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I sum up Sharon/Phyllis storyline as "what is this mess?"

Yeah I think Andre is going to be the hotness of BtG. I can't find anything online about how old the actor is though.

Hahaha. In recent years I haven't minded the March Madness break though.

Lets keep it real here. Fox, UPN, The WB built their networks off the backs of the African-American audience. Fox early hits besides Married with Children and The Simpsons were In Living Color, Martin, Living Single, New York Undercover. The shift came with peak 90210, Melrose taking off, X Files premiering, and Fox getting NFL broadcasting rights. In Living Color ended in 1994, Martin ended in 1997, and Living Single and New York Undercover ended in 1998. UPN and The WB sitcom line ups were mostly African-American focused but when their teen dramas took off, they cut back on the African-American sitcoms. I can't recall an African-American focused drama on either UPN or The WB.

You never know, booty call hook ups can turn into love.

I can barely keep up with this thread. It might break the board Andre/Dani have the most off the charts heat generating romantic chemistry that I haven't seen in I don't know how long.

Hahaha. Are you just hate watching at this point?

That I can't guess. Maybe someone we haven't met yet. I'm not seeing it. I say the hotness of the show is Andre. Andre and Dani cannot stay away from each other.

Kat vs. Eva is the sister feud I'm waiting for. Are they going to fight over a guy?

Yeah that's the nicer way of saying it.

He accomplished what every other regime couldn't.

Booty call hook ups. I can see that.

Do not throw that out there :shudder 12 years of that character was enough.

Even today another R&B slow jam Are Andre/Dani supposed to be off the charts heat generating couple?

Y&R: 10% good, 90% garbage time Beyond the Gates: A+

Heifer? Jezebel? Hahaha, love it!

Nobody wants to sit through garbage time.

When BE Ashley found out about Blade/Rick, it looked like she was going to have a breakdown when she stabbed the pillow. Instead Bill Bell wrote off BE Ashley by sending her to Paris for business.

GL became another Dollar Store Dallas.

That was more JFP doing. Beverlee McKinsey run February 1984-August 1992 saw so much turnover as far as EPs and HWs go. I wonder what kind of working relationship BM had with Robert Calhoun and Nancy Curlee.

Hahaha! First Silk Press Sheila, now New Dollar Bill. Karla Mosley is 43 going on 44, and its not like she's the first actress in the mid-40s age range to play mother to grown adults. Case in point, when Melody Thomas Scott was 44, she was playing mother to 26 year old Joshua Morrow and 25 year old Heather Tom.

Are you referring to the early months of 1991? Nancy Curlee taking over as HW and the departures of Grant Aleksander, Beth Chamberlin, Kassie DePaiva, Robert Newman, Michael O'Leary.

I think Andre is supposed to be the hotness of BtG.

Are you checking for Mark Grossman? I have never seen it. Funny thing is, Mark Grossman is about the age Nick would be if Nick wasn't SORASed. Y&R was mostly garbage time. BtG was a thrill ride.

Going by the timelines, Robert Newman had three runs (November 1981-November 1984, November 1986-January 1991, August 1993-the end) and Kim Zimmer had two runs (November 1983-July 1990, May 1995-the end). I'm guessing Kim Zimmer contract was done November 1989 but she probably signed a short extension to cover her pregnancy leave (her younger son was born February 1990) and for an exit storyline. I can't guess the contract timing for Robert Newman January 1991 departure but maybe he had an out clause.