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I can still remember when commentators on ESPN used to try to convince viewers that coaching was an issue only on the WTA Tour, when obviously a number of players on the ATP Tour also indulge.

Oh. So what’s this about Carlitos being coached during the match? I admit, I saw about half of it because it was incredibly long and I had other things to do today.

Good for Ons Jabeur! I missed the entire match but I had hoped she’d win.

That was a long SF. We’ll have to see how he recovers.

Well damn, Carlitos really did that shít! 👏🏾

Elections in Ireland and Scotland and the bare minimum of reporting from the BBC.

Ned Lamont is running for re-election this year also, but this is part of a continuing effort to solidify abortion rights in “The Constitution State”. Yes, it is known as The Constitution State.

As The World Turns lost a number of talented actors that way. I’m not even talking about the Marisa Tomei’s or the Julianne Moores who were never going to renew their contracts, but other actors who went on to do commercials, something that gave them more flexibility. I understand that a character might be in heavy storyline but when that story wraps, give that character a rest or light work, give an underutilized actor something to do by giving their character a front burner story. Sometimes ATWT had overlapping stories and one character might be involved in both. It was entertaining but you know that actor had to be exhausted, especially since one or both storylines featured some heavy material. Miscarriages and murders, in the space of a week.

Some good news and some not so good news for Spanish tennis today.

While we’re on the subject of Catrall, Patricia Fields, Darren Starr and Candace Bushnell were there to honor Kim Catrall for the Power Women event.

Has anyone mentioned Cricket on Y&R yet? It wasn’t scenery chewing, it was more like storylines. There was a time when Cricket seemed to be everywhere. I don’t blame the actress per se, it was really the writing that inserted the character into nearly every conceivable scenario, especially if the story line as an active one.

Saving face. I guess they’re allowing him to spin the demotion. It’s definitely not a promotion. Streaming is an entirely different universe. The ad revenue is lower, so I have a hard time imagining how Todd could keep his network broadcast pay grade when streaming doesn’t generate the same ad buying rates. I see NBC News Now thumbnails on YouTube and I almost never click on, I always ignore, to the point that I forget it even exists.

That final point in the match between Alcaraz and Nadal. Whoa! EDT. Autocorrect is just gonna have to get used to me typing Alcaraz, lol.

Chuck Todd has been bumped to NBC News Now streaming service.

I was today years old when I found out that Karine Jean-Pierre and Suzanne Malveaux are a couple.👀 That is one pretty power couple.

We all knew the quest to overturn Roe v. Wade would be the tip of the iceberg.

Natural light works well in theory but with interior shots you need a very well lit, airy space in order for it to work. This space is too cramped. Did they not have ring lights back in 2019?

Hm, I would have to see some documented proof on a statement like that. Had that statement been made about Agnes Nixon that would have been more believable. We already know there were reports that Irna Phillips wanted a daytime soap with a majority Black cast. To be fair though, it feels like the Reagan years of the mid 1980s could have been when it felt like this push became a thing. And when Y&R became the #1 soap in the late 80s, that further cemented things. Looking back, I do think Y&R got a nice helping of PR to help that drive. Bell being the show’s creator also likely made him appealing in a way that, perhaps, the other show runners weren’t. Anyway, sorry for taking this thread off topic.

Thanks for posting that interview @Soapsuds. Scott speaks with a great deal of conviction about his nonprofit work, which was really nice to hear. I had no idea he had had a problem with alcohol at one time. As many times as I have seen him do these podcast interviews, I hear something new each time. I think he probably has enough material for a memoir or autobiography. It would be cool to see him as a series regular on a show somewhere.

It has always been my contention that CBS was the most conservative of the networks, particularly during the daytime and Y&R was the most conservative of the daytime dramas. As brilliant as WJB Sr. was in building a brand that created these shows that have endured, I must admit that I believe that him being a straight white man with a wife and children fit the ideal of who CBS wanted to make the face of their daytime serials and promoted as such.

Man, am I glad to have missed those episodes of Y&R, that sounds disastrous.

Thanks. I think I’ve only ever seen less than a handful of episodes of this series.

Is this recent, or years ago?

OMG @marceline. Those ads look like the ads that those ambulance chasing law firms used to put on television. Maybe not Giuliani level lazy but it sounds like Turner ran a very poor campaign. Thanks for giving a summary.

A reminder: