The Suds Report: Oct. 23, 2009

[CSF]

http://tvguide.ca/Soaps/Suds/Articles/091023_suds_report_NB.htm

[Guest dc cubs]

I hope the news about a Days renewal very soon is true. Their ratings success over the past year should get it done. I just hope it is more than a one year deal.

[CSF]

I'm anxious to see the new AMC opening. I hope it's something iconic and not some CGI crap.

[DRW50]

I don't know if he intentionally put such a horrible photo of Scott Reeves, but And then he says Melissa Reeves should be a recast Heather on Y&R? She's, what, 42 years old? She may look good for her age, but really. I guess he's inspired by the too old recast of Adam.

Wasn't Davidson unpopular on Santa Barbara? I thought most fans didn't like her as Kelly. I'd like to see Stephen Nichols on a soap again but not Y&R, especially with Braeden back. They'd just dump him, only one alpha male is allowed.

Well, if Roger Howarth is impressed, then I KNOW I'm a fan...

[SFK]

Whatever they do for the new opening, I hope they drop the stupid bumper concept. I like the opening part with the old pics of Phoebe and Erica, and the pictures sort of exploding into the air, but I liked the previous opening better, which wasn't even two years old, right? The one with the characters' signatures. Only problem was the colors were a little too Sunset Beach, and with this move to California, I'm fearing that again.

They also need a stronger arrangement of the 90-95 theme, they need to go back to the "dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh-dunh", and have less of a new agey synthesized muzak instrumentation.

OLTL's the show that really needs the new opening, I would love to design that.

Wouldn't it be nice if they invited Julia Barr back for the 40th?

[alphanguy74]

Who wants to lay odds that it's Van Hansis that said that?

[SFK]

I'm sure he's good, but you know how some people (especially drama queens in the biz) are, they just go overboard sometimes. Sometimes I think people are just sheep and they accept hype as fact, you know, like people who've seen maybe 1 1/2 Al Pacino movies, are told that what he does is the standard of "good", and just accept the "fact" that he's the greatest actor of his generation.

Then again, NB called the guy who played the producer of David's reality show on OLTL "super talented". Uh, sure he's a good-looking guy, but super talented? Are we watching the same show?

[CSF]

I agree completely. To be honest, I don't think FMB should have ever retired the 1990-1995 theme, that was so iconic. The "Scrapbook" theme and sequence from 2002-2004 was one of my favorites. I would love a revival of that with all of those vintage photographs accompanied by the 1990-1995 arrangement.

[SFK]

Yes, I think that would be the perfect combination!

And really, the ORIGINAL falling pictures opening was so perfect, the wood, the knickknacks, I loved how the legacy characters (save for Mona, Myrtle, and Palmer) were all in frames at the beginning. I would go back to that one in a second, only thing I would change is having the pictures animated instead of stills this go round, add in some old photos (Phoebe, Mona, Myrtle, et cetera), the exploding photos thing, and maybe, just maybe, or at least for the week of anniversary shows, have the first shot be a hand opening the album, and last shot be the hand closing the album then a quick pull out to reveal that the hand belongs to Agnes Nixon, sitting in a chair by a fire in a cozy den, then ALL MY CHILDREN... created by Agnes Nixon (like OLTL does it).

[LeClerc]

Being realistic for a moment, I don't think AMC's "new" opening is going to be all that different.

All the ABC soap openings have the same basic format, so chances are it's still going to be characters posing against the black background. They just have to get rid of a lot of characters, add a couple of characters, and get rid of some of the background pictures (e.g. Jack and Erica on the beach, Zach and Kendall...)

I could actually see Pratt invoking his "consulting producer" credit and getting rid of the album, the flying photos, the old black & white photos of Phoebe et al, and the music, all of which I'm sure he hates.

It's probably just going to be what we have but without the AMC-specific elements.

[juniorz1]

Yes she was. She was not even really paired with Stephen Nichols Skyler (who, by the way, began airing after SB was cancelled)- she was mostly flirting with/dating Charles Grant's Connor McCabe.

[MarkH]

Why did they replace Carrington Garland -- who had a decent fanbase with Roscoe Born -- with Davidson?

[DRW50]

So basically nothing he said was accurate.

What was Grant's character like?

Y&R should hire him. He did well at B&B.

[Jonathan]

I don't think that will happen. I actually have a feeling that the show might go back to the basics and not show any castmembers at all.... just the book. And I would be fine with that. Something simple and classic. The original theme would be great.

Though, I would love to see the return of the da, da, da, but JHC won't do it justice.

[DRW50]

Pratt may just use the Melrose theme.