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/

I don't either Cheap, they'll be AMC & OLTL in name only, I'd rather they stay dead, than that.

I think it's been too long for AMC to truly revive it

I don't believe this for a second.

Edited December 17, 201212 yr by reallyhateskateonlost

What the [!@#$%^&*]?!

Come on, this has to be some sort of money ploy, right? Right? They just are trying to hold on to the rights for some ridiculous reason? The OLTL rights expire in January, meaning GH will likely be using more of those actors and characters. This has to be some sort of attempt to squeeze more green out of the deal. Surely.

Because I don't trust these people to legitimately know how to mount a soap, and I don't believe the timing is a coincidence. This has got to be some sort of play.

Because if it's not that, then I don't know what to think.

What the [!@#$%^&*]?!

Come on, this has to be some sort of money ploy, right? Right? They just are trying to hold on to the rights for some ridiculous reason? The OLTL rights expire in January, meaning GH will likely be using more of those actors and characters. This has to be some sort of attempt to squeeze more green out of the deal. Surely.

Because I don't trust these people to legitimately know how to mount a soap, and I don't believe the timing is a coincidence. This has got to be some sort of play.

Because if it's not that, then I don't know what to think.

+1

I don't either Cheap, they'll be AMC & OLTL in name only, I'd rather they stay dead, than that.

I think it's been too long for AMC to truly revive it

Im just kinda over it. Ive moved on. I thought AMC had a fitting resolution for all the characters and dont want to see that undone. OLTL sort of lives on through GH and even that didnt need to happen

All My Children and One Life to Live's rights went back to ABC. About two weeks ago we read a article that said ABC was trying to revive the shows and wouldn't give the rights back to Prospect Park. Therefore, I think this is more Prospect Park BULL. Then again maybe ABC is teaming up with Prospect. Lord knows they aren't going to cancel The Chew. That show is shoved up ABC's butt. lol.

Seriously, why are they reopening the same wound? Aforementioned, these shows won't be the same. Also, some of the key players have moved on. IMO, they ought to create new soaps, hire the actors that are willing to do a soap again (with capable, NEW writers). I mean I hope it's true but I doubt it. . .

Oops I didn't even comment about the topic at hand. I really don't give a crap the AMC boat sailed for me at the end of 2010 and and I really find myself not giving a damn about OLTL the more it lives through GH.

Im just kinda over it. Ive moved on. I thought AMC had a fitting resolution for all the characters and dont want to see that undone. OLTL sort of lives on through GH and even that didnt need to happen

I think this is true for a majority of soap fans and I agree about OLTL lol

It actually bothers me a lot if this is all a hustle and certain shills in the soap "press" are pushing this. That's so unfair to the soap fans who still want to have hope.

If I was a slightly bigger AMC fan I'd honestly be pissed about what's happened since the sign-off. They got no resolution. OLTL got a fair bit more, and its stories and continuity are living a quasi-existence on GH. We still don't know who JR Chandler shot. I think they deserve a bit more.

If it's true ABC also wants the rights back to do something with the properties - a claim DC is floating, of course - fine, great, let them. Their renewed interest in GH and their soaps, however marginal and numbers-related, pleases me. I'm not expecting the shows to come back, but I'd trust them to take it back and hand it over to their soap people for a little something far more than I'd trust PP with anything right now.

Edited December 17, 201212 yr by Vee

I JUST thought of something. I feel completely dumb for not knowing this but ABC and prospect park are related. Apparently Prospect is working on several primetime pilots for ABC. Maybe just maybe ABC and Prospect are teaming up to bring them back to TV. After all, ABC said they wanted a cost effective way to produce the shows so If Prospect helps ABC foot the bill for the two soaps then ABC would be spending less money on them and might be able to bring them back to the airwaves. This probably won't happen but it's just a thought. lol.

If I was a slightly bigger AMC fan I'd honestly be pissed about what's happened since the sign-off. They got no resolution. OLTL got a fair bit more, and its stories and continuity are living a quasi-existence on GH. We still don't know who JR Chandler shot. I think they deserve a bit more.

We know Stuart is alive, which is probably the main thing for me. The rest, I would like a little more, but considering the way OLTL has been handled on GH, maybe not knowing is for the best.

OMG Jamey

Jamey_Giddens ‏@Jamey_Giddens

Prospect Park is leaking like an old tampon today. LMAO. "Prospect Park declined comment." The reports in Deadline and THR are identical!

They seem to know how to run their cable shows. But all the information we got about the PP deal after the fact was that they had no idea what they were doing vis a vis mounting a daytime serial, which is a very different beast. Yet again attempting an end run around the WGA with fi-core writers (Gary Tomlin, etc.), if that's true, sounds like more of the same. Make up the rules as you go along.

My first instinct was that this is a crass ploy to hold on to the rights, and if it's not that, then it's still not the greatest idea. Going for the same cheap cut-rate tactics re: non-union talent or whatever else is not going to work. Say what you will, but Frank Valentini knows how to produce a soap opera. He's gone and I have a feeling they burned him and a lot of other people on that deal, and he's not coming back. And that's bad.

Edited December 17, 201212 yr by Vee