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Kyle trying to convince Mariah to leave Jabot (as selfish as it is) would have more weight if Mariah were actually shown working.

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You also have characters like Summer and Kyle, who seem like self-involved overgrown teenage dolts, running thriving global fashion brands, and supposedly brilliant at it(!), and we’re supposed to just roll with that. It’s one thing to be incompetent or immature in your personal life and great in business, but we don’t see their corporate brilliance in action. Soaps have always depicted police officers and doctors who were shown to be bumbling failures, but at least we saw them doing their jobs. Summer and Kyle as these great CEOs just beggars belief. To me, it makes them hard to really accept as characters. In addition to the lack of budget for sets and props (which I think is probably most of the issue), I think these writers feel that actually showing the business of fashion or cosmetics or technology is too “in the weeds” for viewers. The writers of yesteryear somehow made it interesting as well as tied to character and story. Yet JG and company mistakingly think that CEO musical-chairs and superficial discussions of business plans are more compelling, when they’re actually a snooze. Go figure. Seriously, what is happening with CLB’s eye?

These writers lack patience, which I’m sure is dictated by the network bosses who feel like audiences are less patient now than they were when fewer choices made viewers more of a “captive audience.” There’s some truth to that, but not to the extent that they’re making it out to be. But the way they burn through story would suggest that they have lots of great ideas waiting. And we’ve seen that they don’t. Let’s get more mileage out of what works. When they find a character like Audra, a low-key, not-psychotic troublemaker the show has needed for years, they would do well by letting her simmer for a while instead of taking her immediately up to a boil. Flesh her out, give her some depth and backstory, and if you want to push her further, make it earned. Don’t immediately go for psycho, then have to walk it back if she gains a following (which is why we have so many damaged, broken characters on these shows with little story potential). Or have to kill her off because she’s irredeemable or they need yet another boring murder mystery to try to jolt the ratings, when she could drive story for years.

Oof. After surviving that monster draw, it must be gutting for Ons to lose that final in straights after being up breaks in both sets. Good on Marketa for being the first unseeded player to win Wimbledon. She still had to beat solid players like Vekic and Pegula, but nothing like beating four slam champions, including two Wimbledon champions, like Ons had to.

Doing way too much.

Huge for Jabeur (as well as North Africa and the whole Arab world) and she’ll likely win her maiden GS title on Saturday. She beat four GS winners to get there: Andreescu, Kvitova, Rybakina, and Sabalenka. That’s some draw.

Marketa whooped that ass. Svitolina can now see Harry Styles concerts at her leisure.

Fiona Hutchison has been sharing photos:

The somewhat snobbish Emmy voters would typically thumb their noses at a “trashy” youth-demo reality show largely associated with drinking, drugging middle-aged adolescents who are tabloid fodder, so this is a great breakthrough. Shows how transcendent this season was. RHONY definitely deserved some recognition.

Succession leads with 27 (!) nominations for its final season. It and The White Lotus cleaned up in the drama categories. The Crown only got one acting nod for its last season: Elizabeth Debicki. Drama Series “Andor” “Better Call Saul” “The Crown” “House of the Dragon” “The Last of Us” “Succession” “The White Lotus” “Yellowjackets” Comedy Series “Abbott Elementary” “Barry” “The Bear” “Jury Duty” “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” “Only Murders in the Building” “Ted Lasso” “Wednesday” Limited Series “Beef” “Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story” “Daisy Jones & the Six” “Fleishman Is in Trouble” “Obi-Wan Kenobi” Lead Actor in a Drama Series Jeff Bridges (“The Old Man”) Brian Cox (“Succession”) Kieran Culkin (“Succession”) Bob Odenkirk (“Better Call Saul”) Pedro Pascal (“The Last of Us”) Jeremy Strong (“Succession”) Lead Actress in a Drama Series Sharon Horgan (“Bad Sisters”) Melanie Lynskey (“Yellowjackets”) Elisabeth Moss (“The Handmaid’s Tale”) Bella Ramsey (“The Last of Us”) Keri Russell (“The Diplomat”) Sarah Snook (“Succession”) Lead Actor in a Comedy Series Bill Hader (“Barry”) Jason Segel (“Shrinking”) Martin Short (“Only Murders in the Building”) Jason Sudeikis (“Ted Lasso”) Jeremy Allen White (“The Bear”) Lead Actress in a Comedy Series Christina Applegate (“Dead to Me”) Rachel Brosnahan (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Quinta Brunson (“Abbott Elementary”) Natasha Lyonne (“Poker Face”) Jenna Ortega (“Wednesday”) Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Taron Egerton (“Black Bird”) Kumail Nanjiani (“Welcome to Chippendales”) Evan Peters (“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) Daniel Radcliffe (“Weird: The Al Yankovic Story”) Michael Shannon (“George & Tammy”) Steven Yeun (“Beef”) Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Lizzy Caplan (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”) Jessica Chastain (“George & Tammy”) Dominique Fishback (“Swarm”) Kathryn Hahn (“Tiny Beautiful Things”) Riley Keough (“Daisy Jones & the Six”) Ali Wong (“Beef”) Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series Anthony Carrigan (“Barry”) Phil Dunster (“Ted Lasso”) Brett Goldstein (“Ted Lasso”) James Marsden (“Jury Duty”) Ebon Moss-Bachrach (“The Bear”) Tyler James Williams (“Abbott Elementary”) Henry Winkler (“Barry”) Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series Alex Borstein (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Ayo Edebiri (“The Bear”) Janelle James (“Abbott Elementary”) Sheryl Lee Ralph (“Abbott Elementary”) Juno Temple (“Ted Lasso”) Hannah Waddingham (“Ted Lasso”) Jessica Williams (“Shrinking”) Supporting Actor in a Drama Series F. Murray Abraham (“The White Lotus”) Nicholas Braun (“Succession”) Michael Imperioli (“The White Lotus”) Theo James (“The White Lotus”) Matthew Macfadyen (“Succession”) Alan Ruck (“Succession”) Will Sharpe (“The White Lotus”) Alexander Skarsgård (“Succession”) Supporting Actress in a Drama Series Jennifer Coolidge (“The White Lotus”) Elizabeth Debicki (“The Crown”) Meghann Fahy (“The White Lotus”) Sabrina Impacciatore (“The White Lotus”) Aubrey Plaza (“The White Lotus”) Rhea Seehorn (“Better Call Saul”) J. Smith-Cameron (“Succession”) Simona Tabasco (“The White Lotus”) Supporting Actor in a Limited Series or Movie Murray Bartlett (“Welcome to Chippendales”) Paul Walter Hauser (“Black Bird”) Richard Jenkins (“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) Joseph Lee (“Beef”) Ray Liotta (“Black Bird”) Young Mazino (“Beef”) Jesse Plemons (“Love & Death”) Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or Movie Annaleigh Ashford (“Welcome to Chippendales”) Maria Bello (“Beef”) Claire Danes (“Fleishman Is in Trouble”) Juliette Lewis (“Welcome to Chippendales”) Camila Morrone (“Daisy Jones & The Six”) Niecy Nash-Betts (“Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story”) Merritt Wever “(“Tiny Beautiful Things”) Guest Actor in a Comedy Series Jon Bernthal (“The Bear”) Luke Kirby (“The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel”) Nathan Lane (“Only Murders In The Building”) Pedro Pascal (“Saturday Night Live”) Oliver Platt (“The Bear”) Sam Richardson (“Ted Lasso”) Guest Actress in a Comedy Series Becky Ann Baker (“Ted Lasso”) Quinta Brunson (“Saturday Night Live”) Taraji P. Henson (“Abbott Elementary”) Judith Light “Poker Face”) Sarah Niles (“Ted Lasso”) Harriet Walter (“Ted Lasso”) Guest Actor in a Drama Series Murray Bartlett (“The Last of Us”) James Cromwell (“Succession”) Lamar Johnson (“The Last of Us”) Arian Moayed (“Succession”) Nick Offerman (“The Last of Us”) Keivonn Montreal Woodard (“The Last of Us”) Guest Actress in a Drama Series Hiam Abbass (“Succession”) Cherry Jones (“Succession”) Melanie Lynskey (“The Last of Us”) Storm Reid (“The Last of Us”) Anna Torv (“The Last of Us”) Harriet Walter (“Succession”) Variety Talk Series “The Daily Show With Trevor Noah” “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” “Late Night With Seth Meyers” “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” “The Problem With Jon Stewart” Reality Competition Program “The Amazing Race” “RuPaul’s Drag Race” “Survivor” “Top Chef” “The Voice”

I guess the Eubanks fairytale had to realistically end at some point, but still who had him making the quarterfinals, even after his grass-court title? And no doubt his star will rise and $$$$ will be coming in. He’s a great advocate for himself and tennis in America when the sport desperately needs one, especially on the men’s side.

Such a turnaround for a show that was likely going to be cancelled.

@DaytimeFan, you called it. The show was nominated for Outstanding Unstructured Reality Series alongside “Indian Matchmaking,” “Selling Sunset,” “RuPaul’s Drag Race: Untucked,” and “Welcome To Wrexham.” @Cat @Taoboi @Cheap21 @carolineg @Antoyne @Michael @j swift Fox Force Five somewhere in tatters.

Eubanks is having such a huge breakout Wimbledon. Really delivering on the biggest stage. Of course, Arthur Ashe has been on people’s minds, as he would have turned 80 on Monday.

Kristen filmed with the VPR crew last night. Looks like Schwarz is also back mingling with Team Ariana:

Jabeur got her revenge on Rybakina.