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You're going to have to elaborate on this.

Heavily rumored for maybe a year, but nice to have confirmed. @DRW50 Talk at the time suggested she was in the November specials, but I'd no idea. Now it seems she may be in for much more. What's curious is the question of how long she has been filming. I had heard last year she did the 60th specials, now it seems she has been sighted recently filming for Season 14 as well. If Mel Bush is now a recurring character over the next year (two if we count her cameo in POTD) I'll be pleased and very amused. Plus, there's this: RTD seems intent on regularly producing Who again, unlike some who shall remain nameless. More from RTD on Bonnie:

And now they'll all get pulled. There's a reason I didn't post the link.

Still the dumbest thing ever. I would not trade the Reva post-partum story or the Josh/Harley stuff for a joint exit. I love what I've seen of those stories.

Please pass along the SH dirt (or anything else you wish)! I won't be getting to it for at least a couple days. Yeah, I knew a lot of that SNL stuff already. I do wonder if there's more in the full chapter. I do find the whole of DW compelling, though - the history but also the material.

More from Ryan's book, about SNL. Book out's tomorrow. @DRW50

Another sobering, long thread. More. Even more.

Good for them! I'm not begrudging their children the work - Labine's children worked well with her on her shows. This just reminds me, though, of what was discussed a number of years ago by lifers in the business - these jobs, especially now in the streaming era of the WGA strike full of short-term 'mini rooms', are often ironically some of the most secure and lucrative writing positions in the field. They are carefully guarded and at times jealously protected by lifers who go from show to show, and provide for each other or for their families. Breaking in is very difficult because of that. Ten years ago I would never have thought we'd reach a point where writing for daytime is a safe harbor for the professional writer.

Didn't DAYS or GH put their kid on staff?

Frons did use the same backdrop for all three, which I hated. But I thought it only worked out well for AMC, which had a family album opening carefully tailored to them where the backdrop wasn't really noticeable. OLTL's was an afterthought and despicable. The worst AMC opening was the LA budget one which basically was a riff on late-stage GL openings IMO. Meanwhile: Jill Larson is also talking to Digest. Me being me, I haven't listened to it all yet - she's had such a vast career - but I did hone in on the AMC 2.0 stuff around 50 mins in. She mentions the last time she heard from Rob Wilson he was auditioning for 50 Shades of Grey but loved his company, lol. Jill was so good in the harrowing horror flick The Taking of Deborah Logan, BTW. I forgot Jill was the 'toothless old hairless hag' featured in the trailer for Scorsese's Shutter Island, lol.

Gannett journalists have been terrorized for years, it seems like. Meanwhile, back at the ranch: The bizarre end note about Zaslav sending an IG mash note to Stelter who he fired is the kicker for me.

God, what a fool.

Re: the past discussion, nobody's stopping anyone from posting anything. Dramatist has been an active poster in the PT for over a decade and was very polite about their personal preference. (This is the same reason most of us don't post a bunch of screencaps of primetime shows in those threads without content.) There's nothing wrong with approaching a thread as a relative newcomer and reading the room. Anyway: Meanwhile:

I agree. And as I said above, most of the interim stuff worked. Especially the Ryan saga with Felicia and Mac.

That was the impression I got. Riche was casting about for whatever could save the show or at least keep it afloat while she sorted through the chaos, and she found the youth set. Then they tried Mac and Felicia with KW's return, Ryan, Lucy's return, Scott and Dominique, etc. It worked for as long as it took to land Claire Labine and get L&L back on the books. They tried a lot to put Bill (and Holly) over in that year-plus too but of course it didn't work.

I had no idea Jade Goody's son(!!) was on the canvas as they play out a huge cancer death storyline. I hope he isn't too involved. Lisa again?? I'm always happy to see Lucy Benjamin, but...

Another deranged moment from Irna Phillips. Anyone who has seen Frances' film work outside of Days knows how versatile and talented she was.

IIRC Geary may have also claimed Suver co-wrote the original pitch for the "Endgame" mess with him in 2001, which I think was to also feature the return of Robert Scorpio and which he said JFP totally discarded. I may be wrong on her name being linked. That is as much as I know about her.

#letthemfight

I highly doubt that. I don't think any regime after Monty was remotely invested in Bill, despite Geary's desperate attempts to put him over. They jumped at the chance to bring back Luke and Laura. The only reason Bill was created was to appease TG, who did not want to play Luke again in '91.

That's the site, yes. There's a couple of different interviews on there where he goes on and on about the dark secrets of the Eckert family, Bill's tortured past overseas, etc. All very impassioned stuff but nonetheless the audience never got behind any version of Bill, which led IMO to Tony trying to retrofit Luke into Bill in the late 2000s-2010s.