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

[John]

Hulu has a twitter account just for the soaps

https://twitter.com/soapsonhulu

http://soapsonhulu.tumblr.com/post/47812203971/soap-operas-we-started-watching-them-when-we-were

[hsfolk]

Both OLTL & AMC look like European soaps like Hollyoaks with their outdoor scenes

[John]

Yeah the outside shots are very well done.

[John]

Five minutes til Michael Fairman interviews Melissa Archer LIVE at http://www.youtube.com/user/TOLNSoaps

[Khan]

You know who we need to get this word out? Jane Elliot. She told GH fans to set their DVR's for the big time-slot change, and by God, they did!

[John]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R718OPSd3Wc

[AllMyDaysatGH]

I can't stop glancing @ the people at the bottom of the screen. I would be terrified. How awkward! LOL

Cool idea doing this though. Awesome!

[Khan]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: they don't get it because they don't want to get it. They didn't just want AMC and OLTL back, they wanted it back on a network (even ABC). And the FX Canada announcement will only make them more determined.

[EricMontreal22]

Yes that freaked me out and made me feel uncomfortable too. I had to make sure people couldn't see me (I didn't know I had to wear clothes to watcha video)

[EricMontreal22]

I have already seen some of that reaction--boohooing about why does Canada get it on TV and not the US...

[Marco Dane]

Comments from deadline.com

http://www.deadline.com/2013/04/all-my-children-one-life-to-live-video-previews/#comments

• both of these look cheap and terrible, but at lease amc looks like something that was produced in the last century. yikes.

  Comment by well... — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 3:32pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

  • They look the same way they looked the last few years on broadcast to me, but yeah, not great. I don’t really see the need for them to return and I imagine a lot of the original fans aren’t interested in figuring out how to follow these shows in a digital universe. But for all the talent involved, I hope they find their audience.

    Comment by Tv Food and Drink — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 4:24pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

• I had high hopes for these shows. Expected them to feel more fresh and modern. Lookin’ pretty shoddy, hopefully it’s just a poorly edited set of trailers.

  Comment by Hoo boy — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 3:51pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

• Wow. By the looks of these you realize how much they weren’t missed. Antiquated story lines and character arcs, these just don’t fit within a digital world. Now the old fans will scream that these stories are still valid but let’s see if they take the effort to find them online and pay the sub fee.

  Comment by Not Missed — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 3:53pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

• Cheap? This is a soap opera for cry out loud. This looks the same as it did when it aired on television. I honestly can’t wait to see these shows. I nearly lost it when it got canned.

  Comment by Lewis — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 4:03pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

• What did you expect? They’re not produced by ABC anymore.

  Comment by Androme — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 4:06pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

• I don’t think they look a ton different from when they were on TV. It looks like it may be filmed differently thought.

  Comment by Fabian — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 4:35pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

• I love these shows!! But these trailers do not inspire me to watch!

  Comment by Mika — Tuesday April 16, 2013 @ 4:50pm PDT REPLY TO THIS POST

It’s funny, the soap fans bitch when the shows are taken off, then you give them the shows the same way they were when they were broadcast on ABC and they still complain.

Be thankful for what you have, digital is the future, the internet is the future of Television, broadcast networks are a dying old midcentury business.

[ReddFoxx]

Melissa described the new sets as upgraded in comparison to the old sets at ABC's studios.

[John]

I love how no one knows how many episodes were filmed probably because they film out of order and may have filmed scenes from episodes 1-40 and are now editing them. So I bet when they start to air TOLN will have 6 weeks of episodes completely edited and ready to air

[marceline]

It's the tyranny of nostalgia.

[~bl~]

I'd like the shows to be on a television station just because I can't justify spending $20 a month to watch and keep episodes of AMC and OLTL. That said I'm not complaining that they are only online in the US as it is better than nothing.

I wonder though how many people on deadline.com even care about soap operas.