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I had no idea if it's an episode that's been available or not already, but regardless, MovieCraft's transfers tend to hold an excellent quality so it's always worth watching again since most soap episodes out there are so low-quality.

My favourite moment has to be Courtney living for Drunkison: New US Weekly interview:

Heather is appearing at 90s Con in September: I think with her personal issues she's probably taking a step back from doing the grind these women are doing behind the scenes - "Still the Place" is clearly an effort to try and gather more interest in the reboot and position themselves.

They confirm that yes, the spin-off is still in development: On Access Hollywood:

1952 Christmas episode premiering 7/13 on the Moviecraft Inc channel (12-13-52): @vetsoapfan @FrenchFan @Paul Raven @dc11786 @DRW50 @Matt @Khan

Apparently part of that was because lil' Tori was a fan of General Hospital...

I don't see that myself personally, as much as I like ms Scoggins.

Also @Errol can we get a slight promo for this podcast. It's actually fun (unlike a lot).

Hopefully they'll get Vanessa Williams for season one episodes (I don't expect Amy Locane, for obvious reasons, though that'd be exciting!) Courtney and Andrew dated! Ha.

I just had a certain someone who is experiencing this show for the first time and is on episode three say that "Richard Avery is a creep, Laura is an idiot" 😅 I've said, yes, Richard is and looks like a rat, but stay with Laura, she ends up being a sarcastic goddess (but underutilised).

Don Murray left because Knots was bordering on cancellation between seasons 1-3. So he thought there were better options, but later admitted that a 14 season paycheck would've been nice.

Possibly - you also had 90210 taking off at that time in a big way and "teen" shows getting higher coverage. It does feel like 90210's rise and Saved by the Bell's is tied more together than with Tiffani Amber-Thiessen.

Interesting that Saved by the Bell is "only" in mid-to-high-3.0s at that point. I wonder when it broke out? This was still season one I guess.

Courtney, Daphne and Laura are doing a re-watch pod! The first episode was released yesterday, July 8, on Melrose's 32nd birthday. https://linktr.ee/stilltheplace Truly stunning how they look exactly the same.

RIP Sheehan. The claim was that they did try to get in contact with him during the season 9 Jill storyline, but apparently he was just off the radar at the time. The good ole' days!

She woke up one day and decided to do FASHION

No idea why, but I feel the need to post this image without further comment:

I've been enjoying looking up past home pages I did and omg: https://web.archive.org/web/20011005001613/http://www.dalberg.nu/cpw/

@Melroser

I agree with you here - I think that a lot of people end up thinking that the head writer has the final say, but remember that Ron was essentially told to bring back the Devil as an example. There's also surely issues with how none of the Abby actresses wanted to commit to the show - considering Kate Mansi went to do General Hospital one suspects there might be reasons for that beyond Ron's control. We also can't underestimate that they probably do test panels every now and then to see what people react positively to (some people claimed that the reason Daniel was kept for so long and front-burner was because he tested high there). Honestly, it wouldn't surprise me if Leo - a Mostly Sexless Gay with Sassy Lines tests quite well on panels. I think we sometimes overestimate how much people do think about the storylines that are presented.

It was by Chuck Pratt though, so you know it would've gone completely off the rails by episode three. Secrets of a Small Town actually had the cast options extended so I wonder if ABC just started inquiring about future plans/plots on the show and just decided against it lol

Well, those people are idiots then and it shows you how their support was always partisan rather than believing that women shouldn't be treated like trash on set.

Witches of Eastwick had two different attempts to make it to television - first an actual comedy in 1992 from NBC starring Ally Walker, Julia Campbell and Catherine Mary Stewart and then a 2002 FOX version starring Marcia Cross, Kelly Rutherford and Lori Loughlin. Someone wanted this tv show to happen.

To be fair, sometimes networks do end up retooling and re-filming pilots, but a lot of the time pilots either get passed on because they have a limited amount of spots for a certain type of programming (ie before ABC hit paydirt with Desperate Housewives they had several soapy pilots in development), or it just doesn't fit into their schedule (like the proposed Cruel Intentions show on NBC, despite executives raving about it) or it's simply too expensive to make it sustainable (like Mockingbird Lane, whose pilot got an airing on NBC). I miss this sort of pilot season tbh as it was very exciting, but yeah, it's been done away with pretty much with year-round development and fewer pilots making it to filming.

Don't get me wrong - I get it, but it's just that most of those people just want to start a conflict for the sake of it. It's not worth getting engaged in and I doubt they think a lot about it. But yes, I think it's important to let THE GATES grow beyond week one, or month six. All soaps had to work out their kinks so I hope THE GATES get that chance. With that said - the one hope I do have is that they'll at least have invested in the main sets. That makes such a difference for daytime soaps.