Khan

Same here.

Damn. Although I was hoping everything would work out, the minute I saw Chris Van Etten's name back in the credits, I knew the end was nigh. Yeah, we're gonna need an exit interview from Mulcahey to explain why this did not work out.

Nobody, that is, except Myrtle Urkel.

In a word: music rights. (Okay, that's two words, lol). Streaming KNOTS on any platform is a challenge due to music rights, or so we've been told over the years by various folks. Whenever they paid for the use of particular pieces of music, it was for a limited number of airings (don't know exactly how many). Never had it occurred to producers that episodes still would be repeated decades later in syndication, let alone on the Internet.

My hunch: Frank Valentini has kept Chris Van Etten on as a breakdown writer, because Chris gets Frank's style (...and in case things w/ Elizabeth Korte & Patrick Mulcahey don't work out).

I guess this recession has been hard on everyone, lol.

Something tells me that was more Frank Valentini's doing (but I could be wrong!).

Years ago, I read that then-CBS Daytime VP Lucy Johnson allegedly had Munro on her short list of candidates to replace the recently departed Douglas Marland as HW on ATWT.

Only one way to find out:

Frankly, I'm not TOO hung up on the average length of scenes, for two reasons: 1) I grew up on KNOTS LANDING, so scenes that run 1:30 or less don't really phase me all that much*, lol; and 2) I believe that it doesn't matter whether a scene runs ten minutes or ten seconds, a bad scene is a bad scene is a bad scene. My number-one issue atm with GH remains the same: there are TOO. DAMN. MANY. CHARACTERS. (*I mean, I don't necessarily PREFER shorter scenes, just because of my love of classic playwrights like Chekhov, Ibsen and Strindberg; but this is television, after all, and there are worse sins being committed on shows nowadays). Don't worry, @Taoboi: the folks in the back heard me just fine, lol. I mean, if you're Frank Valentini/Nathan Varni and you're just looking for a HW who will maintain the status quo and nothing more, I'm sure there are at least a dozen, other scribes out there who'd be willing to take on that job. But you don't go and lure out of retirement a writer with a rep for not putting up with b.s. if you're not willing to give him his head at least a little bit.

I'll say this much: if you know anything about soaps, you don't hire someone like Patrick Mulcahey to be your "yes" man. If you do, you do it at your own peril.

Exactly. Actors like CZ get it: if you're up to bat, you don't bunt. You swing for the fences. Maybe you'll hit a homerun, and maybe you won't. But it's much more thrilling either way. (Just ask Babe Ruth, lol).

That's all I ask of any actor in any performance: just show up! I personally don't care if you're the kind who devours every piece of scenery in every scene, leaving behind nothing but sawdust. Believe me, it's a helluva lot more fun to watch someone OVER-act than it is to watch someone who doesn't act at all (*coughs*TrevorStJohn*coughs*).

But I do! I might kid about a lot of things, but I don't kid about bringing Justin Deas back to soaps and pairing him up with Jane Elliot on GH. I (still) think those two would be great together. And I know Deas has his excesses, but I also know he's one actor on daytime who never bores me. He just needed an EP at GL to rein him in when necessary.

Yeah, we really need an exclusive interview with EK and PM. I, for one, would love to know what their vision for GH is.

I agree. Just because you see folks talking about it on Twitter, or hear 'em talking about it on a podcast, that doesn't mean the info is legit. If that's the case, then I'm marching over to Twitter right now and spreading the word that Justin Deas is joining the cast of GH as Tracy's new love interest (once Gonzo kicks the proverbial bucket).

V.O.: "Let's get this wedding started!" Khan: "Yeah, 'cuz the sooner the bodies start pilin' up, the happier we all will be!"

Unfortunately, I learned a long time ago to take actors' public statements with a grain of salt. With some exceptions, actors aren't really good judges of writing. To them, a script is good if it has more lines for them. Furthermore, actors are nothing if not "company men." They'll go out of their way to talk up even mediocre writing, because they aren't going to badmouth their shows and risk people not watching.

I agree!!

I agree.

Count me as another who's always wished to live in Mary Richards' apartment, lol!

I'm sorry, but when it comes to Bo and Hope, that's not the song I think of. THIS is the song I think of:

I realize that set decorators' hands are tied financially these days, but it really doesn't take much to head into the local thrift and antique shops and find a few, inexpensive pieces that can be removed easily and that say something about the character or characters who supposedly inhabit a particular home/office/whatever. And if I say anything more, I'm liable to get into some trouble, so I'll just leave it at that, lol. I mean, what else could she say? Dena's work sucked. Everybody knew it sucked. Erika said something about it, and Dena was promptly let go. Problem solved!

I hate to be that guy, BUT... it was "If Ever You're in My Arms Again," not "Whenever You're in My Arms."