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I don’t care yall. Queen Leslie/Dana walks on water and imma back her up to get what she believes is rightfully hers, lol

Florence Henderson is rolling in her grave as we speak!

MVJ called Julie Carruthers their “firefighter” on IG. Assume she’s the one that’s been dealing with all the production hiccups that happened in the beginning.

P&G has long had some of the longest standing and most liberal policies for its LGBTQIA+ employees in corporate America. That’s often been a source of conservative bigots and political groups calling for boycotts of their products as well. Those why try to claim otherwise are severely misinformed and have another agenda going on.

At one point, Y&R and B&B were supposed to move to a new studio. That was put on pause, but I wonder for how much longer? CBS no longer owns Television City. The Price Is Right moved out in 2023.

I always wondered the story behind why he left DAYS. Did he not get along with Tom Lagan? When Shelley Curtis returned to GH, she brought him with her.

Posted some clips that got merged with my original post above. 😉

RIP. DAYS never had good background music again after he left, IMO. His GH background music was also great. When he started composing for ER, I immediately knew it. This, in particular, still stands out and makes me want to cry uncontrollably: I first discovered his work on GH before viewing the classic DAYS episodes on YouTube. These themes are seared in my brain from GH in the 90’s. Sonny and Brenda’s theme is also a big highlight for me: Carly’s theme: Stone’s death theme:

Yeah, the actors have all said the first month or two of production was a bit rough and there was a lot of growing pains. Most of their crew has never done daytime soaps before, and in particular, their camera crew and editor was totally new to this way of working. Karla Mosley said a woman had to come out of retirement to train the camera crew how to shoot for soaps in the first month. That and their lighting equipment wasn’t ready during the first week of production. Tamara Tunie said a lot of the kinks have since been worked out, so I think the production consistency should gradually get better over the next few weeks/month.

Honestly, Kat judging Eva’s wardrobe when she damn well knows girl ain’t rich makes her a bit unlikable. I was ready for Eva to give Kat a good beat down after that.

Given the audience skewed younger and more multicultural, it’s safe to say a bunch of folks who don’t typically watch daytime tuned in for the premiere week. That’s encouraging - let’s hope they stick around.

At a certain point, she needs to realize her marriage is over (for now) and it wasn’t just Haley’s fault. How many episodes in a row does she need to harp on the same things? They need to explore other aspects of Dani. She’s becoming very one-note.

I desperately need Dani to move the f.uck on. It’s exhausting watching this character do the same sh!t over and over again, and we’re only in week #2! Imma need Haley to finally snap and turn that gun back on Dani’s ass.

Or even become friends with Shanice to boring ass Ashley’s chagrin.

The same with the bland whites on this show.

She’s perfect and the best hero ever. Too bad there is no character there and Jen Jacob has absolutely no charisma or chemistry with the men she’s being teased with.

The sainted praise is overcompensating for what a boring and pointless character she really is.

Exactly. I miss Leslie/Dana when she’s not on. I can’t say the same about Dani.

Credit to @te. for posting this in the BTG chain. From The Hollywood Reporter: TV Ratings: ‘Beyond the Gates’ Has Promising Start for CBS (Exclusive) I think this part is key as the show was developed with Black viewers in mind so the demographics they’re looking at might be very different from the other soaps: “More than half of the Beyond the Gates audience — 55 percent — for its premiere week was made up of Black viewers. That compares to 30 percent for CBS’ The Bold and the Beautiful, 29 percent for The Young and the Restless and 22 percent for General Hospital.”

Their sensibilities are so different from MVJ and Guza’s so hoping that checks them and their outlandish ideas aren’t taken seriously and given room to flourish. Just write your damn breakdowns and stay out of storyline development….

Let’s also remember that CBS isn’t paying the entire production bill for BTG. P&G and the NAACP are also chipping in. This probably made it easier for CBS to green light the show. This type of partnership does add more cooks in the kitchen, but I think it’s a solid way to manage costs. It would be great if ABC went to P&G or another company to see if they can produce a similar partnership for daytime soap development.