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 11, 201312 yr

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Storylines are being kept under wraps, but
In Depth also hears that AMC will have a heavy emphasis on a group of high school characters...

Hmmm....I'm no AMC fan...but that just sounds like that would suck.

AMC needs a teen scene IMO because the last good one was the early 90's. AMC pioneered the "Teen Scene" and Heave Emphasis doesn't mean "Soley Centered" just "Large Amount".

February 11, 201312 yr

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I could see 1 0r 2 years ahead but 5. OLTL is not going 5 years ahead so if AMC does, crossovers cant happen

Are we totally for sure OLTL isn't going to do that as well? I mean I don't see why they would and we haven't heard anything about it, but still....

February 11, 201312 yr

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Aaaand we're back to bitching and hysterics.

February 11, 201312 yr

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Adam, yes!!!

One episode for Lucci? Lame

As of right now. I am sure she will be in more in the future.

February 11, 201312 yr

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Adam, yes!!!

One episode for Lucci? Lame

Unless they kill Erica off I bet Lucci will recur when Devious Minds finishes its first season taping

February 11, 201312 yr

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Sweetie a year is being generous, the focus on the teen set is going to kill it fast

You're right.

It's going to sink that ship in probably 6 months.

February 11, 201312 yr

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I'm fine with one episode for Lucci and thrilled that Canary may be back full-time. I never expected to see Adam again. Hopefully Julia Barr/Brooke will join him. As long as the stories are balanced and they have a talented younger cast, I'm fine with high school stories. When AMC first started, weren't Phil, Tara and Erica in high school?

February 11, 201312 yr

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Aaaand we're back to bitching and hysterics.

Yep....we should be hoping that these shows succeed and supporting them. Soap fans got what they wanted after all....with AMC and OLTL coming back to life.

February 11, 201312 yr

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Even with Canary and Lucci. I'm going to think long and hard about watching this unless Mike comes back.

Cause, it sounds horrible storyline wise. I'm going to give nuAMC a year. Tops.

If they get a full year I consider it a minor success.

February 11, 201312 yr

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Are we totally for sure OLTL isn't going to do that as well? I mean I don't see why they would and we haven't heard anything about it, but still....

Well the fact that they want Todd, Starr & John & they are in current time on GH & they are using the same cast the broadcast finale had, I doubt OLTL will jump 5 years ahead

February 11, 201312 yr

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I wouldn't quite say all soap fans got what they wanted if they bring the shows back just to stomp on their legacies.

February 11, 201312 yr

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Yep....we should be hoping that these shows succeed and supporting them. Soap fans got what they wanted after all....with AMC and OLTL coming back to life.

PP has to prove they'll do right by these shows so far they're not doing much of that. Especially with talk of recasting an iconic character like Todd

February 11, 201312 yr

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Well the fact that they want Todd, Starr & John & they are in current time on GH & they are using the same cast the broadcast finale had, I doubt OLTL will jump 5 years ahead

Unless they do some sort of dream sequence or time jump kind of storyline somehow.

I mean I hope they don't either and seriously doubt that they will though.

February 11, 201312 yr

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I wouldn't quite say all soap fans got what they wanted if they bring the shows back just to stomp on their legacies.

+1 billion

February 11, 201312 yr

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Yep....we should be hoping that these shows succeed and supporting them. Soap fans got what they wanted after all....with AMC and OLTL coming back to life.

Our little rays of sunshine. Death to OLTL and AMC! Long Live King #GH.

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Basically, Rosanna, who is married to Craig at this point, wants a baby. Craig, however, doesn't want a baby - I guess, because he had just lost Bryant? - but to appease his wife, he arranges for an adoption.
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A plotline they really should do as some sweeps event at this point. Halloween II's empty hospital will never not creep me out.
I've always said KT is incapable of playing deep nuance or much earnest pathos and recent events have borne that out again.

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I still remember the gloriously outspoken HBS letting that info out in an interview. IIRC Nora was at a funeral and she didn’t know who it was that died or why Nora was there. I know it has gotten even harder.
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As far as the directing credits go, I have no idea. I know that many of us speculated that several scriptwriters listed per day showed they had to credit from the several scripts they used, not sure what’s up with directing.
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Today on the The Young and the Recurring...
The opening credits featuring Lauralee, Beth, Tracey etc
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Patty/Gina still looks good.
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Phyllis was even more intolerable than usual-she just comes across as pathetic. And poor Billy Flynn looking like 'this isn't what I signed up for'
No Lucy-is the actress unavailable?

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