I'm happy that they're absolutely going all out with Doug's memorial, as they should. The dream would be that they would also get Denise Alexander, but she hasn't acted since 2021, so who knows if she's up for it.

Maree Cheatham is saying on FB that she recently booked a two-day television appearance, but she hasn't revealed what show.  Could Marie Horton be returning??

2 hours ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

Maree Cheatham is saying on FB that she recently booked a two-day television appearance, but she hasn't revealed what show.  Could Marie Horton be returning??

"two episodes of a network episodic". 
Well I guess if you count Peacock as a network, it could be ?

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I mean, I'm 99.9% sure that it's DAYS since they're obviously putting Doug's send-off together at the moment.

With that said - I'd like those two episodes to turn into more, but who knows how much she acts these days or that she'd even be interested in doing DAYS with the type of filming schedule they use.

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23 minutes ago, te. said:

I mean, I'm 99.9% sure that it's DAYS since they're obviously putting Doug's send-off together at the moment.

With that said - I'd like those two episodes to turn into more, but who knows how much she acts these days or that she'd even be interested in doing DAYS with the type of filming schedule they use.

She actually still works quite a lot.  Mostly guest shots on primetime dramas and comedies.  And in the fairly recent past, she has said on FB that she would be thrilled to return to DOOL.  

10 minutes ago, Mona Kane Croft said:

She actually still works quite a lot.  Mostly guest shots on primetime dramas and comedies.  And in the fairly recent past, she has said on FB that she would be thrilled to return to DOOL.  

Yeah, she did a few commercials last year to. Still very busy working. It’s obviously the show’s decision not have her more, which honestly makes me so angry. She’s an original cast member, and would make a great sounding board for so many characters, as Marie’s literally been through it all. Annoying and off topic, sorry. 

On 4/6/2024 at 12:36 PM, cody_1990 said:

Yeah, she did a few commercials last year to. Still very busy working. It’s obviously the show’s decision not have her more, which honestly makes me so angry. She’s an original cast member, and would make a great sounding board for so many characters, as Marie’s literally been through it all. Annoying and off topic, sorry. 

Agreed. Such a missed opportunity to not have Maree Cheatham visit from time to time on a regular basis all these years. 

Confirms the return of Schnetzer and Loring for Doug's funeral.  Says there will be more.  Taping this week and airing in December, for the 15,000th, episode.

 

2 minutes ago, jam6242 said:

Confirms the return of Schnetzer and Loring for Doug's funeral.  Says there will be more.  Taping this week and airing in December, for the 15,000th, episode.

 

Jesus!

We have to wait until December? The taping schedule for this show is atrocious.

17 hours ago, jam6242 said:

Confirms the return of Schnetzer and Loring for Doug's funeral.  Says there will be more.  Taping this week and airing in December, for the 15,000th, episode.

 

Eight months tape-to-air is ridiculous, especially since they were weeks out in 2020 when COVID production began again. Not a single soap should be that advanced in taping. At all. That's insanity.

I swear, when the time comes that this show gets the ax, it's going to be like a Port Charles situation where they've already filmed what's gonna air and there's no chance to go back into the studio to shoot a proper finale. 

16 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

I swear, when the time comes that this show gets the ax, it's going to be like a Port Charles situation where they've already filmed what's gonna air and there's no chance to go back into the studio to shoot a proper finale. 

Since Peacock operates differently than a network, if the time comes to cancel the show, maybe Peacock will handle it differently than a network. Maybe Peacock will give them enough advance notice to wrap things up and have a nice ending.  

But I understand DOOL is doing very well on Peacock, so maybe there is no need to worry about cancellation.  Who knows??

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Just now, Mona Kane Croft said:

Since Peacock operates differently than a network, if the time comes to cancel the show, maybe Peacock will handle it differently than a network. Maybe Peacock will give them enough adance notice to wrap things up and have a nice ending.  

But I understand DOOL is doing very well on Peacock, so maybe there is no need to worry about cancellation.  Who knows??

We can only hope, especially since we're about to have a whopping FIVE soaps on the air in the near future. Come through The Gates! 

But really, it's just the ridiculous taping schedule that is irksome. It's literally impossible for them to course correct something that isn't working. 

3 minutes ago, Gray Bunny said:

We can only hope, especially since we're about to have a whopping FIVE soaps on the air in the near future. Come through The Gates! 

But really, it's just the ridiculous taping schedule that is irksome. It's literally impossible for them to course correct something that isn't working. 

I understand what you are saying, but sometimes I think there is too much course correcting on modern soaps.  Social media has made every soap opera fan an expert and a self-appointed critic.  And when TPTB get a whiff that the audience doesn't like something, they change it, rewrite it, or eliminate it. Often too quickly, with too little thought, and with too MUCH attention paid to social media.  I remember soaps in the old days, when the writers wrote what they thought was best, and the audience just watched it, or they didn't. And believe me, soaps were better 45 years ago than they are today.  Personally, I believe writers are better writers than self-appointed internet critics.  So I rather like that DOOL gets to avoid all that.  My opinion only.   

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