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EricMontreal22 Contributor

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Oh I was gonna say about 3-4 months later, Marlena's review (whatever you think of her critiques) had completely turned around to how awful it was. And I agreed....

I disagree with Carl about the end of Broderick's 90s run, but yeah. We've had good ALMOST years (like when Agnes returned to do the coming out story before Passanante's stuff took over as well as others, even with McTavish IMHO) but not longer. Sigh. But I think that's true of a lot of soaps post mid 90s

Although by UK tv standards, the budgets are fairly high. Remember Corrie and Eastenders in particular routinely are at the top of the tv ranks.

OK which makes even more sense why Nixon and Brown/Esensten were there. They prob submitted scripts like Jesse/Angie reunion.

As everyone who knows her keeps saying, she's still as sharp as ever, even if her body is more frail.And it seems at this time of her life she has less other stuff to occupy her time... (which sounds harsh, but you know what I mean)

As does Corrie--you used to be able to tour the old ones.

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The UK soaps, though faced with some cuts over the years, are still among the most expensive and high budgeted British television productions. It's not really an apples to apples comparison. Corrie and EastEnders are also still the cornerstone of ITV1 and BBC One's respective schedules, though clearly not as socially embedded as they once were.

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allmc2008 Rising Star

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I have been twitting FOZ:

@allmc2008

@TheMightyFoz This was written by the great Doug Maraland http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html?t=9674619#page:showThread,9674619 …

@allmc2008 great stuff! thanks!

And

@TheMightyFoz Have you ever done soaps before? Just asking because I study the daytime serialized drama and no it better than myself!

@allmc2008 I have not. i am mostly primetime and features guy. Although i have been learning a lot in the last couple months!

@TheMightyFoz Irna Phillips believed they were much more than a gimmic and made them what they are today.

@allmc2008 i agree

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Foz ‏@TheMightyFoz

@allmc2008 yes, and they have always been the mold breaker. from radio to tv then tv to cable and now tv to the future...history!

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EricMontreal22 Contributor

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allmc2008, I think you're enthusiasm and posts are wonderful, but you may not wanna send this guy too many random soap clips, as great as they are... just saying... *ducks*



A random thought. One reason Pratt's debut may have seemed so exciting also was, apparently, Frons basically left him alone. He was a fairly expensive "buy" for AMC, Frons adored and trusted him, and gave him a producer credit. So, unlike B/E and others, he probably had (for good and ultimately bad) a lot more control of his own material.

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