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Carmen Duncan was the better Iris!

This is just fabulous news! I just know this twisty and soapy tale will firerocket the ratings!!

This Nik story is the makings of being just fabulous. I am on the edges of my seat! I haven’t been this excited in many years! It is the kind of shocker that is a modern spin on a classic twist that GH is known for.

I can’t wait to turn on this show every day!

Frank should bring back the fab writing duo with Jean and Shelly. They understood the history andwrite fabulous umbrellas storylines. They could kickstart and upboot the show. I loved their writing era. It was one of the longest in gh history which shows u how mjch they did awesomeness for the show. We would be so lucky to have them spinning and weaving new tales for us. they have pioneer daytime dramas

4 hours ago, Vee said:

The Kyle/Fish story was poorly received by bigots in middle America, which is why it was curtailed. Not the same thing. A lot of the audience loved it, but it was divisive. I don't think you can call it not adventurous when it culminated in the first gay love scene on daytime TV and a mass LGBT wedding in Angel Square years before gay marriage was legalized. Meanwhile, Luke and Noah consummated their relationship by jumping on a bed.

It is amazing how rude you are to old and new members of this board. Goddamn no wonder people told me to stay away from here.

I wish that Alan could book Eileen Fulton for The Locher Room! I would love to hear her dish about Goutman, MADD, and Hogan. Has anyone heard an update about her recently other than retiring to North Carolina to live with her brother?

Y&R’s viewership has been creeping up almost every week since new episodes returned, but still hugely down from last year. Parts of the show are watchable, but I can’t sit through Abby, Chance, Summer, or Rey. I also cannot figure out who Phyllis is supposed to be, and I always resent any second of airtime for MCE/Chelsea.

MTS had a necklift back in December according to this interview with ET:

https://www.etonline.com/the-young-and-the-restless-star-melody-thomas-details-her-traumatic-childhood-exclusive-151118

I knew that she started looking more youthful recenntly, This was excellent subtle work.

1 hour ago, Chatty Cakes said:

 

Nikkis wig is bad.

This! Not sure why MTS opted for that terrible wig because her own hair is perfectly beautiful. She has been posting on social media and appeared in other interviews since March with her own hair. Maybe she just did not want it be on screen without the help of hairstylists? Or she did not feel comfortable with her color and cut at the time the show resumed taping? At any rate, the wig was distracting.

God this show is so bad. 

I remember FMB or LB saying in 1999 that they would come up with long arcs for characters like Bob, Kim, and Lisa but could never get them approved after  Kim’s heart story (even though that got them their highest ratings in years).

How much of a lack of a long term plan resulted from HW ideas being rejected or cut short? HS had a long term story in place for Lily/Holden/Molly/Dusty and it was supposed to go for a year or so after Rose’s death, but then CBS pumped the brakes. Mid-2004 when HS really went off the rails in terms of planning.

HS’s early stories also had clear trajectories with the ways he mapped out the disintegration of Hal and Barbara’s marriage and everything that spun off from it. 

I want to think that JP had a yearlong bible when she first began as solo HW in 2005. That yesr and into summer 2006 were quite good. By 2007, it was obvious that CG and/or the network had assumed near total control and budget issues could not be hidden.

When I first read the news that new episodes will begin airing

I am so sad that the show is returning. How depressing. I was hoping to see more 1998, 1999, 2000, and 2001.

The current show’s writing—plot and characterization—is so uninspired, insipid, and boring. Characters and couples have little rooting value and actors who we used to depend on to deliver, no matter the caliber of writing, are clearly bored (Stafford, MTS, EB, et al). I can’t watch a show that focuses on Chelsea, Abby (this incarnation) or Lily, and Adam and Billy have been “off” for years. 

Maybe the ratings will finally be so low that Griffith will be shown the door. I got into this show 30 years ago because though it moved slowly, every single story had an enormous payoff like no other show and it was rarely disappointing. Everything now happens with a whimper.

I have enjoyed all of the classics up thru 2013. When Sony and CBS exerted all control everythjng turnt awful!

Did the 1973 opening ever get an update? And did Jeanne Cooper or Jaime Lyn Bauer ever appear in it?  I know it was altered around 1975, but Y&R was always slow to update their opening credits until the JFP era. Like the show would go 2+ years without adding prominent cast members. And up to 6 years for the opening at the end of MAB’s run. The red opening never added any new cast members in the early 2000s. And the 1990s opening was only updated every 2 or 3 years.

Thanks for posting the 1998 episode. I wish more of 1998-99 was available. The show dramatically improved those years

Poor Days.

41 minutes ago, pdm1974 said:

I'll never forgive them for killing Macy....TWICE!

I agree. I’d rather have Macy return over Taylor any day of the week. Bobbie Eakes should have been brought back to anchor nuSally instead of making up a new character with Shirley

Maybe they will shuffle in and out of the stream. Lindsey McKeon was the worst Marah. I wish Alan would ask how Kim Zimmer felt when the show fired Laura Bell Bundy for Lindsey.  Bundy’s Marah had an essence similar to what Pelphrey’s Jonathan would be later. Totally missed opportunity for the show not to have had Bundy, Branson, and Pelphrey on screen together with Zimmer at the same time.

There wasn’t enough Macy either. For such a prominent character in the show’s first 15 years, she gets crumbs. I’d like yo see Bobbie Eakes return. 

I was so happy when AshBash returned as Mac. She was the only actress who really got Mac’s sullenness and vulnerability. And she had the best chemistry with Jeanne Cooper and Jess Walton. Had the show allowed her to stay and if she had wanted to, she could have successfully taken the character forward probably until now. I didn’t hate Rachel Kimsey or Clementine Ford as much as Kelly Kruger. I can’t stand that they let her return a few years ago. Easily one of Y&R’s worst recasts ever. She probably only got asked because her husband Darrin Brooks works at CBS over at B&B.

One of the YouTube channels (R, I think) that just got deleted this week had a few Cameron and Sharon scenes in near HD quality. Screw Sony/CBS.

1 hour ago, Chatty Cakes said:

I liked today’s episode. I didn’t see it the first time and didn’t know that John was unaware of who her sons were. Perfect cliffhanger ending.

I loved this story. Early Gloria from 2004 to early 2007 was complex until she became a laughingstock. Joan Van Ark built a complicated, selfish, damaged woman as Gloria’s foundation, but Judith Chapman made her campier. The campiness made sense at the time because Gloria was entering a new, wealthy world and she wanted to emulate characters like Kay and Nikki. At the time I remember JC saying that was why she tweaked her hairstyles slightly every couple of months.

1 hour ago, Dylan said:

JG has been doing 3 week arcs since he started anyways lol

Part of why the show has been boring, choppy garbage full of contrived couples (looking at every character paired among Adam, Chelsea, Nick, Summer, Kyle, and Lola) with zero rooting value and low level stakes since he returned. MS’s Phyllis has been reduced to sparring with MO’s Abby, possibly one of the top 5 worst recasts in show history. Boring gutter trash and the talented actors know it. I will keep watching classics and enjoy them for as long as possible.

51 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

 

  

This is the real deal. The actors taping Y&R want their checks just as much as anybody.

They won’t be taping for long.