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So, Paul, I looked for over 2 hours & all I found was Labine in the Stuart Damon/WLS interview which sheds NO Light on the NBC affiliate involvement when SUNSET BEACH was tapped. That doesn't mean I will stop looking but it does mean I'm stopping for the moment. I recalled one other thing & that was that the reason for giving the affiliates involvement in the decision was very specific & that was their hope that they would get much better clearances rates by doing so. 

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I agree, which is why I'm more interested to see how Beyond the Gates performs on streaming rather than linear. Unless it outright bombs (as in sub-1 million viewers) I think it'd be okay as long as it's doing okay on streaming. That's why I hope they'll attempt to push it on streaming as it's the only way to get a certain audience watching. 

If they can get an audience on streaming for a soap that isn't an old brand, then that'd be encouraging for streamers to start developing their own soaps, specifically done for streaming. That would pretty much secure the survival of the genre in the long term. 

With the upcoming planned AMC movies, I'd say they're starting to wake up that they might be sitting on something worth exploring at least. 

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I'd love to see many more classic soaps streamed but the fact that so many of them have so many episodes makes it such an expensive proposition. However, that makes the shorter run shows appear to have an advantage. Santa Barbara, for example, which is owned by Disney & last year Jerome Dobson indicated that streaming might be in its future. Then, from another perspective apparently Corday made a statement that they'd begun modern digitizing on the archive approximately 10 years ago, which if true is an amazing investment & it also gives them high quality flashback resources. 

I wonder if EDGE OF NIGHT wouldn't be the most likely to succeed in terms of rebooting. 

Absolutely & placing it squarely in the area of a previously underserved group seems to me fairly brilliant. 

I read recently that some of the people working on BTG have been nursing this project along for 4 years!! That, like many things just amped my excitement up!

 

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I remember scoffing when Jamey Giddens said he'd originally pitched Ambitions as a daytime soap opera and wondered if he was delusional. But I'd assume Beyond the Gates must've had a long planning time and CBS must've looked over other proposals besides Val Jean's, so it's possible Ambitions was a pitch they heard. 

It just goes to show you how things might be moving slowly along in the background that we just never know about. 

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So, this appeared in my email this morning. 

https://www.msn.com/en-in/entertainment/tv/the-gates-the-first-black-led-soap-opera-in-35-years-show-promises-a-fresh-perspective-on-the-daytime-genre


Oh, good lord, this purports to be from MSN, then you see it is from ... wait for it ... The Times of India. WHAT?!!! 


Then, it has these amazing facts in error. Only two but egregiously wrong.
The examples:
Wrong #1
The series is still under development, so CBS will have to determine whether to pick up The Gates for formal TV placement.
Wrong #2
There has been no announcement about The Gates' casting or release date at this time.


I'm thoroughly disgusted.

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@te.Earlier you mentioned being more interested in how this does streaming rather than broadcast. I wonder if they've done enough to make it clear that viewers of Paramount Plus "regular" will have to wait till the next day to see the show & that to see it on the same day you must subscribe to Paramount Plus WITH SHOWTIME? 

Also, two things from IG.

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I did not know that MVJ was involved in writing the end of Mary Mae which I remember being well done. Labine & her, great teamwork. 

And, this one from the B&B 36 anniversary bash

MVJ often shows pix of her with friends. Here she is with KKL.

 

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