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Which networks?

It won't be the same without her, assuming that's final. I know the cast is behind her, which I can understand given their long understanding. I have little sympathy for Lori Loughlin's predicament, but I will miss Becky.

Well, it's a bit different - CBS/P&G didn't try to save their soaps.

From last month, but this is rough (note: not Justina Machado's twitter):

It will be a PR debacle if they say no. Ted Sarandos is already on record with an uncharacteristically personal farewell to ODAAT and vowing a commitment to 'telling those stories.' And Norman Lear - TV legend - has apparently appealed to him personally re: the CBS deal. To turn the old man and the show down after that public apologia will put him in a very bad spot. But they still might.

Will you ever learn to embed, John? @DRW50

He didn't, though. He forfeited his bond and quietly did community service. As for how it sets things back in terms of hate crimes we'll agree to disagree. IMO every case like this is more ammo which emboldens the right and pacifies the middle into 'hearing their side'. I'm just tuning most of it tbh. The Omar mess deeply upset me as a Jewish person on the left being lectured about antisemitism by leftists - most of whom weren't Jewish or even in the country. I'm taking a break for at least a few months til things settle a bit.

It will. The right wing capitalizes on these kind of frauds and laps them up, stores them away and trots them out any time any disadvantaged person or persons even remotely aligned to the left or liberal cases is attacked or wronged. It's been this way for decades and it doesn't matter if there's a direct or logical correlation or not. So the next time a gay kid is bashed by bigots or a person of color is shot by police or accosted by white supremacists, the first name on the MAGA cult's lips will be Smollett's. And more apolitical people in the middle (and there are too many of those) will give their baseless claims credence next time, because of Jussie's dumbass stunt. I haven't watched Empire in years either but I've seen this movie before and it's unforgivable to me.

Jussie isn't representative of anything but the vile [!@#$%^&*] he did. The problem is the right wing will appropriate his grift to smear and tear down victims for generations to come. They never forget.

We know that, John. You were the one who misspelled it 30+ minutes ago.

Oof, it's another McKenna Grace gig. She's starring in Annabelle Comes Home:

She was just mentioned here bc she's in so much stuff lately, but McKenna Grace (one of the Faiths, Y&R) is back at it again - costarring with Carrie Coon and Finn Wolfhard in the new Ghostbusters movie.

And now, apropos of nothing, in Brexit and hair, a man improbably named "Michael Fabricant" weighs in. The thread is gold.

Brandon Beemer (DAYS) and Tamara Braun (GH/AMC/DAYS) are in a terrible-looking zombie movie with Dolph Lundgren.

John Simm has joined the Game of Thrones prequel series at HBO.

Sonequa Martin-Green, currently starring on the much improved Star Trek: Discovery, has a movie gig on lock:

It's Leo! And he looks ancient. With James and Lt. Cynthia Knox:

I have no idea, I didn't really watch at that point. Geeks almost always hate kids, though. I always thought poor Carl got a bad rap.

Ezekiel is alive here, I believe. (And played by the great Khary Payton from many many voice actor roles for video games and anime, as well as a brief stint as a romantic spoiler for Patrick and Robin on GH in the 2000s) He's great on the show and with Carol, from the brief time I watched after he was introduced. But he and Carol had apparently adopted the boy who seemed to be oddly subbed in for Jessie's son and that bond he had with Carol - strangely, the boy (Henry, I think) had been played successively due to a time jump by the two brothers of Madison Lintz, who played Carol's doomed daughter in the early seasons. Henry, who's been on the show the last couple seasons, was among the beheaded. So more misery for Carol.

Nothing surprises me about TWD anymore. I knew that scene was coming eventually, but the fact that they lined up a bunch of the more marginalized characters like Tara or the consistently useless Enid just cracks me up and makes me sigh at the same time. It's become such a treadmill (like the comics) of shock, and I know they actually have a wonderful corps of very talented and diverse directors and I believe writers from way back, and such a great and talented cast - but at this point I can't bring myself to care. I'll watch the Rick + Michonne movies and catch up when they come out, but I have a difficult time investing in it post-Negan beyond a few of my favorite characters because even when many episodes are good, scripts, performances, you're always just waiting for the next Kirkman shock beat. And yes - 'Brett Butler decapitated' is not a headline I expected tonight. For the record, Tara, Enid etc. were not among the heads on pikes in the original storyline. (Tara was a minor character long dead by then IIRC and I don't think Enid even existed.) Rosita was one of the heads in the original story, but not here.

Yes she did. She cut for Roseanne before, during and after the revival until she couldn't anymore. What was she supposed to do? Defend Roseanne's overt bigotry? Bullshit. Everyone knew that on the original show and has discussed it at length over thirty years, Sara included. Until 2018, every member of the cast sided with Roseanne every time. In 2018, they all didn't. Instantly? You mean in 1989? I think that's true. I also think she's very ill. And I think it's sad. But I don't pity her, because she chose this. She made this the end of her television legacy. In doing so she has blotted out those nuances of her life and character, probably for a number of years to come. It's tragic, because she can be brilliant and because this is all her worst nightmare from all those years ago come to life. But it is what she did to herself and after a certain point it's inexcusable. Nobody in ABC corporate made Roseanne tweet racist shít for years and on the job at ABC in 2018. She chose to call Valerie Jarrett an ape. She did it to herself. She did it every single time.