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When I mentioned laughing at some point, one of the moments that caused unintentional laughter was when one of the moderators asked Garcia why she quit in the middle of the pandemic and the look on Garcia's face. She collected herself to answer but she was so taken aback by the line of questioning and I have to say, the bluntness of the question caught me off-guard. Eric Adams was also a police officer, which may or may not be a liability in NYC. He did start talking about police brutality over 20 years ago, which didn't endear him to the PBA back then, so he founded an organization with other Black police officers that focused on community relations and anti-brutality/violence and now that NYC has had an uptick in some violent acts, he seems to be getting more attention recently. Ray McGuire seemed surprisingly unflappable and unrushed in his delivery of answers. Maya Wiley was often chided for going over her allotted time, but she did mostly get out there, what she wanted to say. It was kind of weird how Scott Stringer was answering other candidate"s questions, he really wanted to get his ideas out there, whether he had been asked or not.

Did anyone try to tune in to the NYC Democratic Primary debate for mayor? All I could do was laugh, what a clusterf*CK! 20 second soundbytes for critical questions. I wonder if people will notice that Andrew Yang only seems to be speaking in platitudes, nothing specific, very little that speaks to a personal investment in the city he wants to run. At the very least the majority of the candidates on the stage seem to have a stake (or at least express that they do) in the city.

Is this show still on the air? The only time it seems to trend is when someone gets fired.

A couple weeks ago, I was watching an episode with Andrew Kavovit and Ashley Crow and there was a scene where Barbara encouraged Paul to talk to Beatrice McKechnie to cheer her up since she knows how much Beatrice likes him and I could not help thinking what a relief they never brought Beatrice back in the show's final decade because surely some dimwit would have Paul sleeping with Beatrice.🙄 A reminder of how off the rails the show had gone.

Unfortunately, it seems like the fans, the Emmys were often too fixated on emotive OTT characterizations. Characters who had split and multiple personalities. The understated and the subtle never got the accolades. Byrne winning an Emmy probably meant more pressure from the execs to dig in even more with Lily. Kathryn Hays, despite being consistently excellent was consistently overlooked for her nuanced performances. In what direction do you think P&G would nudge characters to be written in? Also let's not pretend that there wasn't a fandom for Lily and Holden. Their fans were likely sending piles of letters to the studio wanting more of them. Do you actually believe that wouldn't influence P&G? Do you actually believe P&G left Maryland completely to his own devices? That's not how it works. That's not how any of it works.

With a genre known for claiming that a death didn't happen if there was no body (and sometimes even with one), I don't know how anyone can assume anything.

She's so entitled for no reason. Her disposition sucks. Kei desperately needed that win and I am glad that he got it. I'm still dubious about the Olympics but I think this puts him on the cusp of qualification.

Moore's thought he was Trump. Apparently, the rest of his party disagreed.

I remember when a lot of soap fans that hated Sharon insisted that she and Victor had "consummated" the marriage by sleeping together, though it was never shown or discussed onscreen. I was like "Nope, didn't happen if it didn't show up onscreen"😂. Now unfortunately, it seems like most of the events take place offscreen on these soaps now. Interesting though, that Y&R wanted to court controversy with the storyline but also wanted an escape hatch by not showing a physical relationship between former father and daughter-in-law onscreen. They knew that garbage was bad.

Belinda the Brat is back on her bull$hit, lol.

Jo-Wilfried Tsonga walked off court in the same manner yesterday. Who knows whether he'll return next year? It was a forlorn and sad exit. The French are indeed bad at scheduling matches for maximum impact.

I'd trade all of those listed above for a reboot of ADW tbh. It's easily the most relevant and impactful. Bryton expressed the hope that something could be done with Family Matters and from what I have read everyone else in the cast is also on board. I just don't think there are any takers, in terms of production and distribution outfits. When you look at budget for many of these shows, the shows with minority majority casts were always expected to do more with less. Living Single, a frontrunner and inspiration for Friends, had a much smaller budget, less promotion and smaller salaries despite having Kim Fields and Queen Latifah who were well-known entities by then. So, if the actors don't want to return because the "money's funny", then I don't blame them. They got screwed before, they're not up for that again. How Insecure ends will be even more of a litmus test, in terms of whether the industry really has evolved or not. I have to amend what I said about FM, there don't seem to be takers so far

Is she Hilary/Amanda's sister? I could see it of she were. I tried to watch about 20 minutes or so today and besides being bored, I can see what some of you who have been describing the dialogue as stilted really mean because the dialogue just lagged and I could see the actors trying to bring it to life. Looks like Jack got his fair-haired grandson. AAPI Month misses Genoa City again.🙃

That was quite a close match! Both Sloane and Coco went three sets.

The physical limitations notwithstanding, at least Venus' shade game is flawless.

The irony is that Carly and Lily ended up being incredibly poorly written in the last year's of the show's run. Lily was written as an incredible bore as well.

Don't know what is going on with Venus but her spirit looked depressed out there. It's up to her how long she wants to be out there like this. Maybe it's not just about the coaching situation but he has done next to nothing for her. After colluding behind the scenes with RG, looks like Wimbledon is going to leave RG to stand on their own in their criticism of Osaka.

Petra just announced her withdrawal from the tournament after injuring herself during a...wait for it...press conference. Meanwhile, Naomi's sponsors (the only entity she really is contractually obligated to) are beginning to speak and guess what, tennis? They are standing by their player.

A lot of people speaking about specifics of this don't seem to know just how dysfunctional the pro-tennis tours and industry are. People claiming that Naomi is under contract to fulfill these post-match press conferences. Wut? The only contracts Osaka has is with her sponsors and those are almost always based on her on court results. Others saying that Osaka should consult her union. Wut?! Tennis players don't have a union. Anyone who has ever read a transcript or seen one of these post-match press conferences know that these journalists don't even identify themselves before asking their questions. When the US Open wanted to live stream the journalists asking the players questions, many balked because they didn't want to be seen on the Livestream. Anyone who has read a transcript from or seen one of those post-match press conferences has heard some of the most ill-informed questions and ridiculous comments like asking women players why they don't smile or if two black players are playing each other in a match, trying to draw similarities simply because both are black and female. Picture the Hollywood Foreign Press, but tennis. Naomi suggested that perhaps the tennis press could ask better questions and they are fuming. I haven't really paid attention to these post-match press conferences in a decade (other than a clip, here and there) because most have been pointless. I haven't read a transcript in over a decade because they don't even bother to release on time (if it's so vital to people's understanding of the sport, why not?) and the questioning often offers very little insight. At worst, it is usually an effort to break down players who are already down from a loss (or confident from a win). I will never forgive them for how they treated Venus after that fatal car accident she was involved in. Why ask those questions at a post-match press conference after a tennis match? And Billie Jean King saying that because players in her day had to endure this that so should Naomi? It's so obvious that King has a business stake and she is no longer interested in the players, her concern for their well-being is conditional.

I have been thinking about ADW in terms of why they have had no reboot despite massive public interest and I think it is likely because NBCU or the other producers don't want to go to court, if Cosby is indeed the issue. Bill Cosby, a convicted sex offender would have a tough time keeping control of ADW if other producers truly wanted to fight him in litigation. Harvey Weinstein legally had his company wrested away from him eventually, so if it came down to a court battle, Cosby would have a decent chance of losing. It seems like a lack of will on behalf of the other producers, who may not see it as worth the effort, as hard as it may seem to believe by the rest of us. I often think of the fact that most of these sitcoms with minority majority casts had smaller budgets, less promotion and usually went off the air with little fanfare or media recognition. It reminded me of the time when Black movies were said to be unappealing to 'mainstream' audiences and therefore undeserving of larger budgets for production, promotion, etc. as they would only underperform--until they didn't, consistently. I once had a screenwriter/professor tell me that a movie with two Black leads couldn't get greenlit because it was assumed that the movie wouldn't "sell". I hope those days are over in the film business but I wouldn't be surprised if that bias still existed in network television. Insecure is approaching its final season, so we'll see how that send-off happens. It could be an indicator of what, if anything has changed on the landscape.

Yeah, that's exactly what I meant, that tptb wanted a reboot but had to settle for a reunion special because that was all they could get. For years, the actors turned down any and all offers that would be a reboot or a retrospective. I was surprised that they even said yes to a reunion this time around. I probably should have been clearer about the time period because I definitely meant l, in the last three or four years. I strain to remember shows featuring a majority Black or POC cast that have gotten more than a video on Entertainment Weekly:s social media platform. I only just found out that House Of Payne got a reboot, then again, I have only ever watched one episode of that show.

Carly reminds me a lot of that Marcy character (not the one played by Marisa Tomei) in the early 90s, the one that was involved with Linc and on occasion, in cahoots with Lucinda, aggravating Connor Walsh, especially when played by the blonde actress. Anytime I see scenes of her, I can't help but think that she could've been an early prototype for Carly. Those promos all look like they have that "soap opera effect" that tech people like to so derisively use when describing poor picture quality. Why do all the scenes in the promos in gauzy sepia and neutral tan tones.

Well damn.😔 I wish her well. RG and the rest should feel embarrassed. They handled this situation very poorly. Having every single player they could find comment their disagreement with her choice right as the tournament was getting underway seemed to be in particularly poor taste. It was meant to sting and they achieved their aim.

In the Soaps preview thread, I was just watching some heartwarming video of Bryton James and Telma Hopkins discussing Hopkins' appearance on Y&R and they were asked about the possibility of a Family Matters reunion and both seemed hopeful for a future reunion but clearly there was nothing in production or even pre-production, which made me wonder what were the last highly popular and we'll known sitcoms with a majority Black cast to get a reboot? Some may cite The Game and House Of Payne, but to me, neither one achieved the type of mass appeal that A Different World or a Family Matters got. Neither have those shows been a part of the broadcast cultural lexicon in the way that a Living Single or A Girlfriends or an In Living Color has been. I'd even rank The Game and House Of Payne below Sister Sister. On the other hand, we've seen Full House, Punky Brewster and other shows get the reboot treatment with expectation that Sex And The City is soon to follow. They could only get a Friends reunion special, when we all know they wanted a reboot, but the reunion has had a ton of promotion, which I completely understand. It just seems like there is a disparity between the shows that get offers to reboot versus those that do not. Thoughts?

Aww, that was too sweet! Although I no longer watch the show, I can say this about Y&R-- they know how the hell to promote that show! They utilize their actors to promote the product, in ways that the other soaps never seemed to learn how to do.