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The debate will be fun. Harris might have to go all Herb Callison or Nora Buchanan on Trump's ass.

If it was a month out from the debut with no promotion then production would have dropped the ball, but we are still months away. There is a lot invested in this so it's highly unlikely it won't be promoted adequately.

When I dream about soaps it is always like that, at random and in detail.

I had a random dream a dream that Lisa Bonet, Kadeem Hardison and Chrystale Wilson were in this. Lisa and Kadeem were playing a typical soap couple and Chrystale was breaking up a fight between two women over a man. And new information will probably start trickling out during the fall when the new TV season starts. That's the time to start building interest.

Exactly. You need to be a little bit closer to the premiere to start promoting. They could have done that but it lacks a hype factor without casting. Usually such a promo like that works when you can grab viewers with a name drop.

It's hard to promote a show without a trailer or a promo featuring the cast. It so early and without a cast yet there was no one to be the face for the show.

I thought about the Central Park 5 as well. He tried to railroad them and years later he is the one who got fairly convicted by a jury.

Catalytic converter theft is a big problem but this is the first time I've ever heard of anyone being killed an incident over one. And anyone politicizing this is trash.

Checked out a few opening scenes for soaps (not many too many to choose from since so most soaps are old and mostly lost). Several of them started outside which was probably to set the atmosphere for the locale. Loving started out with an introduction from Dorothy Lyman who was of course a big soap star then. It has been so long since a soap opera debuted that it's hard to say what the opening scene will look like.

The matriarch being more of a grey character would be compelling. Not all good and not all bad is often not utilized as a character option (save when a villain has a rare moment of decency). Subtle vibes of favoritism between children would give great depth to stories.

P&G and CBS were more conservative with soaps, but it's been almost 15 years since P&G did anything plus LGBTQ+ characters/storylines are somewhat in vogue overall so there is a good chance of some representation.

I envisioned it being a straight man.

Somebody needs to be doing Onlyfans (or the show equivalent of) to deliberately make their family upset. There has to be that one character that rebels just to do it.

Final Draft is too expensive to crash like that. At over $200 it should work better. I had the full version years ago and I understand why professionals use it because it's great for editing and you can select which elements you want read out loud so you don't have to listen to stage directions read if all you need to hear is dialogue. I've been using Fade In for my scripts and it's pretty good.

Makes sense. She doesn't have any daytime experience on her IMDB so she probably is trying to learn the terrain. Even producers should know how different daytime is than primetime and movies.

Newcomers will be cast, but the producers will likely look at who can handle the schedule so they don't end up losing cast members quickly. Joan Collins had an issue with the taping schedule of Guiding Light even though she is very experienced in acting.

I think daytime legends who are still working will be the most sought after. Although some Tyler Perry alumni might make the cut especially the ones with daytime experience (for example someone like Tika Sumpter).

The role was not very good, but I did like Brown's screen presence on B&B. She would be a good casting choice and draw in viewers who loved her on GH.

An hour means more ad dollars and the producers, network, etc. probably didn't want to have a soap opera with a Black cast limited to just a half hour because a lot of Black viewers might feel like "so they only gave us 30 minutes?" even though CBS is home to a half hour soap already.

So happy we have a debut date. That isn't all that far away so things must be moving along well.

Reboots for old soaps are not viable because so many viewers of the originals are gone (sorry to sound morbid) and the lack of reruns never allowed for a younger generation to discover these shows. That said The Edge of Night could work with how crime obsessed a lot of viewers are, but I don't it would even be considered for streaming.

This is true and the lower production values are a factor too. But to actors that doesn't much matter and all they see is being given opportunities that the aren't offered by networks and that makes it easy for him to retain and hire actors. Yes, especially among older viewers who were around when a few supporting Black characters on mostly White series were the only representation.

And I believe he pays them above what other productions do.

Lol, that is true. He pushes the actors to get everything right in one take so he doesn't have to reshoot. It's definitely a crazy way to shoot, but he obsessed with quantity. It's like he is JER without the supernatural stuff in terms of pacing.

I noticed that Tyler Perry cast Debbi Morgan in a new Netflix series. That was interesting to me since he's never cast her before and he tends to have a competitive streak toward other Black productions (House of Payne ended it's first run one episode after it broke The Jeffersons' record for longest running Black sitcom). His show does only have an initial order of 16 episodes so Debbi could probably do The Gates by the time it is ready to roll.