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/

So will ratings be replaced with site hits (i.e., ad dollars) in this new scenario? Theoretically, could PP do these shows indefinitely as long as the money is there and ABC continues to renew their licensing?

So will ratings be replaced with site hits (i.e., ad dollars) in this new scenario? Theoretically, could PP do these shows indefinitely as long as the money is there and ABC continues to renew their licensing?

That is always how it read to me

I'm amazed your grandma had the patience to put up with GL in its later years.

Mama Khan sure didn't. At a certain point, she walked away, in a sense, and started watching Y&R instead. Grandma Khan as well (once GL had been axed). It isn't the same, though.

Speaking of GL, I'm watching ol' H.B. on Alfred Hitchcock presents right now.

Pretty much. She'll turn 96 next week. I don't know whether she followed GUIDING LIGHT from the very beginning, but I do recall her talking about when the show still was on radio. So, you see, P&G, you didn't just cancel a soap opera. You cancelled something that, for families such as mine, was equivalent to a family heirloom, passed from one generation to the next. (I really wanted to write for that damn show, too, not just because I thought it'd be a great gig, but because I felt it important to contribute something to a show that had contributed so much to our family. Damn. Just...damn.)

I Still think Obama or someone should have gave it some sort of recognition. Not a "Soap Bailout" but some gratitude. Hell, it was an institution that inspired so many great shows. I think if it wasn't for GL we wouldn't have the Prime Time shows as well. From the way I look at it:

Irna Created GL in 1937

Agnes got her track record from GL and used her experience to create her own shows (AMC/OLTL)

AMC was popular with the younger people which may have promp't either GM or TPTB to create L&L on GH to cash in on the younger audience.

Dallas (OK, KL was first the way AMC was first) and was inspired by AMC/GH

I know that seems like a long shot but I do think GL changed the home entertainment industry as a whole.

Ok now that we have WGA deal who would u like as HW for AMC & OLTL. I for one hope PP asks Ron Carlivati to consult on the OLTL reboot at least at the beginning for Transition. I am sure Agnes Nixon will have input on both shows.

Edited January 12, 201312 yr by John

Instead of going through AMC, I would say Irna --> GL ---->Another World inspired Dallas ... The Ewings are actually named after the Ewings from Another World, fact.

In a "perfect" world, one where I felt all this to be 100-percent legit, and writers actually would be clamoring for the opportunity, Jeff Beldner, Bettina F. Bradbury, Hal Corley, Susan Dansby, Karen Lewis, Patrick Mulcahey, Lynda Myles, Michelle Patrick, Courtney Simon and Michele Val Jean would be on AMC 2.0's writing staff, with Mulcahey and/or Corley serving as HW.

Edited January 12, 201312 yr by Khan

My wish list is Carlivati for OLTL, and Richard Culliton, Lorraine Broderick, or David Kreizman for AMC. Since the show is going to have the Castillos, no one knows them better than Kreizman and Donna Swajeski. But this wish list is not going to happen, alas. So I'll just be happy if they keep Jean Passanante away from both shows.

Ok now that we have WGA deal who would u like as HW for AMC & OLTL. I for one hope PP asks Ron Carlivati to consult on the OLTL reboot at least at the beginning for Transition. I am sure Agnes Nixon will have input on both shows.

In a "perfect" world, one where I felt all this to be 100-percent legit, and writers actually would be clamoring for the opportunity, Jeff Beldner, Bettina F. Bradbury, Hal Corley, Susan Dansby, Karen Lewis, Patrick Mulcahey, Lynda Myles, Michelle Patrick, Courtney Simon and Michele Val Jean would be on AMC 2.0's writing staff, with Mulcahey and/or Corley serving as HW.

Good list Khan. What about OLTL?

I think PP could get current Breakdown & script writers to Join esp if they have or want HW exp.

Edited January 12, 201312 yr by John

Another reason NOT to watch nuAMC

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Jordi Vilasuso just announced on SOAP CENTRAL LIVE that he has signed on with new #AMC.

Pick a chair. Have a seat*.

* -- If needed, have several seats.

Pretty much. She'll turn 96 next week. I don't know whether she followed GUIDING LIGHT from the very beginning, but I do recall her talking about when the show still was on radio. So, you see, P&G, you didn't just cancel a soap opera. You cancelled something that, for families such as mine, was equivalent to a family heirloom, passed from one generation to the next. (I really wanted to write for that damn show, too, not just because I thought it'd be a great gig, but because I felt it important to contribute something to a show that had contributed so much to our family. Damn. Just...damn.)

I don't know when she started watching it, but my great aunt (who died nearly a year ago) watched ATWT for years and years and was shocked when I told her it had been cancelled and would be off the air in a matter of months back in 2010. The final episode aired less than a month before her 95th birthday. She died about a year and a half later.

Khan's left the janitorial staff to handle OLTL, since he wrote it off as a lost cause after the glory days of 1982.

Edited January 12, 201312 yr by Vee

Nothing aganist Jen Pepperman but given that PP picked Ginger Smith who has been with AMC since 1988 as EP, Im surprised They didnt pick Suzanne Flynn as OLTL EP. SF had over 20 years of producing OLTL when it was on ABC

I only had one problem with Griffin. That was him and Kendall together. Don't think that'll happen this time. So, I'm not upset that he signed on.