I Am A Swede

B&B is the last soap standing here in Sweden. Days of Our Lives ran for a very long time as well, but it's been a few years since it became available only through streaming. Neither General Hospital nor Y&R really took off here. One soap that did become popular however was Sunset Beach. It has even been re-run at least once, possible twice.

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64563839 Any thoughts? Personally I'm not sure this is a good idea. "Fawlty Towers" already raised eyebrows back in the 1970s, and with people nowadays being offended by practically everything this sounds very risky. And it will be hard to re-create the chemistry between Cleese, Prunella Scales, Andrew Sachs and Connie Booth.

Holy crap! Is that Madonna??!! What has she done to herself. That Pete Burns comparison is eerily accurate.

I envy you.... I did watch, and I wish I hadn't. It was embarrassing. The performances were bad, the sound was bad and the person(s) who came up with the script for the hosts should be fired on the spot. It was cringeworthy. 🤢 The absolute highlight was when Cornelia Jakobs appeared and performed her winner from last year. (Although this year's contestants might not have been so pleased, because her performance just emphasized how awful they were....)

We start our long selection process here tonight.... 28 songs spread out over 4 weeks, and most of them will, in all likelihood, not be very good. I think we had one of our best entries for a long time last year with "Hold me closer" and Cornelia will be a hard act to follow. Loreen, winner of the ESC for Sweden in 2012 ("Euphoria") enters again this year, but most of the other contestants are virtual unknowns, at least to me.

It might not be one of their most well-known songs, but it's five minutes of pure pop perfection....

What is happening in California?! Half Moon Bay: Seven dead in another California mass shooting Three mass shootings in a just over a week.

The most important moment during awards season.... the Golden Raspberry nominations are here! 43rd Annual Golden Raspberry (Razzie®) Nominations WORST PICTURE Blonde Disney’s Pinocchio Good Mourning The King’s Daughter Morbius WORST ACTOR Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) Good Mourning Pete Davidson (Voice Only) Marmaduke Tom Hanks (As Gepetto) Disney’s Pinocchio Jared Leto / Morbius Sylvester Stallone / Samaritan WORST ACTRESS Ryan Kiera Armstrong / Firestarter Bryce Dallas Howard / Jurassic Park: Dominion Diane Keaton / Mack & Rita Kaya Scodelario / The King’s Daughter Alicia Silverstone / The Requin WORST REMAKE/RIP-OFF/SEQUEL Blonde BOTH 365 Days Sequels – 365 Days: This Day & The Next 365 Days [a Razzie BOGO] Disney’s Pinocchio Firestarter Jurassic World: Dominion WORST SUPPORTING ACTRESS Adria Arjona / Morbius Lorraine Bracco (Voice Only) Disney’s Pinocchio Penelope Cruz / The 355 Bingbing Fan / The 355 & The King’s Daughter Mira Sorvino / Lamborghini: The Man Behind the Legend WORST SUPPORTING ACTOR Pete Davidson (Cameo Role) Good Mourning Tom Hanks / Elvis Xavier Samuel / Blonde Mod Sun / Good Mourning Evan Williams / Blonde WORST SCREEN COUPLE Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) & Mod Sun / Good Mourning Both Real Life Characters in the Fallacious White House Bedroom Scene / Blonde Tom Hanks & His Latex-Laden Face (and Ludicrous Accent) ELVIS Andrew Dominik & His Issues with Women / Blonde The Two 365 Days Sequels (both Released in 2022) WORST DIRECTOR Judd Apatow / The Bubble Colson Baker (aka Machine Gun Kelly) & Mod Sun / Good Mourning Andrew Dominik / Blonde Daniel Espinosa / Morbius Robert Zemeckis / Disney’s Pinocchio WORST SCREENPLAY Blonde / Written for the Screen by Andrew Dominik, Adapted from the “Bio-Novel” by Joyce Carol Oates Disney’s Pinocchio / Screenplay by Robert Zemeckis & Chris Weitz (Not Authorized by the Estate of Carlo Collodi) Good Mourning / "Written" by Machine Gun Kelly & Mod Sun Jurassic World: Dominion / Screenplay by Emily Carmichael & Colin Treverrow,Story by Treverrow & Derek Connolly Morbius / Screen Story and Screenplay by Matt Sazama & Burk Sharpless