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/

Off ALL SITES IN WORLD WHY PEREZ HILTON!!!

I don't know much about him. What harm has he done??

That pig, I wouldn't be surprised if he posted a pic of Agnes Nixon with &%# dripping from her mouth.

Agnes doesn't strike me as the type to have a scat fetish.

I don't know much about him. What harm has he done??

He lives and breathes.

Agnes doesn't strike me as the type to have a scat fetish.

I wasn't talking poop.

I wasn't talking poop.

Oh...Well it bleeped out.

I apologize if it's already been mentioned but does anybody have specifics as to why the "timing is really bad" for Michael E. Knight to come back? Is he in poor health?

I remember reading a year or so ago (I think it was on the WLS blog) that he was doing some theater production in L.A., I think.

If he's still doing that, I honestly don't know, I haven't read anything since then.

I created a thread in spoilers that is for all story realted news about PP's OLTL

http://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/46847-pps-oltl-storyline-thread/

However, Continue Casting & production news/talk for this thread

Edited February 13, 201312 yr by John

I remember reading a year or so ago (I think it was on the WLS blog) that he was doing some theater production in L.A., I think.

If he's still doing that, I honestly don't know, I haven't read anything since then.

No theatre production in LA would last a year

I already assumed that Brooke would be back based on the audition thing, but it's nice to have confirmation! Once again, I just wish they had some familiar younger characters too. There is little to complain about with the vet characters, except perhaps Jackson not being part of it.

What does McPherson have that people remember? Will Horton coming out and a Daytime Emmy.

That is one story he did decades ago and it's still remembered, good or bad. What does McPherson have that people remember, good or bad? Nothing and she just left last year. Besides, Thom Racina's career speaks for itself. He's worked on several soaps and had lots of success with it. She's worked on DAYS and Passions and had very limited success. Yes she won that Emmy and yes that episode was great, but her tenure was terrible. I don't care so much about the teen focus or the 5 year switch, but I can't get too excited about anything AMC until I see the final product. Her work does not inspire faith.

I'm probably alone on this, but I hope they don't try to recreate old sets. These are new shows, so I want them to create new, modern sets. The previous sets in many cases were also very old. I just want the sets to be nice and well decorated. I wouldn't bother creating explainations of why certain things look different or saying that everybody moved.

What does McPherson have that people remember? Will Horton coming out and a Daytime Emmy.

The only part of that anyone seems to remember was him giving EJ a lap dance.

What does McPherson have that people remember? Will Horton coming out and a Daytime Emmy.

Maria Arena Bell has an Emmy. Lynn Marie Latham has an Emmy. Jill Farren Phelps and Bob Guza have several Emmys. And Will Horton's coming out worked mainly due to the actors, that story didn't pick up (including a romance) until she left. Anything else? Exactly.

What does McPherson have that people remember? Will Horton coming out and a Daytime Emmy.

Will was going gay long, long before she came along.

And really? Emmy does not equate to talent.

Vets and a community feel are more than half the battle of a good soap for me, so I think I will like AMC fine! At worst, she will lay the groundwork for a better writer to pick up and write better stories for later. I don't think Prospect Park would be unwilling to fire her if need be before the first year is up. They want to make this work. They wouldn't go to all this trouble if they just wanted to kill the show off again.

But if there was no community feel from the start, that would be hard to recapture later.

Emmys don't equal amazing talent, but they are not meaningless. Especially for a show like Days that has been consistently shunned in the Emmys, to have won a writing Emmy is significant. Y&R/Maria Arena Bell winning a writing Emmy is whatevs, old hat, but Days, that hadn't happened since the 70s.

If all you want are vets and a community feel MM will be great.

If you want a good storyline that plays out well, well... i wouldnt hold my breath.

Edited February 13, 201312 yr by jfung79

Vets and a community feel are more than half the battle of a good soap for me, so I think I will like AMC fine! At worst, she will lay the groundwork for a better writer to pick up and write better stories for later. I don't think Prospect Park would be unwilling to fire her if need be before the first year is up. They want to make this work. They wouldn't go to all this trouble if they just wanted to kill the show off again.

But if there was no community feel from the start, that would be hard to recapture later.

Emmys don't equal amazing talent, but they are not meaningless. Especially for a show like Days that has been consistently shunned in the Emmys, to have won a writing Emmy is significant. Y&R/Maria Arena Bell winning a writing Emmy is whatevs, old hat, but Days, that hadn't happened since the 70s.

Ill take a ton of devloping newbies in a good, solid story over a bunch of vets just... being there. Anytime.

This is the show's chance to truly rectify what was done to Julia Barr and Brooke by previous regimes. JB had been one of AMC's strongest actors (if not the strongest female) and MVPs for years. It's interesting that she was ultimately paired with Adam, because I think Adam is one of the reasons why Brooke was phased out. Erica and Brooke had a decades' long adversarial relationship like Viki and Dorian, but so did Erica and Adam. Unlike Dorian or Adam, Brooke wasn't set up to be the head of a large family with plenty of supporting player relatives to be balanced out by the leads' (Erica and Viki) broods.

ICAM! I always thought Brooke was just as important to the show as Erica since the two of them were different sides of the same coin, the former young vixen; one who grew up to become a respected member of society who tried to play by the rules and the other who never quite grew up and made her own rules. I hope Brooke plays a strong role in the reboot.

I forgot about Craig--that was when I started watching (wasn't she briefly paired with the handsome but bland Dr ummm... Steve I think?) Was her pairing with Brian (when Brian Greene played him) post or pre Tad's return?

I don't recall Dixie being romantically involved with Dr Steve (who was quite dull), but I do remember him trying to prove that Craig was conning her. As for Brian, Dixie married him right before Tad returned.

I always believed, going back to the L.A. move and Broderick writing them out together, that Brooke was the ideal surrogate for Adam on the canvas. She is his lover, probably his wife again by now, and she is very close to the family. All you'd have to do is have Brooke swan in as his emissary and say "Adam has decreed thus" and everyone would react. There's few other acceptable stand-ins for David Canary. Fortunately it doesn't look like we'll only have to make do with that.

I don't think Dixie has to do much right away other than be there and be the heart of the Martins, with a side of the Cortlandts and of course JR. She is Tad's wife, a beloved member of PV society and the closest thing the new show has to a young Ruth. She can still have her own stories - Cady McClain is too good to waste - but right now I think the best thing to do is establish her role on the canvas as PV earth mother.

Now, what would give me similar props to aim at OLTL is if they brought back Kevin, Joey or, and this is personal, my poor Rachel. Like Brooke, those are characters they don't have to use but definitely could and IMO should.

I agree with everything you said.