1 hour ago, Soapsuds said:

ATWT!!!!!!!llll😂

The erasure!

I know the show was bad at the end, but still…ATWT erasure is unacceptable.

25 minutes ago, Khan said:

Premiere ad campaign: "Black is about to get a whole lot more beautiful."

 

And P&G had an ad campaign slogan that said “My Black Is Beautiful”. 😂

4 hours ago, janea4old said:

When daytime longtimers' contracts are up for renewal, the terms aren't publicized, so I don't know how long they get renewed for.
But with an entirely new soap, who knows?

The contracts likely won't be for a very long duration, since the network is intentionally sabotaging the show with a 60-minute format out of the starting gate, which of course has a historical success rate of literally 0%. 

I'd argue that CBS will try and secure what they'd consider the main players of the soap for as long as possible. It's been incredibly long since we've had a new soap, so who knows how long that'll be? The reason why established soaps aren't known for giving long contracts it's because they've already mapped out who the important cast members are and those aren't going to sign long-term contracts because short-term is usually a better deal for them. 

Bravo to this happening much sooner than I thought. Because of the January start date, I expect a lot more details very soon. Can't wait to see who's cast, the show's setting, what the characters do for a living, all of it.

On 4/18/2024 at 4:29 PM, Bright Eyes said:

When it comes to casting, I know we all have our wishlists, but I think it's best to try to curb your expectations a bit because 2/3 of the cast are probably going to be newcomers, at least to soaps. Either way, I just hope the show hires a talented casting director that casts newcomers with talent and charisma and casts names not just because of who they are, but also because they fit the character like a glove.

Newcomers will be cast, but the producers will likely look at who can handle the schedule so they don't end up losing cast members quickly. Joan Collins had an issue with the taping schedule of Guiding Light even though she is very experienced in acting.

On his Michael Fairman Emmy interview, Bryton James said Sheila Duckworth recently visited the Y&R set to see how things run (it's toward the end).

 

Make of it what you will!

On 4/17/2024 at 6:41 PM, allmc2008 said:

Damn, you are alive! I'm so happy to see you again!

 first of all, you are a legend. THANKS!💗

I think The Talk is actually going to end on 01/03/25 even though they said December. Just in time for the hosts to ring in the new year while simultaneously bidding farewell. The Gates makes its debut on 01/06/25.

11 hours ago, BoldRestless said:

On his Michael Fairman Emmy interview, Bryton James said Sheila Duckworth recently visited the Y&R set to see how things run (it's toward the end).

 

Make of it what you will!

Makes sense. She doesn't have any daytime experience on her IMDB so she probably is  trying to learn the terrain. Even producers should know how different daytime is than primetime and movies.

If only the Prospect Park dudes had gone behind the scenes beforehand and observed how soaps are produced.

17 minutes ago, Khan said:

If only the Prospect Park dudes had gone behind the scenes beforehand and observed how soaps are produced.

OLTL's Melissa Archer was on a podcast not long ago and said essentially the same thing many PP vets have - they were ahead of the time and ahead of the curve re: streaming, but didn't understand the nuts and bolts of making a soap 5 days a week.

I do think some of the controversial and bold changes introduced (more commercial music again, more risks with content and yes, language) could've worked and could still work in the current day and age, particularly if you hope to sustain an audience of kids home from school/on their devices, and not just seniors. But you can't do it all at once in such an extreme way, and you can't do it without a sustainable plan and strong financial base for long-running production. While I think the productions themselves were strong and staffed by soap lifers from various shows, the nuts higher up at PP were simply gambling with venture capital.

I think if they'd tried to launch one show, or (my preference) both shows at simply 2-3 days a week like the UK or European soaps (or Australia's new Amazon transplant Neighbours, now nominated for US Daytime Emmys and rightly so, which runs at 4) and on a seasonal-arc basis with a collection of banked episodes and breaks - something Archer suggested, something Port Charles did and something Linda Gottlieb tried and failed at many years ago early on in 1991 - then it could've worked. That to me is more sustainable than the grueling network pace.

Edited April 20, 20241 yr by Vee

58 minutes ago, Vee said:

OLTL's Melissa Archer was on a podcast not long ago and said essentially the same thing many PP vets have - they were ahead of the time and ahead of the curve re: streaming, but didn't understand the nuts and bolts of making a soap 5 days a week.

I do think some of the controversial and bold changes introduced (more commercial music again, more risks with content and yes, language) could've worked and could still work in the current day and age, particularly if you hope to sustain an audience of kids home from school/on their devices, and not just seniors. But you can't do it all at once in such an extreme way, and you can't do it without a sustainable plan and strong financial base for long-running production. While I think the productions themselves were strong and staffed by soap lifers from various shows, the nuts higher up at PP were simply gambling with venture capital.

I think if they'd tried to launch one show, or (my preference) both shows at simply 2-3 days a week like the UK or European soaps (or Australia's new Amazon transplant Neighbours, now nominated for US Daytime Emmys and rightly so, which runs at 4) and on a seasonal-arc basis with a collection of banked episodes and breaks - something Archer suggested, something Port Charles did and something Linda Gottlieb tried and failed at many years ago early on in 1991 - then it could've worked. That to me is more sustainable than the grueling network pace.

TOLN's productions were simply a mixture of being ahead of their time and also not as... well executed as they should have been. The sets ⏤ while nice ⏤ were also all backwards, and they could have potentially taken from English soaps and created a more fixed environment. When I watch Hollyoaks, and then watch the content of All My Children & One Life to Live I see so many similarities, and it's quite disheartening that it did not work out in the end, because it could have had they not had six-weeks to get things together from hiring an EP to the start of filming. Six week is not enough time. At all.

Bryton says in this interview that Sheila Duckworth was on the set to see how they run things 

I hope it's just the day to day operations thing lol

I copied where he mentions it 

 

 

18 hours ago, AllMyDaysatGH said:

 first of all, you are a legend. THANKS!💗

Ah! Thanks!!

 

On 4/19/2024 at 9:43 PM, ReddFoxx said:

Newcomers will be cast, but the producers will likely look at who can handle the schedule so they don't end up losing cast members quickly. Joan Collins had an issue with the taping schedule of Guiding Light even though she is very experienced in acting.

She had something that was scheduled before she took the gig & she cleared her need for time off for it with Paul Rauch, then EP, and the one who got her for the gig. But then Paul was gone & regrettably Conboy was EP & he objected & things went to hell. It could have been prevented, should have been. But it wasn't a product of not being used to daytime. From all accounts Joan said that daytime people worked harder than anyone in the world but she buckled down & fit right in. At least this is what I recall.