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Since Pluto is owned by Paramount+/Viacom/CBS Studios, Sunset Beach could realistically pop up there.

Season 7 is wacky, season 8 is pretty terrible and an attempt to get back to basics and I think as long as you think of season 9 as a spin-off with some characters from Falcon Crest you'll enjoy it. It's actually a much better plotted out season than the three or so seasons that came before, but most get turned off by the fact that it doesn't have most of the glory days characters.

Pluto TV is owned by Paramount/Viacom/CBS studios.

I definitively wouldn't skip season one as it sets up the rest of the series nicely. Plus it's not Karen-deals-with-bikers type of episodes bad - just a tad less serialised than what was to come.

The majority of two hour specials are actually intentionally produced as two episodes for syndication purposes. I think very few of them are actually written as a proper full two hours (or rather 90-100 minutes). Back in the day you also didn't have the act before the opening credits, so you'd basically just have to cut off the end and opening credits and stick them together...

I believe there's talk about Dallas being re-released properly, so I assume they might be working to fix it to have it on HBO Max. I assume they don't really see Dallas or Falcon Crest as subscription drivers though, so they're probably going to try and get their money's worth on licensing them out to other streaming sites like IMDBTV before landing on HBO Max. I think CBS Studios did a similar thing to Dynasty / 90210 / Melrose Place before they landed on Paramount+.

I think it's just a sign of being a show that never really generated much hype either way. Falcon Crest had a similarly low-rated finale. (Dynasty doesn't count since I don't think ABC really promoted it as such)

Great! There's some season 7 episodes missing in the episode pack that's been on sites, so it'll be nice to be able to rewatch in full.

To be fair, did it really make him more of a jerk than the whole pitting JR and Bobby against each other in the will? Plus, JR got his chops from somewhere. I think it got a bit Jock the Saint for a while because of Jim Davis tragic passing, then again people tend to do that in real life too, so...

Well, they cut down his appearances to 15 episodes (out of 29) and pretty much wrote him out. I think it's more that they just didn't want to blatantly drop the character due to the dream retcon. Jamie was also on the show for 12 episodes, despite them killing her off initially in the season 9 cliffhanger.

I think they could've put some of those stories off for a bit to be honest and push them later into the season/series. As I said, it was just too busy and I tend to think new shows need to establish their characters first before having a dozen or so plots. ETA: Like in theory, they could've actually used the journalist doing a story on Racine's modelling agency as a way into this world, but on the other hand, you already had Laurie acting as the viewer going in so there wasn't really much point to him. In that sense he could've just turned up later and had the purpose of stirring things up.

Pretty much this - someone at ABC probably liked him enough on Happy Days to push to add him to existing shows. So it wasn't really his fault or even his characters that were bad (Clay was boring, but so were many Dynasty men). And yeah, Jefferson clearly gave a lot of life to MWC after Steve left.

Honestly, as much as I like Leann, it is odd that it never even seemed floated to recast Anna. There's been a lot bigger daytime characters that have been recast and certainly Anna would've made sense to at least be on the show in recurring capacity since Carrie was pretty much moved into the young lead heroine slot. I guess they just felt Marlena was enough of a mother figure to her at that point.

Paper Dolls essentially needed to drop one element - either Laurie's home life or the Harpers - ironically I don't think the Harpers were present in the tv movie with Joan Collins and Darryll Hannah. Either way, as it was it was just too busy and it felt like you were walking into a show that was in season 5, not season 1.

Honestly, it'd work. Swedish soap Rederiet took place around a shipping company and it was all sorts of trashy fun.

Has he slept with Kate?

They should've turned Love Boat into a full-on soap. Imagine the season ending cliffhangers with the boat being threatened with sinking each season!

Directly after. And Finder of Lost Loves is a Dionne Warwick classic (said no one).

The first season of Dynasty wasn't the huge flop people make it out to be to begin with (it was top 30), but certainly needed a boost considering the large costs. It also didn't help the first season was against MASH. The only show I can really think of that would've benefitted from the 10PM slot is Central Park West, mainly because it would've been out of the way of the Fox soaps but who knows if it could've had a broad enough appeal on CBS beyond improving the demographic numbers.

I think people might confuse Tori dating Vincent Young (Noah) with Jamie Walters. Vincent was definitively hired for that fact while Jamie was seemingly hired because Aaron worked with him on the short-lived The Heights. Though, who knows? I don't really remember the rumor at the time, but Tori "dated" a lot of 90210 co-stars...

WHERE'S THE COKE KELLY?

I think the issue is that they wanted to "revamp" an old drama series and make it into something more suitable for the decade and the television landscape at the time; of course it just led to old viewers tuning out because they didn't recognize the product in front of them and few new viewers are going to tune into a tv show because it featured a grisly murder. I don't even think it's John Romano's fault per se - I think they hired him for a specific reason and probably gave CBS/Lorimar the show they thought they wanted.

Sultry Alice with her hair down.

I remember one of the early reviews of Melrose Place pointing this out - how it was okay for 16-year-old Brandon to learn about racism, but became down-right stupid to have 23-year-old Billy Campbell learn that racism bad. Melrose of course realised this - for whatever reason 90210 just didn't want to drop social issues storylines despite the fact that they were never that good at them at their peak and literally no one watched the show for them, much less in the waning years.

Yeah, I really think that the first 13 episodes before Darren Star was booted in favour of Camille Marchetta is a great prime time soap that only failed because it was on the wrong network. Had it been on Fox I feel it would've succeeded. But I think maybe pushing it to a generational saga with the Fairchilds at the front and center, maybe amp up the mystery what happened to Linda's husband (did Allen off him?), maybe instead of Nikki they could've had the woman Allen had an affair with be the older "unhip" former editor that got replaced by Stephanie at Communique. That would've expanded the older character's storyline a bit and maybe made it more appealing for the older audience, while still keeping youth appeal with Stephanie, Carrie, Peter, Mark, Alex etc. And of course, not airing it in the 8/9PM slot against the Fox soaps.