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Yeah, honestly...I really don't think Valentini has ever had any interest in promoting black characters. His work at OLTL says it all. He, and ABC as a whole, want pretty, white faces (for the women - the men can be as ugly as possible), and a majority of their remaining viewers do as well. I'm glad Sydney is leaving to help build her future rather than stay with a show that would never have any real use for her.

I have to admit that a true spinoff in my eyes is one that had characters who were popular in their own right and then moved to another show, rather than being introduced just to be spun off. For that reason I separate Melrose from the other two.

@marceline That is so true. I have already seen a lot of grifters online trying to turn things around to make him seem like the heavy. He's been very genuine - that and his media training have gone a long way in getting the world's attention (even if it may be too late), and seemed to be very underestimated by Putin. Not to change topics, but (and I know Punchbowl is trash, I'm just linking this) Rick Scott is continuing to loudly and proudly announce his plans to tax poor people and the elderly. If only the public saw how monstrous these policies are:

I'd imagine they are secretly relieved - having non-white characters who were popular with fans likely made their heads hurt.

I was a big fan of the Tracey Ullman Show. It's a shame the show is so hard to find now. Speaking of failed spinoff pilots, I think the Kate & Allie producers tried to make one for Andrea Martin, who played a public access producer at a station Allie worked for.

Parts of this read like purple prose to me, but I think the part about attempted assassinations is likely very true.

I don't think fans are going to feel especially thankful. It's not a business transaction to them. It's a show they loved. I think the whole "commitment to British drama" part also makes some pause, as I saw a few people saying that this was said when Family Affairs was canceled, and they didn't have an original British drama on their channel afterward for years and years.

Weren't there rumors of bad blood between Polly and Linda Lavin? I know in the case of the Ropers, the actors were upset that they were not moved back to Three's Company. Hadn't they even been promised (not in writing I guess) they would be?

It's going to have to be up to his own circle, if any of them have the power. He would not hesitate to detonate nukes. I've been seeing a lot of "we could survive nuclear war" takes on Twitter lately, which makes me wonder just what people are hearing...

All they care about is mass destruction. The videos going around of the towns that have been turned to ruins make me sick. And just as in Syria, people are already finding excuses to blame anyone but Putin.

I'm wary of a lot of Barbaro-related material and this just makes that even worse. Speaking of Shapiro, his desperate and incoherent comment yesterday about how Biden is just like Kurt Cobain, complete with a gruesome suicide reference, makes me wonder if his numbers are really starting to fall off.

Unfortunately, between the cancel talking points (revved up because of the yacht seizures), Putin's latest lunatic speech, the whataboutism and claims that if you care about the Ukraine you are racist, and the bot farms that are all over Twitter today, I do think many will fall into line over here. But I suppose in the end it doesn't matter anyway - what matters are the moneymen who are pretending to care for about another week until they start lining their pockets again. And we can do nothing about them. The food story explains the images of soldiers looting markets in Kherson. There's some irony in the dead-end leftists who kept taunting, "LOL YES, YOU WANT TO FIGHT RUSSIA IN WINTER?!?!!?!" being unsure of how to reply to such terrible decisions (supposedly tanks are now getting stuck in the mud) from a man they worship as a god, and the Russian military ads they get horny over not comparing to the reality of young, scared men. Julia Ioffe's tweets about Moscow are very informative, but they make me wonder if she ever cared about the many people in Moscow who never got to experience her world, and have been persecuted for many years. Given her politics, I doubt it. I saw one foreigner in Russia who was worried their money would be seized. I'm not sure why anyone who moves over there would expect differently. I saw that Moldova is trying to get into the EU as they know they are next.

Russia's various ministers and their puppets on cable news and social media are all coalescing around the line that Russia is being "canceled" by the West. Sadly this is the type of talking point that many eat up.

That was a very layered performance from Genie. Something I felt was missing from everyone in the car crash '98 version.

Or Jeff Trachta.

Something else caused in large part by Putin. And something else, like Ukraine, denied and enabled by many American, Canadian, European stooges for that regime. If there is a hell, the "independent journalists" on Putin's payroll will be burning there.

@Vee @BetterForgotten @Bright Eyes look at this [!@#$%^&*]! What an embarrassment. This is like one of those old Stephen King book commercials, or a joke scene from "Gareth Merenghi's Darkplace." Everything I hate about Kate Oates as a producer, in one shot.

I think they were paralyzed with doubt and fear - that they would escalate the conflict, and also that they would get the blame (which many are still doing). I also think that the world opinion of the US is now so low that many did not believe it when Biden told people what was going to happen. With roads blocked off it just feels like we are slowly watching people die without being able to do anything, until it's over and the press starts spinning about how Putin was awesome and had a secret plan all along that we were too stupid to get, and most of those who are currently paying lip service about not doing business with them go back to basics, like what happened with 1/6.

A lovely, understated little anthology episode which has a supporting role for Mary Heron, who would have a guest spot on Emmerdale Farm 20 years later. https://emmerdale.fandom.com/wiki/Madge_Semple

If you need a laugh, here is today's trucker rally. Without trucks!

The term progressive has been taken over by the type of people he is referring to. They now dominate the narrative. In other news: