I don't know if Carla had any reaction to it or not - she probably knows not to take it personally. Or I hope she does. I guess being booed is hard not to take personally. I do feel sorry for the people on The Chew who aren't criticizing soap fans and just doing their job, but the bottom line is they just need to try to make this...show less offputting than it has been in the promos.

Mariano Rivera had the BEST reaction ever to fans BOOing him. He was in Boston eating at the Park Plaza when some fans spotted him and booed... he stood up, gave them a huge grin and bowed. Those fans just cracked up laughing because he played ALONG. He didn't pout, run or get angry. He earned a great rep as a solid good guy who could handle fans just fine.

Carla and The Chew hosts need to remember PLEASING the fans is THEIR #1 job.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by TeamEric

I think the Chew hosts are just doing their jobs, for the most part. But when you get comments from some of them like "Susan Lucci is Italian, she can come make pasta!" or "those shows didn't work!" I think they kind of deserve some of the blowback.

Let me guess that was Battali's comments?

He's an arrogant ass and another reason I hope this show tanks.

Carla and The Chew hosts need to remember PLEASING the fans is THEIR #1 job.

I absolutely agree.

I have to say, it saddens me the someone that I know is looking forward to The Chew because he loves Carla. No accounting for taste. I still hope The Chew flops miserably just for G.P.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by MontyB

I absolutely agree.

I have to say, it saddens me the someone that I know is looking forward to The Chew because he loves Carla. No accounting for taste. I still hope The Chew flops miserably just for G.P.

The only reality "info-tainment" I am interested in watching is on HGTV. The Chew wouldn't appeal to me on any channel.

http://michaelfairma...amc/2011/09/21/

Nice, lengthy, interesting article written by Michael Fairman. It has a lot of interviews with the cast of AMC. Here's a little excerpt that made me chuckle ;-)

But while we took the time to talk about some of Thorsten favorite memories, we also talked about the worst. Anyone remember a small kiss between Zack and Bianca’s bride-to-be, Reese, played by Tamara Braun? Perhaps not one of my AMC greatest moments and the very honest Kaye thought it was dreadful, too! “This is where we get into how people write, and so they say we need a result. They say, ‘OK. We are going to go here.’ But you can’t get ‘here’. Not only is she a lesbian that has been accepted, but I never played that Zach was attracted to her. And she is also married to one of his dear, dear friends. So explain to me this kiss? And they go, ‘Well, Ryan sees it!’ And I go, ‘Ryan sees it? What does that have to do with us?’ I said, ‘Just let us please go into a room and close the door and let it be that Ryan’s imagination takes over. Don’t show something that does not make sense to anybody and it doesn’t help you tell your story.’ They never did that kind of thing to Zach and Kendall that much. You can’t work backwards.”

TV Guide article:

http://www.tvguide.c...ws-1037914.aspx

How did you feel at the time the show was canceled, and everything that led up to that?

Knight: Agnes was shoved to the side very unceremoniously a few years back by people who shouldn't be in this industry as far as I'm concerned. They didn't know what they were doing... It ended up taking us down.

Nixon: I was saddened, but I saw it coming because the ratings were going down and personally I felt the show wasn't being written as it should. It wasn't true to the characters. You know, they had focus groups every three or four months, and I went every time knowing what I would hear. "Oh, we still love the characters, but the stories don't work for us. What happened?" So, it wasn't a total surprise to me... I was the saddest when they killed Stuart.

Lucci: The fans were very vocal about not recognizing the character. I wondered why it was allowed to go on so long. I wondered why Lorraine was brought in for two weeks and we were all so happy and then the show got canceled. You could listen to the focus groups and see the ratings were dropping and know that someone was off.

Knight: It's been a real roller coaster the last couple of years. We've been doing more with less [money], I think everybody's just sort of been biting the bullet to get through... It's been alternately rewarding and exciting and frustrating and humiliating. Different people came in and tried to adapt the show to ideas they thought were more exciting or whatever, and it didn't work. Then they brought Agnes just to tie everything up in a short amount of time. We've been working at an almost surreal pace.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by Jonathan

Nixon: Why wouldn't our fans watch online? You don't have to watch at 1 o'clock now — you can watch them any time of day and catch up on what you missed. I know it's a transition, but maybe the thing we're making is electronic history. There's no reason this won't work. The story is my world. I call it my real world of make-believe. These people live 24 hours a day for me, and I have no problems with anticipating and creating new stories. ... At the same time, until deals are done, I can't even start to think about plots until we know who we have to plot about. [As for Susan Lucci continuing with the show], she and I are very good friends, but neither one of us wants to talk about that; it's off limits.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by Jonathan

^Wasn't sure what to really think when I read that

That was a very nice article!

TV Guide article:

http://www.tvguide.c...ws-1037914.aspx

Remarkable that elderly Agnes Nixon sounds the MOST enthused about PP's new venture... she still has that pioneer spirit. Good for her.

I still say SL will appear on PP.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by TeamEric

To me, it seems like they (well, Su and MEK) don't want to get tied up in this unless they can be sure it'll be an enjoyable experience. I love that people are coming out and slowly starting to speak out against the things they thought went wrong with the show. It shows that they weren't over doing AMC, they were just over doing what all of these "idiots" wanted AMC to be. And I'm definitely speaking about MEK there.

SuLu's part about it not being AMC if Agnes isn't involved seems like a response to all of the "it's not AMC if Lucci isn't there" stuff. I think she'll do it if Agnes can have some input. She's 83 years old, but let girlfriend bring her ideas to the table!

To me, it seems like they (well, Su and MEK) don't want to get tied up in this unless they can be sure it'll be an enjoyable experience. I love that people are coming out and slowly starting to speak out against the things they thought went wrong with the show. It shows that they weren't over doing AMC, they were just over doing what all of these "idiots" wanted AMC to be. And I'm definitely speaking about MEK there.

SuLu's part about it not being AMC if Agnes isn't involved seems like a response to all of the "it's not AMC if Lucci isn't there" stuff. I think she'll do it if Agnes can have some input. She's 83 years old, but let girlfriend bring her ideas to the table!

I could be wrong but MEK sounds very burned out and in need of a very long break.

Didn't I read PP wants Julie and Broderick/Nixon?

Personally, PP's choices of keeping the same creative teams isn't very appealing... Nixon consulting is a good idea but both AMC and OLTl suffer from over-reliance on soap cliche plotting. Fresh blood is needed.

It does appear MEK is in talks with PP, though, but I agree he seems like he's over it. I don't know if it's burned out exactly. He just seems to think there's nowhere else to go with Tad due to the corner the writing has put him in through the years. In other intervews, he's mentioned maybe it's best it ends this way with Tad and Dixie happily ever after.

I think he has points but MEK is such a good actor that if a writer puts effort in making Tad more interesting they could. I thought he was dynamite with Jamie Luner's Liza and it could have made a good triangle upon Dixie's return.

A lot of the actors, not much unlike the fans, seem burned out with so many years with the same old writing for their characters be it too much drama or too much goody-two-shoes.

I sort of want Tad and Dixie to just ride off into the sunset. If MEK and CM decide to do the online version and Cady decides to bolt again, what in the world are they going to do with Dixie?

As burned out as he sounds, I think MEK could be persuaded to continue with the show, provided PP makes some serious, hard promises. If Agnes (or as he says, someone of her choosing) were to steer the ship, fine. But if it's going to be another Pratt-like situation, where someone who doesn't know the show just throws everything great about it out the old window, then forget it. MEK has contented himself with the idea of being Tad Martin for life, but not if that involves continuing to write the character the way they've been for years.

Edited September 22, 201114 yr by Khan

I'm not really sure what they could even do with Tad now - I think they significantly damaged the character in the late '90s and it's never been the same. Tad never should have been a moral authority figure in Pine Valley. I can't blame MEK for struggling.

I have such a soft spot for Cady as an actress that I'd like to see Dixie again in some capacity, but I do agree that I have no idea where they would go. All I could suggest is she goes back to Pigeon Hollow for a while and they try some pseudo-supernatural element (like True Blood or whatever), that would also tie into her various returns from the dead.