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/

Awesome. Please take RC/FV back to OLTL then. And take their awful newbies (looking at YOU, Britt and Sabrina!) with them.

I don't see current writers and producers being able to produce a cost effective show unless Valentini is attached to the project. And I don't want an AMC revolving around Collard Green & Rya** nor a OLTL with Gnatalie or Rama being the lead. Just leave them dead and start fresh. Just start new or acquire the rights to a soap canceled YEARS ago (i.e. Secret Storm, The Doctors, LIAMST, Where the Heart Is, etc.) and do a modern spin on them or build on their history IMO.

Awesome. Please take RC/FV back to OLTL then. And take their awful newbies (looking at YOU, Britt and Sabrina!) with them.

Uhm noo thanks, cause this means GH would either get Guza or McTrash back, I'll pass.

I'd rather have their newbies, than the drab 4 for decades on end. Thanks anyways

Awesome. Please take RC/FV back to OLTL then.

Back during PP I: A New Hope the thing that killed it for me was the thought that RC/FV would have anything to do with AMC. I hope that they really are locked in to GH. (Sorry GH fans!)

Edited December 17, 201212 yr by marceline

I doubt ABC would let them go anywhere. And I'd be surprised if they went back after what everyone at OLTL went through last year.

http://daytimeconfidential.zap2it.com/2012/12/17/will-prospect-park-use-fi-core-writers-on-new-all-my-children-and-one-life-to-live

While the Deadline report on Prospect Park's renewed plans to bring One Live to Live and All My Children back via the web mentions the production company having secured pacts with the Directors Guild of America (DGA) and actors union SAG-AFTRA, I'm hearing PP might bypass the entertainment industry's other crucial union, the Writers Guild of America (WGA).

"They're looking to hire Fi-Core writers," says an insider. "That way they don't have to negotiate with the WGA or deal with Guild minimums."

Apparently, PP has been asking around about the availability of several scribes who have financial core status with the WGA— including a pair currently helming a daytime drama. Keep checking back with Daytime Confidential as this story develops!

If anything, I just hope the people that Valentini let go from GH and the staffers of AMC find work with this "project."

Uh wow

Jamey_Giddens ‏@Jamey_Giddens

@gwynnega They ran and threw this together the moment they learned ABC had plans for AMC and OLTL.

Show me financial backing, union support, production costs, sets, crew, a 2 year bible outline, a studio, and a tentative cast list, and then I'll start to listen to what they have to say.

Jamey's reply to me when I asked how they can do anything with AMC

Jamey_Giddens ‏@Jamey_Giddens

@_spunkygirl PP had some some of clause in their deal saying they retain the rights if they had a project going before the deadline.

@_spunkygirl So, apparently they've slung some plan together just in the nick of time.

Honestly, I believe that Prospect is going to try and make a go of it. B&B and GH showed that soaps can improve their prospects, so they want in on the game. Especially since now ABC is seeing the value, they're going to try and make this work. I wonder if Maria Arena Bell will be contacted since she is a high profile FiCore writer. I'm interested in seeing where this rollercoaster goes. If rights do expire to AMC or OLTL they should consider buying the PGP soaps now that Soap Classics lost the rights. Either way whatever soap we get is going to essentially be a spin-off. AMC won't have Erica Kane because Susan Lucci is locked in a contract for TWO primetime series, Devious Maids and Deadly Affairs.

I wonder how they'll try to handle the smaller cast and retool these shows. Especially OLTL with the GH connections.

Actually I don't think they will, what Jamey has said they're like kids who left their toys in a closet for a year and suddenly only want to play with them so no one else can

Why can't PP just go away! For #$@!'s sake.

I have heard before that ABC was now keen on having the rights back. And I do believe this is just PP being tacky. It's just lousy, lousy behavior.

I wonder how they'll try to handle the smaller cast and retool these shows. Especially OLTL with the GH connections.

IF, and that's a really big if, this somehow gets off the ground (personally I don't think it will), I think OLTL is still a sunken ship and AMC will be the one to come back. All for the simple reason that AMC has the most readily available cast. The OLTL cast is now divided between LA & NYC, wheras the AMC cast has all pretty much remained in LA, with just the veterans being back on the East Coast.