I saw Dr. Joe Martin today. Well, okay, I saw Ray MacDonnell, the actor who
has played Dr. Joe Martin on All My Children since I was a kid watching the
show with my mom. And though I work with actors every day, in that
moment, I got the charge of being in an exciting place. The charge I got
25 years ago when I walked into One Life to Live fresh out of college.
The charge I get when I see online promos for this TOLN venture that I'm
a part of. I'm just doing my job, not so different from all the people I
see go through Grand Central each day, but as part of my job, I get to
see Dr. Joe Martin.
I've been working in television for a long time. You might think that
the excitement would be long gone. Not really. There are definitely
actors I know as friends and scenic tricks I see right through. But it's
still the "magic of television" feeling for me when I see stage crew
moving a prop tree. It's still exhilarating when I see someone I watched as a
child or someone who's on a show my kids watch. And, let's face it, the
shows you watch wouldn't be nearly as exciting if the people making
them didn't pour a whole lot of genuine emotion and excitement into
them.
On April 29th, just two weeks from today, I (and, I hope, many other
people) will get to watch new episodes of One Life to Live and All My
Children--shows that, a year ago, were pronounced dead--online. And
though I've been right there as we've made them, I suspect I will still
be on the edge of my seat. Because that's what the magic of television
is all about.
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