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They did the same fake ceasefires in Syria. Yet so many tankies continue to worship him and so many on the left continue to whatabout to try to numb the public into seeing it as no big deal. I sometimes wonder how many of us are left who do care, or even pretend to care. Another slaughter on their hands: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60578293 Meanwhile, Russia has been holding a WNBA player prisoner for 3 weeks.

Sorry, I posted about Brown and Tim Considine on the last page but I don't think it had official confirmation.

A lot of soap fans want to be - or are - soap writers themselves, and they want to support their own. Far more than Jamey and DC ever tried to support the PP soaps, which is why I will never join in with the congratulations.

Baily also had a lengthy career in anime and other voiceover work.

Tim Considine. I don't think My Three Sons was ever the same without him. When I was a kid I remember watching in reruns and thinking how pretty Mike was. Johnny Brown, who was very fun on Laugh-In, but likely best known as Bookman on Good Times. Bookman was the constant butt of jokes, and, as the show went on, seemed to become more and more of a focus for those jokes, but Brown's inherent likeability made the formula less offputting. I'm glad that, in the end, Bookman got to be a bit of a nice guy.

Oh that's right - I always forget that Andrea Martin sitcom was the same as her K&A character...I guess because they changed the name. Here's the premiere of George and Mildred. The premise is probably about the same as The Ropers, but I guess some things just don't translate. I also wonder if ABC starting to fall off by the time the show debuted didn't help. Many years ago I read a large book, from 1980 or so, about sitcoms, which would list each new sitcom from about 1950 on, and have longer writeups for certain sitcoms. They complained about Rhoda because they said that Rhoda was just turned into Mary Richards, and Brenda became Rhoda. And that by the end of the show, Brenda had also become Mary, so who was Rhoda? I actually liked Joe, but marrying them off so quickly was a mistake, and so was the divorce. I would have killed him. By the end of the show you had Rhoda's mother getting divorced and also going through a psychiatric crisis, and so on, and all I could think was, who really wants to see that? It's like an Alan Alda movie.

The plant has now been taken over by Russian forces. I'm already seeing the bots/grifters/dead end leftist types proclaiming this invasion a success because the South is what matters in the Ukraine and the tanks outside Kyiv were clearly just a distraction, etc. So many need Putin to be their hero, their god, or are paid for him to be. That and all the money he's still getting for gas and oil make me feel like his just grinding down Ukraine and knowing the West will move on after some performative outrage is all too likely to work.

Three's Company also had the flop post-TC spinoff, Three's A Crowd, whereas the UK spinoff, Robin's Nest, ran for several years. I'm not sure if the writing was better, or if the UK took those characters into their hearts in a way that the US - in spite of TC having a long run - did not. There were even several popular films for Man About the House and George and Mildred.

I think @Vee and @ChitHappens are two of the last left here who used to post a lot in the Game of Thrones thread (sorry for anyone my bad memory missed). Thought you might like to know about this. I mainly remember his very intense scenes with Richard Madden in season 3. Here's a 1992 interview he did for Take The High Road, which he was on for 20 years.

Facebook and Twitter have now been banned as well. It's a total lockdown for propaganda and disinformation. I guess this is something Putin wishes he'd d one from the start, so now he can have more brainwashing.

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.