Members DramatistDreamer Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 As I was checking just one of my too many e-mail accounts, I was briefly checking those on my Yahoo account and saw that One Life To Live was trending. I clicked on the trending topic and noticed that it was really about both shows, one of the links was an article on the NY Times website about PP's limited run engagement with OWN. Actually all of the links were about this topic. http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/27/business/media/own-to-show-all-my-children-and-one-life-to-live.html?partner=rss&emc=rss&_r=0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vanguardian Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 I've said many times, if ever there was a soap that would be great as a comeback, it's EDGE OF NIGHT! It's crime format makes it a good fit for primetime. They should bring back 3 characters from the original: Jody Travis played by Lori Loughlin, Preacher Emerson played by Charles Grant, and Liz Corell played by Marcia Cross. The rest of the cast should be newcomers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Chris B Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 Edge of Night could make a great primetime or a daytime soap and also, it could be a great vehicle to bring in male viewers. They could blend the current success with procedurals and use that to make it more appealing as well. I just would want a soap to serve a purpose if they bring it back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members SFK Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 Speaking of TEON, I've been watching a lot of Alfred Hitchcock Presents on AntennaTV, many of the episodes from stories penned by Henry Slesar, and it's no wonder why he was such a successful soap writer. I'm sure a lot of it has to do with the acting style and visual element of the time, but many of the episodes are pure soap. SoapNet should have done a soapy anthology series, treating the entire soap community as a huge rep company, actors playing any number of roles in unrelated episodes. Oprah could always do something similar if she really wanted to, dramatizing her favorite short stories and the like. She is understandably shy about scripted programming because her projects haven't always done so well (the Brewster Place weekly series, Beloved, her more recent TV movies). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted June 28, 2013 Members Share Posted June 28, 2013 Why would Soapnet want to do that when they had classics like Southern Belles of Jupiter Hollow, and Bank of Mom and Dad? I still remember people telling me how these shows were the future of Soapnet and of daytime. Yes...no future at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MontyB Posted June 30, 2013 Members Share Posted June 30, 2013 The best comment in this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted June 30, 2013 Members Share Posted June 30, 2013 I looked at my calender and noticed OLTL will premier on OWN the same day it would have celebrated 45 years. I wonder how they will do anniversaries for the shows. Will they alternate like GL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted June 30, 2013 Members Share Posted June 30, 2013 They should have Oprah tweet during the first few broadcasts. Apparently that's what's helped the Perry shows. And helped divert eyes to her network. Woman's got a beyond massive following, especially in social media. All the soaps should embrace the social media aspect more than they do. Well, in a better way than getting drunk and tweeting. However, this comes from someone who has no reason to tweet so maybe they already do? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 Does anyone know if OWN will show the entire episodes or the edited episodes? I hope we get to see the entire episodes to compare what they left out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 What was edited? Cursing? Did I miss something? I know they stopped the major cursing and wasn't there talk of splicing episodes together? I feel so out of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members allmc2008 Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 The cursing was but I am talking about the splicing of episodes. I wonder if they will show the spliced or the whole episodes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/07/01/all-my-children-and-one-life-to-live-to-premiere-on-own-oprah-winfrey-network-with-three-episode-marathons/189838/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Tvbythenumbers+%28TVbytheNumbers%29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members All My Shadows Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 OK, that makes no sense. Having an immediate repeat of the third episode, for one, but the logic in choosing to air three episodes on the first day instead of four (or just one...) is escaping me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members KMan101 Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 LOL yeah. Their scheduling is making no sense to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members greens_dupres Posted July 1, 2013 Members Share Posted July 1, 2013 so does that mean that even with these mini-marathons, they won't be back to back on day 1? What genius made that decision? Edited: Got it now- still stupid. Wonder if this ties into some greater ep count plan with PP/Hulu? I can't imagine there isn't some reason for repeating the third ep. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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