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If Corday Productions kept DAYS, you'd wonder if they kept Morning Star and Paradise Bay? I guess there was that fire mentioned, so they could've been unlucky.

I mean, it's realistic from how blackouts actually tend to look irl unless they're prolonged for days/weeks 😅 But I agree, they need to get better at creating dramatic tension and amp it up. I actually appreciate most of the things they're doing with the overall writing - ie characters actually having grounded real emotions and conversations, but they need to bring it all up a bit. If people like Ron goes way too far into space, they're right now playing it far too conservative.

I feel like Krista is a bit too glamourous for Jan, plus would likely require a higher salary than your average recurring character.

I do enjoy how there seems to be an entire subplot of Leann Rimes being a nasty mother to the hot stripper and wants him to scam his father (the firefighter) for money. I'm guessing there's more to that but still, writing it out makes it sound sort of ridiculous.

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This has to be the genuinely dumbest thing I've watched today, and I've been watching Days of our Lives. So, you have hot male stripper, who happens to don a firefighter suit during his shows, happen upon a person in need and then the real 9-1-1 crew happens upon him and it turns out to be his long-lost father and brother. Also there's a tornado. That's not mentioning all the other campy trash that is happening here. Yet I sort of want to watch this, despite never having watched anything from the 9-1-1 franchise. I know it'll go to hell because it's from Ryan Murphy, but this might actually be good for about 13 episodes before it goes into the depths of absolute plot convoluted hell.

GMA3 being beat by NBC News Daily in everything but total viewers.

I think that's about it. Catching up on Wednesday and I noticed that he's dropped the mumbly thing, but he's seemingly trying to make Theo look off screen a bit and not focusing on who's he's talking with. The issue of course is that Theo's autism has gone the way of Philip's fake leg - it's only ever relevant when the writers decide it is. It's not present in the scripts, but kudos for him for trying to implement it. He's decent and improving thus far.

I think helicopter mom Amy is one of the reasons why a post partum depression storyline for Sophia would be interesting. In a lot of religious circles, mental health still bears a stigma, so her finding out out about her going off the rails but refusing to get her health would be another layer to a potentially interesting story. With that said, like you point out they've skipped a lot of interesting perspectives on Sophia's situation which gives me the impression she's not long for this show as they're clearly not that interested in her point-of-view despite having a front-burner storyline. I fully expect her to end up in Bayview or worse by the end of the year.

Yeah, they could've definitively thrown in two-three scenes (at least) pre- and post-birth to show that she's upset at them messing up the adoption. It's not like DAYS is such a tightly written show where it wouldn't be feasible (and for that matter, they're on streaming, so length of episodes are very much adjustable). With that said, it could be a product of the writers switch and setting up new storylines. Though it's been a while now for that to be an excuse.

Also, on a somewhat related (and shallow) note - they need to make Holly go blonder again. It's probably annoying for the actress, but there's a bit too many dark haired / brunette girls among that set and it makes her stand out in the crowd.

I agree that this is probably what they were going for, but this seems to be a general issue with BTG - they seem to be missing the "beats" and thus build up to certain things. Maybe the fall out will justify what they were writing, but the issue seems to me like the writers seem to think that playing the beats before the event is boring and we should just skip straight to the dessert. Except the full meal is always what makes the dessert so satisfying. I really hope they learn to pace things better but being essentially six months ahead in writing it'll take a while yet.

It could be this, but my speculation is that this will all tie into the whole Marlena / Susan experiencing Stefano and Tony's behavior is a red herring. I kind of assume that it'll be eventually revealed that Rachel is carrying on Stefano's "spirit" (not in an exorcist / sci-fi way, just generally being a real bad seed) and she did shoot EJ fully aware of what she was doing. That'll lead to her being sent off to "boarding school" until they're ready for the next set of teens. But maybe that's just my wishful thinking. But at least the shows writing is giving me some hope that it's not all just random plot threads thrown together.

I mean, we know this simply isn't true. Due to the nature of it being a Corday / Sony co-production they actually did keep them. Cady McClain of all people casually dropped that the entire shows run exists except "season 2" as it was destroyed in a fire. It wouldn't surprise me at all if there's a lot of shows that are currently digitizing their archives (hence why Cady would randomly have information on the DOOL archive), but the older the format is the longer time and effort it takes to getting them digital, and that's not taking any upscaling / remastering into account. I assume that the reason why BEYONTV started with 90s episodes of AMC is that those were faster to get to digital and to acceptable quality to put up on streaming. I'd assume episodes from the late 70s/early 80s exists for all soaps at the very least, but it's just more work to transfer those and they might not be great in terms of visual / audio quality.

I've seen some speculation that Sophia's going through a post-partum psychosis which in itself would be an interesting way to justify her going completely off the rails. With that said, I suspect she's going to be shipped off to Bayview sooner or later.

Any time Americans start talking about "communism" pisses me off. Do you even *know* what communism is? There's a great documentary about "Kiruna Swedes" in... ehrm, Swedish, but either way these people ended with bullets in their brains, their children trying to get back to Sweden and communists denying it all happened. This has nothing to do with Social Democracy - believing that society needs a wider social net, believing that we can still vote for our leaders, believing that our neighbour is not some awful human being less deserving than us... is not communism. Stop it the US. Seriously.

I mean, overall the issue with late night isn't "political speech" or not, it's that the financial model just currently isn't working in the current landscape. No matter what happens to Kimmel, the future of late night wouldn't be great even if they went super inoffensive and talked about cuddly kittens (though I guess cuddly kittens might bring in some streaming numbers, so maybe not). But overall, linear ratings are likely to keep going down and they're not making up the difference in digital. This is why The Talk got cancelled and replaced by something as old fashioned like a soap. Either way, Kimmel, Colbert et al shows will likely be the last of their kind. I'm guessing that whatever happens in the future, I think that the time of hugely paid late night show hosts will die with them. I suspect they'll pivot toward a more podcast-but-filmed format to try and get their digital numbers up, while also cutting costs. It's either that or just give up the time slot to affiliates.

To be fair, they had a far less turn around in taping back then in addition to the ratings just starting to dive really fast. So I think she was replaced within three months or so into her run and then JER came in two or three months later. How they kept re-hiring her is beyond me, but maybe she's just really good at pitching things. Looking at her Wikipedia page, she and JER were actually co-headwriters for a week between August 11-18, 2003. Though obviously it was just the transition week.

I agree - I'm also not sure if ABC have any *real* concrete plans on what to do with their late night shows or what to replace them with when the time comes. I suspect they'll want to see what happens to Colbert's slot once he vacates. At this point they'll likely keep Kimmel for a while yet, though I'm pretty sure that in the long-run it's going to be a different format for these late night talkshows (I'm guessing they'll end up leaning hard into podcast-y format to begin with to try and expand their digital presence).

The biggest issue is that there seems to be a huge disconnect with the actress and the actual character. Both Ashley and Derek comes across as being in somewhere in their 30s, but are written as if they've just gotten out of college and it's their first real relationship. Add the whole propping up of Ashley as a character that reached ridiculous levels at one point... it's a case where I think they should've rewritten the character(s) slightly if they wanted to cast Jen Jacobs and Ben Gavin in the roles.

From memory, the ratings really started to fall quickly during Higley's first tenure. It might've been that they were talking about bringing JER on already, but I suspect they were already worried about the profitability of C&B's show and the ratings taking such a quick dive during the Higley era just put them into panic mode. The Salem Stalker storyline definitively came across as an attempt to cut costs massively.

It was lucky essentially. CBS was just getting weaker and the obvious option would've been to push Dallas into the 10PM Friday slot, but even by the 1988-89 season it was still in the lower top 30 and they had so much issues elsewhere that trying to find a replacement for the time slot wasn't on the cards. Dallas pretty much had to fall out of the top 40 for them to finally make that move. Season 6 also seemed to stabilize the show a bit, so that helped.

All I can say is yikes! They were basically going to go into being a full year ahead if they hadn't put in an extended dark period (which means that the actual writing is a year plus ahead). To be honest, they could take a six month break at this point but that won't happen. Corday was way to proud that they could put out stuff during co-vid.

NuTheo is a bit Mumbly McGee right now, but he's not awful and probably just confused by the characters backstory (he's autistic! and also...). I hope he'll settle in soon enough.