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Y&R has been a snoozefest since JG took over. If he wasn't replaced last year I don't see him being dropped anytime soon. Sony/CBS satisfied with mediocrity as long as the ratings are ahead of the others.

RR was so campy as Alan, I doubt he'd be much better as Mike.

Good: Y&R: Brittany, Raul, JT, MacKenzie, Billy, Colleen GL: 4 Musketeers: Phillip, Beth, Rick and Melinda ATWT: Gwen, Will, Casey, Allison Bad GL: Drew, Jesse Blue, Max, Michelle. GL: Daisy, Ashley, Zach, Grady, Rafe

In theory 90 minutes could work for a soap but you'd need 90 minutes worth of characters and story and not 60 minutes worth stretched out to 90 minutes. For instance if you merged y&r with b&b you would just sprinkle in the b&b stuff during the 90 minute run time.

With a little better writing, Maggie on Days could fill that role. Maybe Jennifer if the shows still on in ten years. A lot of Katherine bashing of late. First as her portrayal as a business power player then as a matriarch. Guess some people hated to see her evolve at all from. Just an observation, I don't have "a horse in the race." I still say Abuella Santos could've been positioned as Bert 2.0

Why didn't NBC expand The Doctors to an hour before expanding AW a second time?

Ed and Maureen at the Bauer cabin. Earning EP the EMMY award. GL. https://youtu.be/YdVyRcNpQUE Phillip finding out that Justin, not Alan was his father and that basically the whole town knew. "I never had a father. I never did." GL. https://youtu.be/xP_OhiW3Or4

The nerve of Dr. Nate who thinks he knows better about business than... I dunno... experienced business people!

Days D+. Just disappointing. Y/R F. Nothing ever happens B/B F. Brad Bell GH C. Don't watch it,however the recaps make it sound adequate.

Marlena and Brady Tripp and Nicole Rafe and Allie Abe and Chantel Roman and Paulina

Are they necessarilly wrong though? 😉 I know b&b only have like four or five people that really drive storyline Maybe they meant compared to before.

Source? I believe you but I still like to see where inside dirt originates. Thanks Ashland and Diane may click well together, but do we really want Dianne sucked back into Newman politics? Dwight should be shady character, keeping up Esther's horrible taste in men. Maybe get Kevin or Chloe shot or harmed.

Never got into them, they always just seemed like rely good friends. Never saw any romantic characters, also the writers wrote it that way to not agitate the older viewers perhaps. It is CBS, and seniors love CBS.

Love the first one, she also looked and seemed more Irish than the others. She's gorgeous and reminds me of AW's Julie Osburn (Kathleen) who I crushed on as a kid and was devastated when she was written off. Did not care for the other two AT ALL.

I'd still love to see Evan revealed as the child of Marlena and Orpheus. See Marlena be the mother of a real monster. See them try to humanize him like Ben. 😆 Seems very believable that she COULD'VE just said that to get a rise out of Abby. Gwen was leaving her alone, but it was Abby who went out of her way to expose Gwen in a matter that had nothing to do with her. Whether Gwen killed Laura on purpose, it wouldn't surprise me if they try to keep it ambiguous.

Here's another one. Did anyone really "follow the search"? In other words was the (small) NBC SFT audience, mainly NBC loyalists as opposed to migrated CBS viewers?

I'd rather jo and stu be at the start of the intro, being senior cast members, definitely not lost in the middle. For example,, Bob, Kim and Nancy usually were the first shown in the 1999 ATWT intro. Then you have a modern fan fave like Lilly appear last. That's how it should be done. First and last spots being the important people.

As a non-viewer, I always got the impression that it was all about Erica, like Reva on GL. SL being on magazine covers and name dropped in pop culture venues like the Regis Philbin show.

Why didn't NBC expand The Doctors, 2-3pm after Days and AW expanded to one hour? You think it would've been a safer option than expanding AW to 90 minutes.

I hope it's a legacy female who's now a female cop, ala Hope.

Calla withheld information about Dinah as she feared that Vanessa and Ross would grow closer if she was found.

So sad. Wanted to pay my respects. He grew to be the heart of the TV show GL. His Christmas "eyes of a child" message was a hallmark of GL for many years. I tried taking up One Life To Live just because of him. He was very missed from GL, the show never the same.

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IIRC, Y&R was on a serious upswing, starting around mid '98, not too long after ED returned as Ashley. Of the soaps I watched, I remember ATWT being in a pretty bad slump in '99 before becoming real good for the following 4-5 years.

Maybe it ends up being an homage to the movie Soapdish.. remember the producers brought back a character who was decaptated. "He Has No Head"