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It could've been worse: they could've asked SMG to present Lucci with the award. And why would Francesca James have been there?

I agree. And if they could somehow get Nancy Curlee or Patrick Mulcahey involved with the writing? Even better.

It doesn't surprise me that JC/Kay appealed to 12-17 year olds. After all, Kay Chancellor was a woman who looked fabulous all the time and had just enough money to tell people to go [!@#$%^&*] themselves. When you're twelve years old, that's a life goal, lol!

I think I see where you're coming from, @dc11786. Although a "found family" has its unique advantages, having a "traditional" family with multiple generations lends itself very well to conflicts, too. Like you've said, it all comes down to how families are explored, and TC apparently didn't explore its' "family" very well.

I'm not saying I'm okay with writers going Fi-Core, but I am REALLY uncomfortable with anyone publishing the names of those who do. That's a little too "Red Channels" for me.

If I've said it once, I've said it a hundred times: social media will be the death of us all.

When I said "everyone involved," I didn't mean Bob Nixon. It's more than who'd they bring in to write and produce the show, though. It's also about the vision for the new show and its' tone. From everything that I have read about it, it sounds like "Pine Valley," or whatever it would be called, would be dark, and not at all like the AMC I remember watching. In fact, it's as if Megan McTavish is back and ready for prime time!

I know PASSIONS was the first time I'd heard anyone who worked in soaps talk about the 12-17 demos, but that might not be when that particular demo became so highly coveted. (Maybe it was during JER's DAYS 1.0?)

LMAO!! (I shouldn't laugh so hard at that, but even the show's creators cop to it being little more than "Cheers" in an airport, lol.) I still can't keep it straight in my mind which DAYS hangout begat what, but was Wings the successor to Blondie's, which was, in turn, the successor to Shenanigans? Or were they all separate hangouts? And how does Sergio's Doug's Place By the Lake figure into all this?

I agree. SFT's final EP, David Lawrence, might have had a prior working relationship with P&G, as well as a minor track record of producing outside of daytime, but nothing in his resume suggests to me that he was a visionary. It's kind of like when CBS hired Cathy Abbi to produce the last several months of LOL. The only other notable job she'd held was as an associate producer at Y&R; and I think I've read somewhere, too, that the higher-ups knew she wasn't cut out for the EP gig, but hired her, because they needed someone to run LOL into the ground and give them an excuse to cancel it. (Lawrence also reminds me of that string of no-name EP's at LOVING who were there when it was clear that no one who was any good wanted anything to do with that show.) And I don't know whether I was the one who had suggested a Pamela K. Long/Douglas Marland team-up, @Soaplovers, but I'll gladly take credit for it, lol!

I think it needs to be dead in the water, if it isn't already. As much as I would love to see Erica Kane back on my TV screen, I don't trust everyone involved in this project to do right by Agnes Nixon's legacy.

For a minute, @soapfan770, I thought you were talking about the sitcom, "Wings," lol.

I support writing out LK/Kate, but only because it's clear no one at DAYS knows what to do with Kate except make her the town sex toy.

Wrong thread.

I think that's how most people become soap fans: by watching it as children or young adults with their relatives. Either that, or they get hooked while trying to sober up between keg parties at college.

I agree, @DramatistDreamer. I, too, chose not to watch, figuring I could catch Susan Lucci's speech later on YT (which I did). The days of the industry giving a damn about the soaps are long over.

This country is fucked if a reporter don't know who the hell Susan Lucci is.

You know the worm has turned when I'm sorry to see Krista Allen go.

More than that, DAYS doesn't have the budget anymore to gather everyone who IS on the canvas for the ceremony. The past several years, it's been just the Hayeses and whichever actors hadn't met their episode guarantees that week.

Ah, I got my storms mixed up! Thanks, @robbwolff!

Ah, but you're wrong. I do like Deidre. And Marlena. But I don't kid myself into thinking she is The Most Important Character In DAYS History.

Doug and Julie weren't "lifted out," because they weren't popular anymore. They were marginalized and then written out by a writing and production team who thought that youth was where it was at. And before you start talking about SSH being "hammy" and "ridiculous," let me remind you and everyone else of Dee's performance as Marlena running away from the disembodied head of Tom Horton.

Now I KNOW you're trolling. Who the hell brought the show to #1 in the ratings? Who is the only daytime actor (aside from her real-life husband) ever to make the cover of TIME magazine? Because, it sure as [!@#$%^&*] wasn't Deidre Hall.

Oh, well!

And if you believe in God, then you probably also believe that God created the creators of DAYS via the generations of ancestors who came before them. So, when you take a step back and look at the entire picture, you'll see that it was God who was ultimately responsible for the Bradys. (Whether He deserves praise for that, I'll leave up to y'all.)