All My Children AMC: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[marceline]

What ironic to me is that some of these people are acting like the sheer act of watching something on a computer is completely new. Have none of these people ever watched a video on YouTube?

[Khan]

Oh, but I wish they had. Imagine the fun they would have had doing those.

But seriously, AD fans, by and large, figured it out (although, really, was there much to figure out?) because, as dragonflies said, they were glad to have them back at all, even for a little while, knowing full well that a return to network TV was not an option.

[Khan]

IA. And I say that as someone who misses the days (er, evenings) of "appointment television," when cable was where all the junk resided, and the really good shows were on the Big Three.

[Khan]

Seriously. It is no different than, say, watching old GUIDING LIGHT clips someone has posted on YT. As my cousin's four-year-old son said recently at the grocery store to his hooligan siblings, "What's wrong wit'chu niggas?!"

[Winchester91]

Why do we care about these rubes anyway? These are the people that worshipped Jason Morgan and have been bitchin' at GH to get Steve Burton back even when he himself left on his own accord. These are the same people that drooled over the Ford Brothers and demanded of them. These are the people that were beside themselves with the love story that is Zendall.

[EricMontreal22]

"The CW Network did accept ads for the online soaps, which began running in such shows as HART OF DIXIE and 90210 last week. Fox, according to a source, also was open to running the ads, but Prospect Park decided against running ads there because the network has only primetime programming and no history with soap operas."

But the CW doesn't either--still Fox doesn't really have any programming right now I could see he ads being a fit with (maybe Glee? )--CW has those teen soaps.

[dragonflies]

The CW has soap-ish type shows

[EricMontreal22]

Yes, as I rather confusingly tried to say.

[Khan]

But what about FOX viewers who watch soap operas or who did once upon a time and would like to again? What if you could get a FOX viewer who's never seen a soap in his life, but who catches an ad during an episode of "The Following," let's say, and says, "WOAH! So not my grandma's story!"? I'm just saying.

On second thought, I get where PP is coming from. They have only so much to spend on advertising, so they have to spend it judiciously.

[Darn]

I really think it came down to ad rates. Some CW shows get under a million viewers, their ad rates are bargain basement.

[John]

http://www.tvnewscheck.com/article/67102/online-soap-revival-begins-on-monday

[John]

From Reuters

[EricMontreal22]

I admit, I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect as much media coverage as we're getting. Great!

I admit, I'm not sure why, but I didn't expect as much media coverage as we're getting. Great!

[John]

http://tristatehomepage.com/fulltext-news?nxd_id=610042

http://www.cnbc.com/id/100678486

http://www.dallasvoice.com/dead-10145746.html

http://www.tampabay.com/features/media/spicier-all-my-children-one-live-to-live-debut-online/2117514

[cassadine1991]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvrbneoXt4M