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With all of these trials due to air in 2024, is this truly the death knell for the remaining soaps on broadcast television?

OMG, the minute I saw the topic of this thread, my mind went straight to Corvina and the damn leopard! We used to imitate the actress and laugh our fool heads off at the ridiculousness of it. Also from AMC, when Gloria was blackmailing Craig and saying, "...and if you so much as whistle Dixie..." It was a clever line during the initial scene, but they kept running it ad nauseam through flashbacks, I rolled my eyes every time it came on.

I am really shocked no one has mentioned Laverne & Shirley yet. I think it was probably the most successful spin-off as it ranked #3 in its first half-season, then #2 the next season and then #1 for the two seasons after. It seriously dropped when it was moved from its slot after its parent, Happy Days on Tuesdays, to a Thursday time slot. It failed miserably and it was shunted to Mondays at 8 for a while before back to Tuesdays for the rest of its run where it stayed in the 20s. That next season, they moved to California, and in the last season, Shirley left the show, leaving Laverne to finish out the rest of the season. It was actually going to be renewed, but Penny Marshall wanted to move production to New York. Ultimately, this was going to be too costly, and the show ended after eight seasons. On Happy Days, the characters were more promiscuous than they ended up being on their own show. The scripts weren't always the greatest (especially after the move to California), but Penny Marshall & Cindy Williams created some of the best physical comedy on television this side of Lucille Ball! I would've been down for that. We had that book in our library! Their copy stopped with the 1979-80 season, but I loved poring over that book! Years later, I saw they had updated it through the mid-80s in a bookstore, but I was too poor to purchase it at the time. That would be a great book to update every five years or so! I wish I could remember the name.

It wouldn't surprise me, actually, if went to Trial, even though the pundits are all saying Nomadland has the lead. Nomadland has two issues: 1. The actors are mostly non-actors. When the actor's branch of the academy is the largest branch, I don't know how well this will play. 2. The movie is more poetry than narrative. Again, that might get you a nomination, but not necessarily the win. We are no longer in the plurality ballot, and haven't been for some time. It's a preferential ballot. That means something that earns a lot of #2s and #3s could easily win. Trial seems like it could be a safe #2 or #3 for a lot of people, who enjoyed PYW or another film more passionately. If Trial wins, it will be more like a Spotlight kind of year.

Toups, are you thinking Mullligan as the surest? She's definitely my pick and well-deserved, but several sites are suggesting Day and even Davis as possibilities. I think McDormand could eke it out as well, if her latest win (3Billboards) weren't so recent. I think Actor is the sure shot. (Although Hopkins is phenomenal)

I just finished this series, and let me just say I love it. It has a quirky sensibility, but also knows how to bring the drama. A commentary on the absurdity of children having to grow up in that environment. Love Jasmine the most. She's the one that brought me. With the way it ended, I'm happy there's going to be a final season.

I'm sorry, but no 90s hip-hop girl group would be called Nasty Bitches. That stuff didn't fly then. Nasty Bs? Maybe. Better to call the group Xhale or 4Love or something like that. Conjures up Nineties hip-hop or R&B more to me.

If she does (and I think there's a decent chance), she will take the spot by Chung or Fennel (even though I love PYW)

Vaccinated. Pfizer. They said it will take two weeks for the antibodies to build up.

Working through Breaking Bad, On My Block and Cobra Kai. Oh yeah...and WandaVision.

Almost 30 years on and STILL a bop!

Loving the whole album, but this is the one sticking out for me right now.

This guy ("Professor of Rock") is just an all-around good follow if you are pop fans of the 70s and 80s. He occasionally dips into the 90s too. Really knows his stuff but not esoteric about it at all.

Marceline is correct. Here in the Rust Belt of Ohio, a lot of people are still out of work and haven't truly recovered from 2008 and the shutdowns of auto manufacturers prior and since. If people feel like they have a rock solid job they can retire from, they're golden. I believe in this so heavily that I just completed one of Biden's surveys asking me about the key issues to win this state. Personally, I want to see him work on gun violence and systemic racism and climate change...but I also want him to win, and here that means jobs and the economy (stupid). P.S. I don't see him winning Ohio this go-round, but I do know polls are showing we are a little less leaning R than we were two weeks ago. Within margin of error I believe.