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

[Jonathan]

Maybe MEK wants to try his luck with pilot season which is right around the corner.

[LeClerc]

They should have Dixie go back to being a teacher, although I was kind of hoping they would bring back Greg Nelson for that role.

[BingCherry]

It seems like MEK wants to wait and see how the stories and production pans out before joining in.

[Graham]

I'll take new characters over Ryan/Greenlee/Kendall any day of the week. Opal/Angie/Adam/David plus a fresh canvas sounds awesome frankly.

[KMan101]

Oooh. That's a thought. Greg teaching at the highschool.

I'm glad Susan Lucci is appearing. And David Canary is going to recur (or heavily guest star, I guess). I also assumed they were both a given, in some form, so I'm not super surprised but I so happy they'll be a part of it in someway.

MEK's words were ... interesting. Sounds like SOMETHING is up with him, but what? And I'm very happy Ray MacDonnell will be a part of it.

Honestly, the vets coming back don't surprise me because of Agnes Nixon. I mean, even with Lorraine writing the last few months of AMC, and Agnes "helping", we had Dixie's stupid death undone, Stuart's pointless, stupid, awful, horrible murder undone ... etc. so I figure she wants to fix what "went wrong" when the show moved, thus, bringing back the veterans who "retired". I'm not saying Agnes is God, but I think she definitely has a big influence.

I'm also really happy they're, in a sense, truly rebooting the show.

No, not EVERYTHING is thrilling me, but to me, I'm just incredibly grateful any effort is being made and they seem to want to make these shows familiar yet very relevant and even edgy, which If I remember, many wanted, and probably a big reason the soaps struggled through the late 90s and the 2000s. They just repeated the same garbage over and over again.

That was my gut thought. I hope he's well though.

[allmc2008]

That is why a "5 year jump" is a good thing! You can bring back people (Not from the dead, necessarily) and rebuild old sets (Glamorama, Boarding House) without an explanation. Basically, starting fresh with old people!

[John]

Yes the jump works for AMC but not OLTL

[marceline]

From Walt Willey's FB page:

I know some folks here will throw him shade but I like the fact that he said this.

[allmc2008]

I am hoping there isn't going to be another OLTL VS AMC dispute.

[DRW50]

I agree. It's a very classy response.

[#1_Bitch_Boy]

I get the feeling Susan Lucci's singular appearance can't solely be attributed to her involvement with Devious Maids or whatever the show is called. Something tells me this fierce little diva could juggle 5 starring roles at one time.

This woman is smart and probably doesn't want to commit to something that might not be a success. She probably wants to sit back and see what kind of shows get turned out, how the fans react and what critics have to say.

[EricMontreal22]

You already were saying this weeks ago Just saying.

Honestly, I don't see the focus on high school as a bad thing--depending on how it's done. AMC hasn't had a decent teen scene in ages it seems, but it IS one of the core story elements of the show historically.

Far weirder things with shows and cross overs have happened before.

One for now. We knew she was too busy to do more at the moment--why is anyone surprised?

[EricMontreal22]

It was also speculated that OLTL was improving in the ratings, as awful as most of us found the musical prom etc, partly because they had a solid focus on teens. AMC hasn't had that for ages. I think people are jumping to conclusions about just how much emphasis on youth may be made.

[EricMontreal22]

Yes, and at arguably its peak--around 1983 it also had a big high school influence (Tad/Liza/Jenny/Greg/Angie/Jessie and a lot of supporting characters).

[EricMontreal22]

That's fine. I just don't get your mentality or Golden Ducks announcing that they won't watch even ONE episode based on these bits of gossip.

McPherson did not create the possession storyline. Racine (who I have a lot of respect for) DID create a storyline about a town held captive by essentially a mad scientist type invention that caused it to freeze. I'm not saying if the story worked or not--but you could easily use examples both ways.