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@Taoboi Were you loving it when thirsty Imani was shooting her shot at Nate?

I just remembered that B&B reached a milestone in daytime drama history earlier this month. On Monday May 16, 2022, B&B moved past Another World to become the 9th longest running daytime drama on US network television. As of today, the 10 longest running daytime dramas on US network television are General Hospital, Guiding Light, Days, As the World Turns, Y&R, One Life to Live, All My Children, Search for Tomorrow (both CBS and NBC runs), B&B, Another World.

Imani is so thirsty for Nate. She was totally shooting her shot at him. Which hookup will happen first, Ashland/Diane or Nate/Imani?

Ashland and Diane are so gonna hook up, just watch.

@Faulkner Diane deserved to be on the receiving end of a bitch slap though.

That was the case even in the 1980s. Back then we didn't know exactly what Chancellor Industries, Prentiss Industries, and Newman Enterprises did.

1984 Y&R transition from the Brooks/Foster era to the Abbott/Newman era was complete and Y&R became Y&R as we know it today. 1992 for B&B due to the Y&R crossovers.

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@DramatistDreamer There was the Stephanie/Sally/Jack triangle and James having feelings for Stephanie but that was really it as far as a viable non-Eric love interest for Stephanie. I think Sally loved Clarke but he used her for his own agenda. Eric had three wives (Stephanie, Brooke, Sheila) and many love interests (Margo, Beth, Taylor, Lauren) but Bill only was ever paired with Margo and Darla. I don't think there was really any love between Bill and Margo, and the Bill/Darla pairing was more fun and games than actual love, at least from what I remember.

Knots Landing was more of a community based series than a family/business conflict based series, so I found it was structurally closer to a daytime soap (P&G, not Bell) compared to Dallas and Falcon Crest. Here's how I break down the series: Seasons 1-3: Building the foundation. Seasons 4-6: The peak. Full-on primetime soap. Season 7 and 8: Tanking. Season 9: Signs of going off the rails are showing. Seasons 10-14: Off the rails plus budget mode.

EB's got the social media game on lock: Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, Cameo.

Fingers crossed. I'm sure if Jerry Douglas was still with us, he'd be in the photo w/ ED, BM, PB, DD.

I always felt the Belief storyline was Bill Bell's last hurrah for B&B before he passed the reigns to Bradley.

I once read Dallas described as a larger than life modern day Western. Maybe that was why Dallas was the more male-focused of the CBS big three and appealed more to the male audience than the others.

With the cancellations of Queens, Promised Land, Dynasty, Our Kind of People, is it safe to say there won't be any attempts at primetime soaps on the broadcast networks for a while?

The internet made the soap press obsolete. SOD hasn't been relevant for the better part of the last 20 years.

Let's be real here. When CBS moved Y&R to 12:30 pm ET, it destroyed everything ABC and NBC threw in its path. Ryan's Hope, The Doctors, Search for Tomorrow, Loving, Generations, The City, Port Charles all fell victim. CBS was also the last to give up the 4 pm ET slot and I don't find it a coincidence that this occurred in September 1986, the same month Oprah went national.

Last night in Milwaukee while an NBA playoff game was happening. Milwaukee declares partial curfew after 21 people injured in 3 separate shootings - CBS News

Queens, Promised Land, Dynasty all cancelled. No word yet on Our Kind of People but I'd say its done. This season has not been good for primetime soaps.

Drake is the third artist not from the United States to reach 10 #1s on the Billboard Hot 100, behind The Beatles (20) and Rihanna (14). I can't believe Drake has more #1s than Usher.

No kidding.

When watching a 1980s primetime soap we have to go in with the mindset that these shows are products of their time so alot of things are not going to hold up well from a 2022 perspective. Even by the early 1990s we would've considered alot of things on these shows outdated. Also when watching daily or binge-watching the plot holes and inconsistencies are more apparent.

What actress past 60 hasn't had anything done

Thanks for the info @Chris B SOD liked seasons 6 and 7 in the best of 1987 and 1988 issues, but season 8 was in the worst of 1989 issue. The writeups were once posted in the main board.

The "bathroom bill" resulted in the NBA relocating the 2017 All-Star Weekend from Charlotte to New Orleans, and the NCAA relocating 2017 March Madness games from Greensboro to Greenville, South Carolina. So there was some consequence that resulted in economic impact to North Carolina.