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I apologize if this has already been posted but I was just perusing YouTube for Ryan's Hope and found a poster, FreeFlyur has a lot of 1986-1989 episodes of RH up.

I think Tyler Perry does do some things right, but I mean, House of Payne turned into one afterschool special after another. I appreciated Meet The Browns much more in the long run. He's very heavy handed at times and preachy and I don't want this show to go down that road but I have a hard time seeing them taking this "seriously", but at the same time having it seem 'serious'. It also doesn't help that he sometimes doesn't cast the, um, best actors in the world LOL

The cast is probably the only reason I'll even tune in. And yep, that John Schneider. http://www.oprah.com/havesandhavenots

I mean, it's Tyler Perry, first off, so I expect it to be very heavy handed. I started the thread because up until now, I had no idea who would be in the cast. Apparently John Schneider, Tika Sumpter, Eva Tamargo (Passions' Pilar) and Peter Parros (OLTL/ATWT) will be in it. Again, it's Tyler Perry, so I don't expect it to be anywhere near amazing soap. It's one hour, but is it comedy, drama? Curious if anyone is going to watch?

LOL. I saw this on Facebook.

Hmm. Man. This show IS so depressing now. I skipped Jan and February (I was that behind! lol) and started watching March episodes. I'll catch up someway with the other ones. Dot's hiding letters (losing her house?) and Poppy and Fatboy (love them) think she might be losing it because of her strange behavior and items going missing. Dot is after Cora for the missing ham. LMAO. I love Dot. The first depressing story. Phil is disgusting me. I'm not surprised. The actress playing Lola has been doing very good lately, IMO. But you have ugly nasty Phil keeping Lola from her daughter for purely selfish guilt filled reasons. Another depressing story. Sharon slapping Jack and having sex with him afterwards. I think after growing up as Den and Angie's daughter, seeing their combative behavior, she clearly thrives off of it LOL. I like them and am now kinda sad we are losing Jack. I also adore his Phil hatred. I can see why many probably don't like this storyline, whatever it is (again, I was a little behind and skipped a bit). I like the idea of Ian and Denise. So glad to see Ian happy and just being given something to do! But the other depressing story is Patrick confined in a wheelchair being taken care of. I'm glad that quickly ended and turned a little bit happier. I quite enjoy Patrick, Kim, Denise and Ian on a regular basis. What's up with Alice now channeling Janine and wearing her clothes and Michael practically lusting after her. I think the actress playing Alice though is quite good. When is Janine back? I can't believe how much I've grown to like Tanya and Max. I don't know if I like them together actually but I like them both on their own, though Max is ALWAYS so dour and kind of boring. The actor's great though. So yeah, kinda blah and depressing but it's not bad, it's just ... kind of there and depressing, though still pretty good IMHO.

I still think Elisabeth is leaving. However, like others have said, it will be "her choice" (of course). I caught Barbara's "we support them if they leave" or whatever nonsense she was babbling on about.

Yeah, EastEnders is on YouTube. I believe a couple different users upload episodes and they're up fairly quickly. Yet I still fall behind LOL. My computer is just starting to show it's age so videos don't always play so well anymore. IDK why I don't use the YouTube app on DirecTV. I never remember it. I'm still liking EE but it's just ... IDK. I feel like SOMETHING is missing for me and I can't quite peg it.

Well, that news sucks, LOL.

Yeah Elisabeth is probably done. I dont care what they say. Why are exits on the View handled so damn badly? I think it is damage control. They arent going to "steal the thunder" of Joy's exit with Elisabeth leaving too.

It hasn't had as much buzz in the last couple of years. It rode a little bit of a high from the Rosie/Elisabeth debacle as well as Whoopi coming on but the last few years. Meh. It was time for a change. I also agree with whoever said in here that having three comics wasn't the smartest thing. You always had Joy, Whoopi and Sherri agree, which was often fine with me because I like them the most, but Elisabeth probably got more hate thrown her way than deserved just because she had a different opinion, which is why they were all hired in the first place. I like Sherri but I don't think the View is for her.

Joy has terrible interview skills but I've liked her. She comes off very jaded and dismissive though so it can be off-putting. I have enjoyed her and Whoopi's clear annoyance at Babs. Speaking of Barbara ... in reading some old posts through here, I agree, the View has changed my opinion big time of her. I'm fine with Rosie and Whoopi. I mostly watch for Whoopi and was watching for Rosie (I wish her talk show on OWN had been better). So Babs might be retiring too ... I can't say that bothers me. Barbara seems so out of it half of the time (likely due to age, which sucks, because I've always liked her) and it annoys the piss out of me when she constantly interrupts Whoopi and tries to control everything and be politically correct all of the time. She's just not an off-the-cuff person. She needs to stick to specials and interviews. And yeah, she's 84 (wow!), so she probably does need to take a step back and not have to deal with the hassle of the show. She often missed a lot of shows anyway so it won't be that big of a loss, technically. I can't even imagine who they are getting to replace all of them. Hopefully Whoopi sticks around but I've often felt like she was looking done with the show too.

Ian and Sharon were very close once again when she first returned. Sharon even helped Lucy and Ian pretty much come back together. It did seem to taper off I guess. Ian's like an afterthought it seems. Shame. And back to Jack ... he is likeable but I guess I can easily do without him, too. Not a big loss in that sense but in terms of losing a nice, likeable guy, yeah, it is kind of a shame.

GL could absolutely be revived, I've always had a special place for this show. It's too bad how the Peapack years went. Not to mention the questionable casting and lack of any real storylines, IMHO. They had so many vets there near the end who clearly had no issues coming back to the show they loved.

There was so much about Ron's OLTL that really turned me off when I think about it. It's funny because his 2008 got me BACK into OLTL. I think he means well but the man is a hot mess. Anyway ... speaking of hot messes. Wasn't in the mood for my local news this morning so I wound up on OLTL on SoapNet. UGH. Worst time of course. Schuyler is waving a gun around at Gigi. Destiny and Dani are about to go head to head over a role or something. I can't remember. It was nice seeing Barbara Garrick and Ilene Kristen being amazing (Allison was telling Roxy her son, Schuyler, was alive). Oh. Kelly's looking ROUGH at John's, this was her return right? And I think we have Teen Jessica with Cristian and Natalie all up in on it. UGH UGH UGH. That period burned me, not gonna lie.

I forgot how terrible Vasi was. Damn.

First time I've read that interview by Cobb and I loved it. So incredibly spot on for all of Daytime. But wasn't Disney fully all over ABC by that point? You can see their damage on daytime as well as primetime at the time (the sitcoms suffered, too)

Oh good. Jack was so boring. I never minded his interest in Sharon, but man, he pretty much added nothing to the show. Shame. What a waste. Not that I thought he was spectacular but I doubt he was horrible. I just don't think they had any interest in him. He just felt like he was "floundering" the entire time I was watching, up until the Jack/Phil/Sharon ... whatever it is.

Agreed. I was very disappointed seeing how they handled both of them.

I haven't watched recently either. No real reason, just busy with a lot of other things. I'm sorry to see her go too. When I first started watching August of last year, she was very off-putting at first but I quickly started to enjoy her and even miss when she wasn't on. It was the actress too. What a great actress. I can see her doing so many other things. She's fantastic. What a loss for EE.

Wow that was pretty disturbing.

And he is terrible as [!@#$%^&*] on it. Still a piece of wood.

Big thanks to both Carl and AMS! Thanks for the links and direction. Much appreciated! Also randomly watched December 26th, 1979 ... yeah, I already really like the show. I knew that I would. I've seen clips and bits here and there over time. Such interesting characters. I'm already familiar with most of them through previous cast/character research. Also this is a shockingly good source of information I just found: http://coronationstreet.wikia.com/wiki/Coronation_Street_Wiki

Yeah, that's also why I HAVEN'T gotten into it because of hearing how awful it is lol. I was going to give it a try but I'd rather watch something enjoyable. I wanted to start with older material (like I did with EastEnders by watching/still watching 1985 episodes). I'm glad the episodes are out there, anyone have some places off the top of their head where I can watch/stream or download? I know I can torrent but I'm so impatient lol, even with a pretty fast internet connection.

LOL. Even though I listed her I STILL forget about temp Kay. Sigh. I'm such an idiot sometimes. Seriously.