BetterForgotten

Sounds like a soap version of Are You Being Served? I wonder if aspects were plucked from it for B&B...

Y&R was always a joint venture between Bell and Screen Gems (aka now Sony), with Corday Productions owning a minority stake. Bell didn't sell anything to anyone.

Premieres June 8th

Premieres March 30th - I never thought I'd see a live action version of this character, so I'm interested in how this goes.

Is it all that surprising he wanted a contract though? Look at it objectively, it’s not like his acting career is in high demand in film or primetime. He’s also pushing 30, not old by any means and not as detrimental as it is for actresses, but definitely an awkward age for most actors who are not yet established.

They probably don’t want to pay royalties for actors no longer on the show, hence no old flashbacks. Which begs the question - why bother at all then?

Maybe he should stay off social media then or make his account private? Also, his work is public domain with the intention to entertain. If it’s not succeeding, the audience has a right to react. He’s an aging soap writer that’s risen up the ranks during the dying days of the genre. Hardly something that’s an honor in this day and age. Perhaps he should have stuck to practicing Law.

In the grand scheme of things, Renee is barely a blip on the radar really. I don't understand why these people expect a pat on their backs for dredging up character names that anyone who can use Wikipedia can do.

That's correct - but given the current climate and everyone cutting corners as much as possible, no idea if things have been altered a bit to produce things quicker.

Corrie’s only ever used the two-handed format twice to my knowledge. The example you had above @Faulkner but first with Raquel (Sarah Lancashire) and Curly.

Over in the UK, EastEnders used to do some fabulous 'two-hander' episodes (where only two characters appeared for the entire episode). There were some awful ones too, but when they were good, they were goooood. The character of Dot Cotton even had a 'one-hander' where she was the only character featured in that particular episode.

I, like @Khan, could never support Jamey even through the lens of being a fellow longtime soap fan who wanted a crack at writing/producing for the genre (which seemed to be the backbone of his support on this board a little while back). He's proven himself to be driven by baseless agendas and horrible taste for years. DC just gave him a platform to exploit disgruntle soap fans. Ambitions was a flop (some may have liked it, but being canceled after one season speaks for itself), and his scripts on DAYS makes the worst Dynasty scripts look like a Tennessee Williams masterpiece.

We can go down the procedural route with the Law & Orders and CSIs of the world, too.

I think this was a mock from the YouTube description of the video. I know WB acquired Lorimar in 1989, so their entire library has been owned by WB since then. Not sure if another studio/company held the distribution or syndication rights to the Lorimar library before the WB acquisition though.

I thought it was well-crafted from a technical standpoint, but way too long for what it should have been and could have been better edited. There were structural issues with plotting and pacing that I couldn't get over while watching it. Also, I can't say I was blown away by most of the casting - no one was bad, and Pattinson actually did a believable enough job, but I generally found the cast to be pretty by the numbers. It was more of a film noir mystery, but sadly, the actual mystery was pretty straightforward to me (and I didn't read any spoilers) and I was never left on the edge of my seating guessing. The cinematography is amazing though.

This crap may as well been a new show entirely, or a spinoff. And whoever thought the visibly Italian-American Kristian Alfonso should play a character of Mexican heritage needs to be stoned.

CBS had major identity issues for most of the 90's, I guess that's to be expected when it seemed like there was a new network head at CBS every 5 minutes back then. It's funny that Y&R's rise to #1 in daytime for CBS kind of coincided with their primetime fall from grace.

Neither FC or Dallas should have realistically been allowed to make it into the 90’s. By that point, both shows had fallen out of the top 30 and were way past their prime.

If I'm being perfectly honest, I never saw the amazing talent Sydney had anyway. She has a very bland way of delivering her lines. I think the same of Eden McCoy.

I guess The Simpsons is the most obvious example? But I guess only 5 people remember The Tracey Ullman Show these days. Those Miller-Boyette shows always made my teeth itch. Even as a kid I knew what I was being served was generally stupid as hell and fairly light fluff.