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I completely forgot Gloria’s involvement in Ryan’s introduction to Pine Valley!

Was this the start of Jack and Jen?

 

Germany also revealed their artist for 2021 yesterday (and it’s not Ben Dolic who was meant to represent them last year). It’s a ukulele-playing man from Hamburg by the name of Jendrik Sigwart...

 

 

1 hour ago, I Am A Swede said:

We just started our long and elaborate selection process here in Sweden tonight.

 

Yes I watched Melodifestivalen tonight as well (I’m a hardcore Eurovision fan)! A very interesting set-up they’ve got down at Annexet, but it seems to have worked so far. And can I just say how much I *love* Lena Philipsson?

 

Seriously, I think the right songs went DTF tonight, but I was disappointed that Jessica Andersson got knocked out as she had an amazing song. The next few weeks will be interesting, especially with some more big names coming (Charlotte Perrelli, Eric Saade, Dotter, The Mamas, just to name a few). One of the heaviest big-named line-ups for Melfest in several years...

Lithuania have officially selected The Roop for the second year in a row, with their song Discoteque. Their national final Pabandom is Naujo still went ahead, but with The Roop getting a wildcard directly into the final which was tonight.

 

That’s now 5 songs out of 41 officially confirmed and released.

This year’s Eurovision Song Contest is due to be held on 18/20/22 May in Rotterdam (as it was supposed to be last year before the contest was cancelled due to the pandemic). And despite said pandemic still raging, the EBU and Dutch broadcasters are better prepared this time, with a few fallback scenarios.

 

Originally all 41 countries that were due to compete in 2020 were all confirmed for this year, however a couple of major developments have subsequently occurred:

 

• Armenia withdrew from the contest on 5/3/2021 due to domestic political issues.
• Belarus were disqualified from the contest on 26/3/2021 due to a song submission that did not meet the EBU guidelines and threatened to bring the contest into disrepute.

 

The semi-final lineup will be exactly the same as was drawn last year, minus the above-mentioned withdrawals:

 

 

At best, there will be a *very* limited audience in the Ahoy Arena. We now know that it will be a “Scenario B”, ie. most/all acts will perform live in Rotterdam in the Ahoy arena. The size of the audience (if any) will be determined in the coming weeks.

 

In the meantime, here is the lineup for 2021...

 

Albania :

 

 

 

Israel :

 

 

 

France :

 

 

 

Ukraine :

 

 

 

Lithuania :

 

 

 

Croatia :

 

 

 

Czechia :

 

 

 

Norway :

 

 

 

Finland :

 

 

 

Spain :

 

 

 

Cyprus :

 

 

 

Germany : 

 

 

 

Ireland :

 

 

 

Slovenia :

 

 

 

Belgium :

 

 

 

Romania :

 

 

 

Netherlands :

 

 

 

Moldova :

 

 

 

Australia :

 

 

 

Serbia :

 

 

 

Estonia :

 

 

 

Denmark :

 

 

 

Portugal :

 

 

 

Italy :

 

 

 

San Marino :

 

 

 

Russia :

 

 

 

Austria :

 

 

 

Greece :

 

 

 

Switzerland :

 

 

 

Bulgaria :

 

 

 

United Kingdom :

 

 

 

North Macedonia :

 

 

 

Poland :

 

 

 

Latvia :

 

 

 

Sweden :

 

 

 

Iceland :

 

 

 

Azerbaijan :

 

 

 

Georgia :

 

 

 

Malta :

 

 

Oooo Anna is getting *thiiiiis* close....will she follow through though?

So what has everyone been thinking of the Tad & Jenny Martin & Jackie scenes recently?

On 2/2/2021 at 1:46 AM, BoldRestless said:

Some old footage of Susan Flannery. She was very beautiful here.

 

 

The same Jameson Parker who played Brad Vernon on OLTL?

The man who helped raised millions of pounds for a struggling NHS in the UK last year during the pandemic has died of COVID himself today...

 

 

This is the man who singlehandedly raised millions of pounds for the NHS in the UK last year while they were struggling with the COVID pandemic. Ironically, he died of COVID today...

 

 

The friend chemistry that sparks between Maura West and Cynthia Watros is so captivating to watch. They would have been electrifying as enemies (if Watros had been playing Nina at that time instead of Michelle Stafford).

 

20 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

 

 

Congrats to Jess Walton (Jill, as the longest running character in the show's history ought to be a major player, on par with Victor and Jack).

 

Congrats to Sharon Case, 50 and fabulous.

 

That KSJ milestone is sad for so many reasons- what might have been. There is a small group, in terms of actors currently on the canvas who have been on longer than KSJ: DD, MTS, EB, ED, BM, TB, KL, TC (don't know if I have forgotten anyone). As it was, KSJ was the longest running African American actor on the show. Now it's Bryton, it's as if a whole history of Black actors no longer even exist on this show, and I'm not even talking about just VR and TLW.

 

Peter Bergman, Lauralee Bell... I’m sure there are others I’ve forgotten too.

Laura was doing what?? Why though???

Went down a rabbit hole of watching some late 2000s and early 2010s GH on Youtube last night, and I have a random question...

 

Did Olivia and Brenda ever share scenes together during 2010-11? I know Olivia would have been indirectly involved because of Dante and Brenda’s “child”, but I didn’t seem to find anything of them interacting directly together.

1 hour ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

 

Geeez how much gel did Steve Burton have in his hair????

https://soaps.sheknows.com/the-young-and-the-restless/comings-and-goings/590383/young-restless-tyler-johnson-return-theo-vanderway-settle-scores/

Olivia on the warpath against Alexis...

 

I will say after just having seen a short preview for next week’s DAYS, Jaime Lyn Bauer and Cady McClain pass as mother and daughter much more than JLB and Missy Reeves ever did. I’m looking forward to seeing them interact more next week. 

The “Tad & Jenny” reunion...

 

 

 

 

On 1/18/2021 at 8:14 PM, titan1978 said:

After thinking about Liza and Marian over in the Awkward Returns thread, it occurred to me that in the time I watched soaps, AMC had the most storylines with mothers being heinous or doing something awful to their kids.  

 

Marian (although I was not watching during the affair with Tad storyline, they referenced it plenty while I was watching).

Arlene

Vanesssa

 Mary Smythe

Charlotte Devane

 

Those are just off the top of my head!

 

Even though it was somewhat tamer compared to the above, I would also say Enid Nelson for the way she actively conspired with Liza Colby to keep Greg and Jenny apart back then...

It’d be interesting to see what storylines were occurring on the soaps at that time in 1991. Also highlights just what a hole AMCs cancellation left on the soap landscape. By all rights it should still be on air with the other four remaining.