Friday, April 26, 2013
Former love for ABC turns to hate!
To this day, (4-26-2013) I have continued to boycott the crap network ABC, as I have done since One Life To Live went off the air. For decades ABC was my favorite network. As a kid I would sing the "You and me and ABC" jingle as I thought about my favorite shows while walking to or from school.
I have mixed feelings because I do support General Hospital and I hope that the 50 year old daytime drama will continue entertaining for another 50 years. Other than that, I hope the network folds. I do not plan to ever go back to watching the crap network that spat in the faces of fans who dedicated an hour a day to each show, 5 days a week, 52 weeks a year, year after year, decade after decade.
Generations were bridged with the shared experience of watching the same long running shows. So many soap fans get choked up thinking back on the enjoyable times shared watching soaps with loved ones who have passed away. Making small talk was never an issue with two soap viewers, and the small talk could extend back decades - recounting favorite stories and characters from years past.
Then there's the continuity angle of soaps. When you're a dedicated soap fan, you watch daily as much as possible. Viewing the show creates a sense of normalcy in one's life. As strange as it may sound to some, All My Children has helped me through some of my most difficult challenges in my lifetime. Through it all - including the death of family members, divorce, and general life upheaval, All My Children was there providing stability. Even more reliable than many family members, I could count on AMC to be there for me. To at least distract my mind for a few minutes at a time, where no other shows could do that for me.
I'm sad that so far, Susan Lucci has not signed up to continue playing Erica Kane but I am hopeful that once her current projects wind down, that she will be back. The same with Alicia Minshew (Kendall), Michael E. Knight (Tad), and Walt Wiley (Jackson).
Thankfully, Prospect Park has brought in Agnes Nixon to consult in order to resurrect her creations and stay true to their essence.
As so many fans have tweeted - COME ON MONDAY!!!!
Come on Monday April 29th... I miss AMC and OLTL!
Today is Friday, April 26, 2013.
I, like many other die hard All My Children and One Life To Live fans have been anxiously awaiting the relaunch of these two iconic dramas since they were unceremoniously canceled by the crap network ABC in 2011.
ABC claimed the shows were no longer viable means to make money. Rumors were flying around online stating an upstart production company, Prospect Park, was interested in securing the licensing for these two shows. Fans were excited when a public agreement had been reached only to have their hopes dashed when the process fell through.
Prospect Park continued strengthening their company until they were in a position to try again, and this time it succeeded. All My Children and One Life To Live will release new shows on Monday, April 29th. The shows will not be aired in the US on television, but they will air on the Canadian television station, FX. In the US, you can see the shows online at hulu.com, or if you dont mind paying for hulu plus, you can watch the shows on your smart phone, or if you have a device like Roku or Apple TV, you can stream the shows to your TV using Hulu Plus. You can also purchase individual episodes from iTunes for 99 cents each.
Soaps have endeavored to represent societal living in an entertaining way since the days of radio. The moved from radio to television, and now they will move from television to the modern medium of the Internet. Leave it to Agnes Nixon's soaps to be forerunners, blazing a new trail for future soaps. We do however need to adjust to the fact that these soaps are no longer Daytime Dramas. Being available online, they've become ANYTIME Dramas.
Since I am a true die hard fan, I've been paying close attention to the developments. From everything I've read, Prospect Park is a classy, organized, intelligent, visionary company whose influence on the entertainment industry is just beginning to be felt.
Longtime (crap) network ABC was unable to figure out a way to turn a profit from the two longtime fan favorites. I question how hard they tried.
Did ABC try in earnest to syndicate their soaps in other English speaking countries? Did ABC look to the past when soaps had a shoestring budget but still put out superb entertainment? Did ABC reduce the size of the casts?
Somehow Prospect Park came up with the revolutionary idea of producing both shows using much of the same resources rather than dedicating resources entirely to each show. The two shows share a studio and behind the scenes crews and alternate taping on rotating 5 week basis. How ingenious. I could go on and on about the intelligent things Prospect Park is doing that the crap network ABC was unable to come up with, despite their thick wallet and decades of experience.
By the way, I am still boycotting ABC to this day. I will write more about that later. For now I will sign off and urge anyone who reads this to please give All My Children and One Life To Live a try on Hulu. The shows have remained true to their previous incarnations but have been modernized and will now tell stories at a faster pace - something essential to appeal to today's short memory span society.
Thank you Prospect Park!
I, like many other die hard All My Children and One Life To Live fans have been anxiously awaiting the relaunch of these two iconic dramas since they were unceremoniously canceled by the crap network ABC in 2011.
ABC claimed the shows were no longer viable means to make money. Rumors were flying around online stating an upstart production company, Prospect Park, was interested in securing the licensing for these two shows. Fans were excited when a public agreement had been reached only to have their hopes dashed when the process fell through.
Prospect Park continued strengthening their company until they were in a position to try again, and this time it succeeded. All My Children and One Life To Live will release new shows on Monday, April 29th. The shows will not be aired in the US on television, but they will air on the Canadian television station, FX. In the US, you can see the shows online at hulu.com, or if you dont mind paying for hulu plus, you can watch the shows on your smart phone, or if you have a device like Roku or Apple TV, you can stream the shows to your TV using Hulu Plus. You can also purchase individual episodes from iTunes for 99 cents each.
Soaps have endeavored to represent societal living in an entertaining way since the days of radio. The moved from radio to television, and now they will move from television to the modern medium of the Internet. Leave it to Agnes Nixon's soaps to be forerunners, blazing a new trail for future soaps. We do however need to adjust to the fact that these soaps are no longer Daytime Dramas. Being available online, they've become ANYTIME Dramas.
Since I am a true die hard fan, I've been paying close attention to the developments. From everything I've read, Prospect Park is a classy, organized, intelligent, visionary company whose influence on the entertainment industry is just beginning to be felt.
Longtime (crap) network ABC was unable to figure out a way to turn a profit from the two longtime fan favorites. I question how hard they tried.
Did ABC try in earnest to syndicate their soaps in other English speaking countries? Did ABC look to the past when soaps had a shoestring budget but still put out superb entertainment? Did ABC reduce the size of the casts?
Somehow Prospect Park came up with the revolutionary idea of producing both shows using much of the same resources rather than dedicating resources entirely to each show. The two shows share a studio and behind the scenes crews and alternate taping on rotating 5 week basis. How ingenious. I could go on and on about the intelligent things Prospect Park is doing that the crap network ABC was unable to come up with, despite their thick wallet and decades of experience.
By the way, I am still boycotting ABC to this day. I will write more about that later. For now I will sign off and urge anyone who reads this to please give All My Children and One Life To Live a try on Hulu. The shows have remained true to their previous incarnations but have been modernized and will now tell stories at a faster pace - something essential to appeal to today's short memory span society.
Thank you Prospect Park!
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