EricMontreal22

LOL yet you can't watch? It does have a bit too much of the hipster beard I guess (I say that while currently having a beard, but that's more that I've been too lazy to shave during essay/exam month ), but that's undeniably the look of a lot of guys that age, now (particularly when I was in San Fran last Spring, I noticed it.)

I actually have high hopes for this. It has a pretty good production team and cast, and I appreciate that they're focusing on characters aged 30s to 40s. Like with Girls, there has been, probably fair, complaints about it being too white (though one male lead is Asian and another Latino,) but... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnGwmP8qg2c

I dunno, I think they word it that way to make it sound even more All About Eve. Like she was a minor soap day player who desperately aspired to be a MOVIE STAR, so glommed her way into this great actress' life. When really, whatever is true or not, it's pretty obvious that Francesca speaks the truth when she says she retired from acting and wanted to move onto production (she was still someone other soaps would have snatched up at the time) etc.

This is amazing you mentioned this so recently. My mom's favorite aunt, Joyce Marshall was a somewhat known Canadian novelist who was best friends with Judith Merril, and my mom was just mentioning how her aunt never understood Merril's deep love for sci fi and how Merril even used to do the TVOntario intros for the series. I never thought to look for them. (TVOntario is part of the provincial "educational" networks we have across Canada--or had, some are being privatized and has no connection to PBS but it is essentially the same concept, including relying on UK imports for many of their more watched shows.)

I just had to drop it --- too many episodes were piling up and really I had lost interest or even traction of major story arcs a long time back (probably when the first showrunner left.) I still enjoy a lot of the characters' chemistry, and there still have been strong individual episodes, but it is just a show that's past its sell by date for me (if I were less busy with grad studies and work this year I might try to find the time, but...)

Sorry i thought it was one of their free articles but I guess I can only access it online because I'm a subscriber. I'll see if I can find a run around (though Star Trek fans may not wanna read her opinion on why Who is infinitely better.) I admit, the current show has often lost me during the Moffat years, but I look forward to the special.

There;s a good, typically long, article about Who and its endurance in the current New Yorker.

WHA? This is just.... Wha??? So basically they don't have the OLTL rights and are going to make Ilene, Delia again?

I think there were though I don't think Gretzky was one...

I think I actually kinda enjoyed the Kevin/Cassie stuff (though that was when she cheated on Andrew, right? K/C were always flying off on journalism trips? ) Patrick and Marty were started under Malone/SHB. SHB talks about it in Llanview in the Afternoon--they knew RH wanted off, and Todd and Blair were very popular. Then a casting agent for ABC sent her a tape with Thorston Kaye's audition on it and said that they had 24hours to snap him up or else he would join AMC. SHB and Malone stayed up all night creating the character and decided they'd tie it into Todd's exit and hope that the supercouple fans would move on to Marty/Patrick, which I guess they did. Brown penny indeed.

Wha? You didn't enjoy the brilliant Leslie Coulson on AMC?

Ha I've seen those promos before--hysterical. I believe one of the soap books--maybe the companion to the late 90s Paley Center exhibition which has a chapter about advertising--mentions them specifically. One thing that's interesting is they actually show a *few* guys watching the soaps as well--something soap advertising doesn't often actually do (although much more recently when they had famous "fans" talking about the ABC soaps in promos I believe some were male.)

I believe Gottlieb brought Glass in to do the music--that's the implication from Llanview in the Afternoon. I also loved the anecdote that when Gottlieb premiered the new opening to the cast, the reaction was one of shock.

Thanks Carl!

Was this from the same time Christopher Reeves was on LOL? Golly he was handsome I would almost buy that awful sounding shirt.

I should look for that. I do remember a lot of pairings I had no interest in and very little actually compelling plot.

It seems to be being set up as a Girls for Gays. However, I have some hope--the cast isn't bad (Russell Tovey from Dr Who and the UK Being Human) Though Scott Bakula was someone I hadn't heard connected. The main director--of the pilot and other key episodes is another Brit, Andrew Haigh who did the great UK gay film 2 years back, Weekend. I largely hated the US/Canada remake of Queer as Folk, but I'm pretty surprised it's taken this long for cable to do another gay based drama (those cheap shows on Logo or whatever like Dante's Cove do *not* count.)

I just finally finished reading all of Llanview in the Afternoon, and Thom says that he quickly realized his character would be used pretty exclusively as a "hinge" character (his word.) Ie coming in to cause and propel or else tie up a storyline and then going away again quickly--which is largely how he was used after a time. All I remember really about Malone's last little while was all the Irish mob stuff but maybe that was a bit earlier. Still I don't think I would have replaced him with Leah Laiman and Jean Passanante--all I remember of their era is what a boring muddled mess the show was.

Oh just when I started to really lose faith in Malone...

Aww I loved Carla! I'm surprised the actress never ended up on another soap. Tony was such a drip, though...

Any soap could do far worse than copying a Douglas Sirk melodrama. What year was that? Because I don't remember it at all....

Judging from the logo, that's the Canadian basic cable station Women's Television Network which has since been rebranded W. They showed a number of Lifetime programming until Lifetime Canada started this year.

So is that Jeff Byron as Jeff? What was up with him and Angie and man that other nurse sure is mean about it.... I know Charles Frank briefly returned to the role in '88

Ah I was expecting video, but still this is great! Agnes Nixon discusses this very episode in All Her Children. The week of hour episodes was also done to get people watching earlier to check out Ryan's Hope the next week--At the time Nixon seemed sure they wouldn't go to an hour permanently.

It won't be anytime soon it seems