Members Days22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 AMC is going to be the next 2 months at a ABC or NBC soap pace. indeed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Soaps In Depth ABC @soapsindepthabc1h Folks, we can complain about the #AMC #OLTL cut to two days a week... or we can be glad they're back, period. Me? I'm going with the latter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 They've been filming stuff right now that is on the air in a week or two. So no, it won't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 I'm a Pisces too so don't blame that (I never knew apathy was a Pisces trait, I thought when it came to the arts we were meant to be obsessive *shrug*--I admit with me I like the serial form and the only time I usually drop a show--even when the quality SUCKS--is when for some reason I fall several episodes behind and just can't be bothered.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Days22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Yes it will. 4 weeks will be stretched to 8 any way you slice it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members John Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 I agree its probably the prod of the episodes isnt going at the pace they had hoped. Im good with this. Id rather have quality shows over quanity Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Days22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Hahaha. Well that is in essence my problem though. Idk if I can be bothered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members soapgirluk Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 The next couple of months will be harder to watch, as they wrote it for 4 eps week, but I think once we pass it and the writing is focused on 2eps I think we need to try and think of them as 'new' shows. And starting any show with 2hours of eps a week they'd most likely not work/get axed. Starting slow like the UK Soaps had, the more I think about the more I like it. As they can always add more in the future Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Dude, you're both clearly going to watch and are already in a processing phase so I wish we could cut through the drama. Honestly, that's what drives me up the wall far more than anything else. Online fandom having conniption fits, sometimes over nothing, sometimes over something that is just as not as big as they think it is. I don't have time to keep up with the hysterics. Whether or not this bears out to be a big problem, I can't get overly concerned yet when they're still in production and still topping the viewing charts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members AMCHistory Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Exactly. Typically new business ventures will forecast 5, and 10 years out. They will have a "scale-up" operating model to scale their business according to their growth projects. They will also have a "scale-down" operating model to mitigate risks from unforseen market pressures in a sustainble way. In any service/products based industry, the last thing you want to do is for your business model to negatively impact your consumer experience. This sounds more like a contingency plan, not a mitigation plan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Days22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 No I'm really not tho. If I gave up Days which was MY soap I will give up these two. Regardless, good luck to you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Oookay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cheap21 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 in all honesty, tweets from the actors mean nothing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members EricMontreal22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 I was thinking of Peyton Place (which I'm about half way through the series.) It was not just a cult classic, it was a PHENOMENON for its first few years and many think saved the failing ABC network. And yes, it had 2, 25 minute episodes a week. The pace however was perfect for that as was the character balance (usually only two stories going on at once--maybe a third burbling under.) Watching it now,it still feels much more like a daytime soap (with great production values for its time) than later primetime soaps, maybe because it did air all year long, with no reruns or off seasons. Interestingly midway through its second year it went to three episodes a week and quickly lost viewers who found it hard to catch up. It went back to two, but viewership dropped and its last season it went to one a week (in total I believe it has 600 episodes or so for about five years.) It has to be pointed out though one reason it never re-gained viewers was due to a show that at first felt so groundbreaking and edgy, with the huge social changes from '64'69 and it hardly adjusting to them, it soon felt behind the time.s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Days22 Posted May 16, 2013 Members Share Posted May 16, 2013 Haha I'm not! Maybe when they change the format again next month I might tho. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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