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/

Again going by what I've heard from various people including Corley, some writers were put in placelast year, and had begun working on story. Of course they'd need WGA to re-hire any of those same writers (and it sounds like Broderick is sticking with Days and fine with her job there--), so it could be guessed that some story bible has already been created. I know that's a big if--and there's the very real fact they may not be able to use any of that due to what writers and what actors might still get hired, but...

If they don't come to an agreement with WGA and PP is somewhat successful do you think the WGA would reconsider? Could they want to see if they can pull this off first?

I like that idea.

I hope KWAK stays away as her "B.F.F.", too.

They could say off screen Krystal and Jesse did the nasty and Angie divorced him, and Krystal and him went off and lived in some trailer somewhere.

Exactly. I actually sorta think--at least at first--alternating between the two soaps (and maybe evenhaving some slight--ie one character--crossovers linking each transition) makes sense rather than launching both. Of course it may just pit OLTL fan against AMC fan once again, but...

I was told again by my same source that last year the AMC team for PP were told it would be a 5 weeks taping 5 weeks off schedule, which sounds like it could hav been similar (of course with shorter episodes they could just film a lot more in those weeks).

I agree I bet they film 4-5 weeks of each show at one time. Maybe tape 2 episodes a day. So that would be 40-50 episodes shot at a time of each soap which would then give PP 10-12 weeks of episodes to air

They could say off screen Krystal and Jesse did the nasty and Angie divorced him, and Krystal and him went off and lived in some trailer somewhere.

PP could go with fi-core writrers but pickings are slim. I think thats why both sides now seem eager to get a deal in place

They could say off screen Krystal and Jesse did the nasty and Angie divorced him, and Krystal and him went off and lived in some trailer somewhere.

Poor Jesse...It will always burn when he pees now.

They could say off screen Krystal and Jesse did the nasty and Angie divorced him, and Krystal and him went off and lived in some trailer somewhere.

And then both die from STDs.

They could say off screen Krystal and Jesse did the nasty and Angie divorced him, and Krystal and him went off and lived in some trailer somewhere.

Krystal stole Ellie and split town

I love the idea of seeing Angie and Hayward interacting again. Their relationship was one of the things I liked best about the AMC's last months. I found them mesmerizing.

Using the same building (ala ABC Television City in New York/Prospect Studios in LA) is one thing. Using the same studio itself, I think is a stupid idea. While ABC felt that viewers watched each of their soaps in one settings (1-4pm ET each day), that wasn't the case for many viewers. Most viewers are fans of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live," separately. To produce one show before showing the next and then going back and forth in-between is just stupid planning for this particular genre. Fans will be pissed that AMC or OLTL started up first, then pissed they'll have to wait a bit before the next episode of one of them airs because one or the other is currently taking up the preferential treatment given it by the production company. While this method may work for HBO/Showtime/FX, etc, this isn't a cable model of 13 or less episodes a season with an episode airing once a week and at a set time on a cable network. We're talking about over 100 episodes of each show a year (50+ if you want to fantasize that 2 half hour episodes = 1 hour long) with out a set time via the web (with cable as a second window if they're lucky).

I seem to be in the huge minority--but I disagree. While I know a ton of fans only watch one or the other show--this could be a way to get some fans to try watching both if well done (of course some stubborn fans would refuse). If they did alternate shows and there was only 6 or less weeks before they switched back and forth, I think viewers would still remain interested--a longer gap and probably not. But a lot of people--yes even older viewers--watch TV quite differently now and are used to serialized shows that do take long breaks between episodes. It just depends on how it's handled. Some may even find that more appealing if they find an hour a day in front oftheir computer every weekday too much.

To me, if they really are trying to take this to a kinda different medium as they are, they have to think of different ways (at least slightly different) of formatting it. I am sure everyone at least agrees that PP's plans to initially carry on the old TV format (five days a week, full episodes) was way way too lofty a goal, and one that I think had a bigger chance of backfiring.

Edited January 5, 201312 yr by EricMontreal22

Actors are signing on (again) without an official HW or story bible in place? And even if they have a HW in place already, he or she can't lay out any story until they know for certain who's signing on and who isn't? And it all has to be done by the end of the month? I'm sorry, but that is NOT how you create (or recreate), develop, write and produce a drama series, not even one which had been on the air already for over four decades.

PP was better off signing Susan Lucci to an exclusive production deal and then hiring someone to develop for her a brand-spanking-new series that either continued the Erica Kane story (in a new location, with new characters) or allowed her to create an altogether new character.

Edited January 5, 201312 yr by Khan

I love the idea of seeing Angie and Hayward interacting again. Their relationship was one of the things I liked best about the AMC's last months. I found them mesmerizing.

I know, really feel if the show had have continued, they totally would have went there. Jesse's eyes would maybe finally bug out permanetly over that one

Krystal stole Ellie and split town

Poor Ellie.

I bet KWAK will sell her for some Jack Daniels and a carton of Marlboro Reds.

Definitely affluent - she was a freaking debutante and Helmut gave her a 2 carat diamond engagement ring when she was only about 21 or so. As for tantrums, yes, she most certainly had them. The actor who originally played Chuck Tyler is quoted in her unauthorized bio as saying that he hung out with them socially, and on one occasion Helmut deliberately kept them out longer than Susan wanted, and when they got back to Susan and Helmut's home, Helmut since the actor in first, and he had to duck to avoid being hit by flying china because Susan was pissed and was in "full on Erica Kane fire-breathing mode." Apparently the actor tried to make a graceful exit while Susan was screaming and throwing dishes at Helmut, and he was lighting up a cigarette and laughing at her tantrum. The actor said that he'd noticed before while dining at their home that they had mismatched china sets, and now he knew why.

The yogurt-throwing incident she wrote about in her book was also apparently toned down by her, as others have reported that it was a much bigger fit done not in an empty control room but in front of a bunch of people, and that she threw yogurt at the director.

I've seen that book on Amazon/eBay for years, I really should just go ahead and get it. Have you ever seen her appearance on Bloopers and Practical Jokes where she flips the !@#$%^&*] out? Someone on here mentioned it a few years ago and then Susan mentioned it when she was on an April Fools Day episode of Rachael Ray. I would love to see it, I feel like it's probably the realest of real Susan we'll ever see. I know someone has it available for tape trade but I've been hoping it'd pop up on YouTube.

Poor Ellie.

I bet KWAK will sell her for some Jack Daniels and a carton of Marlboro Reds.

she sold her own baby for a flat iron that she used to fry up some bacon and grilled cheese

I hate that they're using Agnes as their "mouthpiece" why are they such cowards to come out and make a statement all on their own, that's something they keep failing to do

I agree that they should have made their own statement. That said, I don't think Nixon would ever be easily persuaded to be the mouthpiece for anyone. Remember too, she released her statement to facebook fans saying she wanted to tell them first--I don't think the official statement is even actually out to press (of course they all picked up on her FB statement anyway, so that's a moot point).

I seem to be in the huge minority--but I disagree. While I know a ton of fans only watch one or the other show--this could be a way to get some fans to try watching both if well done (of course some stubborn fans would refuse). If they did alternate shows and there was only 6 or less weeks before they switched back and forth, I think viewers would still remain interested--a longer gap and probably not. But a lot of people--yes even older viewers--watch TV quite differently now and are used to serialized shows that do take long breaks between episodes. It just depends on how it's handled. Some may even find that more appealing if they find an hour a day in front oftheir computer every weekday too much.

I feel like people are making a lot of generalizations and assumptions about what viewers will or won't accept. They won't watch on computer, they won't watch if there's a break, etc... IMO, PP needs to be more concerned with attracting new viewers rather than trying to placate old ones.