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Two episodes of Angel Falls (CBS, 1993) are on YouTube, though they were uploaded three years ago I've never seen them: 1.5 Lost Souls: 1.6 The Fall From Grace:

Well, no shame in putting yourself out there I guess. Though it'd be odd to see a Javi that suddenly grew taller than Leo.

I mean, I get in general when actors say that they aren't watching their own shows. If I was an actor, I probably wouldn't either! I assume some people just feel odd watching themselves, while I'm sure others are unbothered by it. However, once you get creatively involved... you need to watch the show you're making, period. How else can you understand what people found appealing about it in the first place?

Compare that to the Dexter franchise which seems to go from strength to strength with the three new series surpassing the previous one. They absolutely expected "And Just Like That..." to run for years, but they botched it. SJP admitted to not watching the original - which is fine if you're just an actor doing your job, but if you're going to step up to the plate you clearly need to understand the appeal of the original in the first place. Cynthia Nixon seemed to want Miranda to reflect her own life, despite it making zero sense in Miranda's case. Michael Patrick King seemed mostly into the whole embarrassment as humour thing, but seemed to have little ideas beyond that.

I mean, no songwriter is going to waste a potential hit record on a fictional daytime soap group. I'm just happy we got to hear some actual music from them - I wouldn't mind if they threw it up on streaming.

I think this is a classic case where the show really didn't think some things through. If we were talking about Diana Ross going to solo, she pretty much kept going in the Pop/R&B mainstream direction. The Supremes also continued to exist, even if it was at diminishing returns with each line up; Mary had some minor hits and so on. However, in Anita's case they had her go in a completely different direction to her girl group roots - jazz. I very much doubt that a lot of fans of The Articulettes would expect to hear her jazz stuff since that's miles away from the usual girl group pop and would sound out of place. And I agree with those that said it's odd how they limited Tracy and Sharon's personal lives for no reason. Sure, I think it's obvious that they'll likely be written out and barely mentioned again after this mess of a storyline, but basically making them props in Anita's storyline isn't good writing. Plus it's always good to have those sort of characters existing somewhere out there in the future.

Indeed. There's a lot of accomplished people who've never won an award in their life, so I'm not sure why they had to go OTT and have Anita be an EGOT, while also she's supposedly been retired from showbusiness for I don't know how long. The timeline in Beyond the Gates has to be the messiest thing and I'm just not sure why they made it so from the get-go. Usually soaps end up having conflicting timelines due to ill-thought out SORAS.

For all we know, Al Calderon could've left months ago in real time.

Oh I agree. Even if Brilliant Minds gets cancelled, it might lead to better things for him. I suspect that he'll leave DAYS and wouldn't go back until all other options tanked. Javi has hardly been a great role for him to show his acting chops, even if I'm sure he's happy to have had a reliable income. But we'll see. He might reason that if he can do both for a bit it'd help him build up a nest egg.

Yup. Besides DAYS, we also have Love Island which is basically a reality soap that airs daily over a period of time. I could see streamers starting to experiment with a more seasonal format with maybe 65-90 episodes airing in the spring / fall with breaks.

Half hour could happen if we're talking about a soap developed for streaming exclusively.

I know this is just Tamara Tunie's word and it might not be the same as MV, but man does this just further messes up the timeline. So, The Articulettes was a popular girl group with enough hits to support a reunion concert (songs which we've heard that sound very New Jack Swing), which she then left and had a successful run of jazz albums, in addition to an acting career that earnt her the EGOT. Then she met Vernon and put everything on hold to have their children, who are now in their late 40s / early 50s, so sometime in the first part of the 1970s she essentially "retired".

Is he even worth recasting? He's done nothing but to prop up Leo so far. He's essentially a non-character at this point and his cousin tie to the Hernandez clan isn't that strong. If they had made him Rafes son I could see the effort being worth it, but now? Nah, just write him out unless his storyline/position in the canvas gets more intriguing in the coming 8 to 9 months.

They'll kill off Javi and they'll give Leo a hugely dramatic storyline how all of Salem grieves with him because he's such an amazing and witty person, everyone will constantly talk about how bad they feel for Leo that they'll tear down the Horton monument in the town square to erect a statue of Leo in tribute to his incredible resiliency and rename it "Leo Square". Also, they'll have a hot young hunk randomly appear and fall in love with Leo, because he's such an awesome person and the show will rename itself to "Leo of our Lives".

Yeah exactly. They're what? 8-9 months ahead at this point? So Al Calderon might exit Salem as Brilliant Minds wraps up its season. Plus, last season NBC failed incredibly badly in the drama department that unless Brilliant Minds has some sort of ratings spike, it's not likely to last beyond season two. So Calderon might want to keep that door to Salem open...

Salem Place lasted over a decade, didn't it? That "construction" started across the street was the initial excuse why they ditched it, but I think it became a parking lot eventually. Either way, I think Salem Place was actually very efficient in using the space. Everyone who visited it when it existed have said that it was much much smaller than it looked on tv. I think if any of the current soaps have a shot at doing a backlot location it's Beyond the Gates since they've already used space outside the studio. I think the weather / seasons in Atlanta might be an issue though.

Al Calderon (Javi) has been cast as a series regular on Brilliant Minds, so I guess he might be out in about three years...

TBF, they live in a townhouse, so it makes sense that they have maybe a big master bedroom with smaller adjacent rooms. I guess you can reason that Tyrell's bedroom is directly above the living room corner area lol. I think it's a smart way to use the set either way, especially as I doubt Tyrell's bedroom will feature that often.

I get the feeling they designed very specific sets from the start with the budget and that those doesn't lend themselves to easy redressing. They probably could use a generic apartment set that's isn't very specific-looking and the police office probably should've been designed a bit blander to easier double as a office set for Naomi and so on.

Is it just me that have been impressed with us getting a courtroom set and a bookstore set? Did the swear jar fill up early?

I think they might've hired him for the resume alone - regular on Girl Meets World for the entire run, recurring role on American Housewife for four seasons and then having a Netflix movie under his belt must've been appealing for DAYS.

I think he's serviceable right now as the soap meathead type. I think he's improved somewhat once he's been paired with someone else but Ashley (who similarly has improved). Neither are really ones I'd recast at this point because they're really not important enough to the plot in the long run. Both are working a bit better now at least as characters. Same with Alegria. I'd probably just write him out (have him be the first on-screen death?). Claybon is more of an issue since they're giving him heavy material and is important to the canvas in the long run. My theory is that they might be aiming to have a possible custody dispute with the kids (June possibly being their mother?) and they realised that the kids would need some autonomy of their own in order for it to not come across as "evil gay couple steals destitute woman's kids".

The X-Files theme wasn't successful in the US, but hit the top ten in a bunch of markets (notably, #2 in the UK). DJ Dado also had a remix of it that was successful around the world.

I tend to think this is Cwikly / Ford since it's a story that's starting rather one that's continuing from Ron's tenure (like the "Who shot EJ" storyline). I can't say it thrills me, but we'll see where it goes. ETA: it might tie into the Who Shot EJ storyline though...

Great way to induce trauma flashbacks DAYS promo monkeys.