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An SDCC Trek dump of new stuff, including the SNW/LD crossover ep next week and the musical episode! A final season DSC clip: The crossover episode is also being released early tonight on Paramount+.

I think she can just do recurring stints like Heather, but that's JMO. A long-term contract place for Esme or defanging her does not work and I think the current story proves that despite their clearly fervent hopes. I never bought into Hayden on any level and have no real use for her, but I think a purpose she'd serve by briefly appearing would be to write off her unfortunate relations and also be used to demonstrate the true messy, ugly nature of a recast Jeff and Carolyn who would continue to make things dramatic at the hospital for Liz and later Sarah. I don't see Jeff or Carolyn embracing Hayden in any way.

I would add Emma too, but I would make her sort of the more benign Esme replacement (I don't think Esme needs a permanent place on the canvas in any way - she needs to come in and out for stints raising hell and being nuts). Emma Drake is the absolute last person Port Charles would expect to be trouble and that's exactly what she would be, a classic secret vixen/mischief maker. Hudson West gets a fair amount of work outside the show and it's amazing to me they haven't tried to secure him. They just don't see it. I also would ship all those kids off, and de-Spencer Charlotte the hellspawn after slaughtering Valentin. She would never be seen again. Violet and Finn, the same. Rocco might hang around for a little bit (slightly deSORASed) to give Dante's character and new responsibilities as a single parent more weight and grounding for the audience, since frankly it does not feel like almost any of these characters under 50 actually have these children and it's never felt real that Dante and Lulu do. But he would be a kid for a long time, since I also wouldn't recast Lulu right away (Dante would be paired up having hijinks with BLQ for awhile). It's because they have entirely too many people under 50 jammed up on the show, and too many instant kids. They can't deal with the actual next generations well because Frank won't fire a lot of played out characters he favors or thinks the older audience is more comfortable having around and doesn't want to unsettle them, and that means that beneath those people you have Spencer, Trina, Joss, etc. and almost nothing else coming up behind them or properly planned for. Just a bunch of kids getting older and older and overcrowding the wings. I lost my shít a year or two ago when they had a pair of teenagers showing up as Rocco and Danny at Sam and Dante's Thanksgiving. I had no clue who they were. Now Aiden's a teenager and so is Charlotte the mutant, and meanwhile the current successful youth set has barely gotten a chance to bed in and take the center stage, while the other 'young' set (BLQ, Dante, etc) are barely written for like human beings vs. sanitized Hallmark movie mannequins. It's too much. I don't know why you think HW wouldn't play it, or why RC wouldn't work post-COVID but maybe I'm missing some details.

I would still make Jake gay/bi. Aiden would be the misdirect. Hudson West is really, really good IMO and GH can and should lock him down while they still can. That kid should be the future of their teen set and they are letting him slip away because they have a huge traffic jam of kids and people under 40. Plus it might make Steve Burton shít a brick. Jake would be the damaged ingenue in the mix given his Cassadine Island demons, and I would put Jake with some boy from the Asian Quarter and let Alec be the unrelated troublemaker who is also LGBT so you have two sides of the coin, and maybe further down the road you could pair the two lead boys up. The contrasting personalities also is a nice parallel to Jason and Brenda. I would use Skye and Lila Rae in some way, I just don't know how. And yes, like I think @Darn suggested here I would bring back Ryan Carnes and pair Lucas with Zeke Robinson.

Mckenna Grace is not coming back to daytime. She's hitting it pretty big in film and TV.

Lori Cardille (Winter Austen, EON) and Terry Alexander (Troy Nichols, OLTL) turned up on the season finale of Shudder's weekly horror marathon The Last Drive-In with Joe Bob Briggs tonight, discussing their roles in one of tonight's movies, George Romero's classic Day of the Dead. Not my tweet: I haven't seen it all so if I don't know if they discussed their soap work. Joe Bob often brings up the soaps when having horror stars on like Barbara Crampton, etc. who worked on them and is surprisingly knowledgeable and respectful.

You're thinking of archive.is.

She is. It looks almost nothing like itself, but that is the official line.

The brownstone is technically back, it just only houses Liz's family now. But yes, the big plan in the FV/RC era to remodel and repopulate it with people never happened, just like the big mooted Laura/Lucy Deception revamp.

Come to think of it, you're absolutely right. I had never seen her treated so shabbily onscreen before or since, and the timeframe checks out.

Hillary critiqued the network and the shooting schedule, but not Frank itself. That may be it. I do know ABC really fùcked with her during her contract coma in the mid-2000s, when Nora was within a hair's breadth of death for months. She never mentioned FV when discussing that drama, but it was also while the show was still on.

That's been the last 30 years tbqh

A long time coming and very sad, but I'm glad he's at peace. I can take or leave a lot of her music, but the stories and feature articles, etc. about Gaga's long friendship with Bennett and how it kept him engaged and happy in his twilight years with Alzheimer's are really touching and beautiful.

Like many other actors at OLTL and GH, FM claimed Frank promised him the moon when his contract was getting ready to come up then froze him out when it came time. I always got the impression Frank had little time for Forbes' frankly extra ass plus his vocal outbursts about story (I had little patience for him myself but for different reasons). He allegedly couldn't stand WDV at GH for similar reasons, and him also having issues with Zimmer who is not known for being a shrinking violent tracks as well. Though Kim is the only one of the three I like. But super extra actors are not the only ones who've told these contract/re-up stories about Frank at all.

Use nitter, per a suggestion from another poster. It's what I do.

I think she's fudging the timeline in her head slightly (the WGA strike hit onscreen in early '08), but I remember well all the onscreen antics she mentions that I think were part of the Killing Club mess. I also recall them openly auditioning Natalie recasts. As I said in the OLTL thread, FV's casual disinterest in the entire thing and in her value reminds me a lot of what I have heard about him re: contact negotiations many times. Same with the Zimmer story that came up in another thread. FV presents as an iceman but if something gets under his skin (William deVry, Forbes March IMO) it stays there.

Two extremes of sadness and comedy from ex-OLTLers today. First a long, sobering thread re: the strike from Melissa Archer: FV's casual dismissal of the whole process and struggle sounds a lot like what I've heard about him and re-up negotiations before. Then, this amusing anecdote re: Kim Zimmer (Echo) -

A sobering long, candid thread. @DRW50

LMAOOO! Oh, Kim.

I don't think so, no. He used to be a lot more loose. He was the creepy young wild man in a zillion things.

A reasonably insightful article about the dynamics between the streamers and conventional networks, discussing why the networks are still siding with the streamers even though the strikes could hasten the demise of network TV.

I love Jeff Kober in his many storied roles in genre film and TV in the '80s and '90s. On paper, he was a potential get for GH as a short-term villain. In practice he mostly comes off as a blowsy old man whining through utterly inexplicable scenes in which at-risk, elderly Cyrus complains that he didn't mean to run over his and Tad Martin's dad in the family driveway. I blame the show more than him for his poor usage and the overall lame character.

3/10.

I honestly doubt it. I don't think they'll consider touching HP for awhile (if at all) until that case is settled.

As some anecdotes over the years have proven out (including Billy Warlock's BTS story at OLTL), at times Frank's only criteria for a hire is 'can they speak' and 'are they available today?' He is about keeping the trains running.