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/

Heck I'd even take back Maya & Mookie and yes Mookie. Although he would need to get a name change. Say that was merely a nickname and give him a normal first name as they reinvent him

I liked those two, I'm all for that. I saw Mookie on something else the other day, I forget what, but a primetime series.

I'd say bring back Reggie too but I wonder if he mostly just worked because of MBJ.

I think Reggie could definitely work recast. MBJ's work has really grown post-AMC anyway.

Recast Reggie with Keiko Eilsworth

I'd say bring back Reggie too but I wonder if he mostly just worked because of MBJ.

I've wondered that too but after all these years I think another talented actor could make that character his own. Look at what Cornelius did with Frankie Hubbard. I'd really like to see a couple of young, talented black actors take on the characters of Reggie and Jamal. That could be an awesome rivalry between them as Livia's and Jack's sons, especially with Dani thrown into the mix having to negotiate between her ex and her cousin. There's so much story there.

Damn. I guess I just jumped down the rabbit hole, huh?

Edited December 30, 201212 yr by marceline

noooooo Marceline, resist, resist

Well we've been talking about this for 27 pages, so we're all fools.

I haven't really missed "AMC" (I think it was just too many years of bad writing including LB's last hoorah) and I wish there would be a longer break before a relaunch because I don't want to get sucked back in.

My personal feelings aside, if it happens ... good!

It is suspect that Prospect Park starts a big effort to relaunch the show when it's rumored they were about to lose rights to both shows due to long-term inactivity.

I am sure Italy would help finance. They are A-list celebs over there arent they?

Yes, Italy is the number one show for backing in a foreign market, but the show has been hurt by Susan Flannery and Ronn Moss' departures.

Jackson Montgomery aint sh-t. It would be a wise decision to leave that character in the dust

HOLLA.

"Tonja Walker ‏@Tonjawalker

Y'll r so wonderful! It'll B great 2B back in your living rooms, on OLTL, Straight Talk, both! Can't tell u how much your support means 2me".

"Tonja Walker ‏@Tonjawalker

Y'll r so wonderful! It'll B great 2B back in your living rooms, on OLTL, Straight Talk, both! Can't tell u how much your support means 2me".

Hmmm......I guess that means she's coming back to OLTL. Well good for her....I always liked her.

I want to be on the writing staff for AMC. Just thought I'd let you know.

B&B is still popular around the world, but the licensing fee from CBS has shrunk significantly over the last 10 years. The remote budget is completely gone, and if the show doesn't come in budget for in studio work, it comes out of the Bells' pockets.

The Bells would try to produce the show even if cancelled by CBS, but since it would be all Bell money, they would most likely need to reduce the number of shows produced in a year and sell strictly to a foreign market

This is a bit of an exaggeration. B&B went to Australia a could years back and just this year spent a few weeks in Italy. How is the remote budget gone? In addition they go on location almost ever week. Not only with the regular trips to Aspen, but around LA. B&B is the best produced soap by a mile. Brad Bell was smart to make the exteriors for the homes on the show the same as homes he owned and also using the CBS lot for Forrester scenes. I feel they've modernized B&B, but still can mix the old music cues in with new ones and it still feels expensive. Y&R could learn a lot from it, same with these Prospect Park soaps.

I feel like if Prospect Park really wants to sell these soaps, they have to modernize them. We already know sets will be different, so instead of making everything look cheap and small, do something different. Look at the UK soaps and build a standing exterior set that you can use, in addition to the indoor sets. There is so much potential, but in the end I see us getting watered down versions of the ABC shows when they should be trying to modernize them and reboot.

Well we've been talking about this for 27 pages, so we're all fools.

Shut yo mouth.

I want to be on the writing staff for AMC. Just thought I'd let you know.

What storylines do you have in mind?

This is a bit of an exaggeration. B&B went to Australia a could years back and just this year spent a few weeks in Italy. How is the remote budget gone? In addition they go on location almost ever week. Not only with the regular trips to Aspen, but around LA. B&B is the best produced soap by a mile. Brad Bell was smart to make the exteriors for the homes on the show the same as homes he owned and also using the CBS lot for Forrester scenes. I feel they've modernized B&B, but still can mix the old music cues in with new ones and it still feels expensive. Y&R could learn a lot from it, same with these Prospect Park soaps.

I feel like if Prospect Park really wants to sell these soaps, they have to modernize them. We already know sets will be different, so instead of making everything look cheap and small, do something different. Look at the UK soaps and build a standing exterior set that you can use, in addition to the indoor sets. There is so much potential, but in the end I see us getting watered down versions of the ABC shows when they should be trying to modernize them and reboot.

It isn't an exaggeration - the budget - below and above the line started a significant downhill slide about seven years ago when CBS reduced their licensing fee for B&B. The show does not have a remote budget as a separate item in their budget anymore, it is taken out of the overall budget, which Brad badly manages. It is because there is more of blur between below and above the line costs - that Susan Flannery and Ronn Moss walked out the door because the show has less overall to payout when the remotes eat into the budget.

The Italy remotes are paid, in part, by the television stations, which air the program over there - therefore, still making it feasible. All that said, the show has also still declined in foreign markets over the last ten years as well.

I think Jackson could be a viable character if they gave him a decent love interest, brought back Lily and Reggie and bulked up his professional life.

I agree. I like Jack and WW actually. I would love to get Lily and Reggie back(recast obviously). Between that and running against Liza for DA (imagine that dogfight?) Jack could have plenty to do(even more if you include Greenlee).