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Ack! I totally forgot to The Vine was coming back 🤢🤢🤢🤢

Are there any actual fans of this Chancellor-Winters “business” story? It’s completely unwatchable. Not even having Jill and Mamie making appearances can save this story from being a sinking stinker. Amen!

Question about Monday’s episode, why was Abby dressed in an ugly green pantsuit straight out of 1987? 😅 I’m a few episodes behind due to work playing catch-up now but I will I think the most of the cast is doing their best with the lackluster material given. The whole Harrison kidnapping story should be a bit more riveting but JG’s writing is so low energy. Still I appreciate AL, MTS, AH, etc still trying to give it their best at it. LOL you beat me to the punch!

RIP indeed, very sad to see this. Another daytime name gone 😢 Was she still married to Guza? I was happy to see to her work and later guest appearances as Julia. I never heard much of her writing work outside of Bell allowing Bennett to do so and still appear as Julia at the same time.

Thank God, a shake up at the top of Sony has been longgggg overdue. Also longgg overdue is cutting ties with Josh Griffith.

This is the most exciting daytime news I have seen in a long time I really hope this is successful.

Upcoming B&B spoilers for the week of April 15th: The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers Monday, April 15, 2024 – Episode #9250 Steffy demands that Deacon snap back to reality. RJ learns the truth about Zende and Luna. B&B Spoilers Tuesday April 16, 2024 – Episode #9251 Hope reveals the real reasons she turned down Thomas’s proposal to Liam. RJ angrily confronts Zende for sleeping with his girlfriend. B&B Spoilers Wednesday, April 17, 2024 – Episode #9252 Poppy attempts to comfort a heartbroken Luna. Liam and Hope agree to let Beth spend more time with Deacon. B&B Spoilers Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Episode #9253 Deacon pursues a new lead in his quest to prove he’s not crazy. Finn shares his concern about Deacon with Steffy. The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers Friday, April 19, 2024 – Episode #9254 Lauren Fenmore shares details about Sheila’s past with Deacon. Hope, Liam, Steffy and Finn worry about Deacon’s mental health.

Given this announcement came out of nowhere (at least for me) I wouldn’t be surprised if she did or at least have some outlines. My second purely speculative uneducated guess would be maybe either February and/or first week of March 2025 (at least before March Madness)? Let TPIR reruns/extras warm the spot.

I hereby predict The Gates will debut on Monday January 6th, 2025 😁😃

Thomas and Liam never got punched when they deserved/needed to yet Zende does by RJ? Lame 🙄

Spoilers for the week of April 15th The Young and the Restless Spoilers Monday, April 15, 2024 – Episode #12848 Victor and Nikki’s party takes an unexpected turn, Christine puts the breaks on her future plans with Danny, and Jordan sets her sights on a new target. Y&R Spoilers Tuesday, April 16, 2024 – Episode #12849 Victor and Jack put their differences aside to help their families, Summer and Kyle’s world spins out of control, and Victoria questions her trust in Claire. Y&R Spoilers Wednesday, April 17, 2024 – Episode #12850 Nikki shares a secret with Lauren, Nick and Phyllis support Summer, and Traci gives Ashley some tough love. Y&R Spoilers Thursday, April 18, 2024 – Episode #12851 Chelsea and Adam share a difference of opinion about Connor, Christine receives a blast from the past, and Lily vows to make Daniel pay for his betrayal. The Young and the Restless Spoilers Friday, April 19, 2024 – Episode #12852 Victor and Jack join forces, Nikki goes rogue, and Adam turns to Sharon for guidance. Looks like Claire kidnaps Harrison and turns out to be nutty after all?

Hahaha my first thoughts exactly Carl!!! That said, I’ll be watching if this comes to fruition! 😃 The total Dynasty reboot did well enough to get a following and last 5 seasons, I wonder why they aren’t trying to go that route instead of a continuation like the doomed 2009 series.

Despite the campiness of the three Ashleys ED continues to kill it along with the rest of the cast with the intervention of Ashley. Abbott drama > Newman drama BTW where is Abby in all of this? 😅 🤣🤣🤣🤣 Aww Audra in love 🥰 I like how despite telling Sally she feels like she’s losing control, she’s actually completely in control still lol. And unlike that 1:30PM soap, I like how Audra isn’t being shamed for turning down Tucker’s proposal. Meant to comment on some of yesterday’s stuff…Summer still isn’t wrong about her distrust of Claire. I liked Cole & Victoria revisited the Neil history but shame we can’t have flashbacks, but the kiss was a nice touch. Lily vs Daniel/Heather could be interesting if JG wasn’t writing it. Glad to hear this!

“2-3 people…” LOL a look at all their marriages, with some having dubious legality, in the last 40 years: Nikki: Victor 1984-88, Jack 1990-93, Josh Landers 1996-98, Victor 1998, Victor 2002-08, David Chow 2008, Deacon 2012, Jack 2012, Victor 2013-present She also almost married Brad in 1996 and Paul in 2009 Victor: Nikki 1984-88, Leanna 1988-89, Ashley 1990-92, Hope 1994-1995/96ish, Diane 1997-98, Nikki 1998, Nikki 2002-08, Sabrina 2008, Ashley 2009, Diane 2011, Sharon x2 in 2012, and Nikki 2013-present Victor almost sort of married Meggie McClain in 2010 Did I miss any?

100% to all of this! The way Claire told Summer “she was better” wasn’t that person anymore reminded me of the days when Kevin was shoved down all throats and we were constantly reminded that he was a “good redeemed” person, not accountable for his past behavior 🤢🤮

April 8th: Okay I didn’t notice they were using the term “40th anniversary” in onscreen dialogue until today….😂😂 Why not just say “date of our original anniversary” “big anniversary” or heck just say 50th anniversary as a nod to the 50th anniversary last year (and for the sake of some semblance of plausibility after all the SOARSing!) At classic Nikki drinking lol. Nikki had the chance to do the right thing and just tell Victor that she stopped and bought a bottle of booze. She is watched closely by the security team, so how in hell was she able to buy that bottle on the way home from Society? The bottle is small so she likely bought more than one. Then again, as previously mentioned Victor’s security team appears to be completely incompetent and inept. 🤣 Okay finally Chance & Summer getting actual romantic scenes and having natural conversations, something that has been lacking IMO for the pairing. The conversation about their kids was nice. And as I mentioned before I don’t think Summer should feel like a jerk not trusting Claire, it just makes her cautious and safeguarding herself from a potential threat, especially given all Summer seen and done herself and everything Claire has done too. The highlight of today was Audra and the cuckoo Ash personality. Kudos for ED and ZS playing the story as straight as possible, especially ZS expressing Audra’s horror as realIzing Ashley is off her rockers. I liked the younger Ash persona was disgusted by the martini, and ED is giving it all for this story especially with the facial expressions, letting us know by her look that Ashley had taken control back from Ash. The ending was pretty absurd and over the top Days style campy 🙈 Are we sure this isn’t some unused story JG had intended to write at Days when he was there.

One of AL’s strengths as Summer is her ability to actually be dynamic and three dimensional. And actually having Summer giving warmth but being cautious and confused is natural so it’s interesting but knowing the history of this show… Haha it’s funny in the last 2 years since AL took over Summer has become one of my favorite characters minus when JG unsuccessfully tried to regress her for storyline purposes. I’m glad AL is in the role these days because HK was nothing but a mopey wet rag who always whined and cried all the time.

That’s too bad because the original series with Rita Moreno along with Jean Marsh as the female antagonist was pretty good from later the reruns I watched. I think though there was already BTS issues between Jane Fonda and ABC about the show’s direction so Fonda quit and the show revamped, people didn’t like it and it collapsed. It later resurfaced in syndication with Sally Struthers taking over Rita Moreno’s role and ran a couple years that I watched but was just average compared to the original. Looking at ABC’s 1983-84 schedule I think this is where, as @kalbir has mentioned before, ABC’s mid-80’s mess era began. Sure Dynasty and Hote were hot, MNF and movies helped out, and shows like Benson, Webster and Fall Guy filled some gaps but the rest of the schedule wasn’t looking too hot at all.

One of the oldest examples I immediately thought of was I Married Joan, NBC’s answer to I Love Lucy. While not as memorable as Lucy, and the opening line about Joan Davis being “America’s Queen of Comedy” suspect, I found the show to be good fun and several episodes are downright hilarious thanks to Joan Davis’ own slapstick abilities. Unfortunately I recall Davis had to quit due to poor health, and died a few years later. Her daughter, who played the sister on the show also died a few years later. Jim Backus, who played Davis’ husband later gained bigger fame as the Millionaire in Gilligan’s Island. In the early 90’s ABC and CBS tried hard to get their own Simpsons like shows going especially with CBS and Family Dog but the attempts were all DOA.

So true, I just watched three episodes in a row from 1994 last night after talking about this missing era and I definitely felt so engrossed and comforted by what I watched.

Thanks for the the tag and sharing @DRW50 this is an era of GL I know so murky about myself so it’s nice to see something like this surface from then. I reckon had GL continued to use the Selby Flats/LA setting we possibly would have seen a better diverse representation of LA that B&B has ever given us, at least depending who was in charge of the show that is.

The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers Monday, April 8, 2024 – Episode #9245 Deacon has a complete meltdown at the crematorium over Sheila. Finn and Hope comfort one another over their recent losses. Chief Baker gives Steffy something to be grateful for. B&B Spoilers Tuesday April 9, 2024 – Episode #9246 Steffy queries Finn about Sheila’s memorial. Luna gets anxious when Hope announces her line’s new design partners. Deacon drops an implausible theory at Finn. B&B Spoilers Wednesday, April 10, 2024 – Episode #9247 A disbelieving Finn questions Deacon’s sanity. B&B Spoilers Thursday, April 11, 2024 – Episode #9248 Luna is determined to confess to RJ about her night with Zende. A tormented Deacon gives Ridge an earful about Sheila. The Bold and the Beautiful Spoilers Friday, April 12, 2024 – Episode #9249 Ridge gives Deacon a big reality check. Finn throws Steffy a curveball. Zende confides in Carter about his feelings for Luna.

Thinking about it, it does fascinate me that ATWT somehow how managed to keep the Hughes and the Lowell/Stewart families as part of its core for its entire run. Same with B&B with the Forresters and Logans and Days with the Hortons. But that’s obviously not true for every soap. We all know AW lost the Matthews and later Frame clans by the shows end sans Josie to much negative impact, while Y&R got rid of the Brooks and Fosters sans Jill to surprisingly positive impact. What are some other examples of a whole core family eventually disappearing from a soap? I know Days wiped out the Andersons and forgettable families like the Scofields came and gone. B&B of course shamefully got rid of the Spectras.

Woah, wasn’t expecting to read this return either! Although knowing Ron, is she going to have her sing “Friends and Lovers” at the wake with the camera focused on Shane and Kimberly holding each other tight? 🙈

Multiple attempts for a soap set in Malibu ie 2000 Malibu Rd, Hotel Malibu, Malibu Shores etc occurred in the 90s but they all just failed to takeoff. I was thinking it sounded similar to Knots. Maybe it’s just me but I can’t picture Atherton as a leading man here, mainly because of his goofy/obnoxious villain roles in a lot of movies he did afterwards. The whole thing is up on YouTube, but like I said I couldn’t make it pass the ridiculous opening credits and song 😂