Khan

LOL!!

If @Errol's "blind item" isn't about Y&R/Josh Griffith, then it should be. I've never seen Y&R in such creative dire straits in my life, and when you consider both the Lynn Marie Latham AND MAB eras, that's saying something!

Was that a real appraiser from AR, or just some actor they hired for the spoof?

What else? We fight.

As if they would know for certain that DAYS (or any show) would still be on the air 42 years later, right, lol?

Will the numbers remain as high? Probably not. But I think most in this country would agree that "protecting free speech" means protecting even speech you don't necessarily agree with. As former VP Dick Cheney (of all people) once said, in regards to same-sex unions, "freedom means freedom for everyone."

I won't lie: when I first read this story, I thought, "This would make a fantastic movie on the Hallmark Channel: woman gets scammed by 'bad actors' claiming to be handsome soap star on social media, soap star reaches out to victim to offer his support, romance blossoms," lol.

IMO, the problem with Stefano DiMera was that DAYS wanted to take a perfectly sinister mobster and turn him into Blofeld from the James Bond movies. Suddenly, Stefano, along the rest of the DiMera clan, possessed all this untold wealth (that contracted and expanded with each HW'ing regime change) and that also allowed them to control the known, free world through outlandish gadgetry and the like, even though their base of operations was some hamlet in the Midwest. Once we're brainwashing former mercenaries into pretending to be small-town cops, we're admitting that character development is no longer an option.

In the end, 'twas the money that talked.

Like the song says, "but that was another place and another time." Johnny Carson (and Jack Paar and Steve Allen before him) pulled down big numbers for NBC, because the TV landscape back then was so much smaller than what it is today - just the "Big Three" and local, independent stations that did the bare minimum in order to keep their licenses current. If Carson were on today, he'd pull about the same numbers as Jimmy Kimmel or Stephen Colbert, and it wouldn't be a reflection on the political content either. But, you know, even Carson saw the writing on the wall when he retired, and that was due to cable TV and the rise of FOX affiliates that were airing "The Arsenio Hall Show" as the younger, "urban" alternative to his show. (The thought of Carson potentially being forced to show grunge and hip-hop acts on "The Tonight Show" in order to keep up still leaves the mind reeling, lol).

All I can say is, I really hope those viewers who get ABC on a Sinclair- or Nexstar-owned affiliate really love those "Gomer Pyle" reruns.

In retrospect, "Magnum"'s collapse wasn't a total surprise when you realize how much more sophisticated one-hour dramas were becoming on primetime TV. Even in the mid-'80's, it probably looked like a quaint, old relic next to shows like "Hill Street Blues" and "St. Elsewhere." And I know Tom Selleck talks a great deal in his memoir about making the scripts on his show "go deeper," but let's be honest, Donald Bellisario's shows have never been all that deep, lol.

For me, it's really tough to judge Pam Long's work on OLTL, just because her time was so short and there was clearly interference (if not from JFP, then from ABCD for sure).

I've always felt that Jane Elliot should have returned at some point - if not as Judy, then as a new character, one who could've gone toe-to-toe with Donna Mills and William Devane.

I can just imagine the looks on the rest of the industry's faces as MSW and GG started tearing up the charts, lol.

Y'all have NO idea how much "Love is All Around" has meant to me over the years. Every time I hear it, I feel like I'm home. RIP Mr. Curtis, and thank you.

Especially after I'd seen him on "Punky Brewster."

Oh my God.

And they wonder why I very quickly regretted my decision to convert to Catholicism.

That "joke" (because, is it still a joke if it's actually true?) doesn't even compare with the infamous "Sniper Wanted" gag w/ George W. Bush on either Craig Kilborn's or Craig Ferguson's old show. Yet, no one got kicked off the air for that.

I agree.

Oh, my poor Hubbell.

You know, I'm just cynical enough to believe she had a hand in her own husband's death? Think about it.