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I swear, every time I see a promo or read a description of this show it just seems to be a different show each time.

She was on the 90210 reboot for five years - for daytime, especially for budget fraught DAYS, that's a name. And yeah, it looks like she's almost made up to look like Nicole. I'm buying into this conspiracy theory for now.

Good Lord. Just... no. As for Ari - good luck to her, but I assume this means we'll never see her again on DAYS. I agree with the poster that AnnaLynne McCord might be a recast - it makes sense to go for a "name" to try and recast a long-running cast member like Nicole, especially if they suspected that Arianne might end up with a lawsuit against the show (though she'll be de-aged with McCord).

It was always scheduled at noon though? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1996–97_United_States_network_television_schedule_(daytime) That's why it could never gain any traction in the ratings and was doomed from the start. It's a show that clearly targeted the 18-34 year olds who watched the Spelling prime time soaps... yet they put it in a spot where few of those would be home to watch it.

Especially since Sunset Beach did the tongue-in-cheek thing much much better, while also playing a straight soap. I've said it before and I'll say it again - if it had at least premiered later in the afternoon it might've had a chance to get that 18-34 audience that it was actually written for watching. It was always bizarre to premiere such a youth-skewing show at noon.

Yes, and it seems like such a no-brainer to do. The issue is that Quibi seemed to think they could also cut these things into full movies / 45 minute episodes, which of course meant that they couldn't utilise the strength of the 10-15 minute format. Like @All My Shadows said about the recently resurfaced 1957 Secret Storm episode - it showed off the strength of the format and it breezed quickly by without dragging, while at the same time being easy to watch for a first time viewer. But if you're writing these things with the intention of later pasting them together as a full movie or episode, you just end up with parts. And who the hell is interested in watching 15 minutes of a movie each day for a week? It's awkward.

Not even in his last few episodes. I think he was credited as a main cast member until his last episode. RIP Don Murray, have a nice rest. 94 is a good run and he seemed to have his wits about him in Twin Peaks when he was in his late 80s, so hopefully that continued into his 90s.

We've had similar on-going commercials here that essentially have a running storyline. With that said - if they're going to invest in something I'd rather have the 10-15 minute format back. Something that you can watch on your coffee break, essentially.

💀💀💀💀 Bless your heart for thinking they had the budget for that kind of set. Plus - it has a ROOF! Sets never have those lol

Bless people for thinking that's a real set - especially with a 60s soap opera produced on the cheap!

WOW! Ted looks great. Whatever he's doing, it's working.

Models Inc might've largely been a stinker, but I still to this day quote this scene when things are bad: Hell baby, you're in hooker hell! I also like poor Carrie's (who seriously is one of the most tortured soap characters ever, considering it lasted only 29 episodes!) line "This is kidnapping!". This is also the one cliffhanger that didn't get resolved in the tie-up final scenes they did, so I guess we're to assume Carrie's just stuck in white slavery forever since in that universe Greyson's dead and everyone thinks she left town. Poor Carrie indeed!

Unrelated, make note the difference adding some ambience to the scene with some background noises + slight blow of a wind machine makes.

Episode from 1957 has popped up, not sure if it's been available before:

To be fair, it would be the other way around probably - Karen would have her doubt about having the baby, while Mack would've pissed about that.

I've said it before, but they should do a storyline adressing the housing crisis in Salem where half the town has to sleep in a hotel or in the TARDIS known as John and Marlena's ever-expanding unseen apartment corridor with infinitive bedrooms (but no kitchen).

Honestly, the Meg situation is just bizarre more than engaging. Greg loses Laura and is unable to cope properly so neglects daughter (so far quite normal), so Karen convinces him to let them adopt her (?!) and she and Mack are the good guys? I think the writers wanted to have Mack and Karen have a kid but realistically, Karen was too old (and maybe Michele Lee would've put her foot down, lol) and then they had to write Laura out so...

More like there was no need for the reunion. It had only been four years and it left on no cliffhanger (unlike Dynasty and Dallas). The fans might've enjoyed seeing them together again, but everyone else had moved on.

I always felt like the Stuart arc was meant to bring Brenda and Dylan back together; by all accounts David Gail was told by Aaron that Stuart was going to turn out to be a "bad guy", then you had Dylan's warning, then he disappears for two or so episodes before turning up again and acting like a spoilt little b-word during a road trip, then boom gone. Apparently things were going much better behind the scenes at the start of the season (I think they've mentioned in the podcast that while filming 4x03 The Little Fish (Brenda's return episode from Minnesota) the drama from the previous season just seemed to have cooled down considerably before starting up again). So yeah, I suspect he was meant to stay on longer initially, plus I guess Aaron Spelling would've shot the pilot to Robin's Hoods around the time he left.

I always felt like his arc on 90210 got cut a bit short - I wonder if that had to do with the whole backstage drama with Doherty (them setting her up to potentially leave) or if it was just that Aaron wanted him for Robin's Hood? He must've liked the guy since he cast him in The Round Table, 90210, Robin's Hoods and Savannah. Surprised he didn't end up showing up on Charmed or 7th Heaven.

No wonder they cancelled Search For Tomorrow and moved up Scrabble - that show was low-key killing it in its slot!

Re-watching it now and I realised that the setting is a huge issue for the show as in it's not distinct enough. Besides obviously filming in California, when Lane at the end of the pilot does some dramatic speech about how she'll one day live on Flamingo Road it's like... okay, why? There's the Weldon's house and I guess Titus'? In all honesty, LiliMae's house seems really nice. They needed to do more to sell the angle of "bad part of Truro" vs the "good part of Truro", but even then it's hard to imagine that a character would be desperate to live in any part of Truro, especially once she gets a multi-millionaire boyfriend.

Looking at the schedule, it seems like it was the lone soap on NBC at that point, plus their inability to create a long running soap at that point bar Hawkins Fall (which "only" ran five years) and then a new format to boot? It was also against Art Linkletter at the time; still it was odd how quickly they gave up on it; Today Is Ours didn't do much better, so maybe they should've just moved it up a half hour to see how it did when From These Roots premiered to build a block.

Very interesting to see how the total viewers differs from the actual Nielsen ratings. Makes me wonder how the charts year-to-year would look if they just showed total viewers; would there be the same drastic drop-off over the decades pre-00s?