HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

[EricMontreal22]

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.

[SFK]

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.

[EricMontreal22]

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).

[SFK]

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.

[EricMontreal22]

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.

[SFK]

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.

[Khan]

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

[Errol]

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.

[EricMontreal22]

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...)

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).

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.

[Khan]

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.

[Mr. Vixen]

Or a hooker.

[Khan]

Apparently you've never watched the show.

[Mr. Vixen]

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

[John]

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.

[Mr. Vixen]

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