AMC and OLTL Canceled!

[quartermainefan]

with oil at $4/gallon and more, and big oil spills dominating the news in recent years, I don't think Dallas is too 80s at all. Oil is back in the public consciousness, and what better time for JR to pop up trying to make a buck off it?

[Soapsuds]

I'd love to see Knots on TNT too in a new version ala Dallas 2.0.

I din't know she had wrote that speech. The whole last season of FC was a nightmare but so was Dallas and Dynasty. Had Knots kept Abby that show could have been on the air much longer. The show lost steam once she left. Once she returned to the finale........the show felt complete again.

[Soapsuds]

He will soon!

[MontyB]

I wouldn't . That show is classic and it shouldn't be touched. I just don't have faith anyone could make it just as good. I have no idea why they are rebooting Dallas.

[DRW50]

I think Abby leaving helped the show, because she was a huge character, but the people running Knots at that time had no idea how to write for her, and Donna knew it. I was relieved when she left, and I enjoyed her imitations (Anne, Claudia) until it was time for her to return. Well, I enjoyed Claudia until the sick story where she murdered her son and was forgiven for it because she attempted suicide.

I hated the last season of Falcon Crest, and I thought the way Emma and Angela were treated was crass. I'm just glad that Jane Wyman was able to return and finish the series off with some class (which the show never really had even at the best of times).

[Soapsuds]

Anne got real annoying fast. I liked Claudia too until she killed her son. None had the Abby vibe to me though...they might have been imitations of Abby but it fell short.

[quartermainefan]

I hope it is revealed JR is the one financing the Libyan revolution.

[DRW50]

And of course this. Frankly, until someone finally remembered way too late that Fallon was not mini-Krystle, I kept wishing the aliens would beam her back up.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ju8YH6ewoqQ

[Soapsuds]

This was the series finale of The Colbys...a cheap rip off of Dynasty. The only thing I liked about the show was the theme music and Maxwell Caulfield.

[DRW50]

You didn't like Sable

[All My Shadows]

It's not usually considered a soap, but I think a lot of the major elements of LHOTP were soapy, including the final scene with the entire town marching through the debris, triumphantly singing Onward Christian soldiers, and then all of the covered wagons passing in front of the only building that still stands -- the little house. IDK what they were going for with the rabbits (I always thought it was an allusion to Pa and Ma's sex life), but it works for me.

[Khan]

Linda Fairgate came closest to filling the "Abby void," IMO. Unfortunately, John Romano decided KNOTS was better off w/o her. :-(

Perhaps, under the right circumstances, I could see a continuation of KNOTS happening. Of course, it ain't 1989 anymore, and whoever were in charge would need to respect that. For example, a "new KNOTS" would need to put the kids - Bobby and Betsy Ewing, Meg Mackenzie, etc. - front and center. Having Val continue on as the central victim heroine would be a colossal joke, IMO.

Sable Colby was the "Designer Impostor's" version of Alexis, AFAIC.

[DRW50]

I loved Linda. That awful blood on the shoes scene killed the show then and there.

To me they were very different - Sable was colder and Alexis was more vulnerable.

The end of Brookside (the characters have been thrown out of their longtime housing project and this is Jimmy Corkhill's final blast - the show's writer was using him as an avatar).

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[Khan]

OMG, someone start another AMC/OLTL-related rumor (like, they're moving to TBS, or Coleman's also threatening to pull their advertising) before the mods shut down this thread.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I heard Myrtle's boardinghouse was always a front, she was really a madam housing hookers...