Seemingly lifted straight from the script of soap operas themselves , All My Children and One Life to live on — soaps that were become to be kill off this year — have miraculously happen a 2d life in a novel home : the internet .
ABC has licensed out both the shows to Prospect Park , a production company that will produce and distribute the show . Prospect Park promises that all the appearance will be just as long and just as ‘ mellow quality ’ online as they were on TV . Whatever that means ! But really , they ’ll barely decamp a beat . When All My kid ends its run on TV on September 23 , 2011 , a Friday , it ’ll start off online the succeed Monday .
It ’s an interesting move , to say the least . I ’m generalize here , but I do n’t imagine soap opera watchers to be particularly good at using the cyberspace . It ’s a bold step to jump to an on-line only web ( or else of a cable channel , let ’s say ) because who knows if soap devotee will follow them , the unfamiliarity might be too much ! However ! Soap rooter are as dice - hard as they fare , so they could totally learn TV on the Internet just to love their good afternoon tales of beautiful people in hilariously horrible problems .
And to be fair , soap operas in reality made their commencement in radio . When it sensually transition to TV , the audience tilt over . Now that it ’s making another move to a dissimilar culture medium , will it still shape ? Is the secret pattern of succeeding in online video product to build a modest but rabid buff base who will abide by you anywhere ? I ’d envisage modest shows would have a good opportunity to succeed online because of their lower anticipation and smaller budget . braggart shows deal with unreal expectations . A niche operation , and that ’s what soap opera house are , like All My Children and One living to Live could very well be perfect for the cyberspace . If it does succeed , we ’ll belike see more shows jump from the networks to the Internet . I just wish Arrested Development could ’ve done that . [ NY Times ]
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