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4 hours ago, Darn said:

And they can use her in marketing materials. "3 time Emmy winner Sarah Brown returns to daytime!"

They'd be smart to get daytime legends and not a bunch of TP castoffs.

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.

5 hours ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Not to be funny or anything but those other productions have writers to pay while he doesn’t.

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.

5 hours ago, Khan said:

It's been my experience that my fellow African-Americans will watch just about any film or TV series that features us because even terrible representation is better than no representation at all.

Yes, especially among older viewers who were around when a few supporting Black characters on mostly White series were the only representation.

6 hours ago, Liberty City said:

If there's one thing I appreciate about Perry is the job opportunities he affords POC. The scripts may be shït, but at least they're working!

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

10 hours ago, j swift said:

Considering that he filmed the whole movie Acrimony in five days, Debbi Morgan could be done by lunch. 

Lol, that is true.

6 hours ago, 1974mdp said:

And, when you watch his movies/series, it becomes obvious HOW they shot it so fast. Very few costume changes, VERY long scenes where people repeat the same lines over and over...wait!...Am I talking about B&B?  LOL

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.

In the Los Angeles market the local news airs at 11 am and then gets an entire block from 3-6 pm. It is completely excessive.

At one time Black people weren't allowed to have vanilla ice cream. That would have been a good angle, but there was so much less research on Black history back then that it wouldn't have even been a remote possibility for Generations' bible.

With a gated community real estate would make sense as the industry that made one of the primary families wealthy.

I would like to see a family led by an older LGBTQ+ couple,

I have no doubt the writing will be good simply for the fact that Black people have to work three times as hard as others just to get an opportunity and most are aware of that. Michele Val Jean probably didn't write present anything that she didn't recalibrate over and over (meaning synopsis, logline).

If I recall correctly Wheeler was trying to emulate The Hills with the outdoor and handheld filming on Guiding Light.

If Atlanta is the filming location it's possible that Tyler Perry Studios would be production where the show was shot. There is a ton of space there because his shows are the few where I've seen almost every character have their own places and workplaces. A big gripe of soaps is that a lot of characters are crammed into the mansions of the main families or at the town hotel. I could see Tyler charging the show reasonably for use of the soundstages because he is supportive of Black causes and for the credit of "filmed at Tyler Perry Studios".

Let's remember that not all gated communities are wealthy and some have a mixture of incomes. There is also the angle that the community could be gentrified and that this gated community has changed the character of the neighborhood to the chagrin of the working class that are still there. I live in an area with a lot of wealthy people and the Target stays full so if you portray wealth from a regular people standpoint it can work.

There will probably be at least three families plus assorted characters not in any of the families if it's an hour. I'd like to see one character who is not wealthy, but manages to work extremely hard to afford a home in the community and has to struggle for respect. That often happens in gated communities.

It's possibly a working title to help build hype because announcing something with no title doesn't get as much attention. Most likely there are treatments and synopsis floating to spark interests amongst actors even if casting hasn't begun. Writing scripts is definitely important but casting is going to be of a high priority too because the leads have to be able to draw in viewers.

Passions made every actor on there look like a clown regardless of talent. Of course some people were just plain talentless. I still don't know where they found Rodney Van Johnson because he was another level of mess.

In the Los Angeles market there has been one slot that has been local years and local news occupies it so that probably will easily go to GATES.

GATES is better. It will be much better for hash tags on social media because TG can get lost amongst random hash tags.

My mom posted this news on my Facebook timeline an hour ago and I thought it was a joke or something so I came here to find out if it was real. Obviously this is wonderful news for soaps. The past decade has shown that Black audiences can brings numbers to sustain programming in primetime and I think CBS is banking on that.

Had been meaning to start this topic earlier in the month but never got around to it. What are some of the best performances by Black performers in daytime? Y&R had some pretty great performances by Tonya Lee Williams (AIDS storyline) and Victoria Rowell (Dru confronting her mother) which have become iconic overall and of course Debbi Morgan has always received acclaim for AMC, but I'm curious about other great performances outside of what is iconic and performances that don't get much recognition.

Hard year for OLTL alumni. I really feel for Sherri Saum and their children, because this is devastating.

I was watching old Y&R clips for amusement and was shocked to find out that Mamie is back. That hairstyle makes her seem like a completely different character.

Those Logans just can't keep their lips off Forresters, can they?