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/

It makes me nervous that Woods comments that he says it's important to have the vets to "start" the show

"You need that to start, otherwise you just have a show that's called ONE LIFE TO LIVE and you turn it on and you go 'I don't know anybody.' So that couldn't work. But if you have Erika sitting there at her desk and Robin waltzing in, then you can go, 'Oh, okay! This is it. Sparks are gonna fly!'"

That's called common sense. It's also the difference between One Life to Live and Loving.

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

MARCH 11, 2013 #OLTL RETURNS TO LIFE-Just learned thatz when we START taping. TY You know YOU did this-Stand up/take a bow-who me? bossy?

Don't be nervous. It's true that PP's goal is to make these shows younger/hotter/hipper, but we've all been around long enough to know that that's the nature of the soapy beast. I don't think the vets will merely launch the shows and be dispatched after week five. I think RSW is just stressing the importance of OLTL and AMC maintaining their identities with strong, familiar, veteran characters, especially when the loyal audience will be introduced to a fair share of recast younger characters and newbie originals.

Well said. If the show is still going in a year or so, that'd when I'd expect some of them to leave though.

So February 25th for AMC and March 11th for OLTL. But I am still confused what the production schedule will be like.

So February 25th for AMC and March 11th for OLTL. But I am still confused what the production schedule will be like.

Me too since those are not 5 weeks apart

I think whether they're good showrunners or bad, they absolutely adore OLTL. They have made that clear time and again in word and deed. They just don't care about the couples. And that's their prerogative.

They don't care about any part of OLTL except the characters they brought over. JMHO.

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

MARCH 11, 2013 #OLTL RETURNS TO LIFE-Just learned thatz when we START taping. TY You know YOU did this-Stand up/take a bow-who me? bossy?

Me too since those are not 5 weeks apart

I don't know, and I don't think anyone does except PP and they really don't talk much do they? Perhaps it's a little bit more erratic here at the beginning just so they can have something produced, say a weeks worth of episodes for both shows and a couple of promotions, in time to meet the deadline they're operating under.

It was expedient to them to bring them over and mix things up, and a blind man could've told me they were going to try John with Sam. I don't think trying something new with some of these characters is the same as hating what came before, but that's me.

How they used them is a matter of debate, but IMO if they hated OLTL and disdained all these characters' other ties, they wouldn't keep referencing them or having them appear on the show. They wouldn't keep going back to that well. We know they wanted Natalie to appear though that may never happen now. They would just do what so many other soaps have done with unwanted attachment from other shows or stories - kill them the !@#$%^&*] off. ATWT did it to Vicky Hudson only a couple months after AW's happy ending; Genie Francis's Ceara got gunned down when she went to Loving without bothering to bring the actress back. There was one real simple, brutal, time-honored way to cut the cord and they didn't do it, because they cared about OLTL. Whether they care enough or the right way is another discussion. But the bottom line is those characters are now all still alive and viable a year later, and I am very grateful for that.

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by Vee

if they hated OLTL and disdained all these characters' other ties, they wouldn't keep referencing them or having them appear on the show. They wouldn't keep going back to that well. They would just do what so many other soaps have done with unwanted attachment from other shows or stories - kill them the !@#$%^&*] off.

I disagree. I think circumstances dictated a lot of what they did in the beginning. They thought they were going to be cancelled in September. I think they were trying to set up some kind of hybrid under the assumption that combining the two shows would give a new production a better chance of success and better marketability than either on their own. It was tactical, not affectionate, that they kept the ties to Llanview as long as they did. As soon as they had word of extension, they pretty much stopped keeping those ties open. I cringe to think what that would have looked like if they'd been given that opportunity. And I do not think they could kill off Natalie and Liam without permission from PP. They couldn't do anything else with them.

I'm not going to keep arguing about this. We will just have to agree to disagree.

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by rhinohide

I'm so tired of the arguments about Ron Carlivati. Don't get me wrong, I know this is a discussion board and I'm NOT trying to dictate what other people talk about and I acknowledge my part in it but it simply makes me sad to see so much talk about someone who is, IMO, an average writer and an unprofessional attention whore eat up so much bandwidth in the online soap verse. It's the same way I feel when the media talks about 50 Shades of Gray or Lady Gaga. I hate seeing mediocrity garner all this attention.

I dearly hope that a year from now AMC and OLTL are doing well and we are all engrossed in talking about the stories on both instead of post after post on thread after thread talking about RC (and FV) like they're bringing us Game of Thrones.

Edited February 4, 201312 yr by marceline

Someone posted on another board that FL (Tea) says she does not believe this will actually happen.

IMHO, I think PP did this to retain the rights should they want to actually go thru with this, and I believe we might see some push backs with dates.

Really?? What board was it?

if they start taping on 3-11, I have to think a final decision on the 3 actors from OLTL will be made very soon

It wasn't a PP exec who said they weren't doing arcs, it was Thom Racina who told NB that. Although who knows how Nelson worded the question or if he correctly interpreted Racina's answer.

That said, I don't see how a 5 weeks on (taping at least two shows per day)/ 5 weeks off taping schedule shows that they are (or aren't) doing arcs or "books". That's a different matter. ETA: which Marceline just beat me to pointing out

Nellie Olsen: Does Trevor St. John have an arc stuffed down his pants?

Thom: Um...

I'm so tired of the arguments about Ron Carlivati. Don't get me wrong, I know this is a discussion board and I'm NOT trying to dictate what other people talk about and I acknowledge my part in it but it simply makes me sad to see so much talk about someone who is, IMO, an average writer and an unprofessional attention whore eat up so much bandwidth in the online soap verse. It's the same way I feel when the media talks about 50 Shades of Gray or Lady Gaga. I hate seeing mediocrity garner all this attention.

I dearly hope that a year from now AMC and OLTL are doing well and we are all engrossed in talking about the stories on both instead of post after post on thread after thread talking about RC (and FV) like they're bringing us Game of Thrones.

Agreed.

If Florencia doesnt believe it will happen, why sign on to the show? I dont buy that