All My Children Scoops & Spoilers
Previews for the week of 21-Nov-2011
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[Note: No actual scoops, but here's an update on the AMC web series deal with Prospect Park, and it doesn't look good.]
Rumors surfaced last week online — via Daytime Confidential’s Jamey Giddens’ insider tweets for one — that some key actors were to blame for the rumored demise of AMC’s online web series with Prospect Park. Susan Lucci (Erica) and Vincent Irizarry (David) were mentioned by name as being the hold-outs, which may have cost the entire soap opera an online future. This prompted Lucci, Irizarry, and even Cady McClain (Dixie) to issue their separate denials on Facebook.
Lucci on November 16th posted that she was not to blame. All she wanted for AMC was at least a year guarantee going in. "There has been miscommunications as a result of statements in the press that I am one of the reasons that All My Children is not moving forward," Lucci posted. "We have been in discussions since Prospect Park first expressed interest in moving the series online, and in correspondence dated Sept. 8, I made it clear that I would be ecstatic to be a part of All My Children in a prominent way if they committed to producing the series for another year." Prospect Park executives did not get back to her, she continued, and so she found out AMC may have been dropped the same way fans did, from media.
Giddens supposedly made tweets [“Prospect Park’s inability to make a deal (with) Irizarry is a factor in #AMC reboot stalling. Stories were to heavily involve David”] hinting that Irizarry’s holding out on Prospect Park, as well as the story projections of creator Agnes Nixon and head writer Lorraine Broderick, may have helped in executives dropping online plans for AMC altogether. When the actor heard this, he asked for the source then said the contention was “rubbish” in a November 14th Facebook conversation.
McClain spoke up for the actors on her Facebook recently by revealing that Prospect Park hadn’t — at the time when they would — yet approached any of the AMC cast members, other than Lucci, as far as she heard. McClain also conjectured that Prospect Park might’ve seen OLTL as a better bet to continue with online, because of higher ratings. “Other than that, I cannot guess at anything else, other than that PP only has so much money to go around, and this internet gamble is a huge one. My feeling is, when OLTL goes to the internet, it will have a only a FEW months to prove itself as a viable show. If it doesn't pull the ratings PP needs it to... it will not withstand the chopping block. If it DOES do well in the ratings, then there is a CHANCE that AMC will be pulled back into the mix.”
Translation: TPTB at Prospect Park allegedly desperately needed the big names to sign on with the web series continuation. But big names like Michael E. Knight (Tad), Lucci, Rebecca Budig (Greenlee), Jacob Young (JR), Irizarry, and Alicia Minshew (Kendall) allegedly wouldn’t. So allegedly, Prospect Park had to half-heartedly get what they could get — Cameron Mathison (Ryan), Darnell Williams (Jesse) and Lindsay Hartley (Cara) — which proved to be not enough star power to sustain an expensive web proposition.
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