Deadline Reports NOT GOOD For Online Soaps

Hate to bring this now, but it's out there and it's not good:

DEADLINE: On The Brink

I hear that Prospect Park principals are still trying to find a last-minute solution to keep the soap online venture going but feel pressed into a corner after exhausting every possible avenue and may decide to pull the plug as soon as today.

Cyber Soaps: How Close Are We?

Going Cyber-Soap-- can it be done? Here's a great, easy to understand article about the venture. Believe me, I know very little when it comes to  all this, and reading this piece really helped. Go to All Things D.  As usual, it's all coming down to the mooolah. the shows are not funded at this time. Good news is there's proof we Daytime peeps watch shows online as well. Bad News?  Ummm, money is needed and fast if they are going to be on when OLTL ends in January.

I SO wish I'd win that Power Ball!

Revenues: This is the part requires the biggest leap of faith. Kwatinetz figures that if Web TV portals like Hulu can command $40 CPMs for their stuff, he can, too. Particularly because his episodes will be new, not reruns that aired days earlier. He also figures he can resell the shows to traditional cable down the road, and/or sell them via distributors like Apple’s iTunes.

But there’s a reason that no one is making video with TV-level budgets for the Web yet, and that’s because ad buyers aren’t paying up consistently for it. YouTube’s new plan, for instance, assumes that its channel partners will spend considerably less than $100,000 per hour to make their stuff for the site. And the stuff that runs on Hulu isn’t dependent on that advertising revenue — it’s built with TV ad dollars in mind.--Peter Kafka

Prospect Park Deals On Wheels

You know I'm not up on the skivv with all this, but We Love Soaps are!! Get over there and read all about the Online, Inline, Drama-line on the Cyber-deals. It looks good because it may go to streaming and eventually cable!! (We know how to work that!) 

The photo has nothing to do with the story, I just like it LOL 

Cyber-Soap News: Ron Carlivati Staying with OLTL

Big news...this means RC isn't coming to GH as speculated awhile back. I guess when Frank Valentini decided to stay as producer and then head of the Prospect Park online soapy deal-- Ron decided to stay on the ship.
Not fair or fun for us...because he could have really kicked some life into GH. I had high hopes for Garin Wolf, but by all indications, things are just limping along. I see Guza's name still listed as a producer, I think he's writing the Franco stuff and ugh---it's more mobular than ever!

READ the whole story on Daytime Confidential.

OLTL Actors staying:
Melissa Archer (Natalie), Kelley Missal (Danielle), Andrew Trischitta (Jack) and Jerry VerDorn (Clint), have all signed on, pending an AFTRA deal! As previously reported, Erika Slezak (Viki) Kassie DePaiva (Blair), Michael Easton (John) and Ted King (Tomas) all are onboard. Additionally, Soap Opera Network recently broke the news that Sean Ringgold (Shaun) would be staying put.