WTF!!!!!

EXCLUSIVE: Here is a great holiday gift for soap fans: I’ve learned that Prospect Park has revived its plan to continue cancelled ABC daytime dramas All My Children and One Life To Live online. I hear the company behind USA hit Royal Pains has inked deals with SAG-AFTRA and DGA for the soaps’ production, eyed to begin in the first quarter of 2013.

http://www.deadline....ine-web-series/

I've had that in my head for years. I saw a version on Youtube with a photo of Stephanie looking like she was booted off Solid Gold, but that's gone now, apparently.

For years I have wondered if she is saying that J. Paul Getty is "a bitch that has got potential." That's very different for circa 1981.

For years I have wondered if she is saying that J. Paul Getty is "a bitch that has got potential." That's very different for circa 1981.

. Actually, Carl, I think Stephanie Mills is saying it's a gig that's got potential.

I've wondered, though, why it was replaced with "My Life," when I thought the original theme fit the show so much better.

Edited January 10, 201312 yr by Khan

I never knew if that or the Billy Joel My Life came first. Interesting.

"Gig" makes more sense, but I think I prefer my version.

lol I was here but I couldn't even be bothered to post. I just can't anymore

Ive been biting my tongue so to speak and keeping it moving lately. Don't want people to get too offended or sick of me...lol

how many naps do you take in a day then?

Sorry ya'll, I couldn't help myself. I'll go back to being good now

The reason why I take so many naps is because I have depression plus this new PP news is overly stimulating. The one thing that helps is Soap Boys Nene fetish. I don't watch reality shows so I have a folder full of screenshots he posts.

Has anyone read the latest Soaps Uncensored??

No. As I don't want to give Nelson $2.50, can you summarize it please? (or does Nelson make you sign a contract not to reveal the contents...)

In this thread people were mentioning people who came to soaps from outside of the soap world--I had forgotten about Victor Miller who was an associate HW and breakdown writer at AMC many times (as well as other soaps, I think--he did tend to become associated working with McTavish but also wrote during some major periods). I always wondered what led him to soaps in 1984--he's best known for his horror fiction and screenplays (including the original Friday the 13th script--hardly a masterpiece which would lead me to see him as a soap scribe, but I assume he must make decent royalties as he always gets screen credit for creating Jason).

Edited January 11, 201312 yr by EricMontreal22

I've had that in my head for years. I saw a version on Youtube with a photo of Stephanie looking like she was booted off Solid Gold, but that's gone now, apparently.

For years I have wondered if she is saying that J. Paul Getty is "a bitch that has got potential." That's very different for circa 1981.

Now I'm wondering why it's labeled as the DVD/Syndicated version and what was different originally. (And I knew opening credits used to be much longer, but wow...)

I never knew if that or the Billy Joel My Life came first. Interesting.

"Gig" makes more sense, but I think I prefer my version.

Ah so that must have been the original? *to answer my own question*

No. As I don't want to give Nelson $2.50, can you summarize it please? (or does Nelson make you sign a contract not to reveal the contents...)

In this thread people were mentioning people who came to soaps from outside of the soap world--I had forgotten about Victor Miller who was an associate HW and breakdown writer at AMC many times (as well as other soaps, I think--he did tend to become associated working with McTavish but also wrote during some major periods). I always wondered what led him to soaps in 1984--he's best known for his horror fiction and screenplays (including the original Friday the 13th script--hardly a masterpiece which would lead me to see him as a soap scribe, but I assume he must make decent royalties as he always gets screen credit for creating Jason).

I havent read it. I hoped someone else had!

I just read this from Paul Lee, ABC's Entertainment President

"Thrilled to see General Hospital rocking and rolling in the afternoon" and "Soap is one of the great genres…It not more valuable or less valuable than is procedural or others, but I think we do soap operas particularly well"

There are no words to describe my Disgust.

Edited January 11, 201312 yr by allmc2008

How can he even pluralize "soap opera" in that sentence. He prob thinks that ABC is tops because of shows like Grey's Anatomy and Revenge being what he calls soaps or something (and don't get me started on Revenge this year...)

In this thread people were mentioning people who came to soaps from outside of the soap world--I had forgotten about Victor Miller who was an associate HW and breakdown writer at AMC many times (as well as other soaps, I think--he did tend to become associated working with McTavish but also wrote during some major periods). I always wondered what led him to soaps in 1984--he's best known for his horror fiction and screenplays (including the original Friday the 13th script--hardly a masterpiece which would lead me to see him as a soap scribe, but I assume he must make decent royalties as he always gets screen credit for creating Jason).

IIRC, Victor Miller explained on his website how then-ABCD VP Jackie Smith had asked him to come work at ONE LIFE TO LIVE after reading or hearing about some tie-in novelizations he had written for various TV shows.

Edited January 11, 201312 yr by Khan

Thanks Khan! Interesting to know...

I have one OLTL novelisation from 1987--part of a soap opera related romance novel line, with zero author credit, and it's pretty bad. Maybe he should have written it. (The earlier three AMC ones from Rosemarie Santini from Jove paperback read like Henry James in comparison).

I have one OLTL novelisation from 1987--part of a soap opera related romance novel line, with zero author credit, and it's pretty bad.

Well, it was the best my eight-year-old self could do! What did you expect? William Faulkner?

Disgust about what, that he mentioned GH in a POSITIVE way, that's more than anyone else has done in the last decade

Edited January 11, 201312 yr by dragonflies

Not sure if posted but here goes