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Don Lemon fired by CNN: What a busy day in cable news.

Tucker Carlson is out at Fox News. Wow:

It’s weird. This whole board feels super low-energy to me lately, which could be my biased perception (as these soaps have lost my interest), but it’s weird to feel this slight lull on the board when you have two major milestone anniversary years for iconic soaps. Y&R had some fun stuff like Nina tearing Abby a new one. In spite of the nods to history, like Phyllis begging Danny to validate how much she’s changed, it did feel like a bit of a letdown as a jumping-off point to new things. The returns could have been more integrated, not to mention we should have had more flashbacks and the 1970s were completely ignored. But with today’s soaps, you’re grateful you get anything halfway decent, and Y&R at least rose above that low bar. We’re so used to Y&R as deathly dull that it sometimes feels improved when they put in the barest effort, and while it was nice to see everyone at a big event, it was mostly in service to this botched story with Phyllis, which, again, at least grabbed some attention and made us engage with it. But ultimately it’s nonsense. Leanna basically existed for people to sh!t on. Just reminded me of how Sally existed as a punching bag for the town in her early days.

Siya from South Africa 🇿🇦 @Taoboi @Gray Bunny

Aiden

Len Goodman has passed away:

He had just retired from Dancing with the Stars:

Nameless

Brady 🇺🇸

So funny. R.I.P. Dame Edna/Barry Humphries.

ugh, what a mess We’ve been begging JG for action, and this is what he delivers.

Ervensky from Tampa 🇺🇸

Bene from Germany 🇩🇪

First look at Jinkx on Doctor Who:

Jinkx!

Oh ok. I thought so. Her track record of finding future stars speaks for itself, I suppose.