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Robert Newman had a contract role on Y&R a few years ago, as an emergency replacement for an actor who left suddenly. His character was eventually killed off. Unknown if that was the plan all along, and he was there to fill out the rest of the character arc, . . . or if TPTB decided later on to kill the character off after he arrived. My point being: RN said afterwards that it was a strain to do this fulltime because he doesn't live in California and he missed his family. He prefers to do short gigs on TV and in theatre.

James Talarico (who appeared on Colbert's youtube) won over Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary in Texas for U.S. Senate. https://www.texastribune.org/2026/03/03/texas-jasmine-crockett-james-talarico-us-senate-democratic-primary/ Jasmine Crockett conceded in support, and then continued her work in the U.S. House of Representatives.

AlexAnn Hopkins returns as Joy Wesley airdate April 24 https://www.instagram.com/p/DVb7w9zEobH/ dayspeacock She’s back!! What trouble will Joy be getting into this time? Beginning April 24th, stay tuned!

She posted on her ig and facebook Sept 19 from Burbank Studios that it was her last day filming. She filmed for five months. https://www.instagram.com/p/DOzBrJVEuAD/ https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=10165727700874989 nikkicrawford917 The Burbank Studios September 19, 2025 And that’s a wrap of the season, ya’ll!! These last 5 months have brought me so much joy. Working with some amazing people and being blessed to work on juicy material! I can’t wait until you all see this!! This has been one of the most FANTASTIC birthday weeks of my life!! I spent the week working, which is the best gift ever, and then having a wonderful birthday party with some of my favorite people. God has truly blessed me and I couldn’t be more grateful!! And now, I must pack to catch a plane tonight for my Caribbean cruise!! I’ll post when I can! Oh, and I have some FABULOUS news to share about my next project in a week or so! 🤩🤩🤩

Errol's article thread on the Lexie casting https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/69863-article-days-of-our-lives-casts-nikki-crawford-as-resurrected-character-who-will-have-a-major-impact-in-salem/#findComment-2085071

personal opinion: I don't believe Tr*mp and his U.S. administration. They lie and also want to kill/deport/defund/and put people in concentration camps, and make money off of it. I don't believe Netanyahu. He has committed genocide on Gaza to empower himself. I don't believe Iran state media. Within recent months, that government killed thousands of protesters. I don't believe any of these lying murderers. /end rant

nikkicrawford917 ig stories March 4, 2026 From her video, I made a low-def gif (sorry about the watermark, it's a free gifmaker) behind spoiler tag because it keeps repeating the full video at the end says Lexie Carver is back Higher def full ig story video with audio here: https://archive.org/embed/s1ghid8/s1ghid8.mp4

Nikki Crawford was posting on her IG and fb regularly from June-September 2025 about taping a project, and said on June 10, 2025 that she was on week four of taping. She never said what show she was taping, but she kept the "Burbank Studios" location tag in her posts. I thought this was generally known, so I didn't post it here; but I guess it hadn't been posted. Noel Maxam's interview in August 2025 talked about the DiMeras being important. The November 2025 DAYS trailer video for the upcoming season has EJ showing a shocked Paulina who is in the pod. That and Nikki's resemblance to Renée Jones made it obvious that the person in the pod was either Lexie or a Rolf-sci-fi recreation of Lexie. The way her hair and make-up is styled in her social media posts looks very similar to this (except Nikki doesn't have bangs) Nikki Crawford posted on Sept. 19, 2025 that it was her last day taping. Links: --- First post June 3, 2025 didn't have a location tag but was with the actress playing the judge on Days. (link to fb post) nikki.crawford917 So awesome when you find out you’re working on the same show with someone you’ve admired for years! The talented and beautiful, Karole Foreman. 🥰 --- First post with Burbank Studios location tag June 10 (fb) and (ig) nikkicrawford917 The Burbank Studios Week number 4. And I’m happy and grateful!! 🙏💖 --- Final post Sept 19, 2025 (fb) and (ig) nikkicrawford917 The Burbank Studios And that’s a wrap of the season, ya’ll!! These last 5 months have brought me so much joy. Working with some amazing people and being blessed to work on juicy material! I can’t wait until you all see this!! This has been one of the most FANTASTIC birthday weeks of my life!! I spent the week working, which is the best gift ever, and then having a wonderful birthday party with some of my favorite people. God has truly blessed me and I couldn’t be more grateful!! And now, I must pack to catch a plane tonight for my Caribbean cruise!! I’ll post when I can! Oh, and I have some FABULOUS news to share about my next project in a week or so! 🤩🤩🤩 --- I won't bore you with all of her posts but she posted 7 times. Some of her posts mentioned working long hours.

From October 2025 but still relevant: John Oliver exposé on the Paramount/Skydance merger and Ellison appointing Bari Weiss as head of CBS News. In Oliver's usual hardhitting style of in-depth analysis with his humor/snark interjected at points. (his show is on HBO-Max)

^^ This !!!!! @DramatistDreamer your name fits you. You dream up the best drama

Oh I'm crying again. MBJ dedicating his NAACP image award to Chadwick Boseman

I admit that I don't understand all these corporation wheelings and dealings .... but I thought I read that CNN would stay separate only if Netflix bought Warner. But if Paramount gets Warner, then Paramount gets CNN? But again, I don't understand it fully, and wasn't clear on what I read.

It's a charity benefit zoom chat. Does Chandler do charity benefit events?

The annual preemption for all CBS soaps, NCAA basketball tournament for March Madness "first round" will be Thursday March 19 and and Friday March 20. On those dates, the whole day will be basketball on CBS. B&B, Y&R, and BTG will be fully preempted those two days. update on the UEFA Champions League soccer tournament. In 2022, 2023, and 2025 the "Round of 16" was on both Paramount Plus AND CBS-broadcast TV, in February and March of those years, and then the quarterfinals and semifinals also in April and May of those years. Starting in 2025, the Round of 16 was NOT carried by CBS broadcast TV in March. It was only on Paramount Plus. And the same is true for Round of 16 in March 2026 -- on PPlus but not CBS-tv. So thankfully no soccer interruptions for daytime soaps on CBS broadcast TV in March 2026.. No word yet on the soccer quarterfinals and semifinals in April and May. Last year they were on CBS-broadcast-TV. Unknown yet for this year.

For a long time, Anderson Cooper has worked for both CNN and for CBS' 60 Minutes. He announced Feb. 16 that after almost 20 years of doing both, he's leaving 60 minutes but staying with CNN. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/anderson-cooper-is-leaving-60-minutes-but-staying-with-cnn

HBO-Max being acquired by Paramount-Sundance in 2026. as well as Warner/Discovery/CNN Merger thread: https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/69269-paramountskydancecbs-merged-2025-might-acquire-warnerdiscoveryhbocnn-in-2026

Iona Morris Jackson plays Dr. Monica McCormick, Shanice's auntie. Iona is the real-life sister of Phil Morris who played Tyrone on Y&R. Their dad was Greg Morris from the original Mission Impossible TV series. (on the reboot tv series Phil played the son of Greg's character). Iona played Tamara Tunie's sister on ATWT.

Kuwait accidentally shot down three U.S.A. F-15 fighter jets https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/kuwait-intercepts-hostile-drones-third-day-iran-retaliatory-strikes-2026-03-02/

I get that idea in theory, but Leslie is a sociopath. And (usually) you cannot reason with or redeem such a character. In real life, there are things in the DSM (antisocial personality disorder) and ICD (dissocial personality disorder) that attempt to explain this. Fictionally, one of the main characters on the current CBS primetime show Watson (neurologist Dr. Ingrid Derian, played by actress Eve Harlow) is undergoing treatment for antisocial p.d. But she's nothing like Leslie. Realistically, many people experiencing this disorder are not redeemed. Or perhaps Leslie has narcissistic personality disorder? In either case, such individuals (sometimes? ) have an inability to experience empathy. I don't know if jail time would cause a change to that.

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Thanks for posting the MBJ video. I watched that clip elsewhere last night and was crying. Watched it here again just now and crying again!

As I said earlier, throughout the years, during heightened news events, there have occasionally been random people posting incorrect pictures or old pictures, or mislabeled pictures from unrelated events. (And nowadays faked A.I. images are added to all of that). so it's important to verify with several sources to see if it's real. Here's the latest example: Fact Check: Video of 2003 assault on Iraq miscaptioned as Afghanistan 2026 https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-2003-assault-iraq-miscaptioned-afghanistan-2026-2026-02-27/

The situation has gotten worse. https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-strikes-lebanon-following-hezbollah-attacks-widening-iran-conflict-2026-03-02/ -- Iran is continuing to bomb targets in various countries all over the Middle East. -- Israel and USA are continuing to bomb Iran. -- Hezbollah joined in by bombing various targets, including Israel. -- Israel is now bombing locations Lebanon in retaliation for that. -- U.S. ships have been targeted. U.S. military bases have been targeted. -- A U.K. (yes UK) target in Cyprus was hit. It's all chaos. Israeli's military Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir said combat operations against Hezbollah could be prolonged, lasting days. Trump in interviews on Sunday with multiple news outlets said the U.S.-Israeli military assault on Iranian targets could continue for at least four weeks. _______ Elsewhere in Asia: in unrelated news: As of Friday Feb. 27, Pakistan is bombing Afghanistan https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/blasts-heard-kabul-amid-clashes-between-afghan-pakistani-forces-2026-03-01/ however.... related to Iran ... -- Anti-American and anti-Israel protests have broken out in various countries, in reaction to the bombing of Iran. Including protests in Pakistan. -- Pakistani protesters approached the U.S. consulate in Karachi Pakistan, and were fired upon by U.S. security. -- The U.N. (yes UN) office in Skardu, Pakistan was burned down by protesters. https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/pakistan-police-fire-tear-gas-protesters-outside-us-consulate-reuters-witness-2026-03-01/