DramatistDreamer

In the Cobra Kai thread in the Primetime section, I posted an article about how the show has a brand marketing deal with Enterprise car rentals. Even though the show streams on YouTube premium, it is product placement, which is essentially marketing, which is an ad. Ads are still relevant, even in premium streaming, whether people want to acknowledge this or not. Having ad dollars come in adds an extra layer of protection for a show/channel's bottom line. The ads are not so obvious with product placement (unless you remember those clunky product placements in the last years of P&G soaps like ATWT) but it's still there. And it's more prominent than you think.

Oh. My. God.

Not really an ad, in the traditional sense but certainly product placement.

If there is any justice in the world, SHS and that entire Trump WH will never be able to secure gainful employment ever again.

Andrea Lewis did a project about on the thoughts of black boys and black men as it regards loving themselves . https://shadowandact.com/black-boys-and-men-speak-their-truth-on-self-love-in-latest-project-from-degrassi-alumna-andrea-lewis

Does anyone think that TBS could have a shot? What's TBS' budget?

Who says? Streaming is getting to be where TV has been for over fifty years. YouTube, one of the earliest streamers, has never been about having no ads. PBS' streaming service even has a subtly placed ad or two. The idea of cable networks like HBO was always to avoid ads. Netflix, which began as a DVD by mail service, has evolved into the subscription-based service it is today. Hulu has always had ads. Crackle has ads. ESPN's streaming service even has ads (as far as I know, I'm not sure about their recent ESPN+ service). I have never gotten the sense that anything online is set in stone, it has always been ever evolving. I don't think that anyone knows what things will evolve into. That's the Internet, in a nutshell. If you had asked the inventors of the World Wide Web (and people have asked people like Tim Berners Lee), they would admit that they had no idea the concept that they invented for computers to communicate with one another would turn into what it is today.

Interesting that though this article posits that there is room for both Netflix and Hulu and Netflix if far and away the leader, Hulu's $6 per month ad-supported service may be more aligned with the future of streaming, according to this article. I still say P&G are absolute fools for not at least trying an ad-supported service to stream episodes from some of their classic daytime dramas.

All those folks who were praising Trump over his 'brand of diplomacy' with N. Korea, where are they now?

Whew, this has reached the levels of peak pettiness! Is tennis media going to give this as much attention as they did Kerber and Andreescu? My guess is no.

It's probably because at this age, I realized that there were times when I was bullied, called indescribable names for no justifiable reason or harassed six ways to Sunday and discovered that not openly reacting was the best response (albeit the most difficult) especially when open displays of anger would be giving people what they want and expect, which is their stereotype of an angry black woman. My guess is that both Megan Markel and Michelle Obama have come to realize this fact as well in their lifetimes. People are all over Michelle Obama's areola for comparing Trump to a divorced dad (which is about the mildest thing one could ever call that troll) and the British press are deliberately trying to hurt Harry by going after Megan (this time for the couple having the gall not to submit to that ridiculous post delivery photo-op outside of the hospital ). The British press seems even more incensed that the Megan and Harry won't respond to their tantrums. There gets to be a certain point where you know that displaying outrage won't change anything, in fact, it gives detractors a smug sense of satisfaction, so better to channel the anger in other ways and so much the better if it comes off as insouciance. I used to have a wicked temper when I was younger but over the years, I think meditation has also helped. Thanks for the compliment though @Juliajms.

Not going to defend the stingy because obviously there are no Jehovah's Witnesses in this group but I personally have never claimed charitable donations on tax forms and I know some people consider it somewhat distasteful to make every charitable donation a "write-off". Are all these folks, keeping their wallets/purses tight or is there some other reason, like investing in organizations that do work that helps individuals? I would genuinely like for someone to ask each candidate why their charitable donations look the way they do. Of course, when the Obamas taxes showed how generous they had been in their charitable donations, they got criticized by some people who claimed it was for show and that charity's effects were limited compared to investing in entrepreneurial and training programs that benefit women, minorities and the poor, for example. America, in general, was quite harsh on the Obamas in certain regards. Some still are.

He's often spoke of some injury. It sure doesn't stop him from beating most of his opponents into the dirt.

For people who many not know much about Peruvian politics, most of their leaders are either incarcerated or have been incarcerated.

Bernie, much like Trump, is a cult of personality to his most ardent followers.

I loved when everyone was in everyone else's business in Oakdale, it really seemed to personify the fact that they lived in a smaller town before someone decided to expand it to a small city. I enjoyed it when other characters would be in their kitchens and living rooms discussing an event that happened to another character. I looked forward to those interactions and see the speed of how news used to travel. One of the sadder elements on ATWT in the last 15 years or so was how isolated characters had become, even those who had once been close. Some of these characters no longer seemed to acknowledge events that happened in the lives of others. It was almost as if they were hermetically sealed off from others. In terms of why today's soaps don't seem to want to employ flashbacks or even much acknowledgement of previous storylines and characters from the past. One reason is ego. The ego of the current executive and writing regimes don't want to remind viewers of times where their show was likely of higher, more entertaining quality. Another reason, that just came to mind is the fact that some soaps don't have a ridiculous amount of recasts, while others do. Sadly, the last decade or so of ATWT, they employed a farcical number of recasts, particularly for the characters of Craig, Casey and Adam. ATWT has always been somewhat disposed to recasts (Lisa, Tom, Margo, Betsy, Hal) which could complicate the use of flashbacks, particularly for newer viewers who weren't there when the changes occurred but in the very late 90s and the 2000s, in particular, I got the notion that TPTB just didn't want the current audience see or know too much about the fact that the quality of the show from previous eras was so much better. When it came to most of P&G soaps, ego definitely ruled over most everything else (except budget).

Maybe it's just me but the chart seems a bit obsessive and wacky, LOL. Perhaps commentators keep mentioning that he lives in Monaco because that's where the tournament is and the commentators lack the ability to find something else to talk about (God forbid they actually be quiet sometimes!). Whenever the Williams Sisters play in Miami, the fact that they can drive to the tournament always gets mentioned. Every. Single. Year. Even though their origin story is outta Compton and Serena was born in Michigan, Miami being where they are based is always brought up before each and every one of their matches in Miami. Yeah, it's tiresome but it is what it is. I just don't see why she's getting so bent out of shape about it.

I think this person is being a little too reactive to everything that is said about Novak. Djokovic does live in Monte Carlo, as have lots of other tennis players going back to the 1980s. Boris Becker used to live in Monte Carlo and it was mentioned all the time. And? As for the players who live in Switzerland, it gets mentioned frequently that they reside in Switzerland. People have even made jokes about it. I don't see Tsonga fans getting upset about the jokes and Tsonga's house got robbed while he was out of the country! It was well known that Mauresmo lived in London while an active player. And anytime there is a European player who lives in Florida, I often hear about it. No offense, but I think this person is being overly sensitive. Of all the things to complain about, this ain't it. By the way, Alex DeMinaur's mother is Spanish and the family moved to Spain when he was five but moved back to Australia when he was a teenager. It would make sense if he spent time in Spain where his mother's family hails from. If anyone can achieve this feat, it would be Stan, LOL.

I like the way your mind works. Just imagine if Casey became involved with Jack...oh the complications that could spring from that!

Wow, I don't remember this Nikki!

Another day, another investigation of possible ethics violations by a member of Trump's cabinet. Why does America now treat this as if it's par for the course?

This unlikely to be news for anyone who had recently seen Sascha Bajin sitting with KiKi Mladenovic's mother.

Speaking of Harris, she has released 15 years worth of tax returns, more than any other candidate.

I'm not so sure about that, tbh. Martha's crime mainly hurt Martha. You could say that others were adversely affected by her participation in insider trading but those affected were mainly the greedy sharks on Wall Street, not kids who studied their brains out hoping to go to the college of their dreams. Add to that, Loughlin has not even released a statement of contrition a la Felicity Huffman. If Loughlin goes to trial, much will depend on how she conducts herself during the trial. I specifically remember Martha Stewart's trial and one thing people remarked on was the fact that despite the appearance of being totally resolute about her innocence during the trial, once the verdict was in, Stewart seemed even more resolute in accepting what the judgement had pronounced. To a scrum of media journalists and television cameras, Stewart declared that she wasn't afraid of hard work and that she intended to make the most of her time in prison. Stewart helped other incarcerated women while she was there (the poncho she wore as she walked out of prison was made by a fellow prisoner) and I think that was what went a long way in building her street cred. Also, hanging out with rappers didn't hurt her cause either. But yeah, you talk about taking away places from other people's kids by way of graft and you've got a genuine problem in terms of getting (back) into people's good graces.

More about the Avenatti indictment.