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/

God, there's so many quirky or 'ethnic' characters like that who shows would sign and then forget about. Especially AMC.

Remember Lysistrata, who everyone liked but me? Oh, she's so quirky! Let's put her on a contract and have her flirt with Tad! I [!@#$%^&*] hated the Rayfield/Cascio era, it was Frons at the height of his 'remake the soap opera' powers, and she was so forced to me. OTOH, I loved Elizabeth Rodriguez as Carmen, and then they dropped her after bringing her back to PV. I don't think she got an exit.

They did do a fair bit with Adrian Sword, though, at least early on. I loved him. I remember a very strange scene with him and Cady McClain at a Martin family picnic where, though she was with Tad, she very definitely appeared to be hitting on him. It seemed to be in the script, but it was so random. And hot, and never spoken of again.

Ha, Lysistrata was one of the few things from Rayfield/Cascio I liked! But I liked Carmen too--she disappeared as soon as Pratt came in (I think she was last seen working at Casa Chandler and agreeing to a date with Jack).

But yeah AMC the past ten--I guess fifteen year had a lot of quirky characters who were never played out. I dunno if it was someones half-hearted to bring back more quirky or different characters like AMC was known for, and then someone else just gave up, or what.I think OLTL had it's share of similar situations though (I can't speak for many other soaps).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L1RvDzIm9EQ

I found her at 1:20

They could have had her and Opal run the glamorama or even with Myrtle at the boarding house. Regardless a friendship between Opal/Myrtle/Corinne would have been pretty cool.

I could have seen that--though it may have led to some lame story about Opal thinking she was a voodoo priestess (then again, Pratt practically made her one with her visions of blood pouring out of windows, etc, anyway).

The first half of that episode looks like someone told AMC to have more sex scenes--one between Tad and Liza and Pierce and Brooke within minutes of each other?

No offense, Eric, but I'm glad they have conveniently forgotten about Adrian. That was one of those situations where tying a new character to an older one didn't make me care suddenly about them. If anything, the revelation that he was Opal's son made me care even less, because I felt like Opal would not have been involved with a Black man at that period in her life.

Offence TAKEN! Seriously, I agree (although I'm not sure if trailer trash Opal would have been all that picky--especially if she was still drinking), it's a weird case of retconning where Larsen's Opalmade it work, but then you had to forget the history of the character.

When it came to quirky characters, AMC's writers had two things working against them: the fact that quirky characters are rarely portrayed by sexy and attractive actors, and the fact that quirky characters hardly ever make an electrifying first impression. If an actor didn't look like Cameron Mathison or Rebecca Budig, or if they didn't spark major talk on message boards and such, they were gone.

More than likely, Corinne would have ended up running some Afro-Caribbean restaurant and having frequent premonitions about characters in peril.

And JER would have petitioned to write for the show, and turned it into an early version of Passions!

I dunno Khan, I can totally imagine Dorothy Lyman's Opal knocking boots with a black dude one minute and swigging a beer and calling him a you know what the next.

When it came to quirky characters, AMC's writers had two things working against them: the fact that quirky characters are rarely portrayed by sexy and attractive actors, and the fact that quirky characters hardly ever make an electrifying first impression. If an actor didn't look like Cameron Mathison or Rebecca Budig, or if they didn't spark major talk on message boards and such, they were gone.

Right, a problem with soaps really from the mid 90s at least, on... And attempts (on DAYS, Passions, OLTL, that I can think of--AMC too to some extent) to have model looking people "disguise" themselves to try to act like character actors never work.

I wonder if Opal and Sam will still be an item in the reboot.

I dunno Khan, I can totally imagine Dorothy Lyman's Opal knocking boots with a black dude one minute and swigging a beer and calling him a you know what the next.

Yeah, I kinda could too... Which was my point.

Watching that 1996 episode, after watching several 1994 episodes, one other thing that's evident is--for whatever reason, the tone of the show is way more all over the map in 1996. From scene to scene, it's like a different show (one thing Schemering claimed some hated about AMC in the 70s and 80s, so maybe that in a way is more true to how the show was--albeit with more MTV editing like when Janet thinks of seeing the Pierce sex and looks at the axe), whereas the late McTavish/Behr era in '94 was, if anything, a bit too similar in tone from scene to scene but feels a bit more coherent.

I wonder if Opal and Sam will still be an item in the reboot.

I completely forgot about that!

Larsen just said on FB she's about to release a video message... maybe someone should ask her...

Watching the All My Children finale right now. Damn I miss this show SOOOOOOOO much!

If Jason Kincaid ends up a part of the new cast, I'll be stunned as hell.

So nice to see Winifred in the finale. Let's hope we see her again in the reboot.

Not sure who this is but she seems to have connections with AMC. She says they are also recasting Cassandra Foster.

https://www.facebook.com/RadBren13?ref=ts&fref=ts

She says there may be more recasts depending on contract negotiations.

Edited January 25, 201312 yr by alexisfan07

Well Erika sounds enthusiastic....that's good.

Connie Passalacqua Haymanposted toErika Slezak

14 hours ago

Can't wait to see you on my (computer screen!) Wishing you all the best with OLTL 2.0!

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  Erika Slezak Thanks, Connie- hope it all works out! All the best to you. Erika Slezak

  13 hours ago

I hate watching soapnet these days for reasons related to your post. For example, I hate how they have this "Peck-Tackular" campaign going. I know during the 80s and before they never hired Model-turned-actor types but hired real actors. This may be an unpopular opinion but I don't think the current soaps fit that stupid soapnet campaign unless each one followed Franklin and Ronald's OLTL idea and have male characters only appear in speedos (which I don't see on the remaining 4 soaps).

So the point I am trying to make is....

Why does SoapNet generalize all soaps and believe they are all fluff and have the same theme. Even though they are nothing compared to there former selves they are all still pretty unique!

Not sure who this is but she seems to have connections with AMC. She says they are also recasting Cassandra Foster.

https://www.facebook.com/RadBren13?ref=ts&fref=ts

She says there may be more recasts depending on contract negotiations.

That's awesome if true. I'm so sorry but I'm glad YaYa DaCosta won't be coming back. LOL.

So looks like Jessie & Angie's story could involve Cassandra. Again I really hope we get Frankie back & Natalia too.

Edited January 25, 201312 yr by AllMyDaysatGH

That's awesome if true. I'm so sorry but I'm glad YaYa DaCosta won't be coming back. LOL.

So looks like Jessie & Angie's story will involve Cassandra. Again I really hope we get Frankie back & Natalia too.

Yea I'm glad they're bringing the character back too and glad YaYa won't come back either, LOL. I didn't realize Cassandra was adopted by Angie, I thought she was her biological daughter. I hope Frankie and Natalia will be back but I have a feeling this news probably means they won't be. Natalia especially, Shannon Kane was basically out the door in the last year or so anyway. It would be nice to have Brot on canvas too.