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/

The SmartPhone has been a mistake for me. My bills are huge and I got by just fine without it. Now, I sit on the train or in a cab and the moment I get the least bit bored it's straight to the Internet ($$$). Now I'm too lazy to walk across the room and check my morning emails on the computer, I just reach for the phone. I'm going back to a standard phone. I won't lie though, if I had a long bus or train ride to New York coming up, a week's worth of PP AMC and OLTL on my phone would be a welcome treat.

There have been times when I didn't have cable and watched solely my digital converter. That's when I'd go online and watch the A&E shows for example. I have to say, having cable back has been a joy, especially since I switched providers and get tons of basic channels my last provider didn't, well, provide. But I will gladly watch AMC/OLTL online. Though I am curious to see how disciplined my viewing will be. There is something to be said for "appointment television".

I didn't realize there was anything *to* watch on A&E anymore...

I get your point, and I admit even bac in the VHS days or now with my DVR there are shows that I record but fall way behind on and depending on how much I really liked them, sometimes end up never catching back up with. But were you actually still watching AMC "live/apointment TV" in its final years? (I say that as a soap viewer since 1991 who probably only ever watched my soaps live in all those years maybe under 25 times).

I read some comics and a lot of manga--and I know Marvel anyway now gives you a free digital copy when you buy a comic from them. But I find comics especially hard to read over a long time online (there are a number of manga series that will never be officially translated to English but fans make, more or less illegal fan done "scanlations" to download--and I've downloaded a number I've always wanted to read, but never seem to make it through any that go longer than 100 or so pages without just getting tired--and most manga runs are well over 100 pages...)

Wasn't Wes Craven originally meant to make it and even dida draft? The bad thing about that movie is they took such tawdry (and I mean that in a good way, I think) material, where basically the only real appeal was how over the top and shocking it was--and then got scared off and completely watered the material down.

I didn't know that about Wes, but the movie was so rushed and unsatisfactory at the end. I was really disappointed. The acting was bad soap, no one can ever diss soaps and stick up for that movie in my presence. But i'm guessing it's more of a camp classic than a well regarded film. It had "Razzie" spitten all over it.

The SmartPhone has been a mistake for me. My bills are huge and I got by just fine without it. Now, I sit on the train or in a cab and the moment I get the least bit bored it's straight to the Internet ($$$). Now I'm too lazy to walk across the room and check my morning emails on the computer, I just reach for the phone. I'm going back to a standard phone. I won't lie though, if I had a long bus or train ride to New York coming up, a week's worth of PP AMC and OLTL on my phone would be a welcome treat.

I have to admit, this is a worry I have about getting it too--I find as it is I tend to text too often just randomly when I'm out and bored, commuting (by bus--not while driving I swear ), or even in an uncomfortable situation and want a distraction. And that's free on my plan--I could see myself easily wasting money using the net online instead.

But yeah, that's why I admit an actual download option where I could put PP's AMC on my video iPod the way I do with podcasts and watch while I'm on a long bus ride or something does actually hold a lot of appeal.

I didn't realize there was anything *to* watch on A&E anymore...

I get your point, and I admit even bac in the VHS days or now with my DVR there are shows that I record but fall way behind on and depending on how much I really liked them, sometimes end up never catching back up with. But were you actually still watching AMC "live/apointment TV" in its final years? (I say that as a soap viewer since 1991 who probably only ever watched my soaps live in all those years maybe under 25 times).

I watch Hoarders and Intervention.

Yeah, I mostly worked nights so I still watched AMC and OLTL in the day. I hardly ever watched it on SoapNet and for a time I had cable with no dvr capabilities.

Please, I'm so old school, I read them by candlelight one page a night as not to disturb the binding of the papyrus.

Oh, look who's showing off now that he no longer has to contend himself with cave wall paintings?

I have to admit, this is a worry I have about getting it too--I find as it is I tend to text too often just randomly when I'm out and bored, commuting (by bus--not while driving I swear ), or even in an uncomfortable situation and want a distraction. And that's free on my plan--I could see myself easily wasting money using the net online instead.

But yeah, that's why I admit an actual download option where I could put PP's AMC on my video iPod the way I do with podcasts and watch while I'm on a long bus ride or something does actually hold a lot of appeal.

That's what I do currently. I don't text unless I have nothing else to do. I won't text someone because I have something to say to them right away. As for a download option, they could stream the shows on Hulu (for instance, not a FACT yet), and still allow people to buy individual episodes on iTunes like NBC does for DAYS.

I didn't know that about Wes, but the movie was so rushed and unsatisfactory at the end. I was really disappointed. The acting was bad soap, no one can ever diss soaps and stick up for that movie in my presence. But i'm guessing it's more of a camp classic than a well regarded film. It had "Razzie" spitten all over it.

Oh yeah, I don't think anyone thinks it's a good film--fans of the books hate it for being so extremely watered down, fans of movies think it's awful or campy at best. Poor Fletcher (though I know many question her Oscar for Cuckoo's Nest). Pretty sure Craven's screenplay is online and I read it when I was going through some fascination with his films (and how he has to be one of the most inconsistant horror directors out there with films swinging wildly from horrendous to great--of course he did give us a TV movie with Susan Lucci as Satan at a health spa or whatever, so...)

I watch Hoarders and Intervention.

Yeah, I mostly worked nights so I still watched AMC and OLTL in the day. I hardly ever watched it on SoapNet and for a time I had cable with no dvr capabilities.

Ah I forgot about all their reality stuff... I've only watched the Canadian Intervention because someone I knew was on it.

The amount of commercials on soaps, and the fact that I'm rarely home at that time meant I just never had that habit (though the first Summer I got hooked on AMC as an 11 year old, I did watch it while eating lunch everyday I remember).

That's what I do currently. I don't text unless I have nothing else to do. I won't text someone because I have something to say to them right away. As for a download option, they could stream the shows on Hulu (for instance, not a FACT yet), and still allow people to buy individual episodes on iTunes like NBC does for DAYS.

Ha I have a terribly annoying habit of randomly going through my phone to see who I can text and get a reply with when I'm bored... Sigh.

Yeah, an option like that does make more sense to me. I admit, I still can't see myself paying for streaming anything (but that may just be a habit I am not used to), but I could kinda see myself paying a small fee for a season or monthly pass to download actual copies of the show.

I watch Hoarders and Intervention.

Now THERE is a concept I'd like to see PP develop: Erica Kane, herself a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, becoming an intervention specialist.

Now THERE is a concept I'd like to see PP develop: Erica Kane, herself a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, becoming an intervention specialist.

Or a hooker.

Apparently you've never watched the show.

Apparently you've never watched the show.

You're actually right. I've never seen an episode of All My Children. It's the one with Luke and Laura right?

With #PP taking #AMC & #OLTL online what are your thoughts on the shows involving profanity & nudity?

For me, I'm okay with it because its realistic but at the same time, I don't want it done because it can be or done too much.

With #PP taking #AMC & #OLTL online what are your thoughts on the shows involving profanity & nudity?

For me, I'm okay with it because its realistic but at the same time, I don't want it done because it can be or done too much.

Who had the gall to suggest that Erica Kane take out her titties?

I think they can be a bit less careful about what words they use, and AMC (random shot of Scott coming out of a shower aside) was kinda notorious during its last years for having less flesh on screen than nearly any other soap since the 70s, but the show wouldn't really benefit from anything more than that (and by language I don't mean actual swearing, just that I know even in the later years there was a lot of network censorship about what words could be used--for instance in the past decade they seem to think abortion has become a naughty word and always use a euphenism).