Prospect Park Wants to Air AMC and OLTL On Cable Network

[Soapsuds]

Prospect Park Is not gonna announce who they are talking to. We will learn who IF & WHEN a deal is reached. The Opposite could mess up the deal

[JackPeyton]

AMC & OLTL do not fir on USA or BRAVO at all.

OWN wouldnt surprise me. "saving" them is a lot different than paying a license fee to air them

sort of.

PP is producing them/paying for them but ABC owns them still. PP is able to find them a home on cable tho. How ABC would fact into that, if at all, is unclear

[JaneAusten]

I agree that these shows do not fit on a USA, Bravo, even TNT. But I hesitate to say that I don't think they fit on what Orpah wants OWN to be which is to celebrate the human spirit, female empowerment, human potential, etc. With the misogny on todays soaps, I guess I am just missing how well they would fit her vision. ON the flip side Oprah and soaps have been together for years on the air so I can see the synergy there. INteresting to say that AMC is actually much better these days and aside from the soap cliched back from the dead nonsense, the rest of the stuff is not bad.

[SFK]

If you guys had it your way, on what cable channel and at what time would AMC and OLTL air? And is it just me, or does the idea of obtaining two hours of programming time from an established cable company almost seem like too much to ask for? If AMC and OLTL were sold/marketed as a package deal of two half hour shows, I for whatever reasons see that working into various cable channels' programming a lot easier. Sort of a twin set, like the numerous hour blocks of two 30 min. sitcom episodes in syndication. Your thoughts?

[All My Shadows]

My first instinct would be to say Hallmark Channel, but I don't know if AMC would really fit there. I'm gonna take a moment to pimp my neverending dream of ATWT movies on Hallmark Channel.

But anyway, I guess the perfect set up for me would be having AMC on OWN in its regular noon timeslot *watches the east coasters roll their eyes at "noon"* With an encore at 10pm or something. I don't use the other soap listed.

[MichaelGL]

ABC Family or my greatest hope Lifetime. I would assume that the new AMC and OLTL, after each show departs ABC, would resemble some of the shows currently on both networks. Yes, some shows on ABC Family do tend to go for a younger audience, but I don't the network would be against adopting a few more dramas.

[Eric83]

I could see them on Lifetime at 4pm/5pm and repeated again at Midnight/1am.

[dragonflies]

I don't see them airing on Lifetime, they don't remotely seem interested in soaps.

Honestly it's hard to picture a cable network interested in airing soaps, except maybe Fox or the CW

[Soapsuds]

If they dont get picked up by cable the soaps dont stand a chance online with all the costs Errol mentioned in his piece.

[KMan101]

There's also the struggling Oxygen network (I hate their branding, tho ugh) or WEtv. I don't know where else I could see them, unfortunately.

[dragonflies]

So PP would be paying the licensing fees or would the network that picks them up have to do that?

I figured that from the get go. IMO they should have tried the cable option before anything and online be a last resort

[JaneAusten]

I think the online option allowed them to get the government funding they needed. If not for that would they have gotten that grant they got? And seeing how our federal government loves to throw money around at a lot of unproductive ventures, I can see PP getting a ton of grant money. NOt that I don't think online development is not a good idea but I could certainly think of better things the US government could throw a few hundred

million dollars at or even a few million.

[IcyOne]

Didn't Lifetime once vow to never air daytime soap opera's? Oxygen, We and maybe TV Land are the only cable networks offhand that I can imagine these two shows airing on.

[dragonflies]

Nope definitely won't be TV Land

Dunno about Oxygen & WE, maybe, but IMO it's a HUGE maybe

[DCY]

What about TNT since they know drama.