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It shall be interesting to see Melinda Clark join TVD! I have a love/hate "relationship" with her.

In other news...

I'm guessing that's the case.

It's out on Feb. 26.

In Germany where Days was apparantly massive in the 80s, and I think other areas in Europe, they actually at some cost had film composer Harold Faltermeyer rescore the show (Faltermeyer is famous for his disco work in the 70s--as arranger on many Donna Summer albums but in the 80s he did many film scores oin synths including Top Gun and Beverly Hills Cop where his ubuquitous Axel F theme came from--as well as producing a Pet Shop Boys album and other hits). I've always wanted to hear some of his work for the show--it seems so odd they got him to do it, though I know he used the gorgeous little known \Donna Summer ballad he produced in 87, Fascination, as a love theme on the show which gave it some chart success there.

Feltermeyer has been hired to score Kevin Smith comedy Cop Out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_gt8W9D2II

What exactly do you mean by epic pop?

That's the title? Don't like it.

A pre-release one, she will probably change it by May.

B!tch releases a new album every quarter.

How about the title — Sticky But Sweet?! It's supposed to be a "clever" Madonna rip-off, I presume...

Apparently, to be released in May.

Asian wedding behind the scenes.

Confusing, as always. Especially with Australian soaps, where you have a plethora of story producers, story editors, storyliners...

And these people who write now are then ones who he left to write after his last stint?

So, is Bevan coming?

Is anyone still watching?

A bit fo Euro trash!

I found your I valle dei pini up above together with Feltermeyer.

You embed like this:

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I don't see the full version, Eric.

Is this what you're talking about, Zeit der Sehnsucht?

I believe they had a different dub for Quebecois france--we still get Y&R and B&B int he afternoons and B&B is called Top Models I believe (like that--in English as it's common slang...) I always see it in the tv listings and briefly wonder what show that is...

It has two titles in France: Top Models and Amour, gloire.

Loving was big in France and Italy I know can't remember the name (Italy had AMC for a long time as Pine Valley though--well except whatever Pine Valley is in Italian)

La valle dei pini:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1TAFT4VQvz0

Italian The Young and the Restless (Febbre d'amore or Love Fever; Tina's strings are by Zigman, I believe):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS7dhdDnjqQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bEqkvOcE61o

French is just such a trainwreck! Amour, Gloire et Beauté!

http://www.youtube.c...h?v=NTvWOAjnTgs

This is Italian Guiding Light (Sentieri) opening:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuSXDc87V64

Ugh, I hate stuff like that. I don't remember if it was Days or B&B but when I was in Paris I saw a couple of scenes at the hotel room in the morning and they not only dubbed the show, they also changed the intro to something completely different.

True. But I just love Italian B&B opening!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVs82xph86s

This has been a hellish year for Corrie. I think they will be thrilled to say hello to 2010.

Daily Mail has an article saying how "TV writers have been doing their best to ensure this Christmas is the worst on record".

Not only on The Street, but on every other soap opera too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY2pqLbGHK0

<p><span style="font-size:19.5pt;"><font face="Verdana">Maggie Jones was a brilliant actress who relished Blanche's blunt one-liners</font></span>

<span style="font-size:7.5pt;"><b><font face="Tahoma"> Tim Teeman</font></b></span>

<span style="font-size:9pt;"><font face="Verdana">If one of Blanche’s acquaintances at the One O’Clock Club had popped their clogs — and they did, regularly — she wouldn’t waste her time on a glowing testimonial. She would report the news to Deirdre and Ken and add the deceased had always cheated at whist and would not be missed.

Maggie Jones, however, will be missed. Hugely. To many Coronation Street fans Blanche was a finer battleaxe than the legendary Ena Sharples. To many (including myself), Blanche — who came back to the Street full-time in 1998 after odd appearances down the years — was our favourite character. She gleefully defied the maxim that if you hadn’t anything nice to say about somebody, you shouldn’t bother saying it. Instead, she broadcast her malevolence from the rooftops and to her victims’ astonished, deeply offended faces.

Jones was a brilliant actress, lapping up the blunt one-liners the writers took great delight in giving her. Blanche could be kind, but not often. She and Norris were the great gossip-mongering tag team of the Street, revelling in others’ misfortune. Blanche often didn’t have to say anything at all — about her much put-upon daughter Deirdre’s train wreck of a personal life, about her son-in-law Ken’s failures, about her grandson Peter’s alcoholism. She’d just purse her lips. That was withering condemnation enough. Of the brassy Rovers landlady Liz McDonald she said: “Skirt no bigger than a belt, too much eyeliner, and roots as dark as her soul.”

Blanche was at her absolute best at a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous this year, which the Barlow family attended en masse for Peter. She asked one group member if he had finished talking, or if he talked even more when he was tanked up. A woman who said the man’s story was illuminating was told she should try bingo — she might just hyperventilate.

It was an incorrect, outrageous tour de force and Maggie Jones’s brilliant Blanche to a tee.</font></span>

<span style="font-size:7.5pt;"><b><font face="Tahoma">http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6941849.ece</font></b></span></p>