Creator Agnes Nixon Confirms Returns of All My Children and One Life to Live

Its going to be an amazing feeling (if it does end up happening) to watch these shows again even if it is online, with a smaller cast and budget but to see these characters that we all have said goodbye to except for the handful that are on GH now its going to feel a bit like seeing an old friend and I personally can't wait.

Thank you soap gawds for letting AMC & OLTL grace my television and computer screens again. Champagne on the house for everyone.

Go Agnes!!!

Great news to kickoff this weekend.

Yes! Maybe we will soon see all of our beloved soaps making a come back on the Internet four times a week at 30 minutes per episode. Long live our daytime soaps!

I'm happy to hear this news, but I must admit, I am jealous that Guiding Light and As the World Turns didn't have the same outcome. I fought so hard to save my Guiding Light and it just hurts not being able to watch this show anymore.. I still pray that someday Guiding Light and As the World Turns will be back, maybe this is just the beginning..

You gotta LOVE Agnes Nixon. So happy for fans and for HER. I'll never forget how crestfallen she looked at the end of the View's salute to the end of AMC. This is all gonna be VERY interesting! How is it gonna look online? Very exciting times...

I personally think one day tv/computer/dvd will be combined at some point. Baby steps. The industry does things in a way to make the most money.

I believe that Days of our Lives has huge online ratings. I read that recently somewhere.

More and more tv shows are being watched online.

I know I will watch oltl online. I just wish it had the same writers/producers. We will see. I still miss the characters.

Agnes fucken rocks. All I have to say.

Agnes doesn't lie, so I am thrilled to hear our shows are returning. In a recent Soap Opera Digest, it suggests that there will be like 5 weeks of AMC and then 5 weeks of OLTL...that would work too!

OH HAPPY DAY !!! Agnes is a soap GODDESS !! Irma Phillips and all of the pioneers of the soap oprea genre are looking down and smiling !! We as soap fans fought and fought hard, we wrote letters, sent e-mails, made phone calls, even boycotted ABC. And even thou some of us lost hope in Prospect Park, we stll held a glimmer of hope that one day, they would make good. And with loyal fans help, they did it !!! If I could, I'd hug everyone!!! This just made the begining of the year great!! And yes, it's going to be different online, but I can't wait!!!

I am very hopeful that if this is successful...others may return as well. I would LOVE to revisit Guiding Light again.

Soaps Uncensored said there is gonna be 168 original episodes and 42 recap episodes of both AMC & OLTL. Airing them M-TH with the recaps on Fridays for 42 weeks.

The one thing SOD says I could buy is that they share the same studio. However, I bet they will have individual sets. I could see each soap films for a month at a time. They could film two episodes a day. So at the end of their month of taping they have 40 episodes, which gives 10 weeks of on air material. Each soap tapes every other month til all 168 episodes of each soap are produced. Given that the recap shows sound like just reairing scenes from that given week, I dont see that costing much at all

“It’s a historic moment, comparable to how life was changed when television took over for radio.” –Agnes Nixon

It’s not comparable at all. When radio transitioned to television, they were the only two games in town. Today, the sources of entertainment are almost limitless, but there are still only SO MANY viewers to spread around. This is nothing like the glory days of radio and television.

Agnes may not lie, but that doesn't mean she's not delusional.

I am excited that these two shows are coming back. It's great great news! And with the fact that they have had the time in between the ending of their shows on TV and their airing on the web means that they won't pick up immediately after the cliffhangers/endings they had when they left the air.

The great part of that is that they will be able to start with fresh stories and can literally erase what was bad about them in the end. AMC was a mess for years and even at the end it was not some tightly written or acted drama. It was just a really poor form of itself from the glory days. And OLTL, as much as everyone praised it, had a lot of issues as well that just didn't ring true or make sense... to me anyway.

With AMC, there will be numerous recasts since so many of the actors have found other employment. Jacob Young who played JR and a huge part of the finale has now seen his star shine brighter on THE BOLD AND THE BEAUTIFUL where he got his start in soaps. Melissa Clare Egan is doing a bang up job on Y&R so Annie will be a recast. Darnell Williams is supposedly still on Y&R even though he has been extremely absent for months under the new regime.

OLTL has John, Todd and Starr living in Port Charles and although the characters are possibly tied to that show and ABC, I can't see the actors opting to return to the east coast to appear on the show when they have all relocated to the west coast.

But a reboot like this for both shows could be just what they needed to clean house and start over again as better programs. Let's just hope that they have better production quality and scripts then most of the web soaps littered across the web with soap actors no longer working on the TV. Sorry... DaVanity, THE BAY, and the rest are really bad.

I don't think Agnes would say this if she wasn't pretty sure it was going to happen, wahoo!!!!!

Brad Bell can go f**k himself now, if I have OLTL and AMC back I'm not wasting my time on his B&B triangle crap!

"I'm excited for their future with Prospect Park. I'm looking forward to working alongside these wonderful people as we ensure that the shows will continue with all the love and excitement we've always had." --what Agnes said LAST time around (in a July 7, 2011, news release)

"I'm excited for their future with Prospect Park. I'm looking forward to working alongside these wonderful people as we ensure that the shows will continue with all the love and excitement we've always had." --what Agnes said LAST time around (in a July 7, 2011, news release)
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That was the Day after they made the deal with ABC. They had nothing worked out. This time they have money all raised thru private placement. They have studio space in CT. They have union deals with SAG-AFTRA & DGA. In talks with WGA. They have EP's and cast members signed on all in two weeks from news breakin again. It sounds very plausable.

Plus with what occured last time, Im sure AN wouldnt make statements unless everything was a go.

Still, we've heard nothing directly from Prospect Park, so nothing has been confirmed by them. Doesn't that raise any suspicions (especially with their very shaky reputation in the business world).

I've been sitting out this conversation until now, because it's been sad for me to see so many people chomping at the bit to believe every morsel of information after being burned so badly last time around. appleridge, as you wrote yourself, Agnes was offering glowing words the day after the deal was made in 2011 with "nothing worked out". If she was so quick (premature, as it turned out) to issue statements then, why should we believe her now?

If this works out, I will not only be amazed, I WILL be delighted. I just don't see how it can work in the long haul. Where is the money going to come from? Are they going to charge a subscription fee (and would enough fans pay it?). I can’t see it being solely advertiser-supported. If that’s going to be their main source of revenue, I can’t see the cast and crew making a living wage. It just doesn’t make sense in so many ways.

This was all spelled out In Nelson Branco's soap Uncensored issue 57

Why do people want conformation from PP. PP is going thru Deadline & Hollywood reporter, TV line just like any other show on any other network. NBC/ABC/CBS/FOX etc domt release info directly about their shows they release them thru entertainment sites. Its always this way. Why is it fine for them to do this, but PP gets slammed for it. Makes no sense

It's not always this way. Networks issue news releases every day. The websites subscribe to network media pages and that's where they get those releases.

Sometimes, they spread trial balloons or tidbits of information through reporters, but most of the information websites get come from official news releases.

Prospect Park is getting slammed because they've already "fooled us once" (shame on them). I'm just not ready to bend over and let them fool me twice. They need to operate more on the up-and-up than they did the last time around for me to even give them a chance to believe what they might possibly be trying to cobble together again. So far, they have said nothing.

You say they've got money raised through "private placement", whatever that means. That sounds very reminiscent of what they said last time. They never did reveal where any of that money was coming from. So far, I've read nothing but a lot of wishful thinking. If--and it's a BIG if--they do manage to get shows produced and posted, I don't know how long they can do it without more revenue than advertisers can generate.

Well I dont see this as fooled us once, they just werent ready but they seem to have spent the last year working on this. Given that they actually have deals with DGA & SAG-AFTRA & that WGA wants a deal with them. They have studio space & sets & actors are signing on, EP's hired & Agnes' statement makes me feel they are closer to their goals.

Again, we haven't heard directly from them that they have deals with DGA and SAG-AFTRA and that WGA wants a deal with them. We haven't heard any of those things...directly from Prospect Park...but go ahead and believe what you want. If the deal goes sour, don't blame Prospect Park (the way SOOOOO many of you did last time), because they haven't said anything officially.

Again, I hope it works out. So far, though, I see nothing that gives me any confidence that it's actually going to: a) happen; or b) work.

Am I the only one who is still skeptical about the whole thing? Since the beginning PP has released small stories here of there people signing on. But there is no business model and no talk of distribution. They say "online". Ok... how are you going monatize it cause subscriber fees didn't keep Passions on (thats how i watched the final season, online).

Also, PP has no PR arm, they don't give interviews and never officially release anything. I would hate to see false hope trip up the soap community again.

Yes. Yes, you are. Thanks for paying attention.

^No. You and TV Gord are both skeptical of this. It won't likely happen if your questions don't get answered...as viewers you demand to know all of the details!

@Jamey Giddens: Agnes is my road-dogg. She's a Ride-or-Die gangster of Soap Opera's. The Don Diva. She has been with this industry through it all and will now be there to push the genre into its new format. Sit back and take-a-notes. Because Agnes is the master of the soap universe.

Yes she is. I still think that it will be a major adjustment...and, as I posted somewhere earlier, I think the new model will not rely on existing fans, but rather new fans. Of course the old fans with all of the baggage we carry won't be shunned, but they will likely target completely new blood for these shows. My bet is some of the history of the shows will be obliterated in order to make it more viable for what they have to work with today.

Above where TVGord and DaytimeFan0001 were questioning the details of how it will work is why I think they will be disappointed regardless. Their 'due diligence' audit on contracts with unions, funds sourcing, long-term viability, etc are not off the mark in being questioned; however, I wouldnt expect Prospect Park or any other production company to release that info to the public. We never were privy to the details of such info from Procter and Gamble, Disney/ABC, etc. Only through isolated events did we even get a glimpse at what actors are making, such as when Melissa Reeves had a lawsuit with Sony/NBC on Days and it was reported that her salary was ~780k/yr. This information is just not made available to the public. We have no idea what the above-and-below the line production costs are for these shows.

So I would just encourage everyone to sit back and wait for it to unfold. I'm looking forward to revisiting the shows but I don't have any expectation that it will be like it was in the golden days of soap opera, which in my view was in the 70s, 80s, mid-90s. Things started to unravel after that and we are now where we are: production costs has deeply eclipsed the revenue stream, and thus they can't sustain themselves.

@TV Gord: Don't mess with Agnes or she'll sick Billy Clyde Tuggle on you!

http://youtu.be/yBwTFgO4v6M

I dont know what goes on in TV land, I only watch so I cant even guess if it will happen or not. The thing that I dont understand is why did only 2 people confirm signing on. Im sure there are more. Or not? What in the heck. Why do some speak and some dont. This is what happened last year and it was the two who now confirmed who confirmed last year.