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Ted exists to be a useful idiot. He’s a one-dimensional, stock soap character. He’ll probably be a corpse before the year is over with. Or at least should be, the way he’s written.

I agree. A completely different kind of bad, but bad nonetheless. I do wonder what a JG/RC combo would look like.

This is concerning: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/skydance-paramount-fcc-cbs-news-ombudsman-media-bias-1236326955/

I’m just looking at what’s happening in late night right now, with Colbert’s show ending (beyond the Trump/merger approval factor—it’s well established the show was bleeding tens of millions of dollars), the late-late shows getting axed, Seth Meyers losing his band, and Fallon, Kimmel, and others cutting down to four nights a week. Seems like a sign that the networks are bracing for further contraction. If this holds, it could eventually reach other dayparts too, including daytime. With younger audiences barely acknowledging the broadcast networks outside of live events and ad dollars shrinking, the incentives now point toward fewer originals, lower costs, and tighter schedules. Beyond the Gates didn’t lose much steam during that rerun week. There was some dip, but nothing dramatic. That alone makes the idea worth considering. Still, we’re creatures of habit, and soaps are built on consistency. If too many days go by without new episodes, people fill the gap with something else. The older viewers—the ones who watch every day—would notice and complain. I see a lot of comments from people who live alone and treat these shows as part of their daily routine, like checking in with family. Even the ones who say Y&R is mind-numbingly boring still tune in because it’s familiar. A primetime-style schedule wouldn’t hold up for this audience. You’d also run into trouble on the production side. If you cut down the episode count, actors and writers may start picking up other projects. That’s when you lose people. Slowly at first, but permanently.

Steffy Forrester and her blink-and-you-missed-it, Emmy-bait drug addiction storyline on B&B, for one. Would be good for MVJ not to emulate her former boss.

It really does feel very 2016. These are HUGE, genre-defining icons leaving us.

Ok, that’s legit shocking. Omg.

The original.

Anita is so full of it. I’m glad Nicole is pushing back on that nonsense. I hope this doesn’t become more about Nicole’s continued anger towards Ted (his withholding the information and his involvement in the cover-up) than establishing her relationship with Martin. These family relationships matter more than plot.

I was coming here to say the same thing. A missed opportunity to show the mother/son dynamics we’ve been denied for five months.

Exactly. It happens to the best of them:

Nicholas Chavez (ex-Spencer, GH) got left on the cutting-room floor for “I Know What You Did Last Summer.” The harsh Hollywood reality: https://variety.com/2025/film/news/i-know-what-you-did-last-summer-lola-tung-nicholas-alexander-chavez-1236460276/

I’m actually more shocked MCE has been nominated that often. Eight friggin’ times?!?! She’s the new SuLu and nobody seems to know that. She can be excellent, and it looks like three of those nominations were for Annie on AMC, a role that was actually worthy. But Chelsea? 😬

You might be right. These past couple of weeks, BC has largely had to play apprehension almost to the point of hysteria, and it hasn’t been landing very well. I feel bad for him, as he seems like he has potential to be a lot stronger and would be well served by some good on-set coaching (which I thought they actually had, but I may have misunderstood). But being foisted into such an emotional story at such a fast pace can be daunting if you’re not seasoned. I do find the male cast in general to be much weaker than the women, with only Clifton, Timon, and Mike Manning being very good-to-great. Sean and Jibre are fine.

It’s been ROUGH. I actually thought he was settling in around mid-May (his best acting was him reading the eff out of Bill in that dream sequence), but the regression has been real. And he’s the lead.

I’m really rooting for Brandon Claybon to get more comfortable and improve, but some of his scenes this week were hard to watch, especially his anxious scenes with Tyrell and Samantha. The scene where he bent down to hug them and ended up with his head awkwardly nestled between them was campy in the worst way. I feel bad for him, honestly. The face-off between Nicole and Leslie had some great tension, and I love that they give Nicole a backbone instead of making her a prissy pushover. She gave as good as she got against a very smug opponent. Still, Leslie is veering into Passions villain territory. Too much mustache-twirling and smirking for me. I’m glad they’re leaning into making Kat more of an out-and-out villain because that fits very much into Colby Muhammad’s wheelhouse.

Completely agree. We’ve seen glimpses of it (mostly Anita being imperious and Vernon rushing in to be the coddling Daddy), but they should have had a few real, nasty dust-ups by now, given Dani’s reckless behavior over recent months.

This Daytime Emmys calendar makes zero sense from an audience or relevance standpoint. An October 2025 ceremony honoring performances from 2024? Some people already complain that the Oscars in March (!) are too late to recognize the previous year’s films, most of which came out only a few months earlier. But this? We’ll be handing out awards for storylines that, in some cases, wrapped up 20 months earlier (nearly two years!), some of which the shows themselves will have already retconned. And it’s scheduled right in the thick of fall TV premiere season, when networks are least likely to give up primetime inventory for a low-rated event with no ad or streaming upside.

Ted feels like a total plot device at this point. His behavior with both Leslie and Kat/Eva makes no sense, and the actor isn’t even trying to sell it. Speaking of which, Cady McClain simply doesn’t have the comedic chops to sell such a ridiculous character as Pamela, who seems like she’s influenced by Dorit from Real Housewives of Beverly Hills with that imprecise Mid-Atlantic accent. She’s like a bizarre Agnes Nixon-style eccentric and has zero rapport with Karla Mosley.

I think Michael Easton was more deserving as well. He gave some of his strongest performances during his exit story. Gregory Harrison got in…and Supporting Actor is probably the weakest of the weak categories unless he went Lead or didn’t submit at all.

I was gonna write “musty, dusty, and crusty” but he looked too greasy to be dusty lol. Anyway, that’s a name-check nomination if there ever was one. Actually, the only interesting categories IMO are the guest performances and the “Emerging Talent” one.

LOL at Tajh Bellow getting nominated after GH faded him out unceremoniously. Jonathan Jackson is a joke. What did he even do but look musty?