DramatistDreamer

There’s a lot of confusion among media outlets, it seems. Hopefully Heche will regain consciousness and recover. Is the investigation still ongoing? Until Heche regains consciousness, the investigation will likely be limited. There were reports that the woman whose house caught on fire after Heche crashed into it was hospitalized. Is this still the case? Was she badly injured?

As a longtime tennis fan, I will always remember when Olivia Newton John sang “Magic” before the start of the Men’s final at the Australian Open. A special moment.

^^Oh man, even though her diagnosis was no secret, this is such sad news.

Now that her recovery seems assured , she needs to focus on healing and making restitution to that woman whose house and belongings she destroyed.

And from what I just saw, the person who wrote the original tweet is Canadian and will be unaffected (at least directly) by the decision to move to Peacock. The daytime soaps industry needs to admit that a large section of their daily viewers are likely retirees on fixed incomes. The reality is that the US doesn’t have as generous a social safety net as Canada and many people have had to keep a tighter rein on their pocketbooks and wallets. If this person is so fixed on everybody chipping in to subscribe to Peacock’s paid tier, why doesn’t she start a Go Fund Me account to raise money and gift some subscriptions? Otherwise, she needs to mind her own business (which is free, by the way) and see to her own plans. Soap fans can really be unproductive. Musing on soap specific message boards is one thing but sending trash takes onto internationally known microblogging social media sites is another thing altogether.

I know @Soapsudsposted this upthread but it bears repeating: If you or anyone you know lives in a state with one of these Republicans, whenever they come up for re-election:

This was a depressing read. What the advocates of baby drop box try to obscure is the fact that over half of these babies have some sort of health and/or developmental problems because their birth mothers never received the proper pre-natal care. What will drop boxes solve that issue? Not to mention that most of these babies are unlikely to know their medical or family history. This does absolutely nothing for the birth mothers who, had they had the necessary help pre/post natal care, childcare/parental resources- might have been able to parent. None of these issues will be resolved with a drop box. Drop boxes should be for ballots, not babies. It is being reported that Eli Lilly will leave the state of Indiana as a result of their new abortion ban. If true that is big since the company has been there in some fashion for at least a century.

So, does this mean that when a soap gets a renewal it doesn’t guarantee that it will air on broadcast network for the full run?

It is fortunate that nobody else was hurt and that Heche is expected to live. Personally, I hope she recovers well and gets the help that she certainly needs. A very sad occurrence from every angle.

I know it was all with the prisoner exchange in mind from the beginning but the Russian government is clearly not even looking for a veneer of legitimacy. And, this is still going on but it is not having the effect that the governors of Texas and Arizona think it is.

Is this poll only for avid and regular Days viewers? As someone who doesn’t regularly watch Days, I would have to say no, but I am probably not the type of viewer that Days/Peacock is looking to as a potential viewer.

Democrats need to increase their numbers in the Senate to make Manchin and Sinema irrelevant. I know that cuts against the narrative foretelling of heavy losses but this needs to be a goal to at least try for all the same.

Cable is pretty much a scam and has been a scam for the last 20 years. A scam with loads of prestige and a scam nonetheless. Sad but true that a large percentage of the American public has an aversion to paying taxes, even when they are not the ones required to pay more, even if it will benefit society. The last occupant of the White House got elected, never having had to show a proper accounting of his tax returns. 🥴💀

Would that I were in a position to toss $9 million away! According to what I read, the House Party reboot is now stalled and the Scoob sequel has also gone the way of Batgirl. Warner is claiming that the decision to shelve Batgirl had nothing to do with quality but that sounds dubious at best. Let’s say Warner is telling the truth and it wasn’t about the quality of the movie. It must have to do with HBO Max or HBO not performing up to expectations. I wonder if HBO in creating HBO Max might have cannibalized their main network. The ESPN/Disney model doesn’t work for everyone.

They’ve got their hands in Russia’s wallet, we all where their motivation for these comments are coming from.

Wow, Brittney Griner had been sentenced to nine years in prison in Russia. Irrespective of whether a prisoner swap can be arranged, that’s still a harsh sentence for some CBD oil. EDT. it was hashish oil, I stand corrected. For a first time offense though? No intent to sell or distribute.

That, I do not like the idea of. I know they are assuming that people are already subscribing to the paid tier for other programming, but it is still conceivable that there are people who don’t subscribe to the paid tier, or Days viewers who are still unfamiliar with Peacock entirely and only watch soaps on network. Soap fans are special, some still complain about the Daytime Emmys being streamed online in the past. There may be some resistance to the very idea of a show that used to air on network paid for by ads, to go to a paid service. Why not at least try a FAST model first?

I saw the headline this morning on CBS Morning, and it didn’t surprise me because Beyoncé has had to recall and remove a song from an album in the past. Like I said upthread, it happed with Des’ree’s song, which was also used without her permission.

It’s the end of an era, that’s for sure. Soap fans in general certainly have a different attitude when it comes to online viewing of soaps now compared to a decade ago with the TOLN soaps. Is Days really moving to the paid tier?

Oh wow, I just read about this. I am not anywhere near a regular Days viewer, but as a fan of the genre, I hope Days can buck the cancellation trend of the last decade and a half and somehow find new life online. NBC will have no daytime dramas on their terrestrial network. Just wow. This also makes me wonder, how Days will be placed in future Daytime Emmys categories?

For some reason, People magazine did a reup of the reunion on their YouTube channel. Since I didn’t see it in 2017, I’m going to watch it later.