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I've never seen ATWT, nor have I studied its history. (I just don't have time/interest to take on another soap). I'm curious what the reference was.

Tuesday, April 8, 2025 – Episode #030 Dani preps Chelsea's farewell fashion show. Smitty takes on a new influencer assignment The family converges at a can't-miss event. Episode #30 April 8th fashion show SPOILER PICS here: (if outside USA, you might need a VPN). Lots of pics https://www.paramountpressexpress.com/cbs-entertainment/shows/beyond-the-gates/photos?episode=25438&page=1&limit=50

Regarding viewers wondering how old Martin really is, and how can he be considering running for President, and would it be election year 2028 or 2032.... Someone tweeted "Nicole and Ted having a 35 year old is crazy." And Brandon replied "Martin isn’t 35…. 😌 " https://x.com/BrandonClaybon/status/1908322493917507611

Frankly, with the current political turmoil in real life, there could be news interruptions daily. I'm glad there's paramountplus. But the scroll should also say the eppy will be up on cbs.com later same day. You don't have to wait for the next day. During COVID, there were so many 5-minute news updates at the end of every hour on ABC, that GH started putting the last five minutes of every episode up on GH facebook, and five years later, they still do.

I agree with you. A chosen family would be more resonant for modern times.

Martin might be Anita's child that they gave to Nicole?

Loved the episode. All the references to books, poetry, the speeches. I know that poem so well, I said it aloud with Anita https://poets.org/poem/dreams Vernon starting to write his speech, talking about bullying, it could reference (without his knowledge) Tyrell's struggle, of course. But it also spoke to me about the current US governmental bullying. Vernon's speech as the voiceover for the montage at the end was just awesome. How it was done, and what he said. Yes we do need love. What he said applies on multiple levels, in Fairmont Crest, in viewer's real lives, and on the national/international level.

I'm watching live on CBS New York live feed, and I saw that, which is odd since it was actually airing.

Brandon C's acting as Martin has greatly improved. Astonishing. Now at the point where some of the annoying traits are clearly intentionally traits of the character, and not tics of the actor, so that's good.

Nothing wrong at all. I support women who are child-free. Just saying, this being a soap, I wonder if Laura is actually Mona's niece, daughter, or ?

I remember from the ladies at the diner, first week, Mona said she was glad she never had children. Today she sure is being maternal or at least a a mentor to Laura.

Those scenes of Dana-Leslie with Ted. Wow. Great scene. And I appreciate that the show let the scene go long. It might have had one or two breaks, but they didn't break it up into lots of little pieces. Then end part was so intense.

continuity!

omg I didn't notice the pic of Eva until you pointed it out.

DiMera Enterprises should not exist. Stefano wasn't into corporation stuff. The whole corporation is an artificial construct that some writers (I don't remember who) added quite a few years ago, and then the idea grew with each of successive writing regimes. It's possible that Stefano created the name DE as a front for his personal nefarious deeds, but if he did, there was no actual enterprise. He wasn't into business, not even illegal business. He was into his personal plots. The bottom line is that Stefano didn't care about any of that business stuff. It wasn't a thing. Before EJ was "killed" in 2014, he and Clyde were arguing about running drugs. But that wasn't a Stefano thing. I think it may have been Dena Higley who added on the Kiriakis/DiMera rivalry, but it wasn't based on history. Just something she wanted developed. None of it interests me. Just like all the endless corporate takeovers on Y&R are uninteresting to me.

behind the scenes ... Original image here: https://michaelfairmantv.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/JPI_dool8624_0002098153.jpg >Link to page< Original image here: https://soaps.sheknows.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/08/JPI_dool8624_0002098149.jpg >Link to page< FYI @JAS0N47 in reference to the production schedule: Both images (from Fairman and from soaps.sheknows) have the encoding within their URLs that says "JPI_dool8624" That would mean JPI Photography took these pics on August 6, 2024. Fyi the metadata on the URL for this pic of Vivian posted upthread (discovered when downloading pic and then looking at the image properties) https://www.soapoperadigest.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/Louise-Sorel.jpg -- that gives a date of August 12, 2024. I would have assumed these were the dates that JPI took the photos on the set, but I suppose they could instead be the dates the pictures were processed at JPI. (seeing as Jason's production schedule shows the studio dark that week)

Update: The same exact spoilers are now up on thetvwatercooler.com (the reliable Canadian soap spoiler site) https://www.thetvwatercooler.com/2025/04/steffy-worries-about-liam-bold-and-the-beautiful-spoilers/

Episode 15094, April 11, 2025 both images via JPI for MichaelFairman

all images credit XJJohnson for JPI Studios via tvinsider (Link)

Disclaimer that these are from "soapcentral scoop". I don't know if these are accurate or not. If they are real, they might be reworded. No other site has spoilers listed for the week. Fyi: The TV listings site "zap2it.com" died on March 25, 2025 -- it no longer exists.

"On the next GH" preview for Mon. April 7, 2025 (tidbits of miscellaneous scenes) Trina/Kai Elizabeth/Ava Josslyn/Jason Brennan/Anna Lucky/Kristina Ric, telling someone "I just remembered something about the accident"

The Jack/Kayla rape promo was creepy. I get what they were doing back then, but now, yikes.

It kind of bugged me a little, that he had typed DeVane instead of Devane, but then I realized he's McKenna and not Mckenna, so he naturally did the mid-name capitalization. I thought McKenna handled it well on twitter and with a good sense of humor