Who knows, maybe Y&R will write a storyline arc for Darnell Williams character, Sarge, for the summer. Folks over there would like to see their Sarge return for a short term arc. I don't know if Darnell is still "off contract recurring" or completely done with the show. They miss their Sarge from what I am getting from board sites all over.

I don't see anyone wanting Sarge to return or asking for story for him. What boards are you browsing?

Well two days a week worked very well for Peyton Place

I think this schedule will help keep the suspense of the shows & leave fans with the feeling they cant wait til the next episode

LindaTNo1, on 17 May 2013 - 08:49, said:

Who knows, maybe Y&R will write a storyline arc for Darnell Williams character, Sarge, for the summer. Folks over there would like to see their Sarge return for a short term arc. I don't know if Darnell is still "off contract recurring" or completely done with the show. They miss their Sarge from what I am getting from board sites all over.

I don't see anyone wanting Sarge to return or asking for story for him. What boards are you browsing?

Im sure the contract Darnell has with PP, will not allow him to appear on a competing daytime drama.

The word is 'probably,' and I'm simply telling you that your 'look at me!' trolling is incredibly weak. I've had far better from far worse.

I'm afraid I am - well - none of those things, but that said I really do enjoy these blanket cliches you're trading in this morning as you swan about insulting everyone on the board with a variety of colorful adjective-American pop culture designate cocktails you think are very cutting. It's like watching someone wear designer brands from 15 years ago. Unfortunately I'm certain there at least 800 other failed Alexis Carrington impersonators who still think Dynasty is haute couture across old and new Europe alike, and among that teeming mass of humanity you're just not the cream of the crop. So instead of slinging around overwrought insults that you're sure make you sound just like Alexis! when you repeat them back to yourself in your head, why don't you instead just, I don't know - talk to people like they're just as intelligent and just as deserving of civility as you?

I haven't an inkling what you are talking about, but then I'm fairly certain you don't either. It all makes a lot more sense when you are actually Joan Collins.

You are right about my mistake. Sorry guys, but I have warned you that english is not my native language. Sorry for any mistakes

You should google Europe. You will find some very interesting photos and some fascinating info

Joan Collins love is never a bad thing.

You know I know about the edited comments and I still think it's kind of pathetic. You probably think so too, otherwise you would have admitted it.

There is an amount of time one can spend with an angry-wife-from-Cheaters-who-has-lost-her-weave-in-a-fight wannabe. Back to the PP drama.

People cared about Sarge?

My thoughts run along that same line, Gray Bunny.

Theoretically, the new viewing schedule could work. AMC and OLTL could each run twice a week, at thirty minutes an episode, and still be profitable, and still be entertaining. However, it requires re-thinking how these shows are written and produced (and I'll be honest, I'm not sure if people like Marlene McPherson can do that). From this point forward, AMC and OLTL need to follow the model established by the primetime soaps of the 1980's.

What does that mean?

* Smaller casts. AMC and OLTL's casts have to be even smaller than they are at the present. DALLAS and DYNASTY were, at heart, sagas about one family, with the regular cast composed of actors portraying key family members, and a revolving door of supporting actors/characters who came and went each season as stories dictated. AMC and OLTL might be wise to follow this, or a similar, model. (Yes, KNOTS LANDING wasn't as family-focused and they were more successful than either DALLAS or DYNASTY. However, each episode of KNOTS was sixty minutes, and therefore able to support a more broad canvas of characters. With each episode at approximately half that length, both AMC and OLTL need to take a good, hard look at their respective casts and determine which characters will give them the maximum bang for their buck.)

* Smaller stories. Smaller in number (the less number of stories to feature per episode, the better), and smaller in scope, too. From here on out, accept that EVERY story and EVERY main character must be featured in EVERY EPISODE. Moreover, episodes must cover more ground than ever before. We need to feel days passing as opposed to mere hours.

* More purposeful scenes. As nice as it was to see AMC's Angie chatting with Dr. Joe, for example, and catching up on everybody's doings, that sort of stuff isn't going to fly on the new, streamlined schedule. Not even on a show like "The Waltons" or "Little House for the Prairie" could you write a scene where essentially nothing happens. From now on, plot (character-driven plot, of course, but certainly gripping plot that relies more on dramatic reversals of fortune and of character) is the name of the game. If a scene doesn't advance the plot in a significant way, it's a waste of playing time.

* More on-location taping. A daytime drama that runs five or even four days per week can get away with being mostly studio-bound. On a series that runs less episodes, though, "studio-bound" translates often into "claustrophobic," "constricting," even "cheap as hell." (Example: The final season of DYNASTY.) My advice to AMC and OLTL would be to get those actors out of the studio as much as possible. Get them up, get them out, get them moving. Characters cannot afford to be seen working the same plot point or even several consecutive plot points in the same location any more than they can afford to spend episode after episode wringing their hands over the same damn dilemma. Again, characters on primetime soaps, as well as nighttime shows in general, are more mobile and more decisive, and that's because the shows' writers know they have only so many minutes and so many episodes to tell the kinds of stories that daytime soaps have the luxury of time to tell.

What a great post! Ita.

And now the (PP) soap fan once again has to act like the abused wife. That's what I deserve. Two half episodes per week.

Lol! This felt very abc - blame the audience! It's their fault.

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by JackPeyton

People cared about Sarge?

I dont even think Darnell cared for Sarge

People cared about Sarge?

I don't see anyone wanting Sarge to return or asking for story for him. What boards are you browsing?

Oh lord do we want to start this? Has anyone not heard that Darnell is a multiple Emmy winner and a hero to the African American community? Discovered by Agnes Nixon, blessed by MoNique...

Actually last night when everyone was in panic mode, I longed for Race Relations 101 to begin again. It brings me back to the simpler happier times of last week.

I don't see it, but supposedly this is from the AMC FB page. the contradictions keep on coming. this makes it sound like a production issue

"if only you knew first hand how hard people have had to work to even bring you ONE episode you would not call two episodes a "waste of time"... out of respect for the 350 people who are working their butts off to bring you these shows, give it a chance

Edited May 17, 201312 yr by dragonflies

People cared about Sarge?

I'm as shocked as you are.

I don't see it, but supposedly this is from the AMC FB page. the contradictions keep on coming. this makes it sound like a production issue

"if only you knew first hand how hard people have had to work to even bring you ONE episode you would not call two episodes a "waste of time"... out of respect for the 350 people who are working their butts off to bring you these shows, give it a chance

Who wrote that?

Well two days a week worked very well for Peyton Place

Except I'm pretty sure "Peyton Place" had a more lavish production schedule that allowed them to produce episodes with better quality. Now, AMC and OLTL might do well at just two eps per week; however, they're still working on that crazy sked, and that's what concerns me the most.

I don't see it there but apparantly whomever runs the AMC FB page wrote it. It's condescending BS and it reeks of ABC if it came from PP

Hulu, which has guaranteed a minimum amount of ad revenue to Prospect Park, has backed the new schedule, Mr. Frank and Mr. Kwatinetz said in their statement. Hulu was going to make only the most recent episodes available free, while providing the whole library to paying subscribers of its Hulu Plus service. But “because Hulu agrees with our findings, for the meantime they will keep all of our episodes on Hulu.com for free to give viewers the opportunity to find us and catch up,” the two men said.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/17/business/media/less-all-my-children-and-one-life-to-live-on-web.html?_r=1&

I don't see it, but supposedly this is from the AMC FB page. the contradictions keep on coming. this makes it sound like a production issue

"if only you knew first hand how hard people have had to work to even bring you ONE episode you would not call two episodes a "waste of time"... out of respect for the 350 people who are working their butts off to bring you these shows, give it a chance

I have no doubt it is a production issue. I wish they would have just said that. We can't produce as many shows as we thought we could in the time allowed. I think fans would be more forgiving of the truth than the spin.

LMAO that makes it sound like viewers are utterly too stupid to keep up WOW

Well, do you BLAME PP for thinking that way? My God, there are people out there who are STILL logging onto Hula.net and wondering WTF is going on!