AMC and OLTL Canceled! Part 2!

[John]

Well The minium for 60 min soap actors is 931.00 but most newbies get 1000.00 an episode. I wonder If PP wanted the Minium lowered what they wanted it lowered to?

[GregNYC]

My guess is that PP wanted the minimum lowered. IMO, it should be lowered. A web based soap cannot afford to pay the salaries of a television program and still be profitable.

[John]

Yeah but you dont want it too lowered if you follow me. Theres gotta be a good balance in it all

[R Sinclair]

I think I just had a mini orgasm!

[DaytimeFan]

First this...

And then this...

Finally summed up by this...

Actually, you have. You have inferred multiple times that if Susan Lucci had agreed to the venture more investors would have been interested. That is placing blame on Prospect Park's lack of investors on Susan Lucci. The very same Susan Lucci who released a detailed public statement, breaking down her communications with Prospect Park, communications that ceased, from Prospect Park's side, on September 8th.

Furthermore, Prospect Park DID release a statement that placed blame on the unions when it said "After five months of negotiations with various guilds...While we narrowed in on a financial infrastructure, the contractual demands of the guilds, which regulate our industry, coupled with the program’s inherent economic challenges ultimately led to this final decision." BULLSHIT they didn't place blame on the guilds.

[All My Shadows]

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[chyti]

John, do you have any info on these offers that ABC rejected because they all could have been weak offers, maybe ABC doesn't want to relinquish their rights. The fact that Andy Cohen of Bravo took a look at the budgets means nothing this is hollywood things like that happen all the time.

[Marco Dane]

Whats up with these cryptic messages

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[John]

I said Susan Lucci defintley having intrest in AMC through PP could help Get Investors I never said it would get investors

If U read PP's statement againit says because of economics and the contractts and Guilds it proved difficult. They gave equal weight to everything. They did not say The Unions were at 100% fault but they are partly to blame. They wanted the online versions to be on par with broadcast minimums which is 931.00 an episode. IMHO thats too much, the minimums needed to be lowered to see profit. So AFTRA said they would be willing to talk but talking without reaching middle grounds does nothing. Plus WGA said they were closer to a deal so PP must have been talking to them

I am friends with some soap bloggers who told me that ABC got offers from others with far more money & experience than PP has. That some wanted to do reboots. Some wanted 13 week arcs. All turned down by ABC

And as Hilary B Smith Tweeted when some asked was this fake/a ruse. She said No. ABC Picked this deal because it was the net

To clarify I dont believe in everything soap bloggers write but the ones that told me this I believe because their actions have shown me they have the sources to back this up

My source who is in the soap media told me ABC had offers from Companies with more money & experience than PP but they were turned down

[DaytimeFan]

Right. So in fact you can't refute a single issue I have raised. Perfect. Thank you. All ambient noise at this point.

[dragonflies]

+1

+1

[R Sinclair]

:lol: Now that's funny. Either someone's looking in the mirror or they just don't get it.

[Khan]

Which is a damn shame, IMO. Unless these actors (not just from OLTL, but from AMC, AS THE WORLD TURNS and GUIDING LIGHT as well) no longer care to work, I'd love to see them again in just about anything (except porn, which would be sad and kind of gross).

[Khan]

$200 and some pizza coupons?

[JONNYSBRO]

At the end of the day ABC wants these soaps gone. They are done and the death march will continue till each one is picked off until the last ones. Honestly IMO soaps can return someday but they will never return in this current form. This FORM is done forever. It makes ZERO FINANCIAL SENSE. ABC is happy the Chew keeps going up in viewers. Its only 100,000 behind AMC on a much cheaper budget. ABC just wants to improve their BOTTOM LINE and it sucks Frons gets the vindication but in the end we won't be vindicted it will be Sweeney/Frons who will spew out facts/numbers why cancelling soaps brought them DINERO to the network.