Everything posted by Contessa Donatella
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2025: The Directors and Writers Thread
Apparently what I saw was from some other outlet. Maybe CBS? Is this Michael dude shown in Errol's article?
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ARTICLE: ‘Beyond the Gates’ Splashes In Debut, ‘The Young and the Restless’ & ‘The Bold and the Beautiful’ Hit Season Highs Among Key Demos
Paragraph 1 Yes & Hooray. Paragraph 2 me again nitpicking: I don't tend to think of Disney as a network per se because they are so much more.
- GH: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
Of course Frank cares. This is not a situation like the change in Goutman at end times of ATWT. Personally I think it's pretty rare when an Exec stops caring. Much more often I think they're making mistakes rather than not giving a da*n. Basically execs want both ratings success & fans to like what they present. Ron Carlivati & Chris Goutman being exceptions to that. And, Disney both cares & has a too high opinion of Frank, I believe they adore him.
- GH: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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Ratings from the 80's
So, I need to check to see if DAYS had any pre-emptions on 3 Mondays in May 1985, specifically 5-12-85, 5-19-85 & 5-26-85. @JAS0N47
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
Andre's clearly a player but I think he's deeper than what you seem to be thinking. I believe he's been presented more cerebral, philosophical & also more mellow, more laid back, etc. But that's not why I'm replying to you. Creating a second account just so you can temporarily escape from Ignore files is not at all cool, which you may not care about, but is it legal in SON terms? And, now for my nitpick & technicalities, posting in a public spot & telling people what you post is none of their business doesn't even track. You're posting voluntarily & this is not a private conversation, if you see what I mean. Now, I'm done. You have a nice day.
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GH: March 2025 Discussion Thread
I expect changes out of the GH writing team. I watch the two shows one after the other but reversed from you. L&L2 is quite interesting to me,, so far at least. Also of interest, Avarice, Ava with Ric. Although I hated the other day when Ric attacked Kristina. I mean, good Lord, Ava is NO damsel in distress. Ava is quite capable of fighting her own battles. Nothing about natalia interests me, at all. Carly, I predict is going to be furious at NuJack!!! This is a death notice for that couple. You might have noticed that they put Charles Mesure on contract only when that budding romance began. Recast Chris M is on recurring. Make of that what you will.
- GH: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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R.I.P.: AMC, ATWT and ABC Daytime EP Felicia Minei Behr Passes Away
Oh, no. Perhaps I have the wrong ABC VIP with the right anecdote. Let me check. You're correct. So sorry. Thank you. Serves me right for not going over the text of the DM conversation.
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2025: The Directors and Writers Thread
In the advance information, official, the script writers were: Judy Tate, Danielle Paige, Cheryl L. Davis, Lynn Martin & Jazmen Darnell Brown. No script Editor was listed But Michael Montgomery was listed as Title Continuity, a Producer. So I am confused.
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R.I.P.: AMC, ATWT and ABC Daytime EP Felicia Minei Behr Passes Away
Before she was EP she started as a Line Producer in 1970, few years promoted to Associate Producer, then few more years, promoted to EP. The show under her solid #2 in ratings & won Emmys
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BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
But, we know KaMo herself said she is drawing from Erica & Reva. I think some people have Dani wrong. I don't see psychosis. Def don't see mental institution. Her level of functioning is too high. If you are so protective of Erica, look at Barbara Broderick. In this country we have a long tradition of tolerating certain things from scorned & wronged women. Add in that soaps use "heightened reality" to express the drama & what you have in 2025 is our girl Dani.
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R.I.P.: AMC, ATWT and ABC Daytime EP Felicia Minei Behr Passes Away
May light perpetual shine upon her & may angels & heavenly hosts guide her to her new resting place & may she be met there by long unseen family & friends & beloved pets. And, may a feast be laid at a groaning table, only awaiting her presence. What a celebration of her life.
- DAYS: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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R.I.P.: AMC, ATWT and ABC Daytime EP Felicia Minei Behr Passes Away
First of all may I just say Phuque Cancer, all kinds, every kind! FMB was Sr. VP ABCD 2000-2004. It was Felicia Minei Behr that Wendy Riche was having breakfast with when they were talking about the inevitable, then pending cancellation of The City & what to put there in that timeslot & Riche described what came to be Port Charles (PC) and Behr told her to go write it up as a formal proposal. She said that if it were her, she'd bracket the ABC soap afternoon with GH, beginning with a new one focusing on doctors in training in a kind of wing of the hospital all their own & end it with traditional GH. [Told to me in a Twitter DM by Riche] I have just learned from Eric that Disney made a choice between continuing with Behr or hiring Brian Frons. Now I have a terrible headache, thinking about what might have NOT been. Not happened.
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All My Children Tribute Thread
I did not know that. She was Senior VP of ABCD from 2000-2004, so you're saying they fired her & brought him in instead of giving her another term. Geeze Louise! When Michael Kape, of Soap Opera Now, first interviewed Frons in 1983 he already hated the genre, hated soaps & literally wanted to kill them. That far back!!! That early on!!! It says so much of the awful underlying psychology of the US daytime organization & business that someone who wanted to do away with them was in a position of power for so long over it! He's not called the Daytime Destroyer without cause!!!
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All My Children Tribute Thread
I would suggest also posting it in the ABC Daytime topic or even giving it its own topic since besides AMC she was head of ABCD & EP of ATWT (P&G/CBS). It was Felicia Minei Behr that Wendy Riche was having breakfast with when they were talking about the inevitable, then pending cancellation of The City & what to put there in that timeslot & Riche described what came to be Port Charles (PC) and Behr told her to go write it up as a formal proposal. She said that if it were her, she'd bracket the ABC soap afternoon with GH, beginning with a new one focusing on doctors in training in a kind of wing of the hospital all their own & end it with traditional GH.
- BTG: March 2025 Discussion Thread
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