Thanks, I am trying @Soapsuds. Me and anxiety have been in a tussle. Where’s a good “comfort food” soap when you need one?

1 minute ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Thanks, I am trying @Soapsuds. Me and anxiety have been in a tussle. Where’s a good “comfort food” soap when you need one?

Back in the 80s.

I've been watching a lot of Dallas and Falcon Crest on FreeVee😂

Just now, Soapsuds said:

Back in the 80s.

I've been watching a lot of Dallas and Falcon Crest on FreeVee😂

😂😭

I used to watch the old 21 Jump Street series on there. I hear they’re getting some new series there. Maybe I should get onto Falcon Crest or as Blanche Devereaux used to call it “Falcons Landing “

 

8 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

😂😭

. Maybe I should get onto Falcon Crest or as Blanche Devereaux used to call it “Falcons Landing “

 

😂😂😂

26 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Thanks, I am trying @Soapsuds. Me and anxiety have been in a tussle. Where’s a good “comfort food” soap when you need one?

I just binge Golden Girls when that goes down tbh. Or Cheers. But I doubt you can go wrong with Labine's early GH in '94 or Marland's ATWT, at least for me during this pandemic.

34 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

😂😭

I used to watch the old 21 Jump Street series on there. I hear they’re getting some new series there. Maybe I should get onto Falcon Crest or as Blanche Devereaux used to call it “Falcons Landing “

 

FC isn't half bad. But i found it hard to get into it.  While not as good as Knots. It wasn't cartoonish like Dallas and Dynasty became. FC had a good cast and interesting characters.

Spoiler

 32 year old spoiler-The last two season FC completely goes off the rails.

 

38 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:

Back in the 80s.

I've been watching a lot of Dallas and Falcon Crest on FreeVee😂

I been watching Alex Rider, Dallas and FC on FreeVee🤣

Edited April 15, 20223 yr by victoria foxton

34 minutes ago, DramatistDreamer said:

Where’s a good “comfort food” soap when you need one?

There's also the 1984 DOOL playlist on YouTube. It's all full episodes too. 

This one's for you, @DramatistDreamer:

I increasingly suspect F.A.S.T./FreeVee-type platforming is a future for American soaps if the networks choose to actually invest in them, much as it seems it may be for Neighbours in Australia.

1 hour ago, Vee said:

This one's for you, @DramatistDreamer:

I increasingly suspect F.A.S.T./FreeVee-type platforming is a future for American soaps if the networks choose to actually invest in them, much as it seems it may be for Neighbours in Australia.

Thanks for sending this!

Yes, I have been feeling the same way. Which U.S. soap production company is going to have enough intelligence to take that next step? When Crackle first emerged, a lot of people mocked its presence but I saw from that time that it, or other platforms like it would eventually become more popular and more valuable as time went by.

Some people think it can’t be done but those are some of the same people who never thought Days could end up on Hulu.  Peacock

Edited January 31, 20232 yr by DramatistDreamer
Oops, my bad

I still think the iron is hot enough for Disney/ABC to revamp their soap properties with great self-congratulatory fanfare on something like this - but if they did it they'd probably do it via Hulu. Unless they're considered too declasse for the current Hulu brand atm, and anything F.A.S.T.-oriented ends up being a tier below Hulu somehow.

2 minutes ago, Vee said:

I still think the iron is hot enough for Disney/ABC to revamp their soap properties with great self-congratulatory fanfare on something like this - but if they did it they'd probably do it via Hulu. Unless they're considered too declasse for the current Hulu brand atm, and anything F.A.S.T.-oriented ends up being a tier below Hulu somehow.

I realized in my post, I meant Days to Peacock. But between Days on Peacock and The Doctors toying with the Retro platform, there is eventually going to be a soap that will be savvy enough to engage F.A.S.T. in some way, shape or form, whether for classic episodes, a reboot of some kind or the occasional ‘made for streaming’ movie.

FreeVee is where I get my daily dose of Judy Justice. I was also thrilled to find the complete series of "my story", Fifteen (aka Hillside) which used to air Sunday afternoons on Nickelodeon. One of its leads is a young Ryan Reynolds. 

I know Pluto only airs shows from certain property(companies) but I wish they could show some ABC soaps or at least ATWT and GL

I do wonder if at least some (more?) of the P&G or ABCD soap library ending up on Pluto or FreeVee is a matter of time. I wouldn't have thought so a couple years ago but now the overhead and debts facing companies like WB/Discovery, NBC/Peacock, etc. in the streaming wars are immense. They all have intense expenses to deal with from their streaming platforms, anything they can monetize helps.

Edited February 2, 20232 yr by Vee

16 hours ago, Vee said:

I do wonder if at least some (more?) of the P&G or ABCD soap library ending up on Pluto or FreeVee is a matter of time. I wouldn't have thought so a couple years ago but now the overhead and debts facing companies like WB/Discovery, NBC/Peacock, etc. in the streaming wars are immense. They all have intense expenses to deal with from their streaming platforms, anything they can monetize helps.

RetroTV were supposedly interested in aquiring Edge of Night, but P&G just said they weren't interested in licensing it out.