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what,s a michael culhane? whose amanda?? leslie--what???

I wasn't even born when it aired, but yeah, my impression was always that they handled it with more of a "don't mention what war" approach. Apparently not! It must've been something that filtered through considering they modified it later when they could mention the Vietnam war. It's my bad! But glad to have it clarified that they did mention it on air.

Thanks! I was about to tag you if you knew more, but looks like they mentioned it on air.

To be fair, from what can be deciphered from sources it seems like they went the route of not specifying what war he was in instead of saying it was the Korean. I imagine that it might be what was said backstage rather than on-screen.

To be fair, having sex on the regular would've probably solved a lot of JERs issues (or lead to a suicide/murder case).

It both is and isn't a shock. On one hand, it's still one of ABCs top performers in live ratings... but doesn't do well in delayed, the international sales seem dismal and you don't hear a buzz about it on streaming. They never gave it full proper seasons either (the most it ever got was 18 episodes) and there really wasn't a reason for it (ie production or having lead actors who wouldn't commit) so the writing was always on the wall that it might not have been that profitable. I guess with Vernoff leaving and cast contracts being up this season they saw no reason to keep renewing it.

Was it confirmed it was Tyler Perry was where he was going to? Either way, a lot of shows are getting delayed and outright cancelled due to the strike. Could be what happened to him.

Honestly, if they're going to continue to invest with Chanel and her bakery, they might as well build a small indoors set with a small café part with chairs etc for characters to chat / meet at.

I mean, they've not released Fernwood Forever (the follow-up to MH, MH) so I'd think that would take precedence than a little known syndicated flop.

Ultimately, for community soaps it's all about interactions between characters that you'd sometimes not expect to; Knots suffered from the same syndrome Melrose Place did in its later seasons, namely islanding of characters into their own storyline bubbles. The show was still good, but you could tell that probably for budget reasons those interactions became less and less.

Oh, FreeVee delaying their decision on their Who's The Boss sequel/reboot going to series or not makes sense now. I'm assuming they'll be tracking the performance on this.

Thing is that when DAYS (and I guess soaps) made their first stories about "coming back from the dead" they weren't outlandish - men going missing in war, being declared dead and only to return wasn't entirely unheard of. People being misidentified wasn't entirely unheard of. Of course, that's a far cry of what's happening these days on soaps when you can essentially have been decapitated and still come back from the dead.

No, because Abby managed to turn it around and once again make it seem like she was the innocent baby-saver while simultanously confessing to get Olivia, Greg et al off her back.

I said it just by reading the synopsis that they probably just switched Morgan to Joan's character and added Loni as Morgan's. With that said, it's really lazy to leave obvious references like that in, but then again it is a Lifetime movie.

I'm sad that no Susan Flannery episodes have ever surfaced of DAYS because I'm really curious how she played her - of course, she was great as the cold matriarch on Bold and the Beautiful; a role that seemed almost tailor-made for her, on the other hand on Dallas she had no chemistry with Larry Hagman and was one of the worst parts of an otherwise good fourth season. It just makes me wonder what her chemistry with on DAYS was with the male actors? Plus, I always thought Laura was rather "soft" as opposed to the cold steely excellence of Stephanie Forrester (in her prime years), so I wonder if she could really pull it off? She was seemingly popular after all.

Well, she had to die once she cut her shampoo commercial hair. Sorry, I don't make the rules.

I doubt we'll get more Beyond Salem. In hindsight it just seems like an experiment to see how DAYS would fare exclusively online.

DAYS might be making a comeback, but it didn't stop the rest of the line up from crumbling.

Yes, but you're potentially comparing someone who started watching a show when it was good and sticking with it through a rough patch and actually tuning into a new show. You can't start your show off bad and expect people to tune in - to even like the characters there has to be enough good writing and foundation for you to stick out the bad times (and even then we all have our limits).

It's the 30 second elevator pitch isn't it? Describe a show and get people interested. Loving and Generations just didn't have that.

Yes, exactly. Make the conflict about how a black family owned business would promote "white"* families for profit. This could've been a controversial soap opera forcing people to tune in because it showed how cynical the business is, and ultimately lead to progression! * I throw in "" because of how we know diversity is often sold in ads where you have one family member of "ambigious" race.

https://www.eonline.com/news/1390549/shannen-doherty-shares-cancer-has-spread-to-her-bones

Santa Barbara under 3.0 for the first (?) time! That show just suddenly started crashing after the 80s; of course the downfall of NBC daytime and the "supercouple" era didn't help.

Exactly right. It didn't exactly scream glamour and passion - maybe that was a conscious decision in the sense that it's the type of show that does well in syndication reruns, but it's not something that soap viewers would specifically tune into daily. But in all honesty, besides "the first show focusing on black characters" I just don't get the feeling there was much of a pitch. I guess in that sense I feel the same way towards Generations that I do towards Loving - it just feels dated and not really that well-defined. It probably doesn't help that the time slot hadn't housed a soap in the past few years after Search was cancelled. Maybe they could've had a production company since they started with the "fake soap" opening - one that ironically would focus on white characters despite the company itself being run by black people. It would've at least opened up some conflict, I guess social commentary and would've been a "sexier" and more exciting business.