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

[Chris B]

The lack of an international audience is where this project is smart. It's a new market and the shows can be promoted as new shows. This is why I hope from episode they're proper reboots and easy for new markets to join in. Even in the US, the people who have Hulu might not be your typical soap fan, but might become interested by the ads. I hope that they truly modernize these soaps in many ways. That includes regular location shooting. These shows could develop a real following in the UK or Australia, but they have to be able to hold up next to their soaps. It'll be interesting to see if that happens.

[BingCherry]

OLTL was pretty unprecedented in that it was one of the few US soaps to get pretty much no traction internationally (with the exception of sporadic bursts in Canada). AMC 's two biggest outside markets were always Italy and Canada.

[KMan101]

Maybe this time the soaps will get some international buzz going. I think PP should definitely be pushing internationally. I'm sure they will.

[John]

From Jordi Valisuso's Paos Revolution

[hsfolk]

Spiderman Sam is back

[alexisfan07]

I [!@#$%^&*] love that kid. I'm gonna die if he continues to upstage Trischitta.

[AlexElizabeth]

He will.

[dragonflies]

You know he will lol

[hsfolk]

when they put Sam in glasses he really does look like he could be TSJ's son

[~bl~]

They blurred the script page so we can't get any spoilers. That's disappointing.

[DramatistDreamer]

Count me in too. Although I only really began to watch in the last two years or so of the show, so I'm never really sure whether I count.

[EricMontreal22]

I do agree that there has to be some element of that and a large audience could be tapped in. (I'll just say that I don't really consider Canada an international audience in the same respect--we all get the major US networks, etc, and movies as well as TV shows all premier here the same time--with a very tiny few exceptions--as in the US, which is why I hope this won't become an issue with Canadians having to wait.)

Even youtube has managed to get a lot of international viewers to US soaps (of course the big breakthroughs seemed to be those following gay stories--which I always found a bit ironic since the European soaps tended to have better gay stories, but...) so it would be savvy to tap into some of that.

[EricMontreal22]

Yeah--from my understanding is many more rural areas in Canada didn't get US networks until sometime in the 70s or even early 80s--but the CBC picked up AMC (and I believe Edge of Night) early on, which is why there's that great clip with Agnes Nixon from an interview for promo they did in the 70s (I wish their archives would release the whole thing.) In the mid 90s they started to pair it with OLTL (which I already watched on the Seattle ABC) but then there was controversy over the CBC which is partly gov funding having so many non Canadian shows that they made their daytime lineup all Canadian--and CTV/A Channel picked up both shows.

I know for whatever reason, Another World remained one of the most popular soaps in Canada until its end.

[cher1989]

More photos, or at least ones I haven't seen before. This time from US Weekly magazine:

http://www.usmagazine.com/entertainment/pictures/all-my-children-and-one-life-to-live-exclusive-cast-photos-2013113/29104

[AllMyDaysatGH]