“One of the things we did was purposefully go after daytime actors that already had a fan base, that already knew how to film things - they can handle a lot of dialogue quickly with very few takes,” she says. That’s why she courted actors from the genre. Hill’s Florida-based publishing company provided a built-in fan base, but she was aware that she needed to snare traditional soap viewers, too.
And we started thinking, ‘Why not write our own story and come up with our own show?’ ” “And we both grew up watching soaps on television, and each one started to get cancelled. Storytelling is something we’re very familiar with,” she says. “My partner and I run a publishing company. Hill was motivated to develop her series because her favorite soaps had been cancelled. Other online soaps include YouTube’s “Tough Love” and “Anacostia” and “Venice: The Series,” streaming on. Returning for Season 2 in 2019, it counts among its stars well-known daytime faces including Alicia Minshew (“All My Children”) and Sarah Brown (“General Hospital”) as ex-lovers swept up in Boston-based family and political drama. “We all believe are where it’s heading,” says Jessica Hill, creator of the Emmy-nominated online soap “Beacon Hill,” which has streamed one 12-episode season (some episodes are only eight minutes long). That’s a big deal for a part of the TV industry that keeps many actors and behind-the-scenes personnel gainfully employed - and also shined a light on web-only soaps. The network soaps then threatened to boycott next year’s awards ceremony if rule changes were not put into effect. The TV Academy made headlines last spring when it rescinded Patrika Darbo’s 2018 Emmy for her guest-starring role on Amazon’s “The Bay” (due to “submission errors”). While only four venerable network soaps still cling to life - “The Bold and the Beautiful” and “The Young and the Restless” (CBS), “Days of Our Lives” (NBC) and “General Hospital” (ABC) - there’s a digital niche of web-only soaps.Īnd they’ve even won Daytime Emmys - or, in some cases, won and then lost.
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