No Offense But Nelson is well known for embellishing most of his reports. Take it with a grain of salt. We dont even know if PP is still pursuing the shows. That Variety article seemed way off

Edited December 9, 201114 yr by John

Oh I know, I just think it's entertaining tabloid reporting. I'm of the mindset these shows are not coming back, so I don't expect anything to happen with any of this stuff, but it is fun to read. We have nothing else to talk about so we may as well. The most i'm hoping for are DVDs.

An account (with pictures!) of Agnes Nixon's appearance at Harvard on Tuesday (apologies if this has already been posted):

http://imasoapfan.tumblr.com/post/13882969787/agnes-nixon-honored-at-harvard

A couple of particularly interesting sections:

**Nixon also mentioned that the Prospect Park venture fell apart since they did not have the money in place or the agreements with the unions (both essential factors). Prospect Park had proposed moving the shows to Canada to cut costs, but when they were asked about the American actors, they had said they would recast. Most of the room was dumbfounded hearing that.

When asked about whether an alternate ending existed for All My Children (inferred from the TV Line interview with Chrishell Stause), Nixon and Broderick commented that the ending was reworked five times. First they wrote the ending, then ABC gave then 2 hours for the finale so it was expanded. Then when Prospect Park came into the picture, Nixon came up with the cliffhangers. Someone suggested a “Who shot JR?” cliffhanger, but she didn’t want it to be a copy of Dallas, so she thought a twist on the story would be good, and decided to create a “Who did JR shoot?” cliffhanger. She also developed the “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn” cliffhanger for Erica and Jackson, mentioning that she’s always felt Erica is the great-great-great-great-great granddaughter of Scarlet O’Hara. Incorporating these cliffhangers required Broderick and Nixon to go back and re-work five weeks of script to develop JR’s hatred for the five different characters shown before the gunshot and final cut. Broderick said that when Prospect Park came into the picture, ABC took away one of their hours for the finale, leaving a 1-hour finale. The finale episode now had to include the cliffhangers along with trimmed down scenes that they had originally planned for the 2-hour finale.

Thank you for sharing this! I love real information.

I guess I had blocked out the Indian gifted 2 hr. finale once the PP plans were popping. You can really sense how well that extra hour would have been utilized, the whole party could and should have spanned an hour.

I wish I could have been in that room when they dropped the recasting bomb.

Edited December 10, 201114 yr by SFK

Thanks for posting that, LeClerc...so interesting reading what was and what was supposed to go down. I am so upset that ABC took that extra hour away for AMC...why? I don't understand why they'd take it away all because of Prospect Park.

If they had recast each show completely, most would have ran far far away. Thanks for finding that account of the event with Agnes.

Been absent around these parts for a while, but I would like to chime in on this. I called this months ago that the finale would be screwed up due to PP and that I was doubltful PP would even get off the ground. So, now my worst fears came true that we were gypped out of a true finale that would do this show justice. Instead we were left with a bunch of silly cliffhangers. I've made peace with it, it just irks me the fans were jerked around like this, again. The moving to Canada and recast thing is just mind boggling. Mind boggling.

wow, this is so asking for the obvious reply.

obvious reply is not obvious?

**Nixon also mentioned that the Prospect Park venture fell apart since they did not have the money in place or the agreements with the unions (both essential factors). Prospect Park had proposed moving the shows to Canada to cut costs, but when they were asked about the American actors, they had said they would recast. Most of the room was dumbfounded hearing that.

What's even worse about that is how PP assured fans via several articles that the cast would remain intact. I mean, it makes sense to cut costs and at least they seemed to be thinking about it, but they also seemed to be playing a two-faced game of saying they wanted the original cast and talking to several of them, while making plans to do otherwise.

i think this may of been idea at the beginning that never took shape

What's even worse about that is how PP assured fans via several articles that the cast would remain intact. I mean, it makes sense to cut costs and at least they seemed to be thinking about it, but they also seemed to be playing a two-faced game of saying they wanted the original cast and talking to several of them, while making plans to do otherwise.

Well it's like I've said, ad nauseum, about Prospect Park, they're scum.

"She spoke to John Danelle, an African-American actor who played Dr. Frank Grant, about her concern. He suggested that at the end of the story, his character should beat up the pimp (named Tyrone) using his karate skills."

LMAO, I wonder if this was nearly as funny as I'm imagining. That is so '70s.

Edited December 11, 201114 yr by SFK

Why am I continually amazed at how inept PP are? Wow, they keep exceeding my expectations with their stupidity.

I know the feeling.

Here's some insight into the govt. funding of online projects. Look's like "Diary of A Single Mom" received money.

Through the federal economic stimulus program, a company owned by actor-director Robert Townsend was paid more than $230,000 to produce and direct the Web-based show, records show. Other production costs on the show paid to different vendors total more than $700,000.

The money came through an award by the Department of Commerce to One Economy Corp. for more than $28 million last year to help boost broadband Internet service in underserved areas across the country.

One Economy is using more than $1.5 million of that money to create programming such as “Diary of a Single Mom,” which the group says will help provide an incentive for people to connect to the Internet.

Here's a better one:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2011/dec/1/online-soap-opera-cleans-up-with-stimulus-broadban/

Here's the original article I read:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/online-soap-opera-starring-billy-dee-williams-received-stimulus-cash/

Edited December 11, 201114 yr by nell17