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I don't think so, I think she just is appearing in the Tennant/Tate anniversary specials. But who knows. Over on IG, RTD seems very chummy with Bonnie Langford in the comments on his post of this which makes me wonder if it's definite Mel is back for more during the anniversary.

Heads up @DRW50@Faulkner:

Another (very graphic and violent) trailer for The Callisto Protocol, the upcoming sci-fi/horror game starring Josh Duhamel (AMC).

Same, which is why I've never had an account. I'll also really miss the more lower-case elements of film twitter, wherein you can plug in the name of virtually any film or director and find people with new or unique appreciations of anything. I think Musk bought it genuinely thinking he could conquer. Men like that will almost always stay well-off, but his ego is imploding and will continue to do so.

As happy as I am to see Twitter potentially go on many levels, I think in the short term at least the effect on both political/corporate activism and media criticism will be negative. Things like the Ukrainian resistance, the Arab Spring, BLM, #MeToo, etc. could never have reached so many nationwide or worldwide and demanded notice and action from the powerful, or connected to parts of the world that might have had no real idea, without the platform of Twitter. Activists, freedom fighters, could not so easily have communicated or reached a wider audience. China and Russia, American law enforcement or corporate media in America, would not face the constant pressures they do, and Trump, etc. here would not be facing such strong headwinds against them today. I would love to keep the good and leave the toxic, but that's not how human nature works; you always get both. I can only hope that what comes next will still find an easy way for people to connect and challenge injustice.

Another take on recent events. I'm agnostic on this but I trust Stern, so I'll do the reading. Meanwhile:

Mitt Romney all but openly pleads for SCOTUS not to screw them again. Meanwhile:

Coming next week:

Granted, it is a guest op-ed from the right-wing AEI, but:

Fantastic news.

This is really beautiful and a prime example of what soaps do at their best. They provide a service in people's homes and educate everyday people, adults and children, who might not have perspective on a social or political issue, or in this case a chapter in our history. When Doug Williams can listen to Clary's story and call him friend and learn and be emotional with him, that tells an audience who has watched and loved Doug for years they can do it too. That's the textbook that soaps used for decades. This kind of education is obviously more important than ever today (which is part of why I feel the US soaps have completely abdicated their responsibility re: depicting the pandemic, among other things). And sadly the clip's even more relevant now.

I'll be goddamned. I hope @Erroland the main news feed will take note - it's pretty remarkable, and as DRW notes, very important for the genre worldwide IMO.

I don't keep tabs on Anders Hove press, tbh. It wouldn't surprise me at all, especially the silly Felicia thing in the latter period which felt so shoehorned. The show had a lot of issues in '99/2000 but it was still miles and miles ahead of today and its daily writing team was second to none and could sell almost (almost!!) anything. Not Luke/Felicia and Faison's fascination with her, though. I always found Jean LeClerc very dashing, hot and charming to watch on LOV, but I agree Jeremy does feel very shoehorned into the show when revisiting the material in more recent years. I remember some promos - I don't know if they were from '93 or '94 - when they explicitly tried to sell Ava as an Erica Kane analog in Jeremy's life, his new Erica. Ava was of course created as another Erica avatar by Nixon, like many of her heroines/antiheroines, but this was much more on the nose and they were mentioning/showing Erica outright IIRC. I thought that was Guza's team, but I may be wrong.

It's hard to tell with Wasserman how much of it is excitement over trying to find some way to save face and ego for the last few weeks of bad predictions or GOP boosterism. Either way, it is functionally the same.

FWIW:

Ron always gets on this kind of stuff late and thinks the gay audience loves it. It feels retrograde, not daring like he believes. Same with the coy threesome hints on a show that won't do it (not just this one, but GH too).

....Anyway:

Mark my words: He's going to 'run,' take a lot of money and endorsements but not actually do anything. It will tear them apart.