Brian Frons | Brian Frons
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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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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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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Oct.12.2010
Had to laugh when I read this from TWoP poster, lilyredd regarding the current state of affairs at One Life to Live:
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, when will this show cease with the constant influx of unwanted and unnecessary new characters--particularly of the female variety. When we have characters...
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Oct.12.2009
Last August, blogger Sara Bibel noted that "buried within the addictive train wreck" of reaction (here and here), to the firing of Soap Opera Weekly editor, Carolyn Hinsey, was "some serious commentary about soap opera journalism." This past August, it was fan reaction to an...
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Jul.22.2008
When General Hospital's Executive Producer, Gloria Monty, asked Anthony Geary to join the cast as Luke Spenser in 1978, he famously said, "I hate soap opera." To which Monty replied, "Honey, so do I. I want you to help me change all that." The exchange raises two obvious...
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Jul.11.2008
just exactly who is marlena de la croix's "longtime friend and ardent ATWT fan, a television writer/producer who wishes to be known only as pjs?" Because I read his explanation (defense, justification?) of the loathsome, and wholly unbelievable, not to mention, boring, Carly-Holden...
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Jun.29.2008
Finally: I’ve been hearing from a number of reliable sources for several months now about how much One Life to Live has improved under headwriter Ron Carvaliti. With a break a couple weeks ago in what’s still a jammed schedule, I set aside my innate skepticism and decided to have a look. But I...
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