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Well damn, that was quick. Can’t say that I ever watched for even a full minute. I don’t dislike him, but something about him in this format irks me. I think I prefer him as a presenter. I haven’t even been able to bring myself to watch his episode with Susan Lucci. Interestingly enough @j swift , whenever his show was on, my TV read “Dr. Oz” on the menu screen. I believe his show was produced by DebMar Mercury. Maybe they were hoping Nick would attract Wendy’s audience in her absence and now with Sherri officially onboard, they can cut their losses. ETA: Guilty of posting before reading the article.

I love that I can knock out a week’s worth of B&B on Paramount in less than two hours.

These fake out nightmares of Gwen are so played out. I was sick of them when RC overused them on One Life.

Bingo.

It can be cultural/regional. I have always called my father Daddy, just like my mother, aunt, and uncles called their father Daddy (almost sounds like “Deity” the way they pronounce it). i remember people posting their annoyance with OLTL’s Antonio and Cristian calling Carlotta “Mami”, and I’m like, keep your grubby fingers off their culture, they ain’t doing nothing wrong.

What a find! This is so lovely and special, thanks for sharing!

I’m not familiar with BB’s work on GH or even as Stefan, really. Is he doing an accent for Jake? He sounds like he’s from Pittsburgh whenever he pronounces the “ow” sound: house=haas, down=dahn. It’s almost Scottish sounding.

Ha! To be fair, she and Holly were trading Tweets when Robin called her her favorite, but I still believe her as Robin doesn’t tend to buIIshit about that kind of stuff. I think it’s a quality of herself that she sees in others. For instance, she just adored the little demanding diva Hayden Panettiere. I have an old SOD somewhere with a nice professional photo of Holly and her dad who I believe was a photographer. I haven’t watched too much of her stuff on YouTube. Laura is my Cassie, good, bad, or indifferent.

Same here. My brother fathered a child at 19 which made me a 10 year old uncle, kinda cool at the time. Now that nephew is 33 and married and I have a grandniece. Where did the time go? I don’t know about you guys, but I simply do not feel “my age”, whatever that’s supposed to mean. I had a wonderful childhood, spoiled but by no means rotten, I’m super nostalgic when it comes to my ‘80s upbringing. I look at a lot of people I grew up with, and we are so different from our parents. Many of us are still unmarried and without children struggling to find affordable housing. Meanwhile, my mother was a 36 year old grandmother with a mortgage.

In another set of Tweets, Robin shared that Holly was her favorite Cassie. Robin did an interview back in the ‘90s where she intimated that Laura had a tough go of it adjusting to work with Robin coming off of Elaine. Robin told her, “I may be your second Dorian but you’re my fourth Cassie!”

Seriously.

IIRC, The Monroes took a brief hiatus, I’m guessing after not so great numbers. I definitely remember ABC airing the first episode for a second time a couple of weeks after the debut, probably trying to find more audience. I was in high school at the time and my media teacher did some moonlighting as a camera person when they shot on location in the D.C. area.

Stephanie and Kate O’Mara were supposed to be the Scott sisters but Kate chose to do a play instead and ended up on Dynasty anyway. The Scott sisters were not conceived as English, all of the big name actresses first considered for Sable were American (I read that in the bible the sisters are San Franciscans). Maybe Katharine would have been more believable playing sister to Angie Dickinson, Faye Dunaway, or Elizabeth Ashley. (Sable is given some expository dialogue some episodes in explaining that she was raised in England with their mother; Frankie, in California with their dad, accounting for their different accents.) I guess when the producers had no luck nabbing a Hollywood star, they hoped lightning would strike twice by casting the Joan route. I have the ‘85 TV Guide with The Colbys on the cover, and it’s reported that over forty actresses from the U.S., England, Australia, and South Africa were seen for Sable. To me, Frankie and Lady Ashley are two peas in a drippy yawn-inducing pod.

A sitcom, but the (a?) writers of The Golden Girls were fond of using the name Victor.

On Twitter, Robin has expressed her feelings that Dianne was a nothing role, a dud, and she wishes she’d been given more to do on Knots. She said that she wishes she’d waited and had a shot to play Claudia instead. I am a huge fan of early ‘90s Robin, loved her on Knots, and ITA that she and Michele were a great match. Back then I pictured them in a Darren Star one camera comedy series with Bea Arthur as their mother and Sarah Jessica Parker as their niece. In Waggett’s book of soap opera lists, he writes that Claudia got her name from Livia of I, Claudius. Siân Phillips played that part so deliciously in the series. I think Claudia was pretty life changing for Kathleen Noone, she was dead set against playing characters like Ellen Dalton ever again. She said in interviews that she wouldn’t take on another soap role unless the character was a bitch. I wouldn’t say that Bette was a bitch, but certainly a flashy soap diva.

My fantasy was Diahann Carroll coming on as Victoria when Joan Collins was playing Alex. Others suggested that Ellen Holly would have been a great Victoria. She’s in heaven now so I feel bad for saying this but the strikingly beautiful Kim Hamilton was not the strongest actress. I was very excited when I read Paul Rauch’s SOD interview where he mentioned that he wanted to bring on “the black Spauldings”, plural. In hindsight, I wonder who even brought that history to his attention. I first learned of the Barbados s/l in a soap magazine article and I was so confused. They showed pictures of these attractive twenty-/thirtysomething actors playing Brandon and Sharina without explaining that the story was also told in flashbacks. Much later, I saw a pic of the same actors in awful old age makeup and I finally put two and two together.

Yeah, I didn’t know that anyone besides Kim Hamilton played Victoria. Victoria’s daughter was also named Victoria (going by Vicky Brandon when she first came to Springfield) and she was played by two actresses. I’m forgetting the first actress’ name, but she was recast with Victoria Platt.

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I am so happy for Sherri. I will miss Wendy, in spite of all her messiness, and precisely because of all her messiness. I was a loyal listener when she was on WBLS and I can hardly believe so many years have passed since she made the announcement of her trial run of an eponymous talk show. The Lifetime movie and documentary hit such heights, I wonder if Wendy was just over it after that. She put almost all of her business out on Front Street, she had the overwhelming support of her fans while getting to see her unfaithful ex be publicly spanked. From the documentary, it was painfully clear that she was hurt and lonely no matter how much she professes to being her own best friend. Her subsequent attempts at romance soured. Oy. Well, in her own time, maybe she'll find a more comfortable platform out there in streaming a la Judge Judy. I doubt we'll ever see the likes of the big splashy WWS again, but I actually thought broadcasting from her living room worked for her. It was just her speed, eating her deli food, no bells and whistles, just intimate chat reminiscent of her Bonus Hour back in her radio days. At any rate, I wish her health and happiness.

Erica and Tad had a scene sometime in the ‘90s where there was a short playful exchange on the subject of a romantic pairing. Tad quipped something to the effect that it would never work because they were too much alike.

Definitely Guiding Light at I haven't had my coffee yet o'clock. I was in kindergarten when EON was cancelled, but I would have loved to watch a soap at 4:00 in my teens. But a soap would not have stood a chance against Queen Oprah in that timeslot for many years to come. The cartoon offerings were too good for me to commit to Tribes, and Swan's Crossing bounced around, eventually airing early in the mornings at some time that was lost on me. I'm a night owl and I really enjoyed watching The Doctors late at night on Retro and always got a kick out of the soaps being preempted in the day and airing at night. I would have loved late night viewing of Rituals and the proposed 13 Bourbon Street.

Some crossover episodes that (to my knowledge) have yet to make it to YouTube are Dorian's (Elaine Princi) visits to Adam in Pine Valley when he was trying to smear Natalie in The Intruder. I remember when these episodes were airing from seeing the pictures in SOD, but I never caught them. I do remember Adam picking up the phone during a heated exchange and dialing The Intruder asking to speak with Dorian Lord.

I think I saw that too, on YT several months ago. I want to say Alice Hirson as Eileen and she was friends with Kate Martin.

What I love about B&B is that it’s super easy to keep up with and catch up with, episodes averaging 20 minutes with ads on Paramount. What I don’t love is characters having the same scene written three slightly different ways in the same episode. I’m always saying to the screen, “You just said that!” I agree that Paris’ mom going in on Carter was good. And @Noel lol at dude being on his smartphone while Paris sang the anthem. I gave my vote for Paris and Carter on here months ago. My concern is that this show won’t know what to do with them if officially paired. I haven’t been watching consistently for all that long, but it seems like the only way they can make Carter interesting is to put him in some forbidden romance. Look how quickly he and Katie were dropped before they’d even been picked up. And with Zoe gone, they need to bring another woman into the mix. Zende is approaching character I’d drop status. How cute is Douglas? “Aunt Steffy, you wanted to see me?” Liam makes me gag when he plays hip understanding stepdad.