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/

Long-time OLTL AD/Stage Manager Tracy Casper Long blogs about fellow director Jill Mitwell's win for the final ABC episode and a few of her memories of working at OLTL.....

http://notwashedupyet.blogspot.com/2013/02/directing-team.html?spref=fb

Of all the soaps I've watched in 30+ years, OLTL was the most female dominated and ES seems to take real pride in that. For the last 20 years Todd was the only real male star there.

You're welcome. And yes I agree....Erika gets it. In many ways it was their love/hate relationship that created so much drama and drove the show for so many years.

Yeah....

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by TeamEric

Is the contracts being pending anything to worry about? Also, why still no new AMC casting news (of returnees -- is this it?), and no full AMC writing team? Are they waiting for a writer's contract to end on another show?

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by jfung79

LMAO. I'm not even going to ask how you got "free" cable. That's kind of awesome tho. Thanks for the link. Now the only thing left is the big sporting events and I'm set to go "cordless" too. Unfortunately until the Super Bowl and March Madness are available streaming? I can't. HBOgo and Maxgo also have so much more to choose from than my HBO On Demand does. I've loved it, and really enjoy watching on my tablet. My one problem is, now my family can all be sitting in the same room together . . . with our headphones on and watching different things. I guess that's better than all being in separate rooms watching different things, but it's kind of isolating at times. I look up, and we're all there, but not.

You need to get something like apple tv, a ps3, or maybe even a roku box. They have apps kinda like the ipad that you can watch stuff on the tv, like netflix, hulu plus, etc.. or you can hook your comp up to the tv and use the tv basically as a display for the screen.

I was just reading an article about Netflixs house of card and why they released all 13 episodes at once: Because the big draw of netflix is binge viewing/marathon watching a series and they know that. Their goal is to become HBO - having subscribers draw be original content on streaming anytime - before HBO can become them. It was a good read, ill see if i can find it.

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by JackPeyton

Of all the soaps I've watched in 30+ years, OLTL was the most female dominated and ES seems to take real pride in that. For the last 20 years Todd was the only real male star there.

OLTL at its peak was female dominated but I felt like the last 10-15 years mostly involved women being degraded for the show's favorite manwhores.

I realize this will be unpopular, but if RC/FV can't let go of OLTL, I wouldn't be sad if (and I know it won't happen) they somehow went crying to PP for a job on their pet show and give GH to someone, ANYONE who gives a [!@#$%^&*] about GH as its own entity.

I have to admit that I wonder how much of the drama in this comes from the fact that RC/FV were promised management positions at PP the first go round and now they are basically being treated as speed bumps to the resurrection of "their" show. That's gotta sting.

As irritated as I still am that OLTL got a second life on GH while AMC was left out in the cold, I am so glad PP isn't stuck negotiating with GH/ABC and the actors over the rights to David Hayward.

I would really like to hear more news about AMC.

I have to admit that I wonder how much of the drama in this comes from the fact that RC/FV were promised management positions at PP the first go round and now they are basically being treated as speed bumps to the resurrection of "their" show. That's gotta sting.

I don't think there's much "sting" at all about someone else having control of the corpse of OLTL. Ron and Frank seem to be enjoying their new "Life to Live" at General Hospital. They scavenged what they really loved from OLTL and created their hybrid, while they left the remaining carcasse behind to be picked up with the trash. They seem to have adapted effortlessly and are basking in the glow of the adoring press and their new audience. This OLTL resurrection is a bothersome inconvenience, that presents some difficult challenges. It's a nuisance. Nothing more.

As irritated as I still am that OLTL got a second life on GH while AMC was left out in the cold, I am so glad PP isn't stuck negotiating with GH/ABC and the actors over the rights to David Hayward.

I would really like to hear more news about AMC.

There is not really very much information at all about OLTL either. Most information we've gotten has been driven by the OLTL3 drama.

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by rhinohide

Of all the soaps I've watched in 30+ years, OLTL was the most female dominated and ES seems to take real pride in that. For the last 20 years Todd was the only real male star there.

Im guessing you werent much of a B&B viewer? To me thats always been the most female driven show. The men for the most part have been peripheral to the females on that show. Even now there's only to male leads and a bunch of women who outnumber the rest in terms of airtime and story

Is the contracts being pending anything to worry about? Also, why still no new AMC casting news (of returnees -- is this it?), and no full AMC writing team? Are they waiting for a writer's contract to end on another show?

No the actors likely signed a letter of intent. Until PP knows their exact start date for prod of OLTL, they cant do official contracts, since that date has to be in there

I thought we got a start date of Feb. 25th for both of them.

Feb 25th is def aMC. Erika Slezak said OLTL starts filming Mid March. Both Debut in April.

The writer contracts seemed to be signed. Actors may be "letter of intent"

The writer contracts seemed to be signed. Actors may be "letter of intent"

??

I Posted this on another thread. Whoever gives me an answer first gets a lollypop:

I don't know anything about Horgan Sheffer except that he had been let go from Y&R. Would he be good at AMC?? Is he the one Agnes liked?

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by allmc2008