DramatistDreamer

Over the last few years, I have seen ads for these very short form dramas, but I thought they were some sort of spinoff of Korean dramas. It will be interesting to see whether this takes off in the U.S. and whether brands sign on for advertising, which we all know has been critical to most soaps that air on broadcast television. What are your thoughts about this? Minute-Long Soap Operas Are Here. Is America Ready?

Something that I was thinking about and frankly, was bothering me when I decided to tune in again to see what was going on with this show. Diane is an accomplished architect who had her own career and now, it was just reading as someone who has given up her talent and everything she built to stand by her man. Yes, there is the question of what would she do, how would that look onscreen but right now, she could have been taking meetings at Crimson Lights (like everyone else in town) with Sharon on designing Sharon’s office building. Do we have to see it? Do we see half of what anyone does for work anymore? Or they could just do a weird CGI a la Summer’s rollercoaster ride or Chance and Summer’s concert date or a CGI construction site or exterior, like they do any number of places. Photoshop can do any number of things these days. Welp, a perfect illustration of my previous post, @dragonflies. They’re already doing it so they might as well fully commit and branch out. Although, they could give more detail and better shading and light.

Me too, come to think of it. Was it Mal that gave that insulting interview about killing her off being a “gift” to viewers? And then implying that her pregnancy was somehow costing the show. I can’t remember exactly what was said but at the time I was pissed! That woman worked wonders, she actually made Bryton (who I have nothing against, I actually think, given the right material, can perform as well as most of the other actors) look like one half of a bona fide soap supercouple. Even if they we to bring the actress back as Hilary tomorrow, I don’t think they would be able to restore what they once had, not with these writers.

Believe it or not, I haven’t been following her personal life. I stopped following anything NFL years ago, so I was almost entirely out of the loop until yesterday. The MAGA people just look desperately stupid for clinging onto this conspiracy theory. Their usual conspiracy theories are dumb too but this one is among the silliest.

^^That’s decent cross promotion and it made me chuckle. Made me long for the days when they use to do those cute preemption promos during the U.S. Open Back then, they really knew how to build anticipation for the shows returning after the Labor Day break.

This is so stupid on the part of MAGAts. Here’s to “Swifties” putting the, in their place.

ESPN is reaping what they have sowed. They have been alienating tennis fans for years, making tennis less accessible with their bogus ESPN+ platform (why relegate every match to ESPN+?) and they have been underinvesting in tennis for years now, despite vacuuming up the broadcast and streaming rights to 3 out of 4 of the majors. Most of today’s newest tennis “stars” don’t have the personality to get eyes in front of the screen past 8pm EST, let alone 3am. The time is set by Tennis Australia, so ESPN has no control over that but ESPN should be making streaming as readily available and accessible as they do their NBA games, in order to try to hook fans on the newest generation of players. The ITF and the entire alphabet soup of organizations need to start over with making this sport more accessible and appealing to a viewing audience. ESPN shouldn’t be allowed to have exclusive rights to streaming of the majors, neither should the Tennis Channel for that matter. USTA should take back the rights and put it back on their website, and just add commercials and run occasional ads at the bottom of the screen during matches. The All England Club and the FFT should do the same. Any viewers outside of that particular nation could pay a fee to stream a universal feed for the two weeks (with a choice of with or without commentary) The Tennis powers that be need to come up with some innovations before they decide to sell the sport to kingdom of Saudi Arabia, lock, stock and barrel.

Battle was such a dynamic dancer and incredible choreographer. A phenomenal talent.

The kidnapper is played by David Cryer, the father of actor Jon Cryer (Pretty In Pink, Two And A Half Men ). Cryer was brought back about 5 or 6 years later to play mob boss Phillip Lombard. I was hoping they’d have brought him back in the show’s final years, possibly as a paramour for Lisa since they had good chemistry. Instead the show shunted Lisa (and Eileen) off to the side.

Ah, I see @Paul Raven. Thanks for that post. Maybe the only thing that can be done is to try to upgrade the back office at Crimson Lights. The last time I saw that back office, it was looking fairly grungy. Unfortunately, he’s been writing stories this way for years. Someone should’ve nipped that in the bud when he started doing this.

The International Tennis Integrity Association has decided to appeal the decision to clear British player Tara Moore of charges of doping. https://www.bbc.com/sport/tennis/68141134

This infernal issue with sets and budgets, there’s a dignified solution in there somewhere. I’m fascinated by it despite no longer being a regular viewer. Question: Does Sharon still have a house? Could there be space for a home office? People do work from those..

A woman who was so vibrant, it seemed like she would go on past her centenary and keep going from there. ¡Vaya con Dios, Doña Chita! Descanse en paz.

Rather than typing in the URL, if you use a search engine and type in We Love Soaps, and click a link that pops up in the results, you will see the site itself, just not when typing the URL directly.

I know I am being nitpicky but Sharon used customer and client interchangeably. Is her company a public facing company or are they providing software to companies? The last time I watched, I had the impression that her company provided software to other companies, rather than individual consumers. Just wondering.

WLS was an invaluable resource. The interviews and the “On This Day in …” with the accompanying video clips and descriptions placed soaps in a historical and cultural context. Even the WLS YouTube channel was thoughtfully curated, thanks to their upload of ATWT episodes, I got to see The Willows storyline. Not to mention the fact that Roger Newcomb provided his services as a liaison between the SoapClassics people and the P&G people. He really was a true ambassador for the genre and that is sorely missed.

Ouch! It is nothing short of miraculous that Connick Jr.’s career was unaffected by the awful decisions of his father’s regime. Today, in the era of social media, Jr. catching a few strays in the hail of denunciations would have been unavoidable.

Unfortunately in the late ‘00s disparaging soaps was low-hanging fruit since so many were plagued by poor writing and production choices but the critical mass of disparaging comments read so much like piling on. That article did raise an issue that has been in the back of my mind for well over a decade now, the possibility that any shifts were going to alienate viewers at any given time period. Many of us 1970s babies grew up watching the soaps of the 1980s and loving them, but there is a possibility that viewers that were watching from the 1960s and 70s were alienated by the drift away from the characterizations of the everyday in favor for big action and adventure.

Thanks so much for posting this article @wonderwoman1951. This quote really stood out to me as one of my constant critiques of many daytime soaps (even my favorites) was that many abandoned the realistic quality in favor of absurdist fantasy. Many other soap fans have argued that they welcomed the fantastical qualities that soaps took on (e.g.a ‘super-couple’ racing to save the world from freezing) as opposed to a more realistic world but I have always contended that this is also the aspect that would come to alienate all but the most ardent fans of daytime soaps. It also gave critics more latitude to criticize and mock soaps and ultimately be dismissive of the genre’s hallmarks. Well, I just read the part where the GH plot get mentioned. This article goes with my initial feeling that the quote was not meant to be a derisive one, just an even-handed one about the realities that go on in a writer’s room, maybe a bit too ‘inside baseball’ for most and I didn’t want to jump to a judgment.

Hi @JaneAusten. I hope that you are feeling much better these days. Last year was a rough year for me, with the loss of one of my brothers who I was a caregiver for and I am still dealing with the emotional (and a few physical manifestations of that), so I wish you a full recovery of health and hope you will take the time to really care for yourself. As for the discussion, I think as a society we should be willing to have an open and honest conversation about not only the Israeli-Hamas war but the nature of armed conflict and whether this is the best that we as human beings living in the 21st century can do. I do have reservations, only because these conversations often seem to become focused on emotions. There is also a lot of tangled history, culture, political regional rivalries that all enter and complicate matters but maybe we can try to navigate those issues together.

It sounds like Harry Connick Sr.’s administration had an egregious prosecutorial record. The highest wrongful convictions rate in the world? https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/27/us/politics/harry-connick-sr.html

On its face, it would appear that way, until you look at the section that qualifies the statement with … A story meeting is not the same thing as a plot summary. A story-meeting is often a place where the worst (and sometimes best) ideas get pitched, and many tossed out. Having attended a few of these meetings myself, I can honestly say it’s not clear whether this is actually a curve against ATWT.

Doesn’t he mean ex-girlfriends? Lest he forget that he’s had more than one woman make an allegation of abuse. VPN is Virtual Private Network. I use a free one which is good for when I make financial transactions online but it’s limited to the U.S. I need a VPN that will allow me access to Europe. Here is an explanation of VPNs. https://www.pcmag.com/picks/the-best-vpn-services

Admittedly, I saw next to none of the women’s final (I had a feeling that Zheng’s nerves as a first time finalist would be no match for Sabalenka’s power and high level of confidence and focus. I had hoped the final might be competitive but had an underlying doubt that it would actually be. I saw more of the men’s final and that was a lot more competitive. I missed the first two and a half sets, so I clicked on in time to catch Medvedev, right on schedule, get snagged by his 2 sets lead problem. Still, Sinner did earn that title with some hard fought wins, most of which, admittedly, I didn’t see. Just imagine how he will feel once the court trial comes to the fore. After he got knocked out of the tournament, ESPN finally felt obliged to make a statement detailing the charges. It took decades but I think ESPN has ultimately ruined tennis for me. I am seriously considering purchasing a VPN so I can watch RG and Wimbledon on their native broadcast networks.

Fortunately for me, I don’t know anything about this man but those quotes attributed to him are so revolting! This statement of consent is being used as a constant refrain now, so much so, that it strips the statement of all genuine meaning. And then there are the anonymous trolls in the comments declaring that, unless these women are willing to put their names out there to the public, they shouldn’t be taken seriously…all the while said trolls are declaring this…anonymously. I know we should never judge a “book by its cover” but his statements present an “image” of him that is truly vile.