All My Shadows

Female Trouble

Vandy

Snowbird - Anne Murray

A primetime revival of Edge would be so awesome. I love the concept of exploring the dynamics between the lawyers, the police, the government, the news media, the hospital, etc. It'd definitely be a hit.

I wonder how long this would have lasted if it'd stayed in its afternoon slot. It definitely would have made it to color, at least. Carl, where have you read about the show's storylines? I always neglect the somewhat long-running 50s-60s soaps, but I'm very interested.

Boys in the Sand

Sebastian

Pocketful of Sunshine - Natasha Bedingfield

Zainab Masood - EastEnders

Yes

I know exactly what you mean. They're so cheap-looking, the acting isn't great, the dialogue is clunky, but you can tell that they have only the best intentions and really want to put on a good show. I'd love to see a more polished attempt (with the same heart) today as sort of a vindication for the old shows.

Word. I would prefer a late night deal, or maybe a more "traditional" soap in daytime (three cameras, three-walled sets, etc) and a more innovative thing in late night. Most FOX affiliates do news after primetime, right? So while the stations affiliated with the big three are airing their news, viewers could have the alternative of watching a dramatic serial every night. Wouldn't even have to compete with the circus of pompous ass talk show hosts either.

I wish! I love cheesy 90s teen pop culture. I was much too young for these shows at the time (I was born during Tribes's run), but I'd love to see all of them. I'm assuming Tribes was a 65-er like the other two were. I believe all of Swans is on YT. If not all of it, a LOT of it is. I'd have watched them months ago but the A/V quality's not great. He does have an outdated look. !!!!! I KNEW I recognized that name from somewhere. They were the quintessential teen Clueless-era, mini-Melrose bitches. The waitress pissed me off. At the beginning of the scene, I was like "Hey, there's a good actress on here!" And then she progressively got worse and worse as the scene went on. And yes, I'd take this over JJB any day of the week, preferably all five.

On a whim, I searched YouTube to see if there was any footage at all of this soap, which aired on Fox's daytime schedule in the spring and summer of 1990. And lo and behold... The poster doesn't have too many episodes it seems But I'm more excited than I should be to watch this Does anyone happen to remember anything from this show? No one ever remembers it when talking about US network daytime soaps, but I'd say it qualifies to go on the list.

Robyn Ross! That's her name. I just did a quick FB search on her, and she's looking good! She has Fifteen in her "television" section too, so I bet she wouldn't mind answering questions about it. Wikipedia says they taped the second half of the run in Florida, which makes sense considering Nickelodeon was making Universal their home base around that time (I sooo miss those days). It was produced half-and-half by Nick and a Canadian company, too, so they probably wanted some home field control with it.

Of course, now you know that Fifteen was Canadian as well, right? It's known as Hillside up north and aired on YTV (the station that aired the original Degrassi series). There's an episode or two on YouTube that I need to get to watching soon. Young Ryan Reynolds! And their resident bitch, Brooke, seems pretty epic. But yeah, DJH has an old school "E/I" look to it. In school, we used to watch all kinds of educational specials and series from the 70s and 80s (Schoolhouse Rock, ABC Afterschool Special, 321 Contact, MCGEE AND ME!-which had such horrible acting and still airs on TBN or something), and they all had the same look at that DJH has. Very PBS.

I wouldn' be surprised if Ryan really is out. They hardly use him, so what's the point? Corrie's in the peculiar position where its teen set is one of its strong points, but they they're constantly sidelined for Max Headroom. So sad about Hughes. I still see Onslow when I look at him because there isn't a lot of his Corrie stuff available. I hope he's able to recover.

Lotta Love - Nicolette Larson

Othello

I can get why one would hate Craig, though, so it's all good. I'm just weird like that...I'm always intrigued by "bad" characters. Yes. Well...I've seen the first four episodes. I have so much crap on this poor little laptop to watch, but DJH is always on my mind as one that I don't want to get out of step with. One of the things I looooove about these episodes, though, is how we get to hear little snippets of conversations with characters we know absolutely nothing about. Very fly-on-the-wall. Still can't stand Stephanie and Voula, but I thought it was interesting that in the fourth episode, they were still referencing the first episode. I always assumed the junior high episodes were strictly self-contained. "Joey Jeremiah, ESSSquire!" is too adorable for words.

See, my thing with Craig (and other TV characters like him) is that I always see the way he is as some kind of tragedy, some kind of heartbreaking result of the way he was brought up. That's why I sometimes get frustrated when the shows don't delve deeper into characters' psyches or have other characters call them out on their BS. Manny's subtle smackdown on Craig at the end of Holiday was perfect. Just perfect. Most DTNG fans don't like that episode because it focused so much on Joey/Caitlin and so little on most of the TNG kids, but I was in Manny/Craig heaven with that hour! IDC what people say. Paige Michalchuk is an icon. An icon, damn it!

Yeah, 18 to Life. Ellie's gf/bf with Derek from Life with Derek on it. I'll check it out to see if I like it because I do love those two. Craig/Ashley?!?! Noooooooo. Ashley made Craig boring as hell with all of their sensitive musical episodes. Remember that lame song they did? "There was nothin at alllll, NOOOTHING at allll, there was nothing at allllll..." Ewww...just a hideous pairing. Ashley was too emotionally high maintenance for a high schooler. I liked Sean/Ellie a lot, especially pre-shooting when they lived together in Sean's apartment because of Ellie's alkie mom. I miss the group aspect because it felt like they all at least had friends, especially with the Paige crew. Right now, who are Sav's friends supposed to be? Danny, Derek, and Peter graduated and Spinner's busy marrying old characters. Alli's desperate for friends besides Clare. Holly J's clinging to Fiona. Riley only spends time with Zane when he feels safe enough to. Nobody's got anybody to hang out with. LOL at all of the girls going to the CW. Miriam is becoming the new princess of Lifetime movies, so if she's liking that, good on her. A lot of them are focusing on music which is just a baaaad choice. Jimmy was a fluke.

Your least fave is my most fave lol Manny/Craig was my OTP. Paige was all about the drama, and I miss that. They've tried to put Holly J in the Paige role, but it doesn't work because HJ just doesn't have the posse of friends like Paige did. There really isn't any big groups of friends on the show like that anymore. They didnt address her HIV scare in the Hollywood movie? I'm just waiting for them to address whether or not Marco's finally done with Dylan for good. He needs to be. They shouldve had him bring along a little slice when he did his student teaching last season.

Three of Manny's finest hours She was trash, but she owned it. Her beating Darcy's ass is like my favorite Degrassi moment everrr.

LMAO The thing with Clare is that they had her stuck up under KC and playing the betrayed lover. Bitch please, this is high school, keep it moving. Manny > Alli. Manny was never such a desperate shrew. The way Alli was pleading with Chantay to let her join the "power squad" was ridik. Starting a dance team just to make friends was ridik. She's sad. Interestingly, people have been speculating that Drew's only spending time with Alli because he's after Sav. Which would rock on a bagillion zillion levels. I want a scheming, conniving, bitchy, ruthless high school gay on my TV.