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

 

On 5/11/2022 at 10:04 PM, SFK said:

This one is actually a little endearing in hindsight, but on AMC, Corvina and that damn leopard!

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!

On 3/3/2022 at 8:30 PM, Soaplovers said:

I would have liked the Blair buying Eastland concept if Jo was the teacher working there..and the two having to be co Mrs Garrett's.

I would've been down for that.

On 3/4/2022 at 11:45 PM, DRW50 said:

Many years ago I read a large book, from 1980 or so, about sitcoms, which would list each new sitcom from about 1950 on, and have longer writeups for certain sitcoms. They complained  about Rhoda because they said that Rhoda was just turned into Mary Richards, and Brenda became Rhoda.  And that by the end of the show, Brenda had also  become Mary, so who was Rhoda? 

 

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.

7 hours ago, Toups said:

 

I thought Frances McDormand was the sure shot in Best Actress but Viola just won the SAG.  After the SAGs, I think Chadwick and Daniel Kaluuya are the only sure shots now.   Best Actress and Supporting Actress are up in the air. 

 

 

So it looks like Best Picture will be between Nomadland and Trial of the Chicago 7, at least they're in the lead right now. 

 

 

 

 

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. 

On 3/24/2021 at 10:43 PM, Toups said:

 

I'm not sure about Best Actor and Supporting Actor too.  I think Best Actress is the only one that's a sure shot right now.   We'll see what happens at the SAGs. 

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.

On 3/8/2021 at 5:21 PM, Faulkner said:

Brandy has signed on alongside Eve and Naturi Naughton:

 

 

 

 

https://deadline.com/2021/03/brandy-star-queens-abc-hip-hop-drama-pilot-1234709087/

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.

On 3/9/2021 at 4:50 PM, Faulkner said:

I wonder if that’s our Oscar final 5 or if Regina King might break in.

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.

On 12/8/2020 at 10:42 PM, Soapsuds said:

Haha touche!

 Almost 30 years on and STILL a bop!

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

2 hours ago, BetterForgotten said:

This guy does great videos on important moments/artists/songs in rock history. He highlighted 'Like To Tell' a few weeks back, and interviewed Madonna's frequent collaborator in the 80's/90's, Patrick Leonard. Lots of nice history and detail behind the song (and some on the fan-favorite 'Oh Father'). 

 

 

 

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. 

Wadjya all think?

1 hour ago, marceline said:

 

You're right about it being quaint but it's what you have to say to win votes in the midwest. 

 

That said, I think that the COVID crisis has exposed some serious weaknesses with our supply chain and that going forward we need to look at how to bring some manufacturing back here. If Trump wasn't such a defective idiot he would've invoked the Defense Protection Act to produce everything from masks to hand sanitizer which would've been a great way to create jobs during this nightmare.

 

Also, I really want Joe to go back to his "basement." Seeing him out here doing events terrifies me.

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. 

Dimitri and Edmund (AMC)

I thought it was ridiculous when Opal (AMC) gave birth to little Petey.

Pelosi just called Trump "morbidly obese" on CNN. Let the s*%$ storm begin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSns9TJe0X0

On 5/10/2020 at 5:54 PM, cassistan said:

Yes! I loved them together. Annie in general was the sole reason to watch amc from 2008 until her end.

What's fascinating is how boring she was prior to that. MCE should have played a vixen all along.

Succession. Good family drama with a business setting.

22 hours ago, Wendy said:

Is it sad I mainly remember him from Hardcastle and McCormick? May he RIP.

You may be thinking of Brian Keith.

5 hours ago, Wendy said:

All that idiocy tells me is Diaper Don was looking forward to being able to smear Bernie with the scary "socialism" label and was praying Bernie would be the nominee. But - despite being impeached because of doing so - his attempted smearing of Joe Biden did not work and now Don knows he must go up against him.

 

If you think his smearing of Joe Biden from the whole impeachment business did not work, I'm here to tell you that you have some more thinks coming. I'm not sure what you're hearing, but in this Bleeding Red area, they are furious because the "Democrats used the impeachment to cover up what Biden really did."

Trump knows this, and Trump already knows how to play this hand.

21 hours ago, sivad40 said:

Does anybody here still actually watch Trump's pressers/neo-rallies in real time, or do you just hear the soundbites from various sources?

 

There isn't enough dressing to put on that word salad.

44 minutes ago, dragonflies said:

So proud to have this man as my Governor

 

Coronavirus: The US governor who saw it coming early

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-52113186

 

 

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I did not vote for him, but I, too, have been very impressed with his handling of the pandemic. I believe he was the first one to shut down schools. He announced on Thursday and everyone was done by Tuesday. He has gradually been shutting other things down as well. His daily 2:00 briefing has become my new "soap."