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May.01.2012
At the time, I truly believed that my days of watching daytime soaps came to an end when the final episode of As the World Turns aired on September 17th, 2010. Of course, as my mother was so fond of telling me: never say never.
So, when One Life to Live left the air in January, I skipped the...
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Apr.02.2012
For me, the pleasure of watching soaps lies in the quite conversations between characters during which absolutely nothing happens. So, I’ve always found the “shocking secret revealed...” school of soap opera promos over-the-top. However...
As part of its release of “The Story of Lily and Holden” on...
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Mar.22.2012
Truth is, hearing the news that Soap Opera Weekly was shutting down, I felt much as I did when I heard that As the World Turns was canceled; I called a friend and said that if the show had been our family pet, we would have long-since taken it to the vet to be put out of its misery.
As I wrote...
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Mar.21.2012
doesn’t mean I haven’t been working...
But, while I’m excited to be collecting some of my Red Room essays on As the World Turns into an e-book, the truth is that I’ve been having difficult time writing about the current state of serialized storytelling, though certainly not for lack of available...
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Feb.05.2012
or two... Actually, make that three...
2011 was a bad year for the kind of serialized storytelling I like: The failure of Prospect Park to move canceled ABC soaps, All My Children and One Life to Live, online; the parade of shows leaving the air on the broadcast networks, (Friday Night Lights,...
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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.28.2011
two -- yup, two -- Thanksgiving dinners, the news that Prospect Park has shelved plans to move the ABC soaps online, and, OLTL's fake out about Matthew's death (really pushing their luck with a 5-day cliffhanger, over Thanksgiving, no less), please have a look at my FoE5 panel, "The Futures of...
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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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Oct.23.2011
since As the World Turns’ final episode aired? Actually, it’s been a bit longer. I’ve had a lot going on – and this has been a difficult piece for me to write.
In 1995, after contributing several pieces to Soap Opera Weekly, I began pitching an idea to Smithsonian Magazine for a long article on the...
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Oct.20.2011
and feeling like a spoilsport, but...
I wish I could share in the excitement over the newly-issued As the World Turns DVD set. I really do. But, as I read through the list of selected episodes, I felt much as I do when a schoolchild asks me to buy mediocre chocolate I won’t eat (now, Girl...
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Oct.07.2011
Yup, the futures are plural.
Next month, I'll be speaking on the futures of serialized storytelling at Futures of Entertainment 5, a media studies conference taking place at MIT's Stata Center.
If you're interesting in attending, or know anyone who might be, click on the link.
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Oct.06.2011
Last month, We Love Soaps compiled their list of the 25 Biggest Blunders in Daytime Soap Opera History. I posted my initial thoughts a couple of weeks ago. Here are the rest (well, except for the long piece in progress examining the colossal blunder not on the WLS list – the 1995 shuffling of the...
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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.14.2011
On Monday, We Love Soaps finished counting down The 25 Biggest Blunders in Daytime Soap Opera History. It’s a fascinating combination of decisions specific to an individual show and those that had a far-reaching impact on the genre. I was less interested in where each item was ranked than how they...
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critical observations about soap operas – their content, the industry that produces them, and the culture that both loves them and loves to ridicule them...
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