Lucci Not Leaving ABCs All My Children Quietly

NEW YORK, N.Y. -- Erica Kane wouldnt leave quietly if she felt shed been wronged. Neither is Susan Lucci as All My Children nears its end on ABC. Lucci has memorably portrayed Kane on the drama, which airs its last episode on ABC on Sept. 23, and its unclear whether she will be a part of an attempt to migrate the series online. In a newly published epilogue to her memoir, Lucci sharply criticized her ABC bosses for axing All My Children, which has been on the air since 1970. She said the decision to cancel the show was motivated by greed and said the head of ABCs daytime unit, Brian Frons, has that fatal combination of ignorance and arrogance. Frons, in canceling All My Children and One Life to Live in April, said the soap operas were a victim of declining interest. He said trying to prop up shows in severe decline was like trying to catch a falling knife. Lucci told her own story in the paperback edition of All My Life, a memoir published in hardcover earlier this year. The actress said Frons said, in telling her about the cancellation, that it would be 40 percent cheaper to make the cooking and weight-loss series that are replacing the two soap operas. If Brian Frons could show his bosses that he could save the network 40 percent in production costs, he could keep his job even if the rest of us lost ours, she wrote. She noted that several employees on All My Children had either lost their jobs or lost money when the show moved its production base from New York to California in recent years to save money. I wonder, did Brian Frons take a pay cut, too? Lucci wrote. She criticized Frons for installing a new head writer on the show in 2008, and essentially pushing aside Agnes Nixon, the soap opera legend who created All My Children. Lucci said that several times Id click the television to ABC and not realize I was watching All My Children. If the show was unrecognizable to me, I can only imagine how our viewers felt. Frons was not available for comment, a spokeswoman said, and ABC declined to address Luccis specific comments. We have all the respect in the world for Susan and are sorry she felt the need to write this epilogue to an otherwise incredible career, spokeswoman Jori Petersen said. The future for Lucci and All My Children is uncertain. The media company Prospect Park in July signed a licensing deal to continue the two soap opera stories beyond their television lives either online or on other platforms. The company has announced deals with some of the One Life to Live actors, and is said to be negotiating with Lucci and other All My Children actors. Prospect Park has no announcement on any All My Children participants, spokeswoman Melissa Zuckerman said Monday. ___ ABC is owned by The Walt Disney Co. ___ Online: http://abc.go.com/shows/all-my-children Copyright 2011 by Associated Press. All rights reserved.This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.

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Ron Howard Looking For 364

Super hero for just one day per yearNow the Dark Tower is no more on his slate at Universal, Ron Howard is arranging alternative work as 364, a super hero drama about an individual who has superpowers for just eventually each year. No, it's really no relation then to Fernando Meirelles' LFF opener 360 and also you haven't skipped the 3 in-between. The script's from an authentic pitch by David Guggenheim, the author of Ryan Reynolds / Denzel Washington thriller Safe House and follow-ups Santiago and Puzzle Structure. While further particulars are presently sketchy, the drama mention indicates that there can be sticky effects to the hero's generally unpowered condition. There is no word yet on where this can fit on Howard's slate, but we are speculating it will require a location behind Hurry, the racing drama that's already in pre-production with Chris Hemsworth and Daniel Bruhl cast.

Justin Timberlake & Andy Samberg Win 2011 Emmy For Saturday Evening Live Original Music-Lyrics

Outstanding Original Music And Lyrics Saturday Evening Live Host: JustinTimberlake (Song Title: 3-Way (The Golden Rule) NBC SNL Galleries in colaboration with Universal Media Galleries and Broadway Video Andy Samberg, Music & Lyrics by Akiva Schaffer, Music & Lyrics by Jorma Taccone, Music & Lyrics by Justin Timberlake, Music & Lyrics by Seth Meyers accepts for SNL saying: “Justin Timberlake thought about being here. But we stated, no, they demand to determine the authors.” Where was Timberlake? In the moment his category was introduced, CBS Sports’ cameras demonstrated him within the audience in the Rafael Nadal-Andy Murray U.S. Open semi-final in New You are able to City. Glee FOX Ryan Murphy Productions in colaboration with Last Century Fox Television Gwyneth Paltrow as Carol Holliday After Gwyneth Paltrow’s Glee win for Outstanding Guest Actress, Community’s Executive Producer and co-star Alison Brie stated: Alison Brie: “Gwyneth Paltrow isn't here. She couldn’t make itbecause she's at Happy Hour in the Starlight Room.” Serta Harmon: “Snap!” 2011 Creative Arts Emmys Live-Blogging

Plan Your Football-Watching Weekend With TVGuide.com's NFL Preview

Aaron Rodgers The 2011 NFL Season is upon us, and we're here to make sure you never miss a game.Which games are you watching this weekend? Tell us now!TVGuide.com has launched a special NFLsection to help you plan your weekly game viewing. We've created dedicated pages for every team. Add them to your Watchlist and you'll always know when they're playing. As for the rest of the league, you can check out the full schedule each week. This weekend's best matchups include the Pittsburgh Steelers taking on the Baltimore Ravens as well as the contest between the Dallas Cowboys and the New York Jets. Once you've picked the games you want see, simply click the "I'll Watch" buttons throughout the site to check in and let your Facebook friends know for whom you're rooting. If football's not your thing, fear not: Our Today's Live Sports page is also there to help. It covers all sporting events, including the nation's four major professional sports leagues, college games, auto-racing, golf, tennis, and some minor league and high school games. Say you're a Boston Red Sox fan who lives in Atlanta. The Today's Live Sports page will tell you what you can watch where you are.So what are you waiting for? Head to our NFL section and start mapping out your season now!

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'Rescue Me' goes out strong

The series finale of FX's "Rescue Me" on Wednesday drew 2.33 million overall viewers, the program's highest total since its fourth-season finale in 2007. Among adults 18-49, the show had its best performance since its fifth-season premiere in 2009. For its seventh and final season, "Rescue Me averaged 1.49 million total viewers, a 10% improvement from its previous season. In the 18-49 demo, viewership was virtually the same year-to-year. "Rescue Me," which premiered in 2004, averaged about 2.75 million overall viewers over its first three seasons. Contact Jon Weisman at jon.weisman@variety.com

Music catalogs to digital realm

Its not all new digital music venture has roots in Sweden, however it frequently feels this way. Under two several weeks after music streaming service Spotify taken common attention using its U.S. launch, fellow Scandi startup X5 Group can also be making inroads Stateside, lounging claim that they can that many American of musical institutions, Sun Records. X5, founded in Stockholm in 2003, is really a record label that works within unique strategy. The label signs no new artists of their own and it has never launched an actual album. Rather, the audience acquires deep catalogs (mostly classical so far) and sells them through iTunes and Amazon . com, rebranded into budget-listed thematic compilations with new artwork. The process isn't exactly new. Actually, a detailed analogue will be the Time-Existence Compact disc compilations in the past offered throughout commercial breaks about the much deeper recesses of fundamental cable. However the canniness that the label has up-to-date that technique for digital marketplace -- with releases heavily search-engine enhanced for online merchants, and inhouse-produced cover art made to look best at postage-stamp size -- sets it apart. Its efforts have compensated off: The small company has silently get to be the No. 2 classical label within the U.S. (trailing just the music industry's overall leader, Universal Group), getting offered a lot more than 150 million tunes since 2007, with 13 albums striking No. 1 about the Billboard Classical chart this past year. The label's American launch came after acquiring a $9 million The month of january investment from Northzone Endeavors, additionally a lead investor in Spotify. But this week's deal to license the whole 6,000-track catalog of Sun Records, the legendary Memphis home (now based in Nashville) of Johnny Cash, Lee Foundation Lewis and Carl Perkins, is the one which has them poised to create a new splash. (The offer doesn't include tracks by Sun's most well-known boy, Elvis. Individuals tracks were scooped up by RCA decades ago.) Speaking in the label's new American offices within the Empire Condition Building, X5's United States Boss Scott Ambrose Reilly, who formerly assisted spearhead the introduction of Amazon's MP3 business, acknowledged the marketplaces are very different. "For just one, there is no posting to become compensated (in classical)," stated Reilly. "And 2, classical catalogs are extremely simple to license, so fairly rapidly once you have success you begin to determine copycat albums plainly with increased tracks, affordable prices. It's harder to keep the territory. "With Sun we will not have this problem. (A competitor) could not just visit a different orchestra... Therefore it is well a much better investment. We can not visit the same track volume we all do on classical releases, but due to the limited capability to license, we will not have to.Inch X5-distributed Sun releases will begin to unveil the following month, however the Sun acquisition is only the start. The organization reaches work obtaining other catalogs, and Reilly pointed out that some Sun material is going to be packed alongside other labels' material in the early rock era. Most promisingly, he noted that the huge quantity of Sun tracks haven't yet been launched electronically, meaning the business's strategy could penetrate beyond casual "finest hits" purchasers. "(Sun) has truly focused on the top-retailers, and we are of the fact that for any catalog as great as Sun's, there's lengthy-tail potential that they're going to have overlooked," Reilly noted. Sun Records prexy John Singleton puts it another way: "I'd compare it to, say, you are taking a mature lady, placed on new makeup, a brand new hair do, a brand new dress on her behalf and she or he looks different,Inch he stated. "They are thinking about doing something of that nature.Inch Contact the range newsroom at news@variety.com

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Sarah Palin Doc 'You Betcha' to become Launched by Freestyle

Freestyle will distribute Nick Broomfield's Sarah Palin documentary, You Betcha.our editor suggests Keith Olbermann Jams 'Very Stupid' Sarah Palin, Jokes About Anthony Weiner Sarah Palin Documentary 'The Undefeated' Claims Victory in the Box Office DebutNew Sarah Palin Documentary Emerges (Video) STORY: Sarah Palin New Documentary Seeks $30,000 on Crowd Funding Site It'll open in New You are able to and La on Sept. 30, as well as in more metropolitan areas within the days following. Its world premiere reaches the 2011 Toronto Film Festival this Sunday. Broomfield elevated a lot more than $30,000 via crowd funding on Kickstarter release a the documentary's release. Private traders are adding to its expansion. Cassian Elwes discussed the offer with respect to filmmakers with Freestyle's Co-Leader Susan Jackson. Content signifies worldwide privileges about the project and will also be selling it at TIFF. Funnel 4 United kingdom is definitely the documentary directed by Broomfield and Joan Churchill, and created by Marc Hoeferlin (Fight for Haditha). Broomfield's prior documentaries include Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam. Related Subjects Toronto Worldwide Film Festival Sarah Palin