Idea for AMC & OLTL

[John]

Hey what if PP produced 104 episodes of each AMC & OLTL a year. Then aired AMC for 13 weeks, 4 days a week and then the same for OLTL. Then again for AMC and then OLTL again

Would u watch? Thoughts???

[Melroser]

I would just be happy if OLTL aired at all right now.

My main problem with "season one" was the many changes with the schedule: 4 days a week, then Tues and Thurs, and then both eps on Monday. They need to figure out some kind of schedule and stick with it. I'd be fine with 2 eps a week if it is consistent and easy to follow.

Haven't been a fan of AMC (on ABC or with PP) so can't comment on them.

[Cheap21]

I really don't think they should take a whole 3 months off twice during the year. The likelihood that people will come back is unlikely and I cant see them maintaining the numbers while trying to grow. They should air year round with maybe two finales but be back within a month. A summer finale in August with a September premiere and then a winter finale in January with February premiere seems reasonable. I wouldn't mind if they just did 3 episodes.

More needs to be scrapped or at least retooled. It doesn't need to air every week for both shows. A combined show airing as a special twice a month would probably be more effiecient.

[John]

They did that with the last 3 years of Port Charles. If its written into the contract that for example they each film 20 weeks and its 10 at a time so, So AMC would film January thru March and Then OLTL April Til June. Then AMC July til September and OLTL September thru November. Then repeat again starting in January. It could work well, if it is consistent .

[greens_dupres]

I wish these kinds of ideas were tossed around at the beginning. And maybe something like that would have provided a more manageable, sustainable model at thattime. At this point, with PP presumably burning through a lot of their funding to get both shows quickly off the ground, I'm not sure a late in the game overhaul will solve the cashflow problem. I hope so though.

[John]

No I agree If they went to their investor with this schedule and plan to do 104 episodes of each show plus 53 MORE shows I feel even thiugh more money mave have been required they could have sold the idea.

I would release twp AMC/s Two OLTL's and a more show every monday for 52 weeks. That way fans can watch when ever they want and being antytime drama would be correctq

[~bl~]

Having shows on and off for that many weeks and replaced with the other one would frustrate people who like one and not the other. Channels like HBO doing this doesn't upset people in the same way because there tends to be less wars and really most of these shows only produce 10-13 a year so no way they can be on all year. Also it isn't something new. A show like American Idol, which granted as lost viewers over the years built anticipation, by running only once a year. With Dancing with the Stars, there has been talk to cutting it to only one season because people got overloaded by it. If AMC and OLTL had that issue of fans having enough of it, I would get it.

For me it would depend on how the episodes were intended to be shown once written and taped. I think one of the things that hurt OLTL the most was the schedule changes and it flows so much better on OWN with the 4 episodes a week. AMC had less issues oddly enough, but they perhaps got lucky or could fix it in the edit.

[Cheap21]

no they didnt. PC never went off the air for 3 months at a time. They adhered to the standard daytime soap schedule. Adjusting their taping and structuring their stories into a 13 week format didnt affect what we saw onscreen. It would be a mistake for AMC or OLTL to keep going off the air for extended periods of time.

[John]

PC filmed 6-7 months out of the year and had 5 months off