Luckily, I just finished reading Tom Lisanti’s book not too long ago
And according to the book, the Corringtons did originally pitch a soap set in the Antebellum South. But around that time, NBC aired a period piece miniseries and it bombed badly. And that caused Fred Silverman to reject the Corringtons’ idea.
And luckily, the book also revealed that he was also the one who made the extremely boneheaded decision to have the Texas storylines begin on AW
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