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.

http://www.deadline....ine-web-series/

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February 12, 201312 yr

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Great posts & I always love reading your insight/opinions on all this

Thank you I just did the same to a post of yours in GH February thread lol, before I saw this.

February 12, 201312 yr

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AMC is going to be a hot mess with time jumps...no Lucci...limited vets and all about the teens...LOL...OLTL WIN!

Considering that OLTL has a lead story about a teenage girl prostituting herself i don't see the difference.

February 12, 201312 yr

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Considering that OLTL has a lead story about a teenage girl prostituting herself i don't see the difference.

Oh dear....lol...

February 12, 201312 yr

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I can definitely see OLTL emerging as the 'darker' soap, not that I want to see Destiny surrounded by old men groping her as a way to make a quick buck. But I don't think that will be how it is and I'm willing to wait and see how it plays out, if it even plays out. The audition script was just an audition script.

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by KMan101

February 12, 201312 yr

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This sums it up perfectly LMFAO

Matthew Smith ‏@kyleo71

*sigh* Prospect Park is like that ex who keeps making you think they want to get back together when you're really nothing but a booty call

OMG, *dead* lol! I hope not though, I would like the shows back and for the genre to thrive!

February 12, 201312 yr

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I can definitely see OLTL emerging as the 'darker' soap, not that I want to see Destiny surrounded by old men groping her as a way to make a quick buck. But I don't think that will be how it is and I'm willing to wait and see how it plays out, if it even plays out. The audition script was just an audition script.

To me that's exploitation, not darkness, and it reminds me of a similarly trashy story Susan Bedsow Horgan did with Rachel Gannon. Hopefullly it won't come across that way. But until I hear more about that story I can't really get past it.

February 12, 201312 yr

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July 15th would have been OLTL's 45th Anniversary if it was still on ABC

February 12, 201312 yr

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July 15th would have been OLTL's 45th Anniversary if it was still on ABC

GL was cancelled before but they never counted those years. The show premiered on Jan. 25th 1937 yet on they celebrated the show's 70th on Jan 2007. So basically, I am sure they will do SOMETHING for July 15! GL also celebrated it's TV premiere so, if this is successful, I am SOOO going to look forward to the Internet Anniversary!

February 12, 201312 yr

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Anxious to see what kinds of outfits they found for Dorian...

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

Jazz came with me! @Vivaldi owner David Trugerman held her while @SusanGammie & I were busy looking for #Dorian looks-Jazz wanted to stay:)

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

@Gerald_Beckman FANS made it happen-the RETURN #OLTL is testimony of what can happen when people don't give up. We owe you MUCH in return.

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

@MarkMcLain @met3422rm THAT IS GOOD NEWS...Congratulations! Getting better all the time:) and #Prospect of the RETURN of #OLTL is..warming:)

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

Jazz came with me! @Vivaldi owner David Trugerman held her while @SusanGammie & I were busy looking for #Dorian looks-Jazz wanted to stay:)

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

WHAT JOY! @VIVALDI BOUTIQUE where many a #Dorian outfit came from...there I was being fitted in the kind of clothes that make a DIVA swoon!

And those are only a few of her latest tweets about OLTL....lol.

February 12, 201312 yr

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Nothing new in the Deadline article, but nice to see the AMC/OLTL casting director retweeting it and making a comment...

Alison Goodman ‏@allisgoodie

It's sooooo close! ‘All My Children’ & ‘One Life To Live’ Set To Resume Production Feb. 25 http://www.deadline.com/2013/02/all-my-children-one-life-to-live-production-begins-february-25/ … via @nikkifinke #AMC #OLTL

February 12, 201312 yr

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They should have Robin tweet photos of some of the outfits. It would get some free PR for the stores and the show.

February 12, 201312 yr

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I can't wait to see what Dorian's wearing either.

She always had the best clothes.

Edited February 12, 201312 yr by Golden Duck

February 12, 201312 yr

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They should have Robin tweet photos of some of the outfits. It would get some free PR for the stores and the show.

Yeah....that would have been neat and they could have had a contest as to spot the episode that she were a particular dress in and win something or other.

I can't wait to see what Dorian's wearing either.

She always had the best clothes.

Apparently they got Dorian's outfits from the same place they got them when the show was on ABC...

robin strasser ‏@robinstrasser

@MichaelFairman @susangammie Let's say that again: YAY for @SusanGammie and the RETURN of #OLTL TY MICHAEL You helped pave the way TYtwice!
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@soapsaversunite @vivaldi @susangammie SWEET-humbling2 @Vivaldi is in my 'hood. I'd pass it & sadly think: aww it's over-BUT look it's NOT!

February 12, 201312 yr

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It's weird to think Robin Strasser, of all people, is one of the leading soap voices on Twitter LOL. I wish we could get someone like Erika Slezak on Twitter. She would be an interesting mind to interact with.

February 12, 201312 yr

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It's weird to think Robin Strasser, of all people, is one of the leading soap voices on Twitter LOL. I wish we could get someone like Erika Slezak on Twitter. She would be an interesting mind to interact with.

I know....I so wish Erika would get on Twitter....she would be great to ask questions of.

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