BetterForgotten

Nothing will really change since Griffith is still there and in charge of the "creative" direction.

Congrats to her and so deserved after so many years of loyal service and multiple regimes.

That is so lovely to see Jane speak about her personal relationship with Leslie and how it stretched back to before GH. The foundational Quartermaine actors always seemed so close and supportive of each other in their personal lives.

I believe there was a card memorial, but can’t verify. TBH, Amy was such a peripheral side character and had very little close ties to anyone still active on the show at that point that a title card tribute was fine to me. It would have been more of a nice to have than a necessity to me.

Paging @Errol lol

She’ll probably never come back (really, what would be the use with Freddy on his way out anyway?), but I thought Kacey’s post acknowledging the 25th anniversary of the Slater’s arrival was lovely.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DOvkrmqk2qW/?igsh=MTIyeW0xdWgwaWhjOQ==

She’s officially back with Warner Brothers and has announced Confessions on a Dance Floor part 2 as the next album (a sequel to her hit 2005 album))! https://www.instagram.com/p/DOvivFSgsD8/?igsh=b3luZHoyZjA4bGUx

Despite the [very] low opinion I have of this award show, I am happy Jane Elliott is getting honoured.

In the radio soaps thread, it was said a similar story was done on a radio soaps years before (amnesia and the farm elements) that Bell may have taken inspiration from.

I’m glad to see Erika again on daytime, but I am not going to lie that the thought of possibly seeing a relative of Monica’s that we’ve never seen before getting airtime during her likely passing and being played by a friend of Frank’s (granted a true daytime legend and a good one) doesn’t annoy me a bit. But whatever, it’s good to see Erika again on soaps after so long.

Yeah, it was said that the reason Kat and Phil were rarely in scenes together for years was because Jesse and Steve didn’t get along. The phone tapping tabloid scandal also created a lot of mistrust in the cast in the early 00’s - I’ve seen people suggest (with no proof obviously) that information about Steve and Lucy Benjamin’s then relationship came out as a result from tapping Jessie somehow. A lot of the cast assumed each other were selling stories about them to the tabloids. Barbara Windsor also said that Jessie and Patsy Palmer were the only two cast mates she ever had a tiff with, in both cases because they held up production sometimes. She later mended things with them both, but in Jessie’s case, she did say she exploded at her (but later felt bad as she realized Jessie was going through things personally and had a tough time adjusting to sudden fame) and then went crying into John Yorke’s office. Whatever the case, Jessie and Steve seem to be on good terms now. Jessie posted some pics on her IG today. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOfrtb6DPYf/?igsh=MXZ0OGJpemoxM3VtZg==

My feelings exactly and I would bet my savings this doesn’t last very long.

Bad quality video, but Jessie and Michelle presented Steve McFadden with the Serial Performance NTA tonight:

It’s almost an out of body experience seeing Kat, Zoe, and Anthony in scenes together again after 22 years knowing their history.

I’ve yet to sit through an entire episode of this. I find these two so obnoxious together as hosts.

Marlena Delacrock is more like it. I can’t believe she’s still writing these blogs as if anyone cares. SPW was a long time ago, and a lot of her blogs (at least a decade or more ago) were littered with poor research and often bizarre takes on what’s really happening. I can’t say I’ve read anything she’s written about soaps in years though, until this, and yikes…

Probably because it’s based in LA and they want the guests to be in studio as it’s recorded. Sheila Ducksworth and Karla Mosley still have some roots in LA.

He should honestly be grateful he even lasted this long with such peripheral ties and being a supporting character for most of that time. Regardless of his behaviour, this was a long time coming.

He was responsible for the Branning extension in 2006, and most famously, the Stacey/Max affair. He tends to force Max into places on the show he doesn’t even belong, and tends to revisit the Max/Stacey well for the most inane reasons (like when he had Stacey and Max sleep together again in 2018 with no buildup or for no apparent reason other than he wanted them to). That line from Max to Zoe this week about her “reminding” him of Stacey reeked of him, and sure enough, he wrote that script.

I wouldn't be surprised if that Max idea came from that one trick pony, Simon Ashdown. Who used to be very good, but can no longer hide any bias in whatever he writes.

I know Jessie's had some personal issues in recent years (oddly, reminiscent to what she went through during her first stint, lol). But I think Clenshaw had a very limited focus, and liked the characters he liked and just let the ones he didn't have the most interest in just roll along. I know he dedicated his last week to Kat/Alfie's wedding, but generally, I don't think he gave the character much focus beyond the surface. Whether the material turns out good in the long-term remains to be seen, but I do think Wadey at least acknowledges that Kat needs more focus, and apparently his first ideas when becoming EP was this Zoe return and putting Kat back in the Vic.

JFP never worked with Matt Cohen. He was a Valentini hire at GH.

Detective? Sounds like a recurring role…

Behind the scenes video from this week’s episodes. Ben Wadey sure loves to talk and be on camera, eh?