Primetime Soaps

[DRW50]

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[YRBB]

I feel so much tenderness and nostalgia for all that WB stuff.... Some of it was crap (but I loved it), some of it is great (and I love it) and some of it I haven't seen (but I still love it!).

[DRW50]

I wasn't that into it at the time (aside from Buffy/Angel), but looking back it was of a stronger quality than most of that genre now, as it wasn't trying to be a stale 1985-form of a primetime soap made incredibly boring and rigid.

I always meant to watch Roswell but never did, although I've heard people insist Katherine Heigl ruined the show anyway.

[YRBB]

Yes, it was definitely its own take on the genre. Often cheesy but still a lot of entertaining fun.

ROSWELL is one I haven't seen either. I know it will happen, especially considering the cast.

[DRW50]

The WB really did have a strong and unique brand. It's too bad that faded, instead of building into something, but then when I think of what FOX has become, maybe it's better to burn bright for a few years and then fade away.

Edited April 12, 2015 by DRW50

[slick jones]

https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1291&dat=19770418&id=xi9UAAAAIBAJ&sjid=U40DAAAAIBAJ&pg=7124,8057678&hl=en

All That Glitters article with story information.

Edited April 19, 2015 by slick jones

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I don't recall Heigl being disliked on Roswell, to be honest.

It's been so long since I've seen it so I barely remember her role in it.

[Huntress]

Actually, Heigl was the best part of "Roswell"

I watched the show from beginning to end (even the awful 3rd season on UPN where the show had completely lost its focus) and I enjoyed Heigl's character the most.

The two main couples – Max & Liz and Michael & Maria – got on my nerves most of the time.

I also faithfully watched "Popular" and "Dawson's Creek" back then, caught an episode of "Charmed" here and then, and sometimes tuned in to "7th Heaven" (when nothing else was on).

In my country, none of these shows were shown in primetime (except "7th Heaven" for a brief time and "Charmed" during the later seasons because it had gathered quite a following). "7th Heaven" was shown weekdays around 4 p.m.; "Popular", "Dawson's Creek", "Felicity", "Party of Five", "Roswell" and early "Charmed" seasons were shown on Saturday afternoons which was the usual time when teenagers in the late 90s/early 00s would watch television.

It all started when "Beverly Hills 90210" premiered on a Saturday in 1991, and then all American shows aimed at teenagers were subsequently placed between 3 and 6 p.m. on different channels. This basically ended around 2003/2004 when the genre was pretty much dead. Nowadays, these timeslots are filled with sitcoms or scripted reality.

"Safe Harbor", "Wasteland" and "Jack & Jill" never aired here. I guess they were cancelled rather quickly?

[DRW50]

Yes. I think Jack and Jill may have got 2 seasons. The others all went fast. Did you get Hyperion Bay?

[Huntress]

Nope. But considering the show had such a stellar cast such as Cassidy Rae (of "Models Inc." fame), Carmen Electra (of "Baywatch" fame), Mark-Paul Gosselaar (of "Saved by the Bell" fame) and Christina Moore, I probably didn't miss much

[Paul Raven]

Edited June 19, 2015 by Paul Raven

[Paul Raven]

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[Paul Raven]

Ouch! TV Guide June 26th 1965

Cleveland Amory’s review of Our Private World is not kind. He notes that the twice-weekly prime time CBS serial has even less depth than As the World Turns, the daytime serial it was spun-off from. “In fact, if it weren’t for repeating everything twice, we don’t think they’d be on twice a week.” He explains the basic plot of the series and its main characters before ending with the following:

Altogether it is the first show we’ve seen in a long time where literally

nothing

is good–the idea, the producing, the writing or the directing. As for the acting, it has to be seen to be believed–and, believe us, it shouldn’t be. The girls are bad and the boys are worse. One thing this show dose, though. It makes

Peyton Place

look great. In fact, the only thing we cannot fault is the title,

Our Private World

. The mistake was in making it public.