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The trailer looks good but surprisingly light on Ramona.

I don’t think Kandi would be bothered either way because she’s had a phenomenally successful career outside RH. Most of these women have money or had it before the show and many have had some ancillary success, but as we all know they are rarely satisfied and want more more more. And they want to be stars on top of everything else. It’s not enough to just make some cash. But Vanderpump Rules is just a steady warhorse of a show and totally transcends the RH franchise in ways that even Kandi’s never did. Granted, LVP is a supporting cast member on her show, but her friggin name is in the title. That’s gotta burn her fellow housewives. I mean, crikey. Her spinoff has had spinoffs.

Lisa Vanderpump alert in the ABC video. She looks pretty much the same now.

Yikes. That’s sad about the old GH stuff. Maybe there’s hope that classic GH will be on Disney’s streaming service? If there’s any possibility of a long-running soap streaming, it’s when the soap’s producer starts its own platform.

The other housewives must be fuming that LVP is only one currently with a successful spinoff. I suppose Kandi’s Xscape show did well following ATL, but Vanderpump Rules stands on its own.

In this day and age it just makes more sense to do what Tyler is doing: make cheap drama with far fewer episodes for primetime when more eyeballs are available. It’s much tougher to launch any show these days on any platform, which is why you see all the reboots with built-in recognition to cut through the glut of Peak TV. I think the four remaining soaps are lucky that daytime has become a no-man’s land for content development. No one really wants to start a new talk show or game show for the networks; it’s just not a smart business these days as most big-name talk shows have flopped, and the networks are just more interested in stopping the bleeding in primetime. Y&R, B&B, GH, and DAYS are likely to stick around for another 8-10 years until their audience finally dies off.

The showrunner Jeff Franklin has been let go due to abuse allegations. http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/jeff-franklin-fuller-house-out-behavior-1202713011/

I don’t know if anyone watches the Japanese show Terrace House on Netflix, but they have my favorite reality-show opening credits outside of the Real Housewives.

I was making the same point about Sterling K. Brown leading This Is Us, the biggest drama on broadcast while GH backburners Donnell Turner, easily the best male performer on that show. Daytime soaps are so done. There are no lessons to be learned because they are just filling time until the inevitable.

I think soaps don’t want to rock the boat anymore. They are in their twilight phase and have shed almost all of their viewers under 50, so they are pandering to an older, more conservative base. Even taking into account that Y&R is the most conservative soap, it’s crazy that there would be all of this trepidation about a lesbian storyline years after Bianca, Otalia, Zarf, NUKE, Will/Sonny, Fish/Kyle, and Brad/Lucas. But then you think, Oh it makes sense. They don’t have any room to offend a small portion of their aging audience, and they look back at those LGBT stories I mentioned and say, “Most of those soaps are gone.” I think it also applies to other social issues. They look at the risk and realize they have very little to gain from a swing and an almost guaranteed miss given the hostile climate we’re in for all of television, not just daytime.

I saw CL (who was just SERVING - I don’t think any Western pop star at the moment aside from Beyoncé has that kind of effortless bravado as a performer). I saw a little bit of EXO. They looked sharp, of course. Loved the 13-year-old guitarist doing Vivaldi.

Ok the OP made me laugh harder than it should have. But to surmise what this topic is supposed to be about, Vincent Irizarry has darkened the doorsteps of far too many soaps I’ve watched given my distaste for him (GL, AMC, Y&R, DAYS - wasn’t around for him on Santa Barbara). Robin Mattson has been on GL, GH, RH, SaBa, AMC, B&B, ATWT, and DAYS in varying capacities. Barbara Crampton has been on DAYS, SaBa, Y&R, GL (loathed her Mindy), and B&B. Jane Elliot was busy in the ‘80s with GH, GL, AMC, DAYS, and later The City. The late Augusta Dabney was prolific, of course, with roles on Young Dr. Malone, TD, GH, AW, ATWT, LIAMST, OLTL, A World Apart, and, finally, Loving.

There are some cool photos of Matt Bomer and Tuc Watkins in this NYTimes piece about the revival of “The Boys in the Band” and its place in the history of gay theater. https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/t-magazine/gay-theater-history-boys-in-the-band.html It’s part of a larger Times feature on the play. Here, the cast members each read a queer poem: https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/26/t-magazine/matt-bomer-zachary-quinto-boys-in-the-band-queer-poetry.html?referer=

Oh jeez. Not a good look. We need some good former soap star news. How about Michael B. Jordan in the Fahrenheit 451 trailer?

I guess Bethenny’s such a tryhard you always see the wheels turning, and she’ll totally cut you off mid-sentence if she feels has a funny line coming. Nene just feels like my funny aunt. But she’s now in the “comedy” trade, so I can see her playing up that persona. In the past few years, Nene had been so mean, condescending and above-it-all, which made her abrasive. She’s still got that edge, but she’s better this season.

She’s by far the funniest housewife. Bethenny can be funny, but so much of the time she’s “on” like a comedian waiting to get it the next punchline, and it’s tiresome. Phaedra, as reprehensible as she was, could be very funny, but certainly not enough to make her enjoyable to watch. Heather Dubrow thought she was hilarious but meh. Like Nene, Dorinda is funny in a natural way. Most of the other humor on these shows is of the unintentional variety.

Interesting.

This is soooo good. I love oral histories, and this one goes into last year’s Best Picture mixup from the perspectives of all the participants (minus Faye Dunaway, of course).

They are coming for Ryan Seacrest two weeks ahead of the American Idol premiere.

Marlo “You better Google me and check my charges!” Hampton handled herself relatively well when things escalated but yeah she’s a drunken mess.

Courtney Thorne Smith, you in danger, girl! What an unflattering photo of Jamie given the nature of the allegations. TMZ is so gross.

Oh ok yeah. Lol! But to get into a physical incident with someone as non confrontational as Cynthia (!) just shows how deranged she is.

It appears Heather Locklear pulled a Countess Luann and got herself arrested for domestic violence and kicking three police officers. So sad. http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/heather-locklear-arrested-domestic-violence-1202710272/

Whoa, she got a stiletto to the box first, which I forgot.