Khan

How was AMC's overall record with recasts? Because, the more I think about it, the more I think they often had a tough time recasting characters.

Are you kidding? Recast Jenny Gardner Nelson? Kim Delaney was too damn popular even to THINK about recasting her role. AMC would have been committing suicide had they done so.

Unfortunately, the failure of the Greg/Sheila relationship made TPTB skittish about trying again with a different love interest for Greg. They (most likely) reasoned that fans were too devoted to Jenny (and to Kim Delaney) to allow Greg to find happiness again -- when, really, they probably felt it was just too soon after her death. Ergo, IDK whether the show ever would have "gone there" again with Greg. As it was, they waited until Lau had left, and they had recast Greg with Armstrong, to try pairing Greg w/ Robin McCall (IIRC). And even that didn't go very far, thanks to Armstrong's miscasting.

Yes. Exactly. LL stayed on for two more years (or so) with absolutely zilch to do; and when he did leave AMC (for AW, I think), the show foolishly recast (with a DREADFUL actor) rather than just let his character leave town (which they had to do, anyway, when Jack Armstrong turned out to be a bust).

I suspect the writers wanted a Greg/Sheila romance, but the timing was bad (to say the least). Jenny had just died; and for fans of what was arguably AMC's most popular couple, it was too soon to entertain the thought of Greg finding love again with another woman. Unfortunately, scuttling the storyline resulted in Laurence Lau having little to do for the rest of his time on the show.

Agree. But, you know, I'm satisfied with the stains that the scandal left upon his reputation. Stains that he's never been quite able to erase.

Was that directed toward me?

Bill Bell said he didn't like melodrama? What did he think he was writing? Situation comedy?

Yep. At the very least, if he doesn't wreck American democracy (as we know it) beyond repair, Trump will lead us into another era of presidents who are, at best, average and easily forgettable; just like the eras between Andrew Jackson's presidency and Abraham Lincoln's, and between Lincoln's and Theodore Roosevelt's. We'll experience a succession of leaders who will be too busy cleaning up Trump's messes and keeping us from collapsing into total anarchy to make any real, progressive changes. And it really won't matter whether the Republican Party survives, because, thanks to Trump, they've managed to shape our direction for the next generation and beyond.

Years? More like generations. Our GRAND-children will be working overtime to restore our reputation with the rest of the world.

A "soap opera" on the NICKELODEON CHANNEL from the early '90's still has more depth than anything that's running on daytime these days. I want us all to think long and hard about that.

Fortunately, Tay-Tay has a good ten more years before she starts looking beyond tired.

I would, too. I think he'd kill it at some really good, character-driven series.

That would be good. Could someone get in touch with some LGBTQ-friendly network and convince them to offer Mulcahey a deal?

Patrick Mulcahey is too good for what daytime has become. Someone needs to hire him to write for primetime, cable or streaming series.

IA that it's a low standard. However, it's one that the current administration has reduced us to. I truly don't care at this point WHO will be the Democratic nominee. I just want him (or her) to beat Trump in the election. That's it.

Once again, WOC seem to be the only ones "getting it." You don't HAVE to like the person you're voting for. You just have to believe they could do a better job than the one who's doing it now.

Grampa Bernie needs to settle down or else he'll have an angina attack.

Sigh. Everybody plays the fool. No exception to the rule.

Well, that's what happens when you take revolutionary ideals into the mainstream. The leaders always get left behind.

And yet, underwear-clad twins looking as if they're about to screw each other seems more tasteful and makes more sense than anything I ever saw on PASSIONS.

Well, that's another poster added to Marlenaphan's growing "Ignore User" list.

AMEN.

JER once said he had worked at just about every soap except OLTL. And he could claim all he wanted that he learned from working with Bill Bell, but his work speaks for itself, lol.

CBS continues to prove just how anti-women they truly are.