Members Sylph Posted December 2, 2010 Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted December 2, 2010 Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 So they left the soap business to get all Hallmark Hall of Fame/RHI on our asses. I really, really wonder if they ever approached Hallmark about doing something for GL and ATWT. Three or four TV movies a year continuing the shows (and maybe even doing an AW movie) is something I could have been behind 100%. Cutting them all up and shaving them all down for Lifetime? Not so much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted December 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 BAM. My work here is done. That's exactly the reaction I was hoping this would get. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted December 2, 2010 Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 What other reaction would you expect? I mean...anyone with half a brain can figure out that's exactly what happened. Their leaving the soap business might not have been entirely in their hands, but it's the choice they made, and this is also a choice they're making. I'm not knocking them, I'm just connecting the dots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted December 2, 2010 Author Members Share Posted December 2, 2010 No, I thought people would think of it as too cliched a reaction so wouldn't write it down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mr. Vixen Posted December 5, 2010 Members Share Posted December 5, 2010 THIS i would have loved. It would have been great. A few two hours a movies a year to keep us up on what everyone is doing? Perfect. And they could easily have made it appeal to all audiences. I mean they could explain things through dialogue, flashback, etc. And have the movie appeal to not only all of us soap fans, but to all the network viewers. I mean look at Sex and the City. I know countless people who never saw the show, saw the first movie, and then got into the series. It would have been very do-able. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted December 6, 2010 Members Share Posted December 6, 2010 I think movies or moving expensive 50+ year old soaps to cable networks were bonehead ideas which is what killed GL and ATWT's chances. Passions worked because it was much younger and cheaper and even then DirecTV didn't want it (even though it did well). Fans and the people in charge should've been pursuing a spin-off of either series. Take a few popular characters, set it somewhere else and go from there. That way you can play off the fact that you have a primetime spin off of either show, but it's also a new show thats accessible to new viewers. And of course I mean in a primetime format as well. A 13 episode order is easier to stomach than a 200+ episode order. I wish some of the writers on these shows had buckled down and thought up interesting spin-off's. Maybe even a pilot could be shot (especially for GL which leased Peapack an extra year) for Lifetime or Hallmark to consider. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted December 6, 2010 Members Share Posted December 6, 2010 P&G shows used to have a standard of quality and excellence. If these TV-movies are as cheap as they let their soaps become, then they are never going to amount to a lot more than something burned off on a third rate cable channel at 9 in the morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted December 6, 2010 Members Share Posted December 6, 2010 The Hallmark audience is basically the same as the ATWT audience was (in numbers and in age), so I think putting out maybe one or two movies within a year of the show's cancellation would have been a plausible scenario. Instead of hoping ratings are good enough to continue producing new episodes on a daily or weekly basis, they can toss out a movie here and there to keep the stories going. Three storylines per movie linked together by family or other connection (for example, Holden and Lily have some romance drama, Lucinda and John get into some sort of adventure, and Luke meets a new guy). They wouldn't have to do them indefinitely, but if they were satisfied with the performance, they could keep putting them out as long as they could. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted March 7, 2011 Author Members Share Posted March 7, 2011 http://www.deadline.com/2011/03/pg-and-walmart-team-for-another-family-friendly-tv-moviebackdoor-pilot-on-nbc/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted March 9, 2011 Members Share Posted March 9, 2011 Sounds like boring s hit! Just like what most of GL and ATWT were at the end of their runs. P&G is pure [!@#$%^&*] now! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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