Members dragonflies Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 Yeah I wonder if people outside the US will be able to watch A tweet from Kristian Alfonso: KJAlfonso Kristian Alfonso This is fantastic news !!!RT @Ali_Sweeney: WOW!!! RT @SoapDigest: AMC/OLTL To Continue: It's Official! soapoperadigest.com/content/amcolt… Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members CCCapwell Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 This has the potential to bring soaps into the 21st Century. No online soap has been able to achieve mainstream status, AMC and OLTL can be the first as the first soaps to transition to online, much like soaps successfully transitioned from radio to television. It may just be its television cancelations is something that will be looked back on as something that saved the genre as it allowed both to transition online and start the era of the online broadcast soap opera. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wingwalker Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 With it moving online, if they really want to make money and get people watching, they should have some of the hotter stars dude nude scenes. I bet everyone would tune in and willing to pay then. I can see FV/RC turning OLTL into a gay prono Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 Which is precisely why we need them REPLACED. Have fun in Port Chuckles Ron! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Melroser Posted July 7, 2011 Members Share Posted July 7, 2011 IF PP has the rights and are in charge, then wouldn't FV/RC still be under contract with ABC...not PP? Just like the actors contracts are all up and have to be renegotiated? I don't mind FV staying...but I think new writers/directors are needed for a whole new feel for OL. Maybe some non-daytimers would help! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dragonflies Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2011/07/07/wall-street-journaldeal-give-prospect-park-rights-to-amc-oltl-for-over-a-decade-abc-to-ma If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense. More deets are becoming available about Prospect Park's game-changing licensing deal with ABC to continue producing All My Children and One Life to Live online and via other platforms. The Wall Street Journal is reporting the pact gives the production company/media company/soap saviors exclusive rights to AMC and OLTL for over a decade and that ABC stands to rake in millions in royalties! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 Someone should be proud of her hard work Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 First of all, ABC should have explored an option like this before announcing cancellation. They would have saved themselves a ton of bad press if they had. Second of all...Jamey really needs to f!ckin stop with the desperate ass attempts to be hip in his writing. He wants to be Perez so damn bad, which is tragic all by itself, but with the desperate language? Aye dios mio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 OMFG Cheap, you know damn well which thread those vids belonged in! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AllMyDaysatGH Posted July 8, 2011 Author Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 Omg I *LOVED* all of their videos! Please register in order to view this content Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 I dont think RC or FV are heading online with OLTL. They will both probably head to GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 All I can say right now is barring some sort of PSSNS-style debacle, I'm insanely happy and proud of the genre. No, these shows will not be what we knew, but I suspect people like Lucci, Slezak and Strasser would work for wooden nickels to appear. I'm sure they'd likely be relegated to recurring bits along with other such vets like Knight, Woods and Smith, and maybe Howarth and DePaiva though I'm not holding my breath there. The question is how much would be retained of the younger people. You'd have to focus on the younger generations, assuming you're keeping that stuff. How much stays, how much is new? I somehow doubt Melissa Archer would refuse an invitation to be OLTL's new Lord lead; John could of course have died horribly during the switch-over to online. Eddie Alderson is almost certainly not staying on, he's got too big a career ahead of him. Either recast Matthew or see if Austin Williams, who's very good, wants to hang around - dump the Rex/Gigi baggage and just focus in on Shane being the illegitimate, unlikely Buchanan heir lost in a big house. Find a new Rachel Gannon and introduce more diversity around her, find yet another Joey Buchanan, maybe, use Kevin. Recast Jessica and forget she ever had DID. And that would probably be it from the past, I suspect, if even that, other than adding new Woleks, Halls, new families. But that's all to think about later. It's an exciting new frontier. The shows would have to reconstitute themselves around towns, families, locations, workplaces like the two papers - and you know, that's what they should be doing. Okay, cut them down to 15-30 minutes, and let scenes of dialogue and character run 3-5 minutes - at least - again. Why not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members marceline Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 I'm not seeing all this negativity people are talking about. I'm seeing people with legitimate concerns even if I don't agree with them. Maybe it's because I'm usually one of the "negative" ones but I see where these people are coming from. After years of being degraded, manipulated and taken for granted while the shows have been systematically destroyed, it makes sense for fans to be wary. Look at it this way, after all those years with Ike how long do you think it took for Tina to learn that love doesn't mean getting your ass kicked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wingwalker Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 It was mostly meant as a joke. But I do hope, with them moving online, AMC & OLTL can be a little more daring in some their stories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted July 8, 2011 Members Share Posted July 8, 2011 I had the exact same thought. I would fully welcome an emphasis on youth if the focus was more topical and less vapid. Degrassi Jr. High had for the most part sh!t actors who were by no means Kohl's models but damn if the viewing experience wasn't gripping and great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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