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/

I frankly don't find the Tyler Perry Industrial Combine to be a production or business model to be emulated, outside of North Korea or the nineteenth century.

I can hardly wait to see what his OWN shows are like. MTB and HOP leave a LOT to be desired.

The difference between Tyler Perry and fi-core writers is that Tyler Perry's writers weren't WGA enlisted writers. They had to fight to be represented by the union. Fi-core writers are still members of the WGA with no voting rights. They still get representation by the WGA.

Like Fi-core SAG-AFTRA members. Truth? There's a stigma. Maybe not so much when you can't afford to make a living because you aren't booking union jobs and you need to tap into the non-union market. But yes when you do this during a strike or when you're viewed as a member who has chosen to casually undermine the strength of the union by supporting the growth of non-union, low/no/deferred-pay production (which keeps money in the pockets of TPTB and does little to look out for the talent).

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by SFK

That's a methodically and deliberately written press release. I'm cautiously optimistic.

Hello Press Release...want to hear more already, yes I'm greedy. I won't believe it fully until we have pictures of actors on sets.

Great news! Let's hope it will work out this time around.

Head of Production, Stephen Foz McDermott:

http://heroeswiki.com/Foz_McDermott

He's filling the role Frank Valentini would have had this venture gone through the first go round. My initial reaction: Is this guy qualified for the position? He may very well be, I don't know him or his sensibilities. But his background is definitely outside of the realm of soaps which could provide a fresh vision for these programs and perhaps some unique challenges.

My question is...are we going to have to pay for it?

I am strapped for cash and barely getting by. I think It'll be quite annoying if I have to pay for seeing shows I used to watch for free.

Foz? Like...the bear?

A crewmember on Heroes? Are you serious?

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by Vee

My question is...are we going to have to pay for it?

I am strapped for cash and barely getting by. I think It'll be quite annoying if I have to pay for seeing shows I used to watch for free.

I think we just might have to pay for it.....

Foz? Like...the bear?

A crewmember on Heroes? Are you serious?

That's what I'm sayin'... he sounds like somebody's friend who got handed a j-o-b.

Ugh.

There goes me probably getting to see them. If it's too much.

According to that, uh, wiki, this just sounds like somebody's drinking buddy.

Good news, though, he wrote some webisodes and for the WWF. And crewed a lot.

Foz McDermott is a crew member for Heroes. During Season One, Season Two, and Season Three, he was the assistant to the co-executive producers. In Season Four, he was the assistant to the executive producers. Foz is also a coordinating producer for the Heroes Unmasked videos, produces the still shoots and video shoots for all publicity related to Heroes, and is the talent coordinator for the show. Additionally, Foz has written for the Heroes graphic novels and helped write the Slow Burn webisodes with Zach Craley, Oliver Grigsby, Jim Martin, and Harrison Wilcox. He also portrays a Los Angeles bouncer in the episode Four Months Ago... and a member of the Citizen's Border Patrol in The Line.

In addition to his work with Heroes, Foz was the assistant to the executive producers with Greg Beeman for Mercy Reef. He was the writers assistant for Smallville. Foz was a writer and a talent developer for four years with the WWF (now the WWE) and hosted Live Wire for international syndicated television airing. He wrote two plays (Stigmata Colada and Downturn) and worked on two short films (Footbridge and Ivan the Timid). During the 2007 Writers Strike, Foz dis some work on The Starter Wife. Foz also acted in a few early episodes of The Sopranos as an extra in the strip clubs. In 2010, he co-produced the film Pizza Man, starring Noah Gray-Cabey, Leonard Roberts, and David H. Lawrence XVII.

Amateur night! They're literally throwing this together with spare parts to keep the rights! That is all.

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by Vee

According to that, uh, wiki, this just sounds like somebody's drinking buddy.

Good news, though, he wrote some webisodes and for the WWF. And crewed a lot.

Amateur night! They're literally throwing this together with spare parts to keep the rights! That is all.

Praying that what we don't know is that he grew up watching the ABC lineup with his Nana and he shipped Dorian and R.J.

Like I said. I think I could care less about this now. Since I probably won't get to watch anyways.

I could see paying $5 a month or something. But, $20, $30? Hell no.

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by weareclouds

Nancy had a hot tattoo artist on boyfriend named Foz. (Hollyoaks)

Maybe they should hire that guy.

Rakesh, I don't think I've seen you here in a while.

Edited January 7, 201312 yr by CarlD2