATC did much harm to women's dialogue. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 19, 2011 Members Share Posted June 19, 2011 I wonder if this would have replaced Loving. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted June 19, 2011 Members Share Posted June 19, 2011 Yeah Loving may have died earlier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 25, 2011 Members Share Posted June 25, 2011 Some Digests from October and November 1988 mention plans by CBN to produce another soap opera (4 years after Another Life). The November issue says they had reported on this before but now it seems serious. Does anyone know how close this came to happening, and what it would have involved? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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