DramatistDreamer

Does ABC have a broadcast contract with the people at the AELTC to broadcast the tournament, or is it just something they work out amongst themselves with Disney/ESPN? I guess I am asking whether ABC will think it’s worth their time to broadcast matches next year, or will they leave it all on ESPN?9

Here’s my answer. It happened this week.

Those interactions between Tonio and Lucinda were so entertaining. Maybe some were unintentionally funny but they were really entertaining, particularly when it became clear that Lucinda had no use for Tonio because the marriage between Sierra and Tonio was coming completely undone. The fact that Tonio wouldn’t go quietly was pure entertainment. I appreciate that Peter Boynton was game to portray such a venal character. Speaking of diversity and representation, I only wish P&G would have let the Franklins be great. What’s his name Locher room guy didn’t ask Tonya Pinkins about the Franklins in his livestream with her. Some top notch B’way talent in that onscreen family.

For a similar reason, it’s why Hunter Biden always trends right around the time there is another January 6th hearing.

Didn’t Andy Murray with the bionic hip bagel Opelka recently?

That match made me want to watch less tennis, not more. It was like watching two punch drunk boxers stagger against the ropes of the ring while no one falls down for the count but you wish someone would. I rarely watch an Isner match, they are so lackluster. He has to be playing someone else that I really want to see play, because he alone doesn’t do anything for me as a fan of tennis.

Yeah, I never got onto the Portmanteau (I think that’s what it’s called?) wagon. It seems to minimize the value of each character as an individual and yeah, to me, it sounds kind of childish🤷🏾‍♀️. No offense to people who do use them, I know it can often be shorthand or a term of endearment, of sorts but when you think of these epic, classic films (Casablanca, e.g.), no one is creating these blended names for these characters.😂 EDT. The original idea for a portmanteau is actually clever when it means something (smoke+fog=smog) but for characters’ names, nah, don’t like it.

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Both Andrew and Melanie raised eyebrows and gave serious side-eye when they were told that Paul and Emily ended up together. I think, in the eyes of many, especially back then, Paul and Emily were never meant to end up together. It’s still odd to me that this ultimately happened. Then again, I would never have thought to put Barbara with one of James Stenbeck's spawn. Just really odd. Revisiting this Casey euthanasia storyline made me wonder about the impetus for the story surrounding Casey’s sad and brutal decline. The more I see of this era, the more I think that death may have been a consistent preoccupation for Marland. It’s as if he knew on some level that he had just a few years left and he wanted to grapple with the implications of a life cut short.

It shouldn’t take Mo Farah telling the world that he was trafficked as a child to humanize the undocumented migrant but hopefully people will listen to his account and reconsider the inhumanity toward undocumented people whose labor benefits every “advanced” and “industrialized” nation on this planet.

It’s good that CBS keeps this in mind.

Thanks for posting, as I have never heard of this channel. I think I will go to the earliest videos posted on this channel and work my way forward. I think I saw a teenage Donald Faison on a Folgers commercial but the picture quality is so bad that I can’t really tell for sure.

Ooh, @Soapsudsis this the conclusion of the Brock Lombard murder storyline? Several of those episodes are missing from YouTube, which was so frustrating when I tried to watch a couple years ago.

That Sasha Bajin news is as predictable as yesterday’s final.

The braying at the player’s box, the grass eating..I’m over it…all of it. Nick needs to get over the fact that the ATP in its present state doesn’t have 1/10th the cool factor of the NBA or even half the cool factor of the players in UEFA. It just doesn’t and he needs to accept it and stop carrying on and acting out. Tennis is a niche sport for a reason, everyone has to accept that. And describing only one man as controversial without mentioning the other is ridiculous.

I am particularly tired of them feeling it’s okay to go after Black women in, or Black women who aspire to higher office.

There are software programs that can track this for you. It was pretty impressive back in the day though, when writers didn’t have these tools.

Fortunately, I had special plans today and had to leave after the second set. The match went pretty much the way I suspected it would.

And in the run up to the Ladies Singles final yesterday, Hantuchova very astutely noted that sometimes when Ons gets frazzled, she has a tendency to rely too much on her drop shot and it becomes predictable. Maybe Rybakina’s coaches were listening to that broadcast, lol. In any case, by the second set, Rybakina was able to anticipate most of those drop shots and use her long legs to get to and make plays on them.

Neither does Rybakina from the looks of her game but she is stronger and more aggressive and could really hurt Ons with her stroke production, whereas Ons doesn’t really have much to hurt Rybakina on grass. Guile can only take you so far when your opponent can blow you off the court with her shots. She could have tried to rush Elena but Elena doesn’t have to be as fast because the grass is slower than it used to be and Rybakina has long limbs. Ons would have to keep tricking Elena, with new shots every point—sounds exhausting and not really a successful strategy Ons grass court. Edit: on a grass court.

I do think this has the potential to be a protracted legal dispute that gets very messy.

Thinking of Y&R’s climb to #1 and the promotion that it took to get the show there, what you said makes so much sense. On such a conservative network, the show that is doing the most risky material was unlikely to get The Tiffany Network’s seal of approval at a time when it was likely necessary if the show wanted to push for the coveted top spot on the network and eventually of all daytime drama. They were going to need the force of the network backing them. Otherwise, I think WJB fit perfectly with what CBS wanted a family man, creator of his own show but the content had an edge of daring but couldn’t be too edgy.

I did feel badly for Ons, especially the fact that her parents couldn’t even get visas in time to be there to watch her match in person. People were hissing at the Tunisian embassy on social media in response to a good luck tweet they sent to Ons this morning.

It’s a contract, so whoever is proven to be the one who bailed out of the contract must pay the $1B breakup fee. Musk is trying to make Twitter be responsible for the fee and Twitter is defending their position, so the only real option is pay or sue so as to not to have to pay. I could be mistaken but I don’t think there is an option for both parties to walk away without either party paying the fee.

@Soapsuds, I definitely think greater accessibility had everything to do with the rise in ratings. I usually watch via ESPN3 that comes with my ISP and in previous years I wouldn’t get to stream the SFs or Finals on that platform but this year, I watched on ESPN3’s Spanish language stream, which had me giggling 🤭 (one commenator exclaimed “¡Muchas faltas!” at the sheer volume of Rybakina’s faults and errors in the first set) but in previous years, I wouldn’t have been able to get in. On grass, the better athlete is usually going to win, as would the bigger hitter, unless they make frequent errors (a la Madison Keys under pressure). It looked that way at first for Rybakina but once she got her errors under control and was hitting freely and confidently, it was over for Ons, who had no weapons to really hurt her. Ons would have needed to continue mixing up her shots with no recognizable patterns for Elena to pick up on (a challenge under pressure for a first time finalist) and hope that Elena wouldn’t improve her strokes during the match. Whereas Rybakina’s game is much simpler (“see ball, hit ball…hard!”) and all she really needed to do is hit the ball hard and fast away from Ons without the numerous errors that she made in the first set. She could overpower Ons. If this were clay, it would be a different story as the speed of Rybakina’s strokes would be somewhat muted on the dirt. Ons did indeed squander a few opportunities that she had to get back on serve in the second and third sets but she had very few opportunities to do that once Rybakina began to get her shots flowing. Maybe Ons could have hit more balls at Elena’s feet to see whether she could adjust with her height? Although, eventually you’d think even that Elena would adjust to. I do think that Ons felt she was out of options and panicked, hitting the same drop shots over and over.