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Bombed in the ratings. 253k viewers and 0.04 in the A18-49 demographic.

It certainly doesn't help that he threw so much behind Queens only for it to do so disappointingly. Add the bizarre push for Home Economics on top of that. Pretty much only Abbott Elementary and the Steve Harvey reality has done ok from his launched shows.

Interesting. I assume it'll deal with the current day decline of soaps too.

I'm just happy we have a courtroom set again! From watching Peyton Place during the pandemic, courtrooms are always good for drama!

Doesn't surprise me that Montgomery (born 1933) was also considered - it's obvious that Krystle was never meant to be that much younger than Blake as the age never really came up when you look at it. Of course, by casting Linda Evans (in her late 30s at that point) they could do a pregnancy plot, but it was always about the lower-class secretary marrying into a wealthy family - not the young hot trophy wife that we see in todays modern media.

Does this mean Trask is put on contract? I like her and the show needs non-Horton/Brady/Dimeras on the canvas so I'm happy.

I don't think it's surprising that they developed it with Linda in mind as she got her start on The Big Valley and Dallas very much had western undertones in it. With that said, I can't see her as Pamela Barnes Ewing either - it would be interesting to think of what direction Dallas would've taken with her in the role though. Angie Dickinson was originally the one they wanted for Krystle in Dynasty btw.

I was wondering how Bellamy Young fit into this...

This is just such soapy goodness. I was pissed that Eve's character was killed off. I lol'd at Lil Muffin suddenly deciding to become a lawyer (though they'll need one I guess).

IMHO, Days should shut down until March since people are testing positive left and right, and it's obvious that pretty much everyone bar maybe some hermit will get infected with omicron (which seems to be a mild strain). They have enough episodes in the can.

Doug wasn't aware that he was possessed by the devil and Marlena in the original story wasn't aware, so I guess not.

Cindy, Felice and Jackie should've gotten their own spin-off.

Since it's become an article: https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2022/01/general-hospital-greys-anatomy-group-of-abc-shows-pausing-production-return-due-to-omicron

I've never liked it when shows literally turn babies to teenagers overnight like what happened with Belle and Brady. On top of everything, it did screw with timelines because Belle's conception was so central to Sami turning bad. I always liked the approach they took with Will and Shawn - small bumps up in age, but nothing drastic. Will's not turning into an insta-teenager probably helped with Sami being able to be a "young" main character for so long - I'm glad they didn't age up Will in the mid-2000s like they originally planned. And yes, Belle and Brady should've definitively been slowly aged up, maybe they could've hit teenage years in 2005/6. A young Belle having a teenage crush on Shawn, now in college, would've been a decent way to play it.

Eh, I wouldn't mind if they made Lucas and Sami have a long-distance relationship - all his other pairings have bombed and he works better as a supporting character to other people to bounce off.

https://tvline.com/2022/01/05/greys-anatomy-omicron-season-18-production-delay-covid/ Here we go again...

Exactly. It's not AS's availability that is the problem and it's not like the show is suffering from not having enough characters with potential stories to tell. They can have hurricane Sami waltz into town every couple of months without her leaving other characters in limbo. I thought they did an ok job with that when Sami returned for Eric and Nicole's wedding. Honestly, I wouldn't mind a recast if I felt like Sami was *needed* in town permanently, but she's really not.

I've said it before, but Belle should've been like ORK's Claire - not evil, but slightly unstable and a bit of a wreck after all the trauma of her childhood. If I were in charge right now I would recast MM - not that I have anything against Martha per se, but there should be a visible age difference between her and Sami. It's just plain odd when they bring up stuff like Sami kidnapping Belle or watching John and Marlena boink on the conference table - was Sami a toddler when this happened?

Yup and with omicron so contagious it's a question of when productions will start shutting down again.

I think they can still use her, they just need to stop using her in ways that keep other characters hanging in limbo. With that said, I wouldn't mind a Lucas / Sami long-distance thing since all of Lucas's other pairings have bombed anyway.

Honestly, Alexis seemed more bemused about Sable and Dex boinking. She cared, obviously, but not in the way that she was going to fight Sable to get him back.

Well, Mimi was recast for The Last Blast webseries...

Honestly, at this point just bring Cady in full time if Melissa Reeves doesn't want to do the show. I get it, co-vid blaha blaha, but the canvas has an empty hole with Jennifer and Hope gone.

Sami wasn't the heroine in the mid-90s?

I don't really think the "Melaswen" storyline and undoing all the deaths was really worth it in the long run to be honest, but I guess once you kill off the matriarch by choking on a donut, you have no choice (though I'm 100% sure that episode was re-written to feature Alice dying). But I think in general that soaps shouldn't undo deaths unless there was a real opening to it in the way they "died" - to bring it back to current DAYS, I don't think it'd be worth undoing Laura's death as much as I wish Ron didn't kill her off.