I thought I was past this. After all, I no longer go each day to a place
where people are agonizing over choosing their submissions and
scrambling to make copies and awaiting the announcement day and
distributing the Television Academy press release listing all the
Daytime Emmy nominees. I didn't even remember that said document and
the announcement were even happening today--until I started getting
emails. First entertainment news alerts, then Facebook post alerts and
congrats messages.
For, you see, in the midst of all of it, One Life to Live and All My
Children--the online, "Soap Camp" versions--were each nominated in
multiple categories (OLTL-7, AMC-4). And, lo and behold, I am part of
the OLTL directing team that was nominated.
It is a nominations list full of my friends from twenty years in soaps.
People are all over now, but the soap world was, and is, a small one, so
the nominations included people I worked with last year, and ones I
worked with twenty years ago, who are now at other soaps across the
country.
Despite my having been aware of the judging process, it somehow didn't
occur to me that I'd be reading today's list, much less finding myself
on it. "Soap Camp" feels like a long time ago now, and we move on. And
perhaps that's what made today kind of exciting. We all like to believe
that things we did mattered--made some kind of lasting impression. And,
at least for this small moment in time, it feels as though my
involvement in "Soap Camp," the online soaps adventure in Connecticut,
DID matter. It may have been short-lived, but, in some small way, it did
matter, both in terms of the content we made, and in terms of the
ground we broke that put online content right next to network TV
content. And, lucky me, I got to be a part of it. And got to be nominated for
an Emmy to boot.
Which, I guess, is what sometimes happens when you stick around for the cliffhanger.
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