Tainted Dreams
| Tainted Dreams | |
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| Created by | Sonia Blangiardo |
| Written by | Lindsay Harrison |
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| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
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| Executive producer(s) | Sonia Blangiardo |
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| Production company(s) | NYC Brand Productions |
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| Original network | YouTube |
| Original release | December 30, 2013 – present |
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| Website | |
Tainted Dreams is a soap opera web series that premiered on YouTube on December 30, 2013. Created by Sonia Blangiardo, it is a "soap-within-a-soap" which follows the backstage drama of the fictional soap opera Painted Dreams.
Tainted Dreams was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series in 2014.
Blangiardo created Tainted Dreams after the cancellation of the long running daytime soap opera One Life to Live, where she was a producer. She said in 2013, "I was struck by the loss of this unique art form that had been such an integral part of NYC for decades. I wanted to somehow capture my own two decades working behind the scenes of three different NYC-based soaps."
First cast were Minshew, Lowry, Willey, Hensley and Schulenburg. In January 2013, Manzo of Bravo's The Real Housewives of New Jersey was cast as Alessandra DiGiacomo, a role written with her in mind. Later cast additions in 2013 included Peck, Zenk, Aleksander, Livingston, Malloy, Eakes, and DePaiva, Kristen and Walker.
The first three episodes of Tainted Dreams were released on YouTube on December 30, 2013.
Tainted Dreams was licensed to Amazon.com for streaming through its Amazon Prime service starting December 26, 2016.
Writing for Entertainment Weekly, Alina Adams named the series one of the "4 best soap operas on the web" in 2015.
In 2014, Tainted Dreams was nominated for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches Drama Series, with Blangiardo as executive producer, Mark Costello, Rob Santeramo and Candy Straight as consulting producers, Robert Levinstein as coordinating producer and with Teresa Cicala as producer. Blangiardo has previously won an Daytime Emmy Award as a director for As the World Turns and another as a producer for One Life to Live. The series also received two 2014 Indie Series Award nominations: Best Ensemble (Drama) and Minshew for Best Lead Actress (Drama).
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