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Didn’t Agnes originally create her AMC bible for P&G? Who knows how many hands were in the pot back then, or it could be lazy error.. Bell had worked with Ted Corday at ATWT, and his wife Betty was familiar with him. I am guessing Betty made him an offer at DAYS and he took it. Bell spoke a little about leaving Irna in this clip and how he thought she never really forgave him for it. Bell was very much her right hand man in many aspects during the first decade or so of ATWT.

She said she was offered two roles on the LA-based soaps, but turned them down because they weren't anything substantial. I wonder what shows they were - probably GH, but what's the other one?

Well, if Rihanna hadn't taken a sabbatical from music, she would have likely surpassed Elvis and Mariah Carey by now (or gotten extremely close). The streaming era has kind of made the Hot 100 and some of these chart records irrelevant though.

Nancy Curlee even said she wanted her own/young Nola, and thus created Bridget. She also said she would have loved to write for Nola, but obviously Brown was playing Iva on ATWT at the time. I think that's the only reason why Bridget wasn't Stacey, P&G probably didn't want fans asking for Nola to return when Brown was committed to their other soap. Having not been fully acquainted with Nola (and Quint) at the time, I remember thinking, "what the hell is Iva doing in Springfield and why is she acting so wacky?" when Brown first came back.

Speaking of Mamie, where’s the clip of Mamie calling Jill a bitch? lol The simmering bitchery between Mamie and Jill was always fun.

Doesn't Disney now technically own the rights to the show? I believe 21st Century Fox purchased New World in the late 90's, and obviously Disney recently purchased most of the 21st Century Fox properties.

Obviously, the writing for Nola was baddddd during this second stint (thanks McTavish!), and Bridget's best years were beyond her at this point too. However, Lisa Brown and Melissa Hayden look SO MUCH like one another, Melissa could have easily been Nola's daughter Stacey. The two also had instant faminal chemistry.

The other women in the category are great in their own way, but Kathleen's clip was a force of nature. She was amazing.

And Trent Jones was also in the mix as Co-HW with Smith and Alden for some of that time!

Isn't HBS the only Margo that worked with all the Toms? It would be fun to do one with HBS and all the different Toms.

Zimemer and Alan are obviously very close, so I wonder if she played a big part in coordinating this.

Gosh, Nathalia Livingston’s terrible acting still doesn’t get any better upon rewatching her work years later...

I think CK has long realized what a hinderance that LAME relationship was to her growth on the show and how badly it aged and limited her character. She just doesn’t want to directly say this so she doesn’t piss that ridiculous and stupid fanbase off...

I can’t see her face, but I am guessing she was an actress on the show. I think they had actresses on the soaps be the “trophy girls” that year. For example, I believe Nia Long was the trophy girl who handed Rick Hearst his Emmy that year

The ABC soaps never caught on well worldwide, so Loving’s success in Italy is a bit of an anomaly. I guess that was largely due to Nixon owning it and Freemantle distributing it in select countries.

The 1990 Daytime Emmy's are up! Pam Long accepting for Best Writing is 1:17:37 or so in:

I believe this was Loving's only Emmy win in a major category - Bernard Barrow wins Supporting Actor in 1991. 21:25 in. I know he died a little over two years after this. How much of this was because of him being known from Ryan's Hope, or was it well-deserved at the time?

1991 Daytime Emmy's are up where ATWT won Best Show! 1:55:15 in:

Joe Stuart is still alive, right? Someone should do an interview with him about his time on The Doctors, OLTL, and Loving.

The Archers broadcasts new episodes from Sunday-Friday. Unshackled broadcasts a new episode every Saturday.

There’s a video in this article from 2015 that talks about and gives insight about how an episode is Unshackled is produced. https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-unshackled-radio-65th-anniversary-met-3-20150405-story.html

Unshackled was broadcast a few months before The Archers, but its volume of episodes is much less. The Archers has produced over 19,000 episodes so far while Unshackled has produced just over 3,600. But runtime on Unshackled is 30 mins, while The Archers is 12 (formerly 15) mins.

Yes, Unshackled still produces new content (though I believe they’ve cancelled some recent shows due to the pandemic). In many ways, if you try to ignore the religion overtones/propaganda (unless that’s what appeals to you of course), it can be a pretty damn compelling show and it’s produced the same way as the old radio soaps were to this day - with a live organist and all!

Thanks! In this era where TV/Film productions have shut down due to the pandemic, it would be so easy and safe to do a radio/audio production remotely. Too bad this type of storytelling has all but died in North America. Though I know the Christian radio drama Unshackled is still in production and going strong...

During the period TV and Radio broadcasts overlapped for GL in the 50’s, did the storylines overlap between the two mediums? Or did each each exist in a separate universe but with mostly the same characters?