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

[cassadine1991]

and she's on contract with ABC too

[Ryan Chamberlain]

I'm guessing the brother sister duo who use the word s-hit is Jack/Dani.

[cassadine1991]

can't wait to hear that come out of Andrew and Kelley's mouths..

[John]

That is Hilarious

[EricMontreal22]

Wha? Sorry, this is a touchy issue and I don't mean to be disrespectful but even network TV (though I guess maybe not soaps?) say God Damn. I don't think Aggie would have a big issue with it.

You can swear on cable. There are weird regulations (largely dictated by the network.) Of course on premium HBO type cable, anything goes--but on basic cable like AMC (Mad Men), FX (American Horror Story) etc the s word is fine (as is basic non frontal nudity). I've heard they have to make special concessions for the f word which is seen as worse--Mad Men has featured it in maybe two episodes but they had to make odd concessions like not use the s word in the same episode, etc.

So in other words, I doubt we'll hear much worse than the S word in these online soaps, but I don't think most people (and this is not a judgement from myself) would be shocked to hear God damn.

[EricMontreal22]

I admit, the standards are weird, I agree, but for most people GD, as you say, is seen as lesser. I don't think a teacher would have batted an eye if I had said it accidentally in class in high school but, depending on the teacher, they would have if I said those other words.

[Angela]

In reply to Cheap's question a few pages back:

Erica

Kendall

Tad

Anton would be my add on with the Dimitri news.

[Vee]

Forget about the [!@#$%^&*] soaps, why is it they can curse but I still can't say !@#$%^&*] on this board?!

[EricMontreal22]

I hve no doubt that that's exactly what they'll be doing (obviously that suits FX Canada--although Canadian network tv does allow more swearing and nudity after a certain time at night, but not daytime--I assume like the UK.) For all the hype about being edgier, I think PP are smart enough to know that if they went to HBO levels, too much of their audience would be turned off.

[Vee]

I never thought of Jesse and JL's Liza before, but I did see them together occasionally near the end and thought it was interesting. I could get down with that.

[EricMontreal22]

So much ofr my theory Still, like I said Mad Men has used [!@#$%^&*] (but it was a big deal--and its uses were meant to standout.) Which is kinda funny cuz Mad Men, like Breaking Bad and Walking Dead are obviously all on AMC and AMC still airs their movies in old edited for TV versions with those words and very tame nudity usually blocked out (but that may just be because they show the old prints of the movies they have from before...)

[John]

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[Angela]

Despite the rough start, I probably liked JL's Liza more than I ever liked Marcy Walker in the role. She had great chemistry with Tad. Very disappointed they went with Tad and Cara over Tad and Liza that last year. I agree that she and Jesse also had a nice vibe.

[dragonflies]

Tad and Liza were so meh, they clearly didn't know what to do with JL near the end

and no to Liza and Jesse, too much bad history there, sorry

[marceline]

Agreed but I keep thinking about the OLTL clip with Tea dropping the F-bomb.

I can't imagine a basic cable situation where that would be allowed. IIRC, not even FX uses that word. (I'm thinking of American Horror Story. I consider that show to be the "bleeding edge" of basic cable.) I can think of numerous cable shows that have pushed the envelope in various ways but can't recall a case where the word f-u-c-k is allowed.

Mind you, I'm not trying to play censor. I just don't want these shows to lose opportunities.