That's what Jamey said in the one of the DC podcasts, that they forgot to rent the necessary facilities to house their sets.

Yes, I knew I read that! Thanks.

Jamey Gidden's at Daytime Confidential reported that. I just never got it. I'm pretty sure it's true, Sad.

Thanks for confirming!

I think Pratt actually started off with a great hook - the tornado, with Bianca being found as an anonymous body in the rubble leading to the reveal that Zach had supplied her with a daughter and she was marrying the woman of her dreams, ABC fan fave Tamara Braun. I also thought they had a good idea with the lower-level Fusion employees like Amanda rebelling against head honchos Greenlee and Kendall, jockeying for position after doing all the hard work; that seemed like the most realistic Fusion could've ever been. But Pratt is a horrible hack and he blew it all. The Bianca story was really a setup for Zach and Reese, his attempt to bring Sonny and Carly and GH to AMC. His second attempt was Zach and "Liza."

I swear I read that somewhere and I'm almost certain it was on this board. If someone else can confirm that would be great. But yes, I agree with you completely.

It just screams of incompetence and mismanagement. The use of more sets was definitely one of the points brought up when they talked about the L.A. move.

They should have fired Carruthers when they had the chance.

I really wish I knew what happened with Pratt. Unfortunately, I don't have access to that information. One thing that really struck me though in the case with Pratt was AMC not winning the Emmy for best drama series. I really wonder if Frons was banking on him to get them the Emmy due to his tornado storyline and all the action and drama and the family's coming together scenes and when they lost, if some sort of tension started building between him and Frons and it all went downhill and lead to his termination or him quitting or whatever.

Either way regardless of what happened with Pratt, with AMC being so over budget and not doing well in key demos and if they are really having a problem with their advertising which is what I've been told, then that is a serious issue. Show business has always been show business and if the show isn't making the network money, even when they own the show, they will pull it, not matter how long it's been on or how iconic it is. When you can't afford it, it's gone.

And just looking at that, if you start to put the pieces together, the writing is on the wall. Besides, didn't AMC forget to rent a place to store their sets in LA and now they are in the same situation they were before when it came to striking down the sets back in NYC? How are they going to afford that?

Oh I read about the storage issues and that allegedly they had to rent some facility across town. Now how costly must that be.

The fact the show was close to being cancelled what 2 years ago speaks volumes. Nothing has really changed or improved in the past 2 years, they cut salaries, we know Susan Lucci took a big hit, the numbers stabalized but never really rebounded at all.

I stopped watching AMC for the most part about 5 years ago. I can't tell you that it was one event that caused it. I think I just realized I didn't have the time and didn't really enjoy the show as I used to and didn't recognize it. And I missed most of Zendall who I never could have watched as the centerpieces of this show.

Oh I read about the storage issues and that allegedly they had to rent some facility across town. Now how costly must that be.

The fact the show was close to being cancelled what 2 years ago speaks volumes. Nothing has really changed or improved in the past 2 years, they cut salaries, we know Susan Lucci took a big hit, the numbers stabalized but never really rebounded at all.

I stopped watching AMC for the most part about 5 years ago. I can't tell you that it was one event that caused it. I think I just realized I didn't have the time and didn't really enjoy the show as I used to and didn't recognize it. And I missed most of Zendall who I never could have watched as the centerpieces of this show.

Was it ever really confirmed AMC was almost cancelled 2 years ago? I mean if ABC wanted it gone, it would have been gone IMO.

so how do they handle the AMC bicoastal actors? Do they fly them out a couple days a month to film all their scenes for the month, pay for plane tickets, hotel rooms? I always wondered how that works

I don't doubt AMC is a logistical nightmare, but I do doubt that its on thin ice as we speak. I do believe the move to LA bought the show at least a year, perhaps two.

Sounds like the L.A. move is just a more glamourous version of GL's Peapack.

so how do they handle the AMC bicoastal actors? Do they fly them out a couple days a month to film all their scenes for the month, pay for plane tickets, hotel rooms? I always wondered how that works

For their big time stars like Lucci and Canary, I bet ABC is definitely paying every cent it cost to get them onto that set.

Was it ever really confirmed AMC was almost cancelled 2 years ago? I mean if ABC wanted it gone, it would have been gone IMO.

Perhaps the words were too harsh but there were rumblings about the show having financial difficulties leading to the huge salary cuts. I suspect this move to LA was probably planned long before anyone heard about it, perhaps around the time or soon after the salary cuts happened. If the move did not go as expected or they are already having budgetary issues, perhaps what they estimated they were going to save with the lowest costs in LA has been offset by relocation or travel costs for much of the staff. I don't really know just some assumptions. Or perhaps the costs are higher than they anticipated who knows.

There are so many more things ABC will do to save AMC, esp over OLTL.

The cast can be cut, almost in half, fairly easy to start.

the show can change its tape sch to far less, like days does.

True, but even though OLTL is miles better than AMC/GH, nobody knows the soap that much outside of daytime. You may find a few but not as many as the other two. I've seen this discussed to death in other threads, so I don't want to get into all that. AMC's cancellation or any other is a blow because as more and more soaps are cancelled, the hope for daytime dies a little with each long running soap's cancellation.

Nonsense.  The whole "name recognition" thing is a joke.  No TV show that's been on the air for 30, 40, 50 years is lacking in "name recognition."  At this point, anyone who's heard of any one soap currently on the air has heard of all of them. 

I read that AMC had the option of moving to Connecticut I think it was, but opt to go with LA. To think, they could have kept DC if they had.

Maybe the reason AMC is next to go cause they realized who DIDN'T want to write for AMC and who they wound up with. The LA move was just a band-aid on AMC.

I agree, the move is nothing but a band-aid. I don't see SL wanting to commute forever, nor VI. With DC leaving, it's going to be a HUGE blow. For some reason they don't want to ask Cady back full-time. JB is temporary.

I think GL being cancelled was the HUGE blow to daytime soaps. What's so special about AMC? It's been on less than GL was.

Several things. AMC has been more consistantly highly rated then GL which has had massive probs since the early 90s, it has far more name recognition, it's owned by ABC. I think, relatively speaking, it's a fairly different situation.

I dunno, call me a Polyanna but I think AMC is safe for at least a full year--then we can start worrying. I'm nto sure I even buy the original gossip here--K and Swajeski aren't very impressive but they're no less impressive than say hiring Brown and Esensten which was done several years back by frons and crew.

I don't buy either that the show was almost canceled two years back--budget cuts happened everywhere, but agree it shoulda marked the firing of JHC!

And didn't Canary ask to be let go or hint he was going to last year before the move news broke? That was one reason for the Stuart murder to lessen his load?

And didn't Canary ask to be let go or hint he was going to last year before the move news broke? That was one reason for the Stuart murder to lessen his load?

From what I've been told, DC cannot get out of his contract no sooner than March and there probably won't be any statement until about a week or so before he makes his exit.

Right which makes me think the fact they knew he wanted out even last year maybe bears some truth