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Oh, man. Do I really wanna watch "Bashin' with the Bros"? Well, it was nice to see Grant Tinker get a shout-out (along with a picture). He was responsible for ushering in a new era of quality TV with the founding of MTM. He was also, by all accounts, one of the kindest men ever to work in the industry.

Martin and Ida never divorced. They just separated for awhile.

Jamey's not where he is today because he's talented. He's there because he managed to meet the right people. BTW, I was NEVER one of the ones who congratulated him.

He did. It was cut for time.

I told y'all Jamey Giddens was an untalented piece of [!@#$%^&*].

To me, Eric hasn't been relevant since Jensen Ackles left the show. He (the character) could get hit by a bus on the next episode and DAYS would not lose much.

Same diff.

TV nerd that I am, I would have asked ZT how it felt to be working for the same network that his gramps once rescued from the gutter, lol.

AP was a fantastic show that deserved a much longer run, but CBS tampered with it, forcing the writer/producers to ditch Kevin Kilner, rather than nurture it. In retrospect, I'd have to agree.

Actually, "Roxie" did make it to series, but I think it lasted only one or two episodes before CBS quickly yanked it from the schedule. "Frasier" is maybe the most successful spin-off series of all time. Tone-wise, it was more sophisticated than "Cheers," but it certainly earned a devoted following of its' own, thanks to the Niles/Daphne saga. Granted, I've never seen "George and Mildred," nor can I presume to speak for anyone else, but I thought the Ropers, as written on "Three's Company," were a one-joke couple who couldn't support their own show. "Three's a Crowd" failed, because Alan Campbell's surfer-dude chef character, T.Z., was super annoying; and Mary Cadorette, who played Jack's gf, Vicky, was a straight-up dud. I'll agree that "Rhoda" was good, but only for the first season or so. By the second season, it was clear the writers were having trouble writing for her, and for her and Joe. (They REALLY got the casting for Joe wrong.) In the end, many episodes wound up being centered around Brenda's neurotic love life.

Ann Marcus should have been named Co-EP in S14. Not only was she the showrunner, but she was also the one who salvaged KL after a very, very, VERY bad season.

My guess would be Robert L. McCullough.

Emmy, Oscar and Tony-winning production and costume designer (and Julie Andrews' ex-husband) Tony Walton has passed away at age 87: https://deadline.com/2022/03/tony-walton-dead-obituary-set-costume-designer-broadway-film-1234969925/

Agree! Agree here as well! Again, agree!

I don't blame SM one bit for choosing to focus on her education (go on, gurl, get that diploma!), and I certainly wish whoever replaces her as Trina all the luck in the world (a check is a check!), but I would not be surprised if Frank Valentini uses this opportunity to pivot away from Sprina and onto the pairing he really wants: Spencer with Generic White Teen No. 6B.

Exactly.

But how many of those successful and very capable actresses are gonna be able to replicate the chemistry with him? That's the $64,000 question!

I seriously believe Ron Carlivati is trolling our asses with that [!@#$%^&*].

Frankly, that's irrelevant. Unless the recast ends up sharing amazing chemistry with Chavez on her own, the pairing is history.

Mr. Roper knows just how he feels:

Welp, there's the final nail in the coffin for Sprina fans.

And I'm proud to be one of those five. They weren't just rumors, lol. Linda Lavin had a hard time with anyone she felt was stealing the show from her. That's why Diane Ladd, who succeeded Polly Holliday, also quit after one year. "Flo" might have been a flop for Holliday, but there was no way she was gonna return to "Alice." According to Norman Fell, they were. IIRC, the agreement was that if "The Ropers" ran for less than a year, then he and Audra Lindley would be allowed to return to "Three's Company." In fact, Fell once theorized that the network deliberately dragged its' feet on officially cancelling "The Ropers" in order to prevent him and Lindley from going back to the mother show, which had successfully replaced the two with Don Knotts. An exception to that rule, though, would be Marla Gibbs. IIRC, Marla refused to leave "The Jeffersons" for her own show ("Checking In") unless it was guaranteed that she would be able to return to "The Jeffersons" if "Checking In" had flopped...which it did...spectacularly. Similarly, Isabel Sanford was unwilling to leave "All in the Family" for "The Jeffersons" unless the producers promised to write her (and Sherman Hemsley) back into the show if their own spinoff had been cancelled.

Actually, I think "Angie" was doomed no matter what. Once she and Brad had married, the life was drained from the series. And "The Ropers" was just...oh God, lol.

Diana, I mean, AMANDA, looks very pretty in her gown and veil.

Agree. As I think I've said before, either in this thread or elsewhere: DALLAS was the almost mythical family saga; DYNASTY was the "old Hollywood" throwback about glamorous people suffering glamorously; and KNOTS LANDING was the soap that was (theoretically) about middle-class people caught in circumstances beyond their control. FC, therefore, was always a soap in need of its' own identity. For awhile, FC tried to be a combination of DALLAS' grit and DYNASTY's glamour, but I don't think the combination ever really worked. The storylines weren't as strong as DALLAS', and the opulence paled in comparison to DYNASTY's, too. Then, when Jeff Freilich became showrunner, FC finally had an identity separate from the other soaps, as a moody, noirish, crime drama that echoed "Crime Story" and presaged "Wiseguy." However, in the process, it seemed like the vineyards, which had been central to the show's storylines up to that point, became less integral to the show. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times: Lorimar should have just stuck with Earl Hamner's original vision for FC, as a "Waltons"-like family drama with Gothic undertones. That, after all, was more his metier, not glitzy melodrama.