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

In one of the articles in this thread, it mentions that OWN's primetime lineup averages around 350,000 each night, with the exception of the two nights of Tyler Perry shows. If OWN promotes this the right way, I could see these soaps doing well. Repeats on SOAPnet were getting higher ratings than that, for all the soaps, so they should be able to pull off at least 500,000 I hope. I just worry the weird schedule might hurt them. They should be airing in the same hour block.

As for the PGP soaps being brought back, I still say people need to think outside the box. Considering how long those soaps ran and how convoluted things became, I wouldn't bring either back in their original form. I'd say the best bet would be to do a remake or a spin-off type of thing (with the same name) and focus mostly on new characters. As it stands you'd probably have to recast the majority of characters if you decide to bring any of them back. A remake of Edge could serve a purpose, same for GL or ATWT if a remake of the original premise. Perhaps even doing a period soap for one of them. I also would suggest re-developing them as a primetime soap that could air either on OWN, Hulu or Netflix. We don't need so many daytime soaps that we oversaturate the market again.

The only two soaps I'd say we truly need are a Dark Shadows remake or Edge of Night. Both offer something we aren't getting anywhere else. And Dark Shadows has such enduring popularity.

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.

Edited June 28, 201312 yr by Vanguardian

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.

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).

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.

Frankly, those disgruntled folks need to get the hell over what Lord O (rightfully) said. While I was pissed that OLTL/AMC were cancelled by ABC, I certainly never thought that she was obligated to save them (nor did I think that the folks on The Chew/The Revolution owed it to anyone to vacate the show to 'bring those shows back') and I definitely don't think that she should be eating any humble pie. If anything, Lord O is doing folks a huge solid by taking them on - especially when she didn't have to in the first place, regardless if OWN's ratings were in the shitter.

The best comment in this thread.

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?

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?

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.

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.

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.

The cursing was but I am talking about the splicing of episodes. I wonder if they will show the spliced or the whole episodes.

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

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.

LOL yeah. Their scheduling is making no sense to me.

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.

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.

Edited July 1, 201312 yr by greens_dupres