Khan

Let's say the fans' efforts pay off and TPTB reverse their decision to let KeMo go. Does anyone believe this will light a proverbial fire under her ass and get her to actually act for once, instead of just sleepwalking her way through scenes? Will TPTB try to give her better material, or any material at all? WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IF KELLY MONACO ACTUALLY STAYED? (Spoiler alert: Nothing would be different).

The last time Maze featuring Frankie Beverly put out a new album, Bill Clinton had been president for only eight months. Yet, to the African-American community, they were relevant right up to the very end. That's the ultimate testament to their musicianship. RIP.

I can't believe some shut-ins out there actually took the time to dream up and post online fake SOD previews. Like, seriously, dudes, get another hobby, lol.

I'd love to know which other P&G show offered him a part. Something tells me it could've been for Lloyd Kendall on SFT, but maybe not, lol.

I still hope they keep in mind that it's not 1994 anymore and that having those characters behave as they did 30+ years ago will look foolish and sad and actually ruin viewers' memories of the original show.

"Diagnosis: Murder" did get better after Scott Baio left. However, even by Dean Hargrove and Fred Silverman's already low standards, I thought DM was an embarrassment to everyone involved, including Dick Van Dyke. One factor that probably helped was all those endless cast reunions that they did in order to attract more viewers. I remember one episode reunited cast members from "Happy Days," "Laverne & Shirley" and other Garry Marshall-produced sitcoms, while another reunited members from the film and TV versions of "M*A*S*H." And then there was the time GH's Leslie Charleson and Stuart Damon made a cameo in an episode that, I think, centered around famous TV doctors like Quincy, Joe Gannon from "Medical Center" and the like. Ugh, lol. I just remember hating the whole exercise and thinking, "If y'all would put more time into developing better scripts, and instructing your actors not to act as if they're guest-starring on 'Batman,' and less time on THIS [!@#$%^&*], imagine how decent y'all actually would be!"

Actually, @Paul Raven, I think Tom O'Rourke was fired or let go. I remember reading an interview with Grant Aleksander where he said he was livid about the news but that O'Rourke calmed him down and said, in effect, "That's just the way the business works."

Believe me, I know exactly how you feel, lol.

Now that's the kind of soap opera I love. No evil twins, no back-from-the-dead tripe or supervillains out to control the world through weather machines. Just family members reuniting for a big occasion, catching each other up on everything and having normal, everyday conversations about things that we all can relate to. Sigh. I miss that so much.

For me, the bottom dropped out after Peggy O'Shea quit, in '87. For the next four years, OLTL still had its' moments, but I just remember the show getting sillier and sillier, with its' grasp on reality slipping. Then, in 1991, Linda Gottlieb arrives, followed by Michael Malone, and for me, OLTL becomes an entirely different show.

I guess the networks and advertisers made the same assumptions about "Matlock" that they had made about "Murder, She Wrote." In both cases, they assumed the show skewed older in terms of demographics; and in both cases, they were wrong. Of course, I don't think "Matlock" was as well written or produced as MSW - none of Dean Hargrove's shows were, IMO - but it's possible Andy Griffith had the same kind of broad appeal as Angela Lansbury, even if Ben Matlock wasn't as endearing as J.B. Fletcher.

And even after it's been debunked many times over, people insist it's happening. That's how it goes in Trumplandia.

I'm actually surprised "Matlock" did as well as it did in the ratings, lol!

One thing I never agreed with was giving J.R. a long-lost son. If he was going to have a long-lost child turn up, it should've been a daughter.

From a creative standpoint, leaning harder into the J.R. vs. Pam conflict after Bobby's "death" would have been fantastic, giving the show a jolt in the arm at just the right moment. CBS and Lorimar, however, would have needed to be realistic: the days of DALLAS being a ratings juggernaut and pop culture phenomenon had to come to an end sooner or later.

I agree.

Couldn't Stevie Nicks just use her witchcraft to make Kamala Harris president already? There would've been more, but their darn cats kept walking across their keyboards. PSP might have stolen Linda Ronstadt's incredible talent as a singer, but she is not allowing it to keep her from speaking out on behalf of immigrants and I love that. If only we all could be as brave.

Frank Luntz is looking more and more like someone who lives "off the grid" in some cabin in the woods, with no indoor plumbing, and nothing to do all day except write diatribes against the government.

She's "settling for more." You can tell peeps like Jesse Watters want so badly to attack Kamala Harris for being yet one more Black woman who made Donald Trump look like dogshit, but even they are smart to know that when you cross that line, the game is over.

Martha Byrne remains in denial about her husband's culpability and it's sad.

Exactly. WOC always "bring it," because they know that nobody (including white women) has had their backs since the beginning. It annoys the heck out of me when certain people suggest that Kamala Harris can't put a sentence together. Number one, you don't get to be a D.A., a State Attorney General, a United States Senator OR Vice President by being incoherent; and number two, even on her most word salad-y day, Kamala Harris is still far less dangerous to our democracy than Mr. Concepts of a Plan.

It's also up there with, "Well, the number of COVID cases in this country would stop rising if people would just reporting them!" RFK Jr. has a worm in his brain, but Trump's brain has what the worm pooped out.

Just keep those white boy tears a-comin', fellas, lol!

I think Lynley was a lovely actress, but I cannot see her as Valene. I don't think her Val would've been as assured as JVA's was in the beginning (before the Lechowicks turned her into the village idiot, lol).

Never, EVER underestimate the power of a Black woman, lol!