All My Children/One Life To Live online (cast info, discussion, etc)- Page 9

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 3:34pm

On my screen, you can see how many seconds the commercial break will be. It's usually around 90 seconds. Then, sometimes when they return to the episode, they cut to another commercial break right away. I'm probably the only one who wishes the show were back to an hour. I don't feel the same about the show now.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/8/13 at 7:58pm

Boo I keep on replying and my post disappears...

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 12:24am

Maybe this will work.

I think with all of the vintage character returns that we've announced, the show will seem more familiar soon.

I don't know how Hulu works, but I imagine you can't FForward through the commercials the way I can when I DVR the show. I have noticed the placement of ads is weird--you will have a three minute scene, then an ad, and then ten minutes without an ad, whereas it used to be fairly balanced on network tv. Still the fact that in this new version the show has 1/3 of the commercial amount (3-4 minutes) as opposed to a half hour portion fo the show on ABC is, I think, awesome.

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 4:43pm

Someone is hoping they can return to AMC.


Susan Lucci 'Hopes' to Return to ALL MY CHILDREN

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 5:05pm

Yes, she's meeting this week to work on schedule. AMC is done filming this cycle next week--and then OLTL films for five weeks, but I could see Susan coming in July when AMC is back filming.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 6:09pm

who do we think celia's parents are?

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 7:24pm

I'm having a much easier time getting in to OLTL. I've only seen about 3 episodes of AMC and that's skipping over them here and there. I saw yesterday's show. And now I really can't even remember what happened.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 5/9/13 at 8:28pm

I have no idea though she is meant to have ties to the canvas. I'm intrigued by her backstory--although the WAY WAY too fast instant love thing with her and Petey is my least favorite aspect of the reboot. I quite liked Bittle (sp?) as the new JR today.

Re Celia's parents--Dimitri is coming back (from the 90s!) and his stories were always over the top gothic, kinda like Celia's seems to be, so they could be connected?

[Jungle Red]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 7:32pm

Well hello cutie in the black boxer briefs!

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/11/13 at 10:17pm

Eric, whoever her parents are, you just know they are people we know already. But they supposedly are dead in a car crash. And who might her guardian be? Those are the things that interest me so far.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/15/13 at 8:13pm

Am I correct in saying that AMC aired one of those behind the scenes today? I tuned in, watched a few minutes of it, and tuned out. So last week it was Friday, this week it was Wednesday. They don't want us to know which day to skip, lol? I'm not liking this.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/22/13 at 3:06pm

I kinda thought Billy Clyde would be back but I didn't know if he was dead or alive.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/22/13 at 3:16pm

I know he's coming back..........I'm not sure when though.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/22/13 at 4:08pm

I guess you didn't watch today~

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 4:16pm

No comments about the plethora of "more AMC" shows on line? Today makes the third one in about 4 days. And I see this week will also have a 'recap'

I'm done. Goodbye AMC. Sorry you had to pull this $hit.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 8:37pm

Jane I'm not sure what you mean?

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 8:41pm

There are not five new episodes per week on hulu. There are 3 or 4. The other days, they interview the actors behind the scenes. They call it "more AMC" And I saw that this week there's also a day of recap.

[Jane2]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 9:15pm

Actually, I just read on line that both soaps have downsized to two new episodes per week, Mon and Wed. I'm not interested.

[StockardFan]

Posted: 5/28/13 at 11:35pm

Right, they show AMC on Monday and Wednesday and OLTL on Tuesday and Thursday with a re-cap/interview show on Friday. I lost interest in AMC after the first week. I usually watch OLTL maybe once a week, but I'm sort of "Meh" about it. Too much of Dani/Matthew/Jeffrey sitting around being stupid and getting wasted.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/2/13 at 4:24pm

Yeah, they cut ack for now which is annoying. Two eps of both shows a week, and a combined "more". Both shows have been improvingso much that I'm sticking with them, but I do find it annoying though the reasoning makes sense--and with the writer changes they have talked about now having time to really write--after all with AMC they wrote the first thirty pisodes in under a week!).


Good interview with One Life's Exec Producer here (one is coming from AMC's). http://michaelfairmansoaps.com/one-life-to-live/the-jennifer-pepperman-interview-one-life-to-live/2013/06/01/ (They mention that the writers weren't integrating the Dani/Matthew/Jeffrey stuff enough with the oler characters.)

[Jane2]

Posted: 6/2/13 at 6:19pm

I'm not sure that 2 episodes/week at around 20 minutes per episode is enough to keep me interested. It's too bad, because I was enjoying it a bit before they cut back.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/2/13 at 6:38pm

Each episode runs 25 minutes (as opposed to 35 minutes of content on an hour network show) but I do see your point. I wish they had made a compromise and done three a week, at least. NOBODY cares about the More filler episodes...

[beautywickedlover]

Posted: 6/6/13 at 12:57pm

Production for both shows will go on early hiatus. However, new episodes will continue online for now.


'One Life to Live' and 'All My Children' production goes on early hiatus; new shows continue for now

[Playbilly]

Posted: 6/6/13 at 9:06pm

Say goodbye, folks. That's all there will be. Agnes must feel like crap.

[EricMontreal22]

Posted: 6/15/13 at 9:38pm

The union has said they see lack of coming to a quick deal--and at least somewhat positively, the writing teams are being paid and told to continue writing to the end of the first year (so episodes through March 2014.) As well Prospect Park just announced the creation of the boring sounding weekly video blog with behind the scenes stuff (How this will differentiate from the useless MORE episodes is beyond me.)

In happier news, I really hope Vincent gets some progress with his campaign--and I added my submission. The soap stigma may be a hard issue to cross, but I can't see people arguing that Agnes Nixon at this stage in her life and career doesn't deserve the honour. Have TV writers won before?

http://www.examiner.com/article/vincent-irizarry-campaigns-for-agnes-nixon-for-kennedy-center-honors