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The easy guess is that his record label owned the rights to the song/master tape, hence could license it to ABC. If there's money to be paid, then corporations are going to go after it. I'm sure Cross got paid in royalities, but maybe didn't receive a direct check from ABC. Plus, his label were likely glad to get the exposure, but I can imagine that his management (and himself) wasn't thrilled with the idea of him becoming some singer best known for putting out songs about fictional characters after Arthur's Theme (ironically, it was his last hit single).

The first half of the dream season is quite good to be fair, it's the second half that got into a bit of a rambling mess with the jungle and Nero stuff.

Most networks were thinking about getting out of soaps at that time and Passion was the first that went, then Guiding Light and As The World Turns, then of course One Life To Live and All My Children. The truth is that General Hospital was next to go if they hadn't seen that the replacements weren't doing well (I think NBC ultimately ended up giving up Passions time slot to affliaties, but I might be wrong) and that's what's so far kept the remaining soaps on air. They know if they lift them off at this point they'll not only get replacements doing worse, but also likely affect the rest of the remaining daytime line up negatively. I assume they've figured the remaining soaps DO have a unique audience that won't tune in unless there's a soap on air.

TALKING ABOUT CHARITY RAHMER ON DAYS ❤️ ❤️ ❤️ Three weeks we shall never forget!!!! When will Ken let us stream them??!?!?

https://www.youtube.com/user/strangeparadise69/playlists Has the first two arcs and seems to be uploading the last arc.

Definitively an imitation. I also think if you enjoyed the spooks of DS you'd enjoy SP. How they do away with characters is kind of insane though; but I've only watched the first two arcs.

I know no one is interested but I just randomly saw that the channel has started adding the episodes of the second (and last!) arc of Desmond Hall:

I mean, Leslie Jordan's opinion on Mary Frann is essentially based on appearing on Newhart for one episode in 1989. For all we know she could've had a crappy day and were just stand-off-ish towards him.

Doesn't really seem that optimistic for this round of pilots. The script hasn't been sent out either it seems. So best case scenario they'll keep it in consideration next round, worst case it's just been passed on.

Honestly, the more I read about early daytime television (and early television in general) I don't get the feeling they thought much about the long-term, but were just happy they were able to get an episode on air each afternoon. I'm sure the reason they switched formats was because they eventually just realised how hard it was to write a new story each day - while it might seem obvious to us now, I don't think they thought that far ahead. As long as the show got on air they were fine.

It's a bit hard to imagine they'd cancel it with co-vid still around, but I guess they could surrender the slot to affiliates? With that said, last time around production got shut down and everyone got released from their contracts, so who knows if they'll let it happen again just to try and get it even cheaper than last time.

To be fair, he started when soap operas was basically live-to-tape and there were very little time between taping and airing date (maybe one or two weeks). Having long-terms plans probably didn't seem as necessary as getting the show on air on time, plus the audience feedback (positive/negative) could actually change the course of the story. I imagine he at least knew where the story was going, but I'd imagine that he'd also constantly had to have a plan b, c or e in the back-pocket in case the network/audience rejected stories in a big way. I guess in some ways, soap writers have cushier jobs these days when they're at least two (or more in DAYS case) ahead.

To be fair, I think it was just a joke referencing to how Tommy would just randomly disappear and re-appear during the 70s (though this is how urban legends get started). It seems like they just lost interest in the character after his initial storyline was done, so I don't know why they didn't just send him off screen. Certainly, the "falling in love with your own sister" thing would be a good reason to need a break from Salem.

I hardly think it's odd that some of the older cast members might not want to film at the moment. If anything I'm surprised that the Hayes' keep filming (especially Bill!).

I'm guessing this means Linsey will be back eventually? People did speculate that she needed a break because of personal issues and it does seem a bit too consciously open-ended to have Sarah gone for good, though I guess they could recast.

So, what was Sarah's exit storyline? Did Kristen send her off to China?

I would've (re-)introduced them via Anderson Manufactoring - hell, I just realised that I don't even know what they were manufactoring, but I guess Basic Black, Gabi Chic or any of the various businesses in Salem etc could've had stuff manufactured by them. Whatever that may be in the land of soap opera vagueness (not saying I necessarily want them to revive the Anderson family, but with returns being popular...).

The Andersons always have fascinated me because obviously they seemed like such a presence in the 70s, even down to having a large company which would've supposedly kept a lot of Salem's population employed. For them to just go out on a complete whimper is odd. That they never tried to resurrect them was also odd. Maybe someone should tell Ron to throw in a Anderson manufacturing reference lol.

That article is from January 8th. Queens, National Parks and The Wonder Years reboot is casting, so they all seem like a go. No word on Pine Valley, but it doesn't look like it'll get a pilot order this round...

Well, Alison is staying for a year at least supposedly.

I'm amazed that even with corona restrictions and shutdowns they still manage to be three months ahead already. Still, it's better than eight months ahead I guess...

We haven't heard anything about a pilot being cast or filmed, so that's more likely. If it's picked up it's looking more and more like it won't be for the fall considering ABC has some pilots that are currently getting ready to film.

I agree - I'm looking forward to this pilot tbh as it's my cup of tea, but they're trying waaaay too hard with some of the names on there.

Swedish final tonight - arguably the frontrunners seem to be: Eric Saade - Every Minute (came third in Eurovision 2011 with Popular previously): Charlotte Perelli - Still Young (previously won Eurovision 1999 with Take Me To Your Heaven; finished 18th in 2008 with Hero) The Mamas - In The Middle (won last year with Move, obviously didn't represent Sweden because co-vid): Tusse - Voices (new to the competition, has had cross-over appeal in airplay):