Darn

I miss Miguel and Mamie and Lynn, they added so much to the fabric of the show and were a great writing device. You don't want your principals characters have the same conversation for the 100th time? Have them talk to one of their employees/friends and also recap for the audience. They served a purpose. Now we have main characters talking in literal circles for weeks on end because the only outlet they have is their love interest du jour.

This was wild, Nathan had been on the show for 6 years at that point and was meeting John and Ashley for the first time. BB was a master at keeping the cast in their little pocket universes.

Rebecca and Cameron said the same thing. Which made me happy because I was a huge fan of Ryan and Gillian and Leo and Greenlee. But Ryan and Greenlee NEVER worked because they became entirely different people when together.

Episode 3 is not my bag. Always thought Jacob was miscast and I hated Babe and her mother. Billy Miller was hot and that's about it. MCE somehow managed to make a career out of a badly written role, now she's been stinking up Y&R for nearly a decade in an even worse role.

I was a little disappointed that Darnell wasn't about the Jessie/Angie phenomenon so we could at least get a Debi mention.

Damn Susan Seaforth Hayes nearly doubling her guarantee. Making that overtime lol

You're right, I just checked. Dixie died in January 2007, McTavish was the headwriter until April of that year.

That was lovely! These two episodes have been just fantastic. The only real tea was Cady saying the writer who killed her off with poisoned pancakes was punishing her (which everyone guessed), who was that? I can't recall. Pratt?

That article is sad to read, he succumbed to only short-term storytelling and has milked the Ridge/Brooke relationship bone dry, to the point where in 2020 they're broken up AGAIN because Brooke can't stop jumping on the closest man. And I want the real story behind why they so abruptly ended Brooke and Thorne's relationship.

Great reunion! All four of them have a genuine affection for each other and the show and it really showed. The interviewer was great as well, he did his research and let them just speak.

O...no.

All of this name talk reminds me that when I first started watching the show in '99 everyone referred to Victoria as "Vicki" and Nick was just that, "Nick". It wasn't until the Victoria recast that everyone started referring to her as Victoria and almost everyone started calling Nick "Nicholas". Now Nick alternates pretty regularly between the two but Victoria will seemingly never be Vicki again.

Why was Peter Simon so opposed to a pairing with Nola? Did he dislike the actress?

I didn't even like half the characters these actors played but this makes me so happy. It says something about AMC's hold on the zeitgeist that it's the first of these to get mainstream backing.

She never said Gillian Spencer was fired, she said the woman playing Viki before her (Joanne Dorian, though she did not say her name just that they shared an agent) was fired. The story she recounted was that she was in her agent's office, he received a phone call letting him know Erika got the role and simultaneously telling him to inform his client that she was being let go, he refused and told the show they had to do it themselves. I'd love to see her on daytime again but she'd be utterly wasted in that role, don't you think? I'd prefer her legacy be this one huge role rather than a glorified cameo on Ron's (puke) Days of Our Lives. I don't know what it is but Viki had this quality where I was never bored of her (not that some of her stories weren't duds but all that did was make me wish she had a better story). When Nikki or Victor are going through the same crap over and over I get downright sick of them but Viki went through tragedy after tragedy, disassociation after disassociation but I loved her throughout. I was always rooting for her, even when she defended his monster of a brother or was outright wrong I still liked her.

Another name for Grey's Anatomy was Complications. Which I think is frankly better but GA has worked out pretty well for them so what do I know?

Her memory is incredible. She's able to recite full names and dates from events that happened almost 50 years ago. Michael doesn't get too deep but his affection for the genre and the actors he interviews is infectious.

They mired Greenlee in stories where her most interesting characterization was impossible to use. She just became a victim, the same sh!t happened to Kendall. These bad girls were constantly crying and suffering and talking about babies. It was so lame. I really liked the actors they chose for the recasts of Bobby (Christian Campbell, who was and is hot af) and Anita (Natalia Cigliuti, who I remember from one of the latter lesser version of Saved by the Bell), for some reason the show didn't utilize them well at all.

No problem, I'm usually the one getting my facts wrong so I was happy to help lol

I guess it's more I miss commitment to an idea. Nowadays it feels like they write the show on the whim of what the audience might want that hour or which couple kinda sorta has chemistry that week.

In the interview she said that she gave Marland a courtesy call before even auditioning with OLTL (because they were the direct competition) and he gave her the go ahead saying that they were very happy with Ellen Dolan. Then the day before her first day as Nora (and after dying her hair red) he called her back and asked her to return as Dolan was leaving. She considered it but turned ATWT down because she'd already committed to One Life.

The magazines lost all journalistic endeavors a long time ago and that's so clear in this podcast, they're just promotional pieces for the soaps. They never ask any interesting or followup questions, they're so used to being mouthpieces for the networks. I do enjoy the podcast though but that's in spite of the hosts, I just like hearing the actors talk about their history on daytime.

First of all I'm very upset my "were been" typo was quoted. Secondly, I thought about them when I made that post, wondering how long they'd been on the show before they got their lavish wedding so thanks for the dates. I kind of miss when soaps would just commit to a couple and could invest in 5 episodes of these nearly brand new characters getting married.

Such a good listen, thank you for sharing. Those interviewers are horrible though, they hardly ask followup questions, they just take whatever list of questions they had beforehand and make sure to get through them.

This channel posted Edmund and Maria's wedding last night: It's kind of insane the amount of grandiose given to two characters who hadn't even been on the show for two years at this point. Also while pretty it's very boring. The most drama seems to surround Julia and Terrence's falling out at the wedding rehearsal. Also I didn't realize Maria and Dixie were friends.