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That's an intriguing idea, tell us more.

A lot of us have said it before, I think: Kristian was a natural in the madam role she played on Melrose Place around that time. Hard, brittle and dark was her gear. I saw her there first, and did not buy it as a kid when she turned up on DAYS not long after supposedly playing an earth mother and wife. I never have really bought it since. Gina/Princess Gina, etc. keeps being brought back bc it's what she's more suited for as an older woman. The problem is Hope is expected to be a straight-line heroine, and Kristian onscreen is more nuanced than that. In any event, I think the show did her dirty and no, they should never recast. It would be doomed to fail.

I did too, but I remember people despising him at the time. I didn't get it.

Thee's no way they'd be interested in hiring her, though. She's a powerful personality, has a long memory of the show in its better days and isn't interested in coasting or focusing entirely on budget or youth demos. She'd do more than keep the lights on, which IMO is all they're interested in atm. They're never going to dump Frank short of some gigantic catastrophe.

I believe Sussman said flat out when she returned a few years ago that most males they hired were incapable of standing up to or keeping up with Eileen and had been for decades. She was absolutely right. She said she aimed to change that, but I don't think Graham or whoever was the answer. I don't know what it is.

Again: Hope isn't presently needed, but recasting her is at least as doomed a concept as Kristen. At least with Missy Reeves people were over her and she was clearly over the role.

Poor Regina King. What a time.

I love HBS but there is absolutely no chance she could stand in for Kristian Alfonso. Melanie Smith and Lesli Kay would be solid choices if Kristian were, say, dead, but tbh they shouldn't recast the character at all. It is a losing game, possibly even moreso than the Kristen recast.

We all had this conversation not long ago; Y&R is creatively dead but relatively stable numbers-wise. It's no secret that it has been coasting on brand recognition and little else for years. Griffith has been burnt out since before he first came to the show but it doesn't matter because the show, parent company and network are just running out the clock and doing nothing new with it for as long as it can still turn a profit. It's a zombie soap.

It looked and sounded like everyone was trapped in a Bish Thompson's/Red Lobster seafood restaurant in Purgatory.

Edge could be brought back at literally any time.

With the exception of Darnell having gone gray they look Exactly the Same.

It's down to the cost of living in LA.

He's desperate to avoid a vote, and now he schedules his time on the floor deliberately during Biden's high-profile press conference. What a coward.

The one upside of all this is with endorsements like Emily's List and NARAL it is now not an if but a when.

This is good:

After spending yesterday once again dismissing concerns about voting rights and insisting the real problem to focus on is inflation, someone doesn't want to vote.

I will check that one out. He is almost certainly someone who could take a live format by storm.

Yeah, but how many young writers are dying to work in daytime constrained by the network, Corday, conservative audiences and a budget of $79.95?

Oh man.

I am more inclined to agree with @KLN that Ron needs a co-HW - he is on brand for this show but needs someone to rein him in, his ego aside. Unfortunately, I think they installed him with Sheri Anderson, maybe the best possible living choice, and WTF happened to her? Where did she go?

I dug this up about it, as well as this accompanying Twitter thread from the author (since a lot of the links in the article are dead): https://www.vibe.com/features/editorial/music-sermon-arsenio-hall-show-629366/

Not sure CBS audiences, then or now, could've handled that. I will say this: I vividly remember Arsenio being clowned left, right and center in those years by everyone for being a sycophant and what not, especially In Living Color, etc. But he was a force in late night in that era and he was as integral at the time as Letterman, Carson/Leno, etc. I also always appreciated his alleged insistence musical acts perform live, which led to some crazy showstoppers like the MC Hammer appearance (look it up!). And compared to Jimmy Fallon his interviews look like Diane Sawyer. The way people forgot about him or erased him from the history for a lot of years, maybe until very recently, never sat well with me. I always liked him. I just remember years of column inches devoted to trying to sell us on Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, etc. being the second coming of like Mary Tyler Moore's cast and I did not get it. They had a huge sendoff too. And where is it today? It's not doing Seinfeld numbers online.

Yet it dominated TV coverage for years!