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I'm not sure about that - Pacific Palisades just seemed to bomb straight out of the gate. I remember feeling that for a show about a community, characters felt from the start oddly isolated in their own little bubbles. It kind of seemed like an after thought from everyone involved (from Spelling to Fox), which didn't help.

At #3 she's beat herself (#4 Northern Star), Gerita and Emma Bunton (the other two also charted at #4). No solo Spice Girl have charted in the top three on the album chart before. Also, Melanie C revealed the other that the Spice Girls did come into the possession of Spice World: The Movie recently. It might be onto streaming services sooner or later.

I'm glad to see that the show seems to be improving after a long lull. I guess Noel Maxam has really helped the show with finding a direction and amping up storylines a bit. Hopefully they can start making some waves on Peacock this summer if this continues.

It's obvious that it was meant to be a season long plot with what happened in the first episode meaning to happen in the season finale (or a year later) and everything was meant to come out in the open. Obviously, they only got half way there since the show bombed and didn't get the back-nine, so they gave the answers. You could envision Henry letting it all out in the open after leaving, leading to that first flashforward. Unfortunately, Fox put it in the Friday night death slot so it was over before it began. A shame, but I think in the aftermath of 9/11 it might've never worked in any other time slot either way. It was just straight off the bat dark.

Hey! I'm gonna use this since you're the only source I can find about this episode. Just thought I'd let you know.

Am I the only one who loathes season 4 of Dynasty? It's genuinely terrible. People are fooled by the cast being intact.

Dallas first ten seasons or so are great. Knots is consistent but really starts coming into its own with season 4 through 6. Dynasty is binge worthy for seasons 1-3 and 9. Falcon Crest for 1-through half of season 4 and season 9 is so bizarre you have to watch it. Melrose Place needs to be watched for at least seasons 2-3 and through half of season 4 where it goes off the rails (not in a good way!); in season 7 Peter Dunne from Knots comes in and reshapes the show and you wish there would've been a season 8. Beverly Hills 90210 is like crack between seasons 2-6; do it like Kelly and just sniff it. What was your question again?

Wait, no sarcasm?

Absolutely defining for the teen soap genre:

Wow, watching Deidre Hall on Hotel as a wife who discovers that her husband is a bum bandit makes me realise how lazy her acting has gotten, even stuff like Hacks. She's so much more natural there and just flows better. You can see why execs wanted to give her a shot at prime time there. And mind you - I love Dee's histronics as Marlena, but it just shows you how playing a soap role for that long can make good actors just a tad lazy.

I do wonder if they had a stronger idea of who Sofia was that it would help Boyd's acting. As @carolineg noted, she was decent in the birthing scenes but that was likely down to her researching herself what someone would do/act in a situation like that. But outside of that, Sofia's never really had strong motivations for doing the things she does. Some actors can just run with an unmotivated psycho arc I guess and camp it up.

Honestly, with how low linear ratings are now it would really be worth to take a shot at it. I think The CW would actually be a good candidate to attempt it since they're very openly looking for low cost programming and are mostly filling their schedule with imports, reality and repeats as of now. But then again, I also thought when networks attempted scripted summer programming they should've taken another shot at doing telenovelas but I guess the MyNetworkTV experiment put everyone off the idea. I also thought ABC having something like Mistresses airing 13 episodes in the summer that they might as well expand it to 22 episodes and had nine air in the winter for less of a long break. But US networks aren't really about taking risks, especially looking at how the fall schedules seem to be panning out...

90210 did miserably in the first part of the season, but Fox stuck to it since they had just cancelled all their dramas the previous season. It started gaining numbers towards the end of the first season, which is why the summer season happened. They saw it gathering momentum so wisely took it. As for why they didn't do year round? Both it and Melrose did 30-34 episodes per year. It was hard enough to get the cast to commit to that and I'd assume they hadn't signed up to do a year round soap, which would be the issue. With that said, considering the success of Peyton Place I've always been surprised that no one tried a similar format after that ended. Simon Cowell tried to adapt one of the UK soaps for Fox and it was meant to air as an half hour (presumably post-Idol as it was 90 minutes) and even filmed a pilot. But that's as close as they got.

I could take or leave Chad at this point to be honest. Maybe they have some great future plans for him, but I would've probably rather have Jeremy stick around. They could've recast and brought back Chad at any point down the road tbh.

This came up on YouTube: I'm a bit surprised how incredibly cheap it looks. It was allegedly done on video tape, but the sets also look very daytime-ish. I was under the impression this was a lot bigger production than this shows.

Thanks.

Sure Buff and Billy both liked girls. Sure, sure.

I mentioned it before, but in its final season, Lou Grant was definitively dependent on whatever was airing before it, which meant it was all over the place ratingswise. I don't know if that was true for the entire run, but since it had a strong lead in for most of it and was always at best a middling performer, I'd assume so. I did a small chart out of interest:

Beverly Hills 90210 moving to Wednesdays in the summer of 1992, which was originally only meant to be temporary until Melrose Place got properly launched. Then Melrose Place moving to Mondays in the 1994-95 season after Fox having abandoned the nights to movies after having cancelled all their dramas following the 1989-90 season, including the Monday line-up of 21 Jump Street (a failed move, but it did one season in syndication afterwards) and Alien Nation.

That 55+ demo for 90210 💀 Not that I expected much, but still.

Pasadena is owned by Sony. But fair point about Mike White. He might've pushed for the show to get on streaming services.

90210 having 500k more viewers than Different World, yet lower rating. I guess that's the viewing parties in action!

Wow! This is great and unexpected. Hope more short-lived soaps make it on there.