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I'm surprised that Generations had seemingly a lot of station coverage (for a while at least) in those best-rated weeks post. I just assumed it might've been off to a bad clearance start due to NBC being so spotty in that timeslot over the years. And yikes. Ryan's Hope is now just looking pitiful.

I always got the impression that Texas's biggest issue was that it was so closely tied into Another World which made it hard to follow for any new viewers interested in checking a new soap out. They'd probably been better off just to start afresh once it was all moved over to Texas, but I guess that's the issue with spin-offs.

Could it be that one of the more notable actors who played him had a New York accent and then the character just kind of got given it? With the show filming in New York I'd assume the actors might've have a natural New York accent.

Honestly, I'm not sure why they thought a youth-oriented program would do well on Saturday at 10PM?

Yeah, I agree - I don't think it was ever on the cards. I could've seen Lorimar/CBS talking about crossing over Dallas / Falcon Crest because of the timeslot and logistics would work out for both parties. The closest I can think of is that scrapped X-Files / Picket Fences cross-over where you can see remenants of it in the scripts, but was nixed at the last minute by CBS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Museum I also think you can't compare the UK/Europe market to the US market when it comes to cross-overs. Smaller scales to work with plus not the same type of competition mentality where you can't benefit the other party in any way.

RIP ole' Moon Eyes, as Pansy Faye called her.

Because they're clumsily setting up Abby to return on their wedding day.

You're in hell baby, HOOKER HELL!

Ryan's Hope is really suffering from lack of clearances now - it's dropped down into the lower 2s permanently and their clearances are now in the lower 80s percentile.

Helmut Berger was actually perfectly cast as a complete Eurosleaze with a cocaine addiction, unfortunately, they never truly went there and clearly things were happening behind the scenes - I've long been of the opinion that season 7b was the worst of the show, but I think the middle part of season 4 beats it. The show just completely loses its way until the Hong Kong episodes, you have characters that are just milling about and worst of all they basically decide to neutralize several conflicts on the show for no real reason, all while the music is getting louder and louder signalling to us that something is happening, but nothing is.

Are you sure it wasn't Dynasty?

Maggie might gloss over it though - saying someone's a rape baby is a sensitive subject. Mind you, not that I think the writers are intelligent enough to take such things into account so never mind.

To be fair, we don't know if the characters know the circumstances around that, so they might think it was an affair as Laura and certainly Bill might've glossed over things.

I mean, I think the fact that Chris Atkins looked the way he did was intentional - Peter was never meant to represent a real threat to JR and if anything it became more sleazy because Atkins looked like a boy. They could've easily hired a 23-year old 6'3 stud, but then people might've actually taken the romance seriously.

To be fair, Capitol had a very cushy time slot plus is a clear "hammock" despite being in the middle of the ratings pack (ie it slumps between As the World Turns and Guiding Light. The only real option for it to survive was to retain ATWT/GL's ratings - and even then CBS would've had to move it to make room for B&B.

Well, at least Emily O'Brien is a better actor than Rob Wilson so at least she's hopefully going to be able to convey she's a different character.

I said it when Abby "died" and I'll say it again - she'll show up at Stephanie and Chad's wedding with a baby in tow.

From recent interviews Linda's sounds and moves around fine. She's just on the thin side and at that age it makes you look more frail than you are.

Yes, which is why I feel that it has to start with a preservation project at the very least to begin with - like, I could see Corday potentially digitizing DAYS as an example to preserve it, but the starting point can't probably be because anyone thinks it'll be financially rewarding.

I'd assume the audience size in Canada might not have made it financially possible to produce a long-running daytime soap, especially with part of the country being French-speaking? I'm guessing that's why attempts to produce soaps like Strange Paradise were syndicated in the US. Paradise Falls is on YouTube at least...

These sort of things always cracks me up on soaps - not like attorneys tend to specialise in certain sections of the law or something, same thing with doctors. Not that I'm complaining really since it gives characters stuff to do, plus the budget isn't there to hire more people anyway.

The 2004 version of Gramercy Park:

The lack of clearances really did ultimately kill a lot of these soaps - it's sort of something you rarely think about, but with only a 77% clearing rate it really puts it at a huge disadvantage. I'd assume that once Oprah goes national and then the 90s wave of sassy ladies talk shows, the clearing for the bottom soaps must've gotten even worse.

111 Gramercy Park is also on that channel: It was an attempt at a prime time soap by ABC that had two attempts at a pilot - a 2003 one and a 2004 one; ultimately, ABC didn't go with either, but it's obvious that ABC was looking for prime time soaps at that point (and eventually found one in Desperate Housewives).

Yeah, they definitively played the OG Laura storyline with slightly more ambigious - obviously, once they introduced Barnabus they'd decided to go full-on supernatural (though arguably, even early on in that storyline they did keep some things a bit vague in case they needed to backtrack).