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If the door is left open for Gabi that would create an unfortunate effect on both Will and Ari because any future stories involving them in Salem will need to explain her absence. For example, if they choose to SORAS Ari, they would need an exposition of Gabi's absence at every significant life event. Could they SORAS Ari without mentioning Gabi? Of course, they could. Would members of this board bring it up every time it happens? You bet your sweet bippy.

At least she got a prettier dress out of that wedding than the one with Herb And, to be fair, there were enough press photos to suggest that JFP supported the promotion of the event (I know that I'll get dragged for the mere mention of supporting JFP, but as a producer, she had a say in the promotional budget).

Given that the Talia character rehab has already begun, I wonder with whom she'll be paired (given that she has no interest in a romantic relationship with Chanel). I'd like to see her return to medicine and be paired with Tripp at the hospital. A Wendy/Johnny/Tripp/Talia quad could be fun for summer. Also, good to see that DAYS is getting its money's worth out of that rooftop/Marlena's deathbed set. Maybe Tripp can move up there when he returns from Seattle?

Especially, given that Chanel bounced back from a six-month relationship with Allie pretty quickly, I don't believe that one roll in the hay would be heart-breaking

Also, his hatred seems misguided. Given that they think Chanel killed the Mother, and Paulina covered it up, why would they kill Paulina and just break Chanel's heart?

I had no idea that Dianna Christianson, the character played by Faye Dunaway in the film was based on NBC Daytime executive Lin Bolen. Bolen is heavily featured in Harding Lemay's Eight Years in Another World because she pushed for the expansion to sixty-minute episodes. There's this tidbit for the Washington Post about the first time Network was shown on TV: "Even before CBS could schedule its showing of "Network," NBC began airing its answer to the film, a perfectly terrible series about a mythical fourth network. Trans Atlantic Broadcasting, called "W.E.B." The tidy irony here is that the program was created by producer Lin Bolen, who was said to have been (and who has said she thinks she was) the model for the Diana Christenson character played by Faye Dunaway in "Network." Bolen was formerly a programming executive at NBC. Chayefsky has denied repeatedly that he based the character on Bolen or that, as was reported, he followed her around taking notes he did follow around such network news luminaries as John Chancellor(NBC). "I wouldn't know Lin Bolen if she were sitting here right now." Dunaway did meet Bolen, Chayefsky says, but that was after the script was written." And she continued to deny the connection right up until her obituary in 2018 "Bolen worked for NBC in the 1970s and was responsible for commissioning the long-running game show Wheel of Fortune. She also is credited with bringing long-form narrative to soap operas, expanding them to hour-long formats. It was long rumored that the ruthless Faye Dunaway character of Diana Christiansen in the 1976 satirical film Network was based on Bolen, something Bolen denied. She was appointed VP of daytime programming at NBC in 1972, rising to become the VP of programming in Sept. 1975. NBC thrived under her leadership, becoming the No. 1 network in ratings." It is understandable that Bolen would deny being the model for Diana because the character was described as soulless. Also, spoiler alert, she conspires to murder a man due to low ratings (no wonder Pete Lemay quit as the audience began to wane -lol).

I thought Joshua had a terrifying intensity that fascinated me at the time. It seemed so contemporary to have this charismatic evangelical and his gospel-singing wife who eclipsed his fame (I doubt a network would dare to risk alienating its religious base today by telling a similar story). Everyone around him is thinking about profits, but he is a manically true believer I really enjoyed that plot, and I thought it was a creative and unique story for primetime. One of my favorite movies of all time is Network and this plot reminded me of Faye Dunaway and Howard Beale dynamic. I really liked Abby's subtext throughout the story. At first, she approaches Joshua like he's a rube that will be easy to manipulate, a mistake that she often made about the men in her life. Then, she tries to bond with him as if they both know that all of his preachings are fraudulent. And, finally, she comes to realize that he's nuts.

I'm not an expert in the subject, but if we follow the timeline of Sweet Bits closure, Nicole's been pregnant for less than a month. And she hasn't even missed her first period. So, why is she experiencing morning sickness and taking prenatal vitamins? And, how does Sloan recognize prenatal vitamins (it's not like that is the name on the prescription)?

A "no strike" clause is only in place during a contract period, meaning that SAG members cannot join the strike of other unions, but they can strike between contracts, which is what they voted to support.

I know Louis was lying on last night's RHoNJ because P.I.'s only exist in soap operas and DAYS Patch has been too busy in Greece to take on a new client. Besides, what would an investigator be able to find about women who are public figures, on a TV show, that one couldn't glean from Google?

It's a real which came first the chicken or the egg phenomenon. Did DAYS cast Colin with an actor who has a British accent and then write dialogue to explain his non-accented sister, or, (given that the death was already written to have occurred in the UK), did they err in hiring an American actress to play Sloan, or was it just kismet? This brings to mind soap pet peeve #14 - characters like Alex, Johnny, and Hope who went to foreign boarding schools but don't seem to be influenced at all by their time abroad. Alex has the vocabulary of Rocky Balboa, Hope speaks as if she grew up next to Snooki on the Jersey shore, and Johnny's plaid flannels weren't purchased at Harvey Nichols.

Also, given that she said he was a toddler when she was in High School and their parents moved to England, does that mean Sloan is at least ten years older than him? Bo should've tried to clone whatever night cream she's using to look so young... And, I didn't get if that meant that Sloan's family moved, but she stayed in the States and never saw them again, or she went along to England.

This may be a deep cut, but I wish they'd go back to Sharon's days as a kleptomaniac.

here ya' go

To quote the lyrical genius Smashmouth, "he ain't the sharpest tool in the shed" - I mean he hallucinated that a banana was a camera... On the other hand, why would the CEO of Price Slice (who was recently jailed) accept the job as police commissioner of Salem? And why does the DA get to tell the mayor who should be hired in that position? Imagine any other town (fictional or actual), where the mayor could fire the Police Commissioner, (who was involved in a scandal regarding sexual harassment), and replace him with his wife.

I think anyone convicted of a DUI should be fired regardless of talent, seniority, disease, or circumstance. It is a terrible crime and no production, or any company, should stand by an employee who chooses to endanger the lives of others. She has not been convicted, and she may escape conviction if this is her first offense. However, if she is convicted she should be fired.

And your username would have been @Katzman and not @Khan

I wonder if the original title was based on an aspersion taken too literally. Like, "Take a gander at that nosey broad, she's a real Mrs. Columbo..." I have fond memories of the show because the house used for the establishing shot was in my childhood neighborhood, and every time we'd drive by it we would always say, "Do you think Mrs Columbo is home?"

@Khan Are you thinking of Sam Behrens (Val's other lover) who turned up on Sunset Beach?

Demetri referred to Megan as his mentor, and she said that he was her son. Given his last name is it possible that he is Carly's son and Megan just lured him into a life of crime and thinks of him a son?

but according to their mother they were totally different girls... And you can trust her because she is wearing her very serious beaded turd hat

Is she eating a raw scallion before her wedding? Maybe her onion breath is what killed Cecil...

My favorite is the way she pronounced palazzo

I adore the way Joan Collins pronounces all of the D words. She over-enunciates Devereaux as if to imply that Dominque is pretentiously using a European pseudonym, and purses her lips when saying Denver as if it was too tacky for someone to stay there. One imagines that none of those things were written in the script, they just came from playing a character for so long. Also, who knew owning a couple of chic little cabarets would earn enough income to indefinitely rent the Presidential Suite at La Mirage?

She makes smoking indoors look chic, even if that lipstick is a bit garish Instagram.mp4