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Apr.11.2013
to henry jenkins and sam ford...
last week, in his introduction to my q&a with sam, "as the world stopped turning: a conversation with lynn liccardo about soap operas," henry noted,
I have often acknowledged that fans are the true experts on popular culture: their passionate...
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Feb.26.2013
Eight weeks have just passed of our ongoing Indiegogo FORGOTTEN HOLLYWOOD Documentary Pilot (Development) funding campaign; and we are extremely pleased at reaching 37% of our goal. To participate, I urge you to click on the Indiegogo link below:
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Oct.03.2012
finally...
she said hopefully...
and while we're at it, let's change serialized storytelling back to...
soap opera...
2011 was a brutal year for serial drama (at least the kind of serial drama I like): Friday Night Lights, Men of a Certain Age, Life UneXpected, In Treatment, all gone. My favorite...
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Dec.05.2011
Last Friday, 2 December, the Disney/ABC Television Group announced the following:
The formation of Times Square Studios, an integrated current entertainment programming and development division
TSS will be headed by Vicki Dummer, previously senior vice president, Alternative...
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Nov.10.2011
On Saturday, I'll be speaking on "The Futures of Serialized Storytelling" at "The Futures of Entertainment" conference at MIT. The panel is more focused on discussion than formal presentation. But I was asked to prepared a brief introduction, posted belong.
I'll be addressing the impact the move of...
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Sep.24.2011
Last year it was As the World Turns, the year before, Guiding Light, and yesterday, All My Children. I can’t remember how long it’s been since I watched AMC on a regular basis. But since a modicum of masochism is damn near a prerequisite for soap fans, I watched the last few episodes and...
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Sep.16.2011
The boards have been oddly quiet, so apparently I’m the only one who takes exception to CBS Sunday Morning’s upcoming feature on Susan Lucci. It was just a year ago that I noted how silently As the World Turns had slipped into the good night. None of the media hoopla that surrounded the end of...
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Sep.07.2011
and between the lines...
It seemed only fair that I take a look at All My Children. After all, I’ve been watching One Life to Live for several months (yes, I know I swore off daytime soaps when As the World Turns went dark, but as my mother always told me “never say never.”) And when Sara...
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Aug.23.2011
The past month, or so, I’ve had a hard time getting back into writing. And a harder time figuring out why. It’s not as though there hasn’t been a lot to write about when it comes to soaps and serialized storytelling. After the deluge of controversy surrounding the first season finale of AMC’s The...
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Jun.07.2011
When ABC announced the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live in mid-April, the network seemed to have all its ducks in a row. When AMC left the air in September, it would be replaced by Chew; OLTL would air until January 2012 when The Revolution would take over. But ABC was committed...
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