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Same with Kimberly McCullough in 1989. She was 11 years old and won Younger Actress over Noelle Beck (21), Anne Heche (20), Martha Byrne (19). 100% this. The addition of the younger category meant lead was for superstars and long-tenured veterans, and supporting became a holding tank for those who aged out of the younger category but were not quite at superstar level or had enough years to be considered long-tenured veterans.

Larsa Pippen's Ex Marcus Jordan Suggests She's 'Rewriting History' After Split (people.com) With this development, who knows what's left for her to do on the show.

Agree. Who knows where Days would've ended up in the 1990s if it wasn't for Reilly.

20 years since this R&B classic album dropped.

Nick in a JT mask. What was that nonsense? I somehow blocked out so much silliness of the last decade.

Totally agree. I can't help but wonder though, is the threat of being replaced by a new show something CBS is hanging over Bradley in order to motivate him to fix B&B?

Jill parentage (2003), Cassie death (2005), and John Abbott death (2006) were the trifecta that lead to the end of Y&R as we knew it.

Joshua Morrow 30th anniversary in June and Sharon Case 30th anniversary in September. Are you giving Josh Griffith an idea? I think we're stuck w/ Joshua Morrow until Y&R ends.

IIRC, 90210 first season was promoted as a teen drama and the episodes were mostly self-contained. When the show blew up with the Summer 1991 episodes, that's when I think it became more soapy.

That pairing worked because both shows appealed to the male audience. Dallas was always the more male-focused of the CBS primetime soaps.

I watched some of Hotel a few years back and I was not impressed. I thought of it as The Love Boat on land but a little soapier. It got the soap opera label from being Dynasty's lead out.

Thanks for the videos and pictures of The Hollywood Show @Soapsuds. Were you there?

🤣 Marcus is the weak link of Michael Jordan's adult children.

OMG I never thought that CBS would launch a new daytime soap. Fingers crossed this works.

Let's Make a Deal official time slot is 3 pm ET but I think its safe to say that the affiliates which aired GL in the morning just replaced it w/ LMaD.

CBS had three daytime game shows as of September 29, 1986: 10 am ET $25000 Pyramid, 10:30 am ET Card Sharks, 11 am ET The Price is Right. If one of the game shows was going to go, I'd say $25000 Pyramid was the most likely. Card Sharks was not going anywhere because Mark Goodson allegedly demanded CBS to give Card Sharks the lead in to The Price is Right, otherwise he'd take both shows to another network. Bill Bell also allegedly demanded that CBS give B&B the lead out from Y&R, otherwise he'd take both shows to another network. I don't think CBS was going to risk losing their two biggest daytime shows The Price is Right and Y&R. So 1987 we could have gotten 10 am Capitol 10:30 am Card Sharks 11 am The Price is Right noon Local programming 12:30 pm Y&R 1:30 pm B&B 2 pm As the World Turns 3 pm Guiding Light As for 10 am ET, ABC didn't program anything in that slot from the 1970s onward AFAIK, NBC gave it up in 1991, and CBS gave it up in 1993.

The 1991 improvement in ratings came not long after JFP arrived. While JFP first year was still good, I feel that it coasted off the groundwork laid during the Calhoun era and the ratings improvement was helped by ABC's big three tanking at various times during that year and Days being in their post-supercouple/pre-Reilly mess era.

I don't remember Johnny departure, was it sometime in Spring 1990 after the Chelsea stalker storyline wrapped up? The timeline for the characters you listed were July 1990 Reva car accident and Alan-Michael recast; January 1991 Josh, Rick, Chelsea departures; February 1991 Phillip and Beth departures. Also January 1991 was the HW change from Pamela Long to Nancy Curlee. The Calhoun/Curlee era was January-July 1991 and while I enjoyed that era, the ratings didn't reflect the quality of the show.

1996 ABC was sold to Disney. ABC primetime mess era started 1995/96 when Roseanne fell out of the Top 10 and ended 1999/2000 with the breakout success of Who Wants to be a Millionaire. Monday Night Football and Home Improvement were really the only hits ABC had in that era.

NBC got away with scheduling garbage shows at Thursday 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm during the Seinfeld/ER/Friends era that would finish in the Top 10 because both CBS and ABC were in their primetime mess eras.

@vetsoapfan I think it was the combination of MG/MZ return and Robert Calhoun as EP that was the shot in the arm GL needed after some really bad years. From what I've seen either online or in real time, I'd say the two golden eras were Potter/Dobsons/Marland and Calhoun/Long/Curlee.

We could say that about the P&G shows in general, chasing trends but getting them wrong.

Not to derail this thread but this reminds me of when Fox tried to sabotage Central Park West with a second hour of Beverly Hills 90210 head-to-head w/ Central Park West premiere and a new Melrose Place head-to-head w/ Central Park West episode 2. 1996/97 CBS moved Diagnosis Murder from Friday 9 pm to Thursday 8 pm. That looks like a tank job yet CBS still kept Diagnosis Murder. Remember too that CBS was in another primetime mess era from Fall 1994 until Spring 2000 so they kept a good number of shows that showed little to no growth because not much was working as far as new shows go. CBS was really in no position to have any tank jobs so alot of their scheduling moves were probably fill space on the schedule.

Thank you @soapfan770 I had no memory of TNT rebroadcasts. Whenever any full episodes or clips turn up on YT/DM they are usually from Soapnet 2000-2003 recordings.

So the rebroadcasts were 1986-1987 broadcast syndication, 1987-? Lifetime, 2000-2003 Soapnet, 2022-2024 Freevee. Am I missing any?