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OLTL: The Prospect Park Era (old production thread)

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GH is staying big time it's ratings have been stellar. Plus it shows the chew shoots big time half hour to half hour due to GH after it. Eric I don't have to spell out anymore. Here in life I am a business all I wanna do is make a profit. When my profits exceed my costs I am a happy camper. When costs exceed profits it's a loss for the company and a loser. How easy is that explanation? I have taken enough business and economics classes to know. So GH right now is making abc tons of money in profits lol so u mean it goes? LMAO

Define tons of money? Its ratings are not significantly all that great, compared to OLTL and even AMC its final years. Anyway, I wasn't complaining about you giving your opinion, but when you phrase it like "Ask ABC! They will tell you!" etc, implying you have done just that, it all becomes ridiculous.

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Fritz was a stage manager on the shows

Spent the day in CT yesterday - packing up my office. Lights are being taken down and the sets dismantled. AMC & OLTL are done for the year and certainly done at CFC.

However, Prospect Park has not cancelled the shows (as much of the press has reported) - but merely back burnered them for the time being. A new year is just weeks away, filled with new hope and promise.

I mean Mitch Lawrence, James Stenbeck and numerous others came back from the dead multiple time, perhaps our beloved shows will too. Thanks for all your support and stay tuned....
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Fritz was a stage manager on the shows

Spent the day in CT yesterday - packing up my office. Lights are being taken down and the sets dismantled. AMC & OLTL are done for the year and certainly done at CFC.

However, Prospect Park has not cancelled the shows (as much of the press has reported) - but merely back burnered them for the time being. A new year is just weeks away, filled with new hope and promise.

I mean Mitch Lawrence, James Stenbeck and numerous others came back from the dead multiple time, perhaps our beloved shows will too. Thanks for all your support and stay tuned....

Thank you John.

I never trusted actors for BTS info. Half the cast of DS claims that it was aired Live not to mention Susan saying Agnes went to guiding light when it was failing on the ratings on NBC and her creative talent of bringing the show to number 1 is what got ABC's attention.

So I really don't think Debbie is correct.

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Thank you John.

I never trusted actors for BTS info. Half the cast of DS claims that it was aired Live not to mention Susan saying Agnes went to guiding light when it was failing on the ratings on NBC and her creative talent of bringing the show to number 1 is what got ABC's attention.

So I really don't think Debbie is correct.

I do feel thats what Debbi was told by her manager . Truthfully, contracts with talent crew, unions and studio expire soon if some already havent already done so. PP cant hold on t the actors until the shows came back. So I take it more as we are releasing the actors and If and when this returns we will contact you.

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The problem is that actors are frequently among the last to know anything and when they do get told, it's usually second or third hand information by the time it gets to them.

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I am loath to link to Carolyn Hinsey. Unfortunately, I must. Thus, here is Carolyn Hinsey interviewing Sonia Blangiardo.

A few key bits:

Sonia: All I can say is that every effort was made to make this show a success, but there were obstacles that could not be overcome.

Carolyn: What obstacles?

Sonia: In my opinion, the IATSE union dispute and the lawsuit with ABC. I think both of those discouraged potential investors. The union dispute also stopped our momentum because we had to halt production. [...] We had anticipated higher numbers. We did really well for Hulu, but no one knew how many total people were watching. To this day I don’t know. Maybe they couldn’t get accurate numbers.

Carolyn: Why was there so little information coming from Prospect Park through this whole process?

Sonia: The PR people they hired were not from daytime. They were not familiar with how passionate daytime fans are. They were reluctant to put out information unless everyone had approved it and, frankly, they were very hard to get on the phone.

Carolyn: Why do you think AMC did better than OLTL?

Sonia: [AMC execs] inherited a show that – unlike OLTL which ended at its peak – had been torn apart in its last years on ABC. No one understood who these characters were. They went back and found the core of each character and reestablished them. AMC had been only plot-driven for a long time, which is the biggest mistake you can make. The reboot brought people home to the old AMC that they loved.

Carolyn: Even though you jumped ahead five years?

Sonia: That was a big risk, because we aged the kids into major Pine Valley characters. It worked because they were part of our core families, so fans embraced them. People cared about Miranda because Bianca was her mother. My biggest fear was that we had to create five years of story that fans weren’t a part of. David got out of jail, J.R. was in a coma, where were Tad and Kendall? There were a lot of unanswered questions. We took a chance creating history fans weren’t privy to, but ultimately I think it worked.

Carolyn: Unlike OLTL, half of which was unrecognizable to me.

Sonia: Give them credit for trying to come out of the starting gate with a big splash at the club. They worked very hard. Their biggest flaw was concentrating too much on the “Wow Factor” for events. Sometimes, they lost track of why the event was happening in first place.

Carolyn: What was the biggest challenge on AMC?

Sonia: Honestly? Getting up and running. We started literally from scratch. We did not have pens. We got the green light in February and started taping in March. We had a few weeks to build sets, get wardrobe, create a system, build a control room. They asked me, “From a director’s perspective, where do you think the monitors should be?” Once we were up and running we knew what we were doing.

Carolyn: Is that where a lot of the money went?

Sonia: Oh, sure. Like with any start-up. I’m not exaggerating – I had to bring my own pens from home. We had to rent copiers. No one had mailboxes. It took us two days to figure out who got what dressing room. We had to staff hair and makeup for two shows.

Carolyn: What did you learn from working on the reboot?

Carolyn: Now that AMC and OLTL are over, will you be able to use those actors, costume designers, etc. on Season Two of TD?

Sonia: Yes, and I could not be more thrilled about that. Those casts are full of amazing talent and, frankly, personal friends.

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Carolyn: What’s your message to soap fans?

Sonia: Don’t give up. AMC and OLTL will not be filming in 2013, but you never know what’s going to happen in 2014.

On that note: Shut up, Carolyn Hinsey.

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I hope Rob Gorrie gets future employment because he's just ridiculously attractive. And I'm not one to salivate but he's just so cute.

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When the show comes back next year he'll be naked on Day One.

That's right, laugh! No, I really have no idea if the show will ever come back. But I stand by my assertion that no less than a mass execution of the cast would prove to me OLTL is gone for good this time. It's like the Terminator. We'll see it again in some way, however small.

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Maybe they will release novels or radio plays like Doctor Who when it went off the air. And in 10 years we'll get a continuation where Sam has survived the Time War.

I always knew Tea was a Dalek.

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I look forward to the minisode concluding the tattoo storyline in 2023.

You'll be surprised!

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Carolyn talking to Sonia about how SOD should havve been the vessel o promote these shows and Sonia agreeing, Yuckers.

SOD is Bleh now. Maybe they shoulda talked to Mimi Torchin or the welove soap dudes, Errol & MF. That would have been a good balance. IMO all the others would have not been fair to PP and the shows.

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Guys and gals,
I would not be surprised if the judge in the PP vs ABC case, locks up the rights to AMC & OLTL. That way no one can use them until the case is over.

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