DramatistDreamer

It would make a difference to me if the show were a current show, not one whose entire series run ended almost twenty years ago.

Will Valieva (or the ROC) be sending roses to Sharapova now? Her legal team, which included this lawyer helped get Sharapova's sentence reduction for her doping ban years ago.

Sharapova's lawyer did WORK for Valieva! If you don't know what I'm talking about, visit the Olympic Games thread.

This really does give a brief encapsulation of the progress that Felix has made.

The show is funny but what ought to be remembered is the fact that Grammer did not write one line in those scripts because...writers (and I have an episode script and a Sherwood outline saved from grad school to prove it). Also, the people who believed that Grammer could ever have a successful reboot of the series without David Hyde Pierce, Jane Leeves and Peri Gilpin must be out of their minds. Grammer did make an attempt at a sitcom without them once before. It was called "Back To You" and it was awful (imagine, taking the two least likeable actors from their respective sitcoms and putting them together and expecting people to watch)!

When people say Black History Month has been trauma after trauma, for the past few years- Unsurprising, given Musk's history.

This is something most of us already figured out but just FYI.

On Tubi, I caught the first (only?) Season of this series. The writing struck me as being a level above Empire, the last predominantly Black cast series that I watched on Fox. Similar to Empire though, the pacing of stories was a bit unbalanced. That final episode was an example of how awry the pacing had gone. If they get a second series, they're going to need to bring back Nadine Ellis though, because the show needs a strong female co-lead because as much as I love Yaya, she can't shoulder the lead on her own. Debbi Morgan continues to shine in whatever role she's in and that cameo with Darnell, well...hand and glove, is all I'm going to say. After seeing her character get killed off in Insecure, it was great to see the L. Scott Caldwell return in a whole different character. She reminded me of a more malevolent version of Stephanie Forrester. Joe Morton, as much as I would welcome him playing a different kind of character, he does the complex character who has a difficult father-daughter relationship so well. That ripoff of the Solange-Jay Z and Beyonce elevator fracas made me giggle. It wasn't that bad. I saw a lot of those reversals coming, including the one in the season finale but I was reasonably entertained.

Reminiscent of Natasha Richardson. While skiing, she bumped her head. Because she laughed afterwards, people assumed it was not a serious injury and dismissed it, to tragic results.

The Ontario government is taking action.

How many times does that man have to show people that he's a criminal before folks take it seriously?! He's a criminal and he's always been a criminal. Speaking of folks telling on themselves.

LOL, someone like EB just needs to go on ahead and break that fourth wall and say "Why the hell do we keep talking about this $hit, when I was Summer's age, nobody handed me $hiy, I had to fight for my opportunities. She loves her job. Now would you all kindly shut the hell up about it!" RN is a true professional. He endured, not just with or without Zimmer, he endured through those Peapack years, still being a viable character and actor, which is no mean feat.

I know that he mentioned another tournament...Rio, was it? So it's a possibility that he could play that but his body language looked so definitively done in that Delbonis match that I am not sure.

It was difficult to watch at times and I only managed to get the match at the beginning of the second set. Still, there's a poignance to ending his professional career in Argentina, if that was his final match.

Are folks watching this DelPo/Delbonis match?

That reminded me to check the ABC website and I see that episodes 1 and 2 are available to stream without having to sign in. I may check out the first episode later on and see what I think.

Some of my predictions have panned out this far, but I guess I'll have to see about actual awards.

In regards to whether daytime soap fans (I am specifically talking about them), every year that the Daytime Emmy awards were streamed, there was a chorus of fans who complained endlessly that they wanted to watch their soaps and all things soap related on their TV, as always. That is what nudged me to start this topic in the first place. Anyone who is confused by this topic, I would encourage to be back in this thread and read the original premise and some of the comments.

And it's the fault of the daytime soaps (or the companies and networks that produce and air them) that they haven't been able to capitalize on the enduring appeal of continuing drama. Daytime dramas, in particular have been too slow to embrace innovation, different creative voices and truly diverse characters and stories. They have been and continue to be the architects of their own demise. Some shows struggle to find an audience, but it sounds like some viewers tuned in for the premiere episode but didn't return. I'm curious as to whether that changes and viewers give it another chance. I also wonder how long ABC will stick with the series and if they cancel it, will another network or service pick it up.

I thought about whether this would have found more of an audience had it been presented on UniMas but it doesn't sound like it, if it bores you. EDT. Damn, autocorrect.

Hm, I should probably try to watch an episode or two of "Promised Land" before trying to analyze those ratings, lol. I watched a teaser and it didn't look bad but the fact that I didn't feel compelled to rush to watch it...

Content has been leaving daytime soaps behind and network ratings alone have been a diminishing prospect over the past decade. Unless something radically different happens, those trends are expected to continue. Hardcore daytime soap fans may expect to view their soaps in the traditional way, but the ratings say otherwise. Time shifting viewerd have been a factor since the VCR became more affordable to the average consumer. In the 1980s, before I even hit puberty, I learned how to program a VCR, so that my Mom could watch her soaps after she came home from work in the late afternoon/Earl evening. I suspect that we weren't the only household doing this. If only the production companies for daytime soaps had picked up on this and lobbied for a way to count time shifted viewers earlier, daytime might have been regarded differently, and marketed to advertisers differently, as an evolving form of entertainment, instead of a fading one. The more I read these reports and see how some companies nare leveraging this medium as it evolves, the more I actually think, in clinging so steadfastly to old ways and habits, daytime soaps have done themselves a grave disservice. What's this got to do with the way viewers prefer to watch their soaps, you may ask? Habits can be and are cultivated. New habits, which can seem strange at first, become normalized. There was a time when it would have been considered absurd for strangers who have never met in person to have discussions online, let alone about soaps but it has happened, because people had the foresight to know that there would be interest and many of us are glad.

Is anyone surprised that Peng Shia has apparently announced her retirement? I could have guessed this would be coming soon.