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https://www.instagram.com/p/DFwAAmYPM45 karlamose Our first public screening @scadtvfest last night!!!! Thanks so much for having us! And shoutout to Jamie Broadnax from @blackgirlnerds for hosting a dope post-viewing discussion. (edited) I am always doing things too fast…: Hair by @hairbywankaya MU by @symartmakeup Styled by @jeresa_featherstone Except for my shirt, which was gifted to me by the BIRTHDAY GIRL @toripaddock 💗💗💗💗 .

Michael Fairman intends to interview Eric Braden Friday Feb 7 at 6:00pm Eastern (3:00pm Pacific) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKdgbiPzxKg

The YT link worked this morning, and it still states on Michael Fairman's website that the interview will happen Friday Feb. 7 at 1:00 pm Eastern (10:00am Pacific) https://michaelfairmantv.com/the-young-and-the-restless-nathan-owens-chats-live-michael-fairman-channel/2025/02/05/ but the YT link doesn't work at the moment, not sure why.

@Maxim I'm enjoying reading your experience of this storyline for the first time. Erica, Travis, baby Bianca, Barbara. I didn't have TV in 1988. I lived in a household that didn't have TV or cable or anything. But I know I watched that storyline. I must have seen it on soapnet several years later?

Thanks for posting the Ellen Holly book page. I appreciate her speaking out.

Thanks to @Errol for mentioning the tiktok account in your article https://www.tiktok.com/@beyondthegatescbs

awesome video: Ms. Tamara Tunie tells of her start in show business! https://www.instagram.com/p/DFtXgzmoWwx/ blacktheatreunited and msttunie Every journey starts somewhere. For #NationalStorytellingWeek, BTU founding member @msttunie shares the story of how she first stepped into the world of performing—one that may just inspire you to take your own first step. What did you take away from her story? Drop your thoughts below or share a personal story of your own! #BlackTheatreUnited #OurStoriesMatter #nationalstorytellingweek .

US immigration enforcement (ICE) is gaming the Google algorithm to create a mirage of mass deportations A bunch of mass deportations pop up on Google as a deluge of seemingly recent headlines. These are from the ICE website and not from random clickbait sites. But close examination show that the deportations happened years ago. There are so many of these that it cannot be accidental. (I assume the ICE intent is to terrify everyone) https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/06/ice-us-immigration-deportations-google

They really want to take us back to the year 1800. Trump says attorney general will lead task force to root out 'anti-Christian bias' https://apnews.com/article/trump-national-prayer-breakfast-30ff6f55a2e3c7b8643a15e7b158537d Donald Trump said Thursday that he wants to root out “anti-Christian bias” in the US, announcing that he was forming a task force led by Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate the “targeting” of Christians. Speaking at pair of events in Washington surrounding the the National Prayer Breakfast, Trump said the task force would be directed to “immediately halt all forms of anti-Christian targeting and discrimination within the federal government, including at the DOJ, which was absolutely terrible, the IRS, the FBI — terrible — and other agencies.” Trump said Bondi would also work to “fully prosecute anti-Christian violence and vandalism in our society and to move heaven and earth to defend the rights of Christians and religious believers nationwide.”

Ah here is the same Feb 6 TVLine video with Karla Mosley at SCAD-TVFest

Michael Fairman to interview Nathan Owens Friday Feb. 7 https://www.youtube.com/live/Cm67Llpaa4w

https://x.com/boldinsider/status/1883976785509114261

If you are caught up with January, here is a Linden Ashby interview. If you are behind, wait until until end of Jan. 28 episode to read this: (SOD Linden Ashby link)

Jermaine Rivers and Nathan Owens BTS pic from JPI taken Dec. 18, 2024 (courtesy of Michael Fairman's page)

For anyone who can't see it, here's the raw mp4 file of the embedded video within this Feb. 6. 2025 TVLine article: https://vid.connatix.com/pid-0763198a-5674-4e21-af3d-1f1bb2122b83/11f5cd23-2ad3-48ad-94ce-14fa2df270f7/mmid-77d6cbb4-bbdd-cfa7-2130-f1fd9d4d1f84/0.mp4

I'm not that familiar with his comments I see that he attended Harvard and graduated in 2023. https://wsvn.com/news/us-world/msd-survivors-jaclyn-corin-david-hogg-graduate-from-harvard/ Transcript of in-depth NPR interview with David Hogg from June 8, 2023 https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1180945273 I did notice that, in 2024, he actively tweeted in support of Tim Walz. This is David Hogg's social media https://x.com/davidhogg111 https://www.instagram.com/davidmileshogg https://www.threads.net/@davidmileshogg https://www.facebook.com/OfficialDavidHogg/

Oh that's an interesting way to describe it. Val Jean as the creator/mother who gave birth to BTG, and Ducksworth as the midwife.

Posted this a couple of pages ago, back here: https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/66310-beyond-the-gates-premiere-date-time-slot-set-by-cbs/?do=findComment&comment=1991515 And we were discussing that the NYT article author is a Black reporter formerly focused on sports but now more on culture. But did he make an error, or did he misunderstand, or was he given the wrong information? ---- Adding onto that prior discussion ... After I watched or read a recent BTS video or interview from the past few days, I wonder if maybe he heard Sheila talking about working on the project with Michele, and somehow gathered that they were co-creators, which they aren't. But it's possible, if he didn't know the details, he might have misunderstood. Should he, or could he, have known to dig deeper? Looking back at the NYT article, it says: (in reference to the soaps at their peak in the 1970s and 1980s) ... They lured, clutched and dangled the collective attentions of housewives, nighttime shift workers, children home sick from school and workers playing hooky. . . . . . That viewership included a dedicated demographic that Ducksworth and the co-creator of “Beyond the Gates,” Michele Val Jean, will aim to attract. <snip> The series will depict all ages and races. And with two Black women in creative control, a collective mix of ownership, pride and excitement is palpable among the cast and crew. <snip> Vivica A. Fox <snip> It was Fox who introduced Ducksworth and Val Jean more than 20 years ago. Ducksworth told her of her dreams of making a soap. Val Jean by that point was one of soap’s most prolific writers, most notably for “General Hospital” and “The Bold and the Beautiful.” As Ducksworth contemplated accepting the CBS job, she reached out to Val Jean and asked her to start imagining a world revolving around a sprawling Black family of influence. “I wanted to see a big Black family that’s rooted in their love for each other, and they’re accomplished and they’re smart and they’re rich and they’re not downtrodden,” Val Jean said. Even as she built out the characters, it was hard to envision the show becoming a reality, despite Ducksworth’s reassurances. Her enthusiasm swelled once production started. ------- It seems like the article author thinks BTG was Duckworth's idea, and that Val Jean was asked on as the writer. He (the author) does credit Val Jean with building the characters. Maybe he's defining "creator" of a soap differently than we would?

Remember the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in Parkland, Florida, which inspired the surviving students to become gun-control activists and organizers of the "March For Our Lives" protests. David Hogg was one of the teen organizers. He became politically active. Feb. 1, 2025, David Hogg was elected as one of the vice-chairs of the national Democratic Party. https://democrats.org/leadership-dnc/

https://x.com/JHudShow/status/1887215369107984705

https://www.billhayesmovie.com/movie The movie is amazing. I think his grandson made the film. Anyone can watch it for free by submitting a name and email address at that link, but they seriously ask that no part of it be copied or displayed anywhere else. It's their way of sharing it but keeping it intact and copyright to the family. So they ask that the link can be shared but not the images or video. Jason47 is credited for providing some of the photos used.

Jennifer Hudson asks about celebrities visiting or being cast. Donnell replies that sometimes people want to appear, but they may or may not want to do all the actual work of a soap role. Donnell mentions he has met Snoop Dogg and that he wants to arrange with Frank for Snoop to do a cameo, but that hasn't been arranged yet. But most of this clip is about Leslie Charleson