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To be fair, actors tend to like to claim that they were leaving a show that was cancelled either way, so I'd take it with a grain of salt. Apparently no one really likes being seen as being a part of a failing shows "final cast". And it's not like Tudi Wiggins moved on from doing daytime - a year later she was on All My Children.

I will give them this - Maggie's death is actually my first memory of Falcon Crest, so it was certainly memorable! And to be fair, the L'Oreal haired heroine actually went and cut her hair off, so how could she not die horribly for breaking such a simple soap rule? Don't cut your shampoo commercial hair off!

Yup. But considering he also had a guest role in CSI: Vegas makes me think someone at CBS likes him. It wouldn't surprise me if he gets cast in a pilot, depending on how far they're planning to take the Fire Country role. At a stretch I could see Tinker returning for a one-off for Victor's funeral/memorial episode, but I can't see him coming back for even a short story arc at this point. His career is taking off and he's leaving daytime behind for now. I guess they could get Freddie back though.

I guess this might as well be bumped due to this: Anyone who can provide context for the scene?

I'm not so sure tbh. Tinker's making head-way into prime time plus have connections due to relatives in the business (among those his grandfather being former CEO of NBC and co-founder of MTM enterprises). Days was a stepping stone for him for bigger and better things. But yeah, Chandler will be back. Maybe we'll get Freddie back again too.

Looking forward to the news of her returning two weeks from now.

Eh, I don't think the Kiriakis mansion seem that big - the living room is miniscule for a supposedly "huge" mansion. The one thing I'll give them is that the redesign of the DiMera mansion was well-done (for their budget...) in that they did make it seem bigger. Marlena and John's apartment of course should be taking up the entire floor in their apartment building at this point - they might as well just mirror the set and pretend that Eric or Brady has moved into the apartment across the hallway... Honestly, in the next election Abe should run on promising to fix The Great Salem Housing Crisis.

Just like the DiMera, Kiriakis and John and Marlena's apartment, Allie's apartment has been made into a TARDIS that just keeps expanding depending on the plot. Before we know it, we'll have Paulina, Abe, Sarah and Xander living in there too.

I mean, it was NBC's second most watched soap (which wasn't hard, but still). I just don't think it was attractive for them to get rid of it until Passions arrived and they wanted that show post-DAYS. For whatever reason they didn't feel like giving that shot for Sunset Beach or Santa Barbara.

Yup, unfortunately it feels a bit like they're the same character at this point making it inefficient to have both on the canvas at the same time. It might've helped if Sami was on the canvas and more involved with Eric to differentiate them more.

Except it's kind of accurate? Yellowstone isn't at the risk of ending because ratings are bad - it's at the risk of ending because Kevin Costner is causing trouble with the shooting schedule, only wanting to do a week worths (6 days!!!) of shooting versus the 65 days that was agreed upon. So as of now they're exploring letting Costner go and bringing McConaughey in and labeling it a spin-off (but it's really just a continuation of Yellowstone). We'll see what happens. My understanding is that it's not yet cancelled but it's likely to be and it'll basically be a Roseanne -> The Conners situation. Also, effectively labeling it a spin-off rather than season 6 or whatever of Yellowstone means that they can get the rights back from Peacock and put it on Paramount+. So the spin-off solves two problems - they get the show to their own streaming service while also getting rid of the expensive diva time-waster Costner.

I hope her deal with the devil means that she comes back pregnant with a reborn Stefano as a part of the deal.

RetroTV were supposedly interested in aquiring Edge of Night, but P&G just said they weren't interested in licensing it out.

Considering the cast used to get called back to film filler scenes it wouldn't surprise me if that would've been done to beef it up - plus I could imagine that they did a lot of creative re-cutting of episodes in the past, so scenes from those episodes that are 40+ minutes might've been used in earlier episodes.

I always assumed they might've intended to revive Burke in some way via Jeremiah - something-something about changing the flows of time yadda-yadda, but apparently Anthony George wanted off the show hence why he didn't appear as the "undead" Jeremiah. So they just dropped it, especially as AG wasn't that popular in the role either way. Then of course they just never invested in whatever current shenanigans went on at Collinwood again after they went to 1897.

Yeah, exactly. I recently finished watching the entire run and they really didn't have any traditional "back from the dead" storylines where someone is killed off and comes back eventually. As you said, if the show had continued they might've gone there with Burke due to him being killed off screen in a plane crash, but clearly with Victoria's character gone there was no opportunity to do so (along with their obvious growing disinterest in the current day Collins's).

To be fair to Thaao - how many times did he actually *know* he was supposed to be playing Andre? Tony kept being retconned into really being Andre, so he basically had no chance to really create two separate characters; add that sometimes and sometimes not Andre was clearly supposed to be in for the long haul (until some producer decided they didn't like Thaao again), so he had to add likeable elements to the character. In all honesty, I think Thaao himself is understandably confused as to how to play Tony. I do like having him (and Anna) on the canvas though.

Oh wow - the original actor was born in 1917, then the first recast in 1934 and then the third 1948. That's some de-SORAsing for a character that ultimately didn't seem to be on the show to begin with (about a year).

She should've seen Samantha. Dee needs her Emmy for doing double duty.

Eh, I disagree here - I think at that point he'd already been overruled and the Melaswen mess were about to happen so he went for broke. IIRC that episode is odd because first floating head Tom chases Marlena out of the house and then it's like they added the part where she came back and murdered Alice.

Why are people even entertaining the thought that these "deaths" are real lol

Shouldn't we start getting more renewal talks soon?

I guess going to prime time, I'd say Catherine Harrington - only on for the first 20 episodes, but she kept casting a shadow long into the shows run as the resident Mother Monster despite Mary Anderson never appearing again even in flashbacks. Franky Doyle on Prisoner: Cell Block H - again only in the first 20 or so episodes, but clearly left a huge impact that she'd be brought up long after she was gone, clearly some characters were meant to be "the new Franky" (but never quite landed) and she was made a bigger character in the rebooted Wentworth, partly based on her popularity in the original.

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