HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

December 17, 201212 yr

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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.

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February 9, 201312 yr

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I enjoy John on GH more than I ever enjoyed him on OLTL (which was never) and I'm fine with Todd and Starr on either show, but it will annoy me if PP let ABCD have their way simply because it might give those who were losing their minds over the injustice!!!!! of satanic PP maliciously trying to destroy ME/RH/KA's careers and cheat poor innocent FV/RC/ABC out of what is "rightfully" theirs the idea that they were right. Because... no.

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

I agree with rhinohide, great first post!

February 9, 201312 yr

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AMC casting per Nelson Branco's twitter feed:

[YURI] Eastern European, Late 30’s. Yuri is powerful business man behind Vlad. Slick, confident, a man who should be feared; RECURRING

[VLAD] Eastern European look, 30’s who is willing to get down and dirty to get what he wants. RECURRING

God I hope these two don't have anything to do with an illegal gambling website

I wonder if Vlad is Anton Lang/Marick. I would love that! If Adam has left his business empire to someone other than JR, then perhaps "Vlad" and "Yuri" are an outside threat to the business, and Adam has shut out JR in an attempt to save his business. Could be interesting.

Personally I thought Sonny & Co on GH being Zach's casino partners could have been an interesting crossover, especially since David was apparently a silent partner, and David was married to Anna, but oh well.

February 9, 201312 yr

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Oh god I HATED Zach's casino partners. I hope we never hear about them again. I hope the Casino is burned down by the time this comes to air

February 9, 201312 yr

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Ha, all of this Anton/Corvina talk, I uploaded this just hours ago: http://youtu.be/Mck9qV_9Hj0?t=3m35s

February 9, 201312 yr

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I'm really looking forward to the high school/teen scene stories on the new AMC!

Well, the Fusion set was definitely cheesy. Although someone with the initials AMD@GH would disagree.

LOL. Fusion forever. I hope they bring it back, along w/ConFusion (and its chinese/mexican/italian/american/barbarian food menu) too!

February 9, 201312 yr

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Ha, all of this Anton/Corvina talk, I uploaded this just hours ago:

That damn leopard storyline.

I do like the idea of bringing Anton back into the scene. And Julia -- too bad AMC rotted out their goodwill with returns from the dead in record time.

February 9, 201312 yr

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On FB Thom Racina said he's taking questions right now--and will answer some "over martinis" (I am picking up on a theme here...), though he asks that they aren't about upcoming storylines or cast info (ie, whatmost people want to know).

February 9, 201312 yr

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That damn leopard storyline.

I do like the idea of bringing Anton back into the scene. And Julia -- too bad AMC rotted out their goodwill with returns from the dead in record time.

Ha if I've had enough to drink (which is rarely...) my friends are bewildered when I say "The leopard" in her accent...

Maybe Anton can be connected to these Eastern European guys... I do agree Julia was utterly wasted in hers--which is too bad because I grew to really like her character. For a brief moment they seemed to be hinting that Julia would be opening a free clinic out of Wildwind--an idea that I thought held potential but one Frons probably thought had zero interest. Even before then, they briefly had much of the young cast (even the utterly useless Del recast) living in Wildwind under her watch which I also thought held potential, if just giving a reason for much of the younger cast to naturally interact.

February 9, 201312 yr

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Oh god I HATED Zach's casino partners. I hope we never hear about them again. I hope the Casino is burned down by the time this comes to air

Casinos (like [Con]Fusion) have no real place in Pine Valley, IMHO. They can do what they used to do and just go down to Atlantic City...

February 9, 201312 yr

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Thom Racina · 709 like this

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Sorry for that Tuesday cliffhanger post. So next video - submit your questions here and I'll select some to answer over Martinis. Please no scoops on plots or actors but anything about my time in the industry! And go!!

February 9, 201312 yr

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Ask Racina how the writing chores will be different on this 30 min show. Will he and Horgan do breakdowns or scripts?

February 9, 201312 yr

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Thom Racina · 709 like this
50 minutes ago ·

Sorry for that Tuesday cliffhanger post. So next video - submit your questions here and I'll select some to answer over Martinis. Please no scoops on plots or actors but anything about my time in the industry! And go!!

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February 9, 201312 yr

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I'm at a loss as to what to ask. I've read/heard all his interviews, so I'd just as soon ask about OLTL. Also, I don't Facebook.

February 9, 201312 yr

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I'm at a loss as to what to ask. I've read/heard all his interviews, so I'd just as soon ask about OLTL. Also, I don't Facebook.

A wise man. Yeah the questions he wants seem to be about his past work--most of that, for me, was covered in the Brandon's Buzz podcast.

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You could ask him more about Doug Marland's toilet seat.

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