Procter & Gamble Gets Ready to Enter TV’s Streaming Wars

[Faulkner]

I’d love to see GL or ATWT on streaming, but if it’s just post-2000 stuff, I’d take a pass (even though there’s good stuff there from both shows).

 

Although, on second thought, if the later stuff proves popular, they might be motivated to put in the work to restore the more challenging older stuff.

[DramatistDreamer]

 

I'd think their episodes from the 1980s in particular would be far easier to promote with the likes of Meg Ryan, Marisa Tomei, Julianne Moore and Steven Weber who are highly recognizable.

The SoapClassics people did an awful lot of work for them already on some of those older episodes and P&G don't really have much before 1978 according to them.

[SteelCity]

Since the P&G soaps, save Edge of Night, are all in one universe, couldn't they go the way of one combined soap existing in a few towns? After all, wasn't Another World initially a spin-off of As the World Turns?

[ChitHappens]

 

I would not pay one red cent for any of the old shows to be rebooted.  No one has the desire to fully financially back a soap.  We'd get more the trash that's on today.  Put the catalogs up and I'm good!  I'd certainly pay for the old stuff when soaps were not embarrassing trash.  

[Faulkner]

The Edge of Night could just be rebooted as a standard 10-to-13-episodes-a-season drama. Any of the shows could. What we would lose in the immersive day-by-day experience of a soap, we’d gain in quality and production values.