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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?

Bell would also go on to tell a variation of that same story on Y&R with Victor in the 90’s.

Were the episodes surrounding Josh and Reva's wedding at Cross Creek the first set of episodes where Robert Calhoun was listed as EP, or was he listed after? I will say the change in the show is very noticeable in 1989 when you compare the first half to the second half. Calhoun definitely energized the production, and tightened much of Long's work (which was further helped by Curlee and Trent Jones being her Co-HWs)

Ah, here it is, 34:28 in and then at the end of the clip as well: I think Calhoun left on his own accord - probably tired of increasing corporate involvement. He never worked in daytime again. Also, P&G had previously let him go at ATWT in favour of Laurence Caso (probably at CBS's instance as Caso was a former CBS executive). They obviously remembered him when GL was in trouble and needed a strong EP to whip it back to shape in '89 though. So seems he had been burnt before as well.

I remember at the end of 1990, there was a scene with Mindy and Mallet with Madonna's 'Justify My Love' (which was the #1 pop hit at that time) playing in the background. These soaps can't afford real pop music anymore, but the chemistry was hot in that scene.

Erika Slezak has always been open about her dislike for Joe Stuart, but never gave much detail. He seems similar to Paul Rauch - talented, but deeply troubled and bullish.

I think Bev mentioned she stopped putting herself up for consideration after her losses at AW. She definitely should have been nominated and won for her work in the early 90's. Maureen Garrett also not having one is a great travesty.

Potter is definitely not without talent. I definitely think he did a lot to gracefully "contemporize" GL. Arguably, GL was the first of the old P&G soaps to really take on a more contemporary format and look in the mid/late 70's and I think Potter was a big part of that. If you compare that to Mary Ellis-Bunim's forced contemporization of SFT and latter ATWT, I'd say Potter was a more successful in every regard to get a soap that's often looked at as your "grandma's soap" into the modern world at that time.

Patrick Mulcahey also described working with the Dobson's and Marland in similar terms. He said the Dobson's gave their scriptwriters a lot of creative liberties at Santa Barbara as long as they stuck within the very "loose" parameters of their outlines. Often he'd get notes from Bridget and Jerry that said, "do whatever the hell you want here" when it came to the dialogue. He also loved working with Marland, but said Marland wrote so much of the show himself and wanted to be thoroughly involved in every aspect. He hated Agnes Nixon's micromanagement style at Loving though - he called her a "school marm" that gave useless/ridiculous notes. I guess it's no wonder why things quickly went south between Marland and Nixon at Loving...

For all her faults, JFP knew how to get her actors nominated for and sometimes win Emmy's, lol.

Potter seemed to get along well with Bridget and Jerome Dobson - and I don't think you can get more "eccentric" than those two. And if I'm honest, I would rank the Dobson's GL work over Marland's.

I think this is the first time I ever saw who Paul Lammers was (the best director ATWT ever had, IMO) - ATWT winning Best Directing in 1993. 37:25 in.

I posted this in the Emmy forum, but the 1994 Emmy telecast is also up. That was a big year for GL and OLTL - those two shows split the acting categories evenly, and GL won for Directing and OLTL won for Writing. The big surprise? AMC winning Best Show despite not winning any other main award - OLTL wasn't even nominated in that category, and GL lost out again. This was also the year Michael Zaslow FINALLY won. The legendary Bruce S. Barry accepted for Directing, it's presented 56:55 in: Mulcahey was also part of Curlee's winning team. For some reason, I can't even spot him in that 1993 clip (maybe he didn't attend?). Curlee, Reilly, and Lorraine Broderick are very noticeable though. 21:57 in

Yes, and he was kissing Agnes Nixon’s ass majorly. I guess talks about Loving had already started.

I had never seen Allen Potter before, so that was nice. Patrick Mulcahey looks so cleaned-up and young, lol. Lisa Brown looks so overjoyed at these wins.