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Honestly, my old elementary school could put on more professional productions than DAYS, lol.

Lord knows Alec Baldwin's not an easy actor to love. Nevertheless, I must commend him for remaining willing to talk about his soap past - both on KL, and on TD as well. Given how successful he became after leaving KL, he could place as much distance between himself and those shows as he wants. Yet, he never does, even going as far as having Susan Lucci on one of his podcasts and talking about their separate experiences working with directors Henry Kaplan and Robert Scinto.

Far be it from me to criticize DAYS (or any soap) for seeking freshness and diversity in their writing staff, but why do these newbies that have been popping up lately in the writing credits feel so...AI-generated?

Wow, this thread is on FIRE!!

Welcome to the club, lol.

I still think it's funny how the guy who played sleazy lounge singer Johnny Venture on "Rhoda" also played Dr. Mark Dante on GH, lol.

You could argue that BE came at a point when the networks were saturated with glossy, melodramatic serials. I haven't seen much of the series, but what I have seen doesn't seem all that different from viewers were getting already from DALLAS, DYNASTY, FC and KL.

In one of the most unintentionally hilarious scenes in KL's 14-year history. Joan Van Ark took all of her most annoying acting tendencies - the fidgety hands, the lowered head, the voice on the verge of incoherent blubbering - and turned them up to 11. And her reaction to when Gary shows up with the cops at Ciji's apartment/murder scene? All I can say is, if Latham/Lechowick viewed Val as the village idiot, scenes like those gave them good cause.

Exactly. Of course, if Netflix had won out, and CNN, along with WBD's other cable TV channels, had been jettisoned, I'm not so sure another, right wing-leaning media conglomerate such as Nexstar or Sinclair wouldn't have snapped them up, thereby sealing CNN's fate regardless.

I think so? Netflix wasn't interested in acquiring any of WBD's cable TV holdings, but Paramount/Skydance was. Of course, CNN has long been a target of Trump's, even though they literally helped him win the first time; and with Emperor Palatine's son now on the verge of owning the network, there's a better than good chance he will turn it into another FNC/Newsmax/OAN or just strip it and sell it for parts. Either way, CNN is toast, lol.

The role that Cameron Mathison was born to play!

Or John Conboy. Say what you will about the man (and his fondness for hunky, young men), but he knew how to hide everything with atmospheric lighting.

Well, can you blame him? The family trees on DAYS have become so entangled, I doubt anyone in Salem knows how they're related to anyone else anymore.

IOW, it's just like what DAYS fans watch every day on Peacock.

So, IOW, we (and Israel) have accomplished nothing in Iran (not even securing our oil resources over there - which, I suspect, has been this administration's motivation all along). In fact, we've made a very bad situation even worse, jeopardizing hundreds of thousands of lives, and potentially plunging us all into another war (that will drag on for years and resolve nothing). Good to know.

I guess you could say he walked so all those guys (and others) could run, lol.

ICAM!! It seems like the people involved in this revival are making all the right moves thus far. They're bringing back much of the original cast in ways that would make sense with the premise.

That all would've been fantastic to watch. I also could see McGillin's Greg becoming involved down the road with Gina.

Don't they, though, lol? Actually, I think most of Miller/Boyett's opening credits are interchangeable, even going as far back as the '70's, when they still were associated with Garry Marshall.

At first, I think. Michael Hogan's career as an airline pilot meant he wasn't around often, thus allowing JT to pull double-duty. IIRC, however, JT's role on the show expanded once Miller/Boyett fired Valerie Harper, with the explanation (or justification) that Michael would be home more for his sons in the wake of his wife's passing. That meant JT needed to leave DAYS (as Chris Kositchek) and work exclusively on "The Hogan Family." Personally, I think JT left DAYS at about the right time, as Chris was one of those '70's characters that was becoming more and more irrelevant to the show as the '80's wore on. But I guess that's for another thread, lol.

I'm surprised John Conboy didn't snap him up, lol! Gregory Harrison would've been an interesting choice for a Greg recast. I think he would've fit in well, both with the Y&R of the '70's, and with the '80's, too. And for sure, if James Houghton had stuck around, he might've looked fantastic next to MTS, although I think a big problem with him, both on Y&R and away from it, was an inability to connect with most of his female co-stars.

Yep, lol. Forgot to mention: Josh Taylor's casting as the Hogans' dad was a big WTF for me, too, @soapfan770 . But, if you really think about it, a lot of the casting of the family doesn't make sense. I could see Valerie Harper as mom to Danny Ponce and Jeremy Licht, but not Jason Bateman (proof that Rhoda once married a gentile, lol). And while it was a stretch to see JT playing dad to Bateman, it was an even bigger stretch to see him as Valerie's husband or dad to those twins. Again, Sandy Duncan's really the saving grace here. Her easy, natural rapport with all the Hogan men helps to sell them as a family unit, IMO.

Good Lord. It's one thing to tie tree branches to music stands and CALL them trees, as they did when Irene kidnapped Patti and everyone in Henderson was looking for the child, but outer space? How in the world was SFT, a low-rated show that never had an exorbitant amount of money to spend on anything, going to pull off Travis [!@#$%^&*] Sentell in outer space? I mean, that's the kind of crap that would've looked hokey on "Hart to Hart," let alone a daytime soap. God bless Don Chastain for thinking outside the old box, but he just didn't have a clue.

NINE stories in an episode? Who were the HW's? Agnes Nixon and Wisner Washam?

I've seen that episode. The story itself was trash - the kind of hogwash that stinks up SVU every week - but Duncan was amazing in the kind of role I'd never expect to see her in. (And I've seen her as the OG 'Missy Anne,' lol.)