One Life to Live OLTL: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

[Vee]

Okay. But I don't buy it and IMO it's not going to happen.

[rhinohide]

I got that. Just thought I'd put it out there and hang on the rim (its March Madness after all).

Go FLGC.

[Dr Neil Curtis]

When is the debut?

[Marco Dane]

Who is Michael Fairman btw?

[Vee]

I don't know a thing about sports, I'm afraid. What is FLGC?

[hsfolk]

Florida Gulf Coast

[CookieMonster]

Right now, I'm wondering who the two actors were PP got down to as a Todd recast, since it looks like we'll be needing one.

[jfung79]

Of AMC and OLTL online? April 29th. Or did you mean something else?

Love the pictures in the thread today, from shooting as well as of the actors when not shooting. Finally Shenaz Treasury! And looks like awesome Clint/Viki/Jeffrey/Todd/Matthew/Destiny hospital scenes coming. Corbin Bleu radiates charisma, as does Robert Gorrie. The chemistry positively fizzles from these pictures between them and the vets like Erika Slezak and Roger Howarth. Good stuff ahead.

As for the the whole GH3 situation ... Thom Racina seems really positive about whatever the resolution is on the PP side so I'm going to be optimistic. I guess this is "2 for the price of 1" ... In the long run it may be better. GH keeps its actors, the actors stay on TV with its probably higher pay, OLTL keeps its characters, and the actors have more roles to choose from once their GH contracts end. They can try to stay on GH or go back to their old character on OLTL (assuming the character hasn't been recast with someone who's done a better job already), vs just having one possible character to play.

[Vee]

Some interesting commentary I found when checking the FB page for Jeff Giles's upcoming OLTL interview tome, Llanview in the Afternoon, which is now adding an updated section re: the show's revival.

[PeterAKer]

Update from Errol Lewis:

Errol Lewis ‏@ErrolLewis

Sorry peeps. 2 exhausted. Sum version of #OLTL news ABC: no announcement at this time, PP: RH is taping as Todd, RH rep: playing Todd on GH.

[Eric83]

Gorgeous

[DRW50]

I know this is from hours ago but I did a double take. I wondered if cheap21 had written a musical.

[jfung79]

Hmm, more confusion after what ABC had said, but I had figured it would make sense for him to go back to GH as Todd since PP was already okay with having him go back as Todd from before.

Guess we'll get confirmation if this is the real story is in the next few days. (Not to doubt your sources, Errol.)

[Vee]

More from the great Shenaz. Rama and Cutter appear to be hanging at a club called "Shelter".

Another of her posts is titled "Rama's new single life," and along with these others it does suggest Rama is back on the market despite Vimal still being in town. She could be playing it up posing with the guys on-set, though. I'm sure there's still story to play there together or separately.

While I often found the Aubrey/Cutter/Rama, etc. shenanigans to be a tiresome time-waster with the show's final months on ABC ticking down, I did like JK and ST with Amanda Setton, and I found that that whole area of the canvas - with Cutter, Kim, Rama, even Aubrey/Christine, who I couldn't stand - had brought back the 'outsider' element to OLTL again that it always returns to, of people of different backgrounds and histories sometimes living on the fringes of polite society. Rama was a social climber and schemer who also wanted to be a good wife; Kim was - well a lot of things, and she and Cutter were the all but orphaned con artist children of a madwoman. Christine, no one really knows if she is Katrina Karr's kid or not. I'm glad two of those characters - two of the ones that worked for me - are back, because I do think they contribute to that renegade texture OLTL has always had. And Indian characters are so important, and so hard to come by.

[TeamEric]

I'm not a KA fan but I'd be really shocked if she turned down a 1 week reunion with KDP, KM, FL and (TSJ?) and all her OLTL family. She seems very attached to being Starr Manning and 1 week isn't much to ask.

I really believe the problem is PP wanted some bigtime $$ for letting GH use the characters another year. These fights are always about $$$ more than anything.