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Susan Lucci on the podcast "You Are Beautiful with Lawrence Zarian" uploaded to podcast platforms January 28, 2026 (spotify link) (apple podcast link) (buzzsprout link) (audible link) It's an audio podcast (approx. one hour). He posted a few minutes of as video on his ig: https://www.instagram.com/p/DUWAI0SkZLv lawrencezarian A BEAUTIFUL GIFT is Susan Lucci, sharing a small piece of her heart regarding the loss of her beloved and HOW she is CELEBRATING that love story…

Tyler Perry went ficore in 2009. For many years, he was known for writing all his own shows. But in 2023, starting with Season 7 of Sistas, he hired a writing team that included Jamey Giddens. (Link)

Courts have ruled 4,400 times that ICE jailed people illegally. It hasn’t stopped. Detained immigrants have filed more than 20,000 lawsuits seeking their release. Trump administration continues detentions despite court rulings. Sheer scale of the lawsuits threatens to clog the judicial system. https://www.reuters.com/legal/government/courts-have-ruled-4400-times-that-ice-jailed-people-illegally-it-hasnt-stopped-2026-02-14/

LOL, yeah I don't have any interest in Steve rambling either. That's why I summarized what he said, and gave the timestamp to go to Bradford talking about specific legal-agreeements-that-aren't-contracts for his recurring gigs. I agree that Steve has privilege to be able to do this. I think he's mentioned coaching on his ig in the past; but I never read it too closely, so I don't know what that's about.

This!

screengrab Billy Flynn ig story Feb. 13 (the original has the full promo for week of Feb.16 at the bottom)

ig stories Feb. 6 https://www.instagram.com/p/DUvtwG0j-CX/ christeladnana (Christel Khalil) Feb. 14, 2026 First week back - ☑️

Christel Khalil has given birth at some point in past few weeks/months. Feb. 4 ig stories, exercising with her baby.

Week of Feb. 16 Image credit XJ Johnson for JPI Studios via SOD

week of Feb. 16 image credit Cory Osborne for ABC via SOD

On the next GH for Monday Feb. 16

Preview of scene from Monday Feb. 16 Britt/Nathan/Obrecht https://abc.com/video/c340f204-7e8c-42cc-828b-b58ee1ba4c4e/

I don't want to see Anna's twin Alex. I don't wan to see Anna entwined with Faison/Peter/Nathan/Obrecht plots. I'm okay with Mac having raised Maxie, so Anna being Mac's sister-in-law and Maxie's aunt, but the Scorpio connection to Maxie is my limit -- keep her out of Faison family cr@p. I don't want to see Anna loving or crying about criminals! Anna Devane was my first favorite soap character, back in her first few years. But I only want to see Finola/Anna as a STRONG vibrant intelligent kicka$s woman who fights for what's great. If GH won't do that, then let Finola shine elsewhere.

2/13/26 Serious discussion with Steve Burton and Bradford Anderson (unlike their usual show). One of their few shows I was actually interested in, all the way through. First 14 minutes: Burton talks about why he's taking a leave from GH. Mentions that he was in Seattle for weekend of February 6-8, for a gaming&anime convention (He was on a panel with voice actors from Final Fantasy). He says he'll still do occasional traveling for appearances (and also with Bradford). Then he talks seriously about the grind of the job and feels lucky for the job, but now wants to live life and have time with his family. This is the first 14 minutes. Then Bradford talks briefly about his coming arc with Maxie's return (he didn't say how long but I got impression it's short). Then Bradford talks extensively for about 13 minutes about what it's like to recur on GH, and how there is a legal arrangement on how he is booked each time, and he goes into the detailed specific legalities of how each recurring episode or arc is booked, which I found very interesting. Some things I'd never heard before.

(sigh) I hope she returns with a decent story! And decent pay!

Noel Maxam as co-EP replaced Janet Drucker. Janet announced at the end of March 2025 that she was retiring soon; but, per the articles about some observance or party on-set, her last day was on May 2, 2025. That would put Maxam's full impact officially as co-EP to begin airing in episodes around March-April 2026. That ties in with dates of actors who are coming/going in various spoiler threads (I won't state those names here since this is nonspoiler thread.) However, Maxam has been active at DAYS for a long time as director and seems to have already had input into the show overall. He did an interview August 7, 2025 in which talks about his overall vision/perception of what DAYS is about. He is asked what prop would you steal from the set if you could take anything. He replies "Stefano's ring" and implies that this symbolizes the show (or something like that). This can finally be posted in the nonspoiler area, since that ring started being featured in the past few episodes. The interview was for soaps.sheknows. Their article contains his video interview embedded within it, but you have to disable adblock for the video to appear, and some cannot see it at all. A small part of his interview is summarized in the text of the article. https://soaps.sheknows.com/days-of-our-lives/news/791156/august-preview-executive-producer-noel-maxam-interview/ The part about the ring is * only * on the video. Here's a copy of the full video, to hear what he actually says about the ring: Noel Maxam August 7, 2025 https://ia601702.us.archive.org/28/items/15d-4s-5f-7w/15d4s5f7w.mp4

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUURhIdD8H-/ Feb. 3, 2026 michelevaljean Such a loss. I still miss him. Would have loved to have had that full circle moment of him on #BeyondTheGates Rest in power, Kristoff 💔

Tonya Williams (Tonya Lee Williams as Olivia-Y&R) is a 2026 recipient of Canada's Governor General's Performing Arts Award. https://ggpaa.ca/award-recipients/2026/williams,-tonya.aspx Lifetime Artistic Achievement Recognizes artists for their outstanding body of work and enduring contribution to the performing arts in Canada. These national awards are presented in the categories of theatre, dance, classical music, broadcasting, popular music and film. Nominations for this category are open to the public. Tonya Williams 2026 Lifetime Artistic Achievement Award (Screens and Voices) In 2000, driven by the lack of racial diversity she observed in the Canadian screen industries, she founded Reelworld. Through the Reelworld Screen Institute, the organization delivers the annual Reelworld Film Festival, the two-day Reelworld Summit, year-round professional development programs, and the hiring database Access Reelworld. The company has grown into a respected national platform supporting emerging talent and challenging systemic barriers affecting Black, Indigenous, Asian, South Asian, and People of Colour in Canada’s screen sector. Tonya Williams is an Officer of the Order of Canada. Her numerous honours include the Canadian Screen Awards Changemaker Award, ACTRA’s National Award of Excellence, two NAACP Image Awards, and the Legacy Award Visionary Award. She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame in 2025 and was named one of Afroglobal Television’s 100 Most Influential Black Canadians three years in a row.

soaps.com deleted their tweet (opening post of this thread). Update that Michael Roark exit isn't until April ? ?

from The Guardian's live politics blog Feb. 13, 2026 Regarding the funding debate in Congress: A reminder that while the crux of this funding battle is about implementing further guardrails on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), federal immigration enforcement has already received a 75 billion dollar cash infusion, thanks to the Donald Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) that he signed into law last year. This means those key agencies are likely to be unaffected by the looming shutdown.

More from The Guardian's live politics blog Feb. 13, 2026 US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) expects to spend an estimated 38.3 billion dollars on a plan to acquire warehouses across the country and retrofit them into new immigration detention centers with capacity for tens of thousands of detainees, according to documents the agency sent to the governor of New Hampshire. The documents, published on the state’s website yesterday, disclose that the Department of Homeland Security estimates it will spend 158 million dollars retrofitting a new detention facility in Merrimack, plus an additional estimated 146 million dollars to operate the facility in the first three years. More on that from Washington Post archived article here https://archive.is/h1brG

Some of the tv listings websites forget to adjust the episode numbers when there's a preemption or repeat. They just keep listing the next episode numbers sequentially (or randomly). So they can be off by a few episode numbers sometimes. Earlier today, ontvtonight was listing episode 150 for Feb. 16, without further info, so I assumed it was really that, which has original airdate October 14; so I posted info about the Oct. 14 episode. (lesson for me: never assume) But now ontvtonight is listing the original airdate and description for the Sept. 24 episode, but still calling it episode 150. But Sept. 24 is actually episode 136. I'm just going to acknowledge here the obvious -- that I know nothing!