From Media Village, a portion of an interview Jack Myers (whoever he is but runs the site) had with Frons:
Really, it's so ridiculous you have to laugh. But I bet the BAMmers, all 20 of them, are writing letters as we speak if they have caught this.
But check out a few other comments, and there is NO DOUBT - it's an MTV-AMC in the near future:
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In response ABC added more depth to All My Children's Bianca, the lesbian daughter of Susan Lucci's Erica Kane. "She was defined only by her sexuality and we began writing her character to become every woman, to make her more real and to understand what makes her good or bad. Maggie and Bianca became the super couple of daytime. Maggie had trouble admitting she was gay and became involved with an abusive guy, and Bianca saved her from that relationship. It was very real and had not been done in daytime before."
Really, it's so ridiculous you have to laugh. But I bet the BAMmers, all 20 of them, are writing letters as we speak if they have caught this.
But check out a few other comments, and there is NO DOUBT - it's an MTV-AMC in the near future:
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Brian... an outspoken promoter of the continued vitality and importance of daytime soap operas.
...Brian explained. "Following the soaps is an emotional experience. Soaps have an emotional currency. TV shows wear out sooner when they fail to make emotional connections."
...Brian believes daytime soap operas will have a unique opportunity in digital formats such as online and iPod, which are currently prevented by contractual issues.
...Plans are underway, he shared, to develop an original reality-based soap opera on SOAPnet. The series, says Brian, will begin as a once-a-week show and will expand to five-times-a-week if it works. "Daily shows need to be incubated to see if we have the casting right and to learn how we can develop a fresh take on the genre," he explains.
...Brian is expanding SoapU, a student competition offering the opportunity for fans to create a $20,000 soap opera. "It's a great way to come up with new content and the next generation's Agnes Nixon." (Agnes created All My Children and attracted young people to soaps with that program.)
Brian, who began his career at CBS and then moved to NBC, becoming head of NBC Daytime at 26, believes it's important for soaps to get real. "Soap clichs may have worked the first ten times, but now audiences know them as well as we do and know they're not real. Real life is unpredictable. When I returned to the U.S.," he says, "I understood that people were watching authentic people in reality shows and believed people wanted soap characters to become more real."
