As part of their partnership with Universal Music Group, which allows The OnLine Network (TOLN) to "provide compelling recorded music and songs, and artist cross-promotion and integration, to a powerful new audience," Prospect Park has cast Jessica "Jessie" Malkouti from Jessie and the Toy Boys in a role on "One Life to Live" as, what else, an aspiring musician.
Earlier this month Soap Opera Network asked "What About the Music?" shortly after word first leaked that Prospect Park would be resuming plans to produce new episodes of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" for the web. Today, we can report that Prospect Park's deal with Universal Music Group is back on and fans should expect music, e-commerce and artist participation to new productions of both series, as originally outlined in an October 2011 press release (see release below).
Just about a month before announcing their decision to postpone plans to launch "All My Children" and "One Life to Live" on the web in early 2012, Prospect Park announced a partnership with Universal Music Group that would bring music, e-commerce and artist participation to new productions of "All My Children" and "One Life to Live." So now that word broke that Prospect Park is re-rebooting both soaps for the web in 2013, we felt it was a great opportunity to check on the status of this endeavor.
There has been much discussed about "All My Children" 2.0 following a report by Soaps in Depth in which the magazine reported on its website that "All My Children," as conceived by the minds behind the scenes at Prospect Park, has been placed on hold. This of course is after months of rumors and speculation stating that the company had planned to launch the show just days following its September 23 ABC finale and again in January 2012 following the network finale of sister soap "One Life to Live," which in addition to "AMC" was licensed to Prospect Park for its Online Network (TOLN) in a deal brokered with the Disney/ABC Television Group back in July of this year. But is this really news to the fans or were we all just hoping something else was going on behind the scenes that would suddenly pace the show on the same trek as "OLTL?"