All My Shadows

Currently making my way through season seven of Dynasty. Recently finished the entire series of That Girl, which I loved and miss, and I'm still mad that they didn't just end the show with Ann and Don getting married. I know Marlo supposedly had her reasons, but it made perfect sense for them to just get married and let that be the end of it. I really want my next pick to be something from the last 20 years, like a One Tree Hill or something.

I started season 7 about a week ago, and you can immediately feel that the show is out of its heyday from the very first episode. It's actually quite sad. I mostly like Ben, but jesus, his story is going on wayyyy too long, and then Leslie comes in, and I see someone upthread said she was meant to be the Amanda replacement, but I'm getting more of a fake Fallon from her than anything else, along the lines of early assertive Fallon. Sammy Jo has gotten so boring with Clay, and I'm confused in regards to her and Steven seemingly falling back in love with each other? But why??? Dominique is clearly on her way out. All of the fire she came in with is gone, and she's just another earnest Carrington. Shame that they got bored with such a fun character. The show doesn't even look the same anymore, it's darker and less glamorous, and that just takes all of the fun out of watching.

My area of south Louisiana receives stations from both New Orleans and Baton Rouge, and each market has scheduled soaps differently. I can only speak for the early 2000s, but reading this thread has made me curious about past decades. ABC: WGNO (NO) airs daytime as scheduled by ABC. WBRZ (BR) aired an hour-long newcast in AMC's timeslot, making AMC air an hour earlier on a day-behind schedule and booting Port Charles completely. CBS WWL (NO) airs daytime as scheduled by CBS. WAFB (BR) aired B&B, ATWT, and GL as scheduled, but The Price is Right aired an hour later than its CBS timeslot, pushing Y&R to air in the afternoon at 4pm central. That late airing was a huge convenience for Y&R fans who worked or missed the morning airing for whatever reason, but as of this fall, WAFB airs the whole lineup as scheduled by CBS (afternoon Y&R replaced by Kelly Clarkson). NBC WDSU (NO) airs DAYS an hour late, and Passions aired an hour later as well. I still think of DAYS as competing with OLTL/ATWT and PSNS as competing with GH/GL. We don't receive WVLA from Baton Rouge, but they air daytime as scheduled by NBC.

I really need the GT episode to be Penny's Christmas complete with half the audience yelling at Penny to steal the jewelry and the other half telling her not to plus the social worker getting dronk and singing about orthopedic shoes.

This show was so good from beginning to end. I watched the weekend binge on Decades about a year ago and stayed glued to the set the entire time. We will never see the likes of it ever again.

So many people who haven't spent a ton of time watching the UK soaps are quick to hold them up as what the US soaps should be, but it doesn't take much watching and learning to know that the UK soaps are extremely hollow shells of their former selves, too. In a way, I think they might be even sadder to consider because it seems like BBC and ITV still promote them with some effort as if we're still in the good old days, but these shows are so far removed from those good old days. They all seem to be skating along on their former glories. The current TV landscape just has no time for good, quiet, slow-moving drama in virtually any form. If there isn't chaos and death and destruction in every other episode, people are "bored."

Same. It's not like this is cyberbullying where the crazy bitch is deadset on terrorizing everyone here and has multiple means to do so. Just scroll on by every time she posts or put the ho on ignore. It ain't that hard, y'all.

Both DJH and DH are also available on Amazon Prime.

That clip is truly delicious. The outfit, the voice, the pleased-with-herself smile, all of it. Just a lovely time and place!

We missed this a few months ago, and I doubt anyone's surprised, but the last set of episodes from 2017 were indeed the end of the show's run. https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/degrassi-next-class-cancelled-producer-confirms-netflix-series-has-ended/ I'm just really upset because, once again, another looooooong-running series ends online in a whimper without a right and proper finale. Part of me wishes they would stop trying to revive long-runners online and just let them die with dignity on TV.

And those numbers are going to be worse next week because people were very disappointed to learn that this wasn't an actual sequel series. Whether they should've known that before going in or not, they didn't, and they weren't impressed.

I absolutely believe that most of the cast wouldn’t have been interested in a true sequel series at all. If otherwise has been stated, then I am wrong, but they’ve always been like that group of popular kids from high school who are all still friends but don’t really dwell on high school memories because they’re living their lives in the present. This gives them that chance to work together without going “back” down the same road. i love them, and I get it, and I feel bad that ppl are directly calling out “whomever had this idea” because we know it was Tori and Jennie, but it’s foolish to think everyone would want to see them all together and NOT playing their characters. Didn’t Tori and Jennie have a sitcom a few years back that was a quick one and done? They even played former costars. Once again, “let’s work together without focusing on the old stuff.” It’s so easy to make new stuff out of the old stuff!

I love you, Ian, but nobody's gonna watch this show. I haven't turned the channel yet simply because the remote control is on the other side of the room. This is too silly and indulgent. I want to say it could've been a one-off special, but not even that. This is the type of thing that should begin and end as a quick, fun 10-minute online clip.

Here is a collection of the black/yellow bumpers from the early 2000s. The Erica bumpers with the big grandiose music is included three times, and I live. Also loving Eileen Herlie's yelling at 40 seconds.

One of vetsoapfan's posts got me interested in EON's Teri Keane, and she's going to be turning 94 in October. There might be one or two older than her.

How heartbreaking. I had not read into any details surrounding DC's illness at the time of his death, so all of this is new to me. As a high school teacher, I witness the types of injuries she mentions with my students every year, and of course, we think nothing of it. They'll recover, and life will go on, but that's not how it works. Once upon a time, a good well-written soap could have excelled at telling this story with a long-running character who'd been an athlete in his teen years and now is suffering with brain difficulties in middle age.

Ah okay, I figured one was Tara and the other was Claudette. I don't think I've ever seen Hal before, and that's certainly not how I would've presumed him to look. This must be from the first half of 1976. I'd give absolutely anything to see just a week of AMC from this time.

What set is the AMC cast on? I can identify Judith Barcroft (Anne), Bill Mooney (Paul), Mary Fickett (Ruth), EIleen Letchworth (Margo), Larry Keith (Nick), Pat Dixon (Caroline), Richard Van Vleet (Chuck), Nick Benedict (Phil), and Paul Gleason (David) in the first photo and Francesca James (Kitty), Susan Lucci (Erica), Ray MacDonnell (Joe), Kay Campbell (Kate), Fra Heflin (Mona), John Danelle (Frank), Ruth Warrick (Phoebe), and Peter White (Linc) in the second. Can anyone help fill in the blanks? Both women look familiar but I'm drawing a blank on them. I'm not sure I've seen the guy before at all.

Can't wait to dig into that luncheon article! Meanwhile, these words from Teri Keane touched me deeply: “Soap opera is drama that’s as close to real life as you can get. It goes on and on like life does. It’s about people – and what really makes people tick. Why they do ‘bad things.’ How they survive. Plot is important, but only in relation to how much you care about the people involved.”

Currently making my way through fall 1987, and I am just about sick of The Julie Show. Is Lauren Holly typically considered good as Julie? Because I think she’s awful, and every single episode revolves around everyone protecting the delicate flower that is Julie. She’s sickening. The only good coming out of it is the Palmer/Natalie/Ross/Ellen/Mark drama, which has been messy as hell! Kathleen Noone was running AMC at this time.

I go down the WML? Mystery Guest rabbit hole several times a year. It's just so fun to watch the panelists deduce who the guests are with such questions as "Are you in a motion picture currently appearing on Broadway?" and "Would you say your appearances on television are of the regular sort or of the irregular sort?" That latest trip down the rabbit hole led me deeeep into the 70s WML? and To Tell the Truth, which pushed me into more 70s games. I watched a few episodes of the short-lived 1975 show Musical Chairs, which was kinda ahead of its time (basically, it was a "guess the next lyric" show, but with famous singers performing the songs live - including SFT's Mary Stuart!). It was very cute, and the host was super charming. Last few days have been tons of The Joker's Wild, which I watched when it was on GSN years ago but never paid too much attention to. I never realized how really exciting and fun it was! The more I watch, the more it becomes one of my top faves. Jack Barry was having the time of his life hosting it, too, which is good after all the troubles he had in the 50s and 60s. It's nice that he ended his career and life hosting a huge hit.

I absolutely ADORE that photo of Espy, McCarthy, and Houghton! Those first two years of Y&R had to be heavenly. And of course, the ladies who lunch. Daytime used to be its own entity, and those people were happy to be who they were, doing what they were doing. The genre had dignity.

All in the Family - "And Justice for All," "Those Were the Days" Diff'rent Strokes - "Fifteen Minutes from Harlem" Three's Company - "A Man About the House" Married with Children - "Not the Cosbys" The Dick Van Dyke Show - "Head of the Family" Coronation Street - "Florizel Street" The Secret Storm - "The Storm Within"

Awesome news!! Crazy how Netflix was not so long ago seen as a savior for shows that didn't fit in on regular TV. The industry is just doing whatever the hell it wants. If we can get just two or three more seasons out of it, I'll be happy and satisfied. This show deserves to go on and evolve and be remembered fondly!

I’m watching Nickelodeon’s Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader, and John Cena is a very impressive host! Not sure if Nickelodeon is the right audience for this show, which I’ve never been a huge fan of, but I’d be interested to see Cena host something else.