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Reminder for Tues. May 6 and Wed. May 7:
Due to UEFA European Soccer Champions League Semifinals 
Y&R and B&B may be partially disrupted in some timezones,
but it's not an official preemption.


(Same procedure as Tues. April 29 and Wed. April 30.)

This soccer coverage will be broadcast live in the European evenings,
which is 3-5pm Eastern USA, plus a 2-3pm Eastern prematch show.
Total timeframe: three hours 2-5pm EDT on those four dates.
On CBS only.


BeyondTheGates:
This fully officially preempts BTG in all timezones in USA and Canada.
Tues. April 29, Wed. April 30, Tues. May 6, and Wed. May 7.

Link to official announcement from Errol/SON to share with friends/family:
https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2025/04/beyond-the-gates-cbs-uefa-champions-league-soccer-games


Errol's discussion thread:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/68729-article-‘beyond-the-gates’-to-be-fully-preempted-due-to-cbs-coverage-of-uefa-champions-league-soccer-games/


Y&R and B&B:
On the affected dates, this will partially preempt Y&R and/or B&B
on CBS only in Mountain/Pacific/Alaska timezones.
Because Y&R and B&B air fully in Eastern/Central time, it's not an official preemption,
and those shows will be considered to have aired
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so you'd need to watch on another time/channel or online, or you'd miss it.

List of alternate times/channels for Y&R and B&B here:
https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/68719-btg-yr-bb-april-may-2025-soccer-disrupting-cbs-soap-broadcasts/

Y&R and B&B will air normally in Canada and Australia in all timezones.

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lol.

 

Yeah after last week, I will be surprised if it is otherwise. The biggest story should not be Diane's remodeling of the Abbott estate...though I did like she HAD a story. 

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Please let May have less garbage time.

The Y&R threads have shrunken, whereas I can barely keep up with the Beyond the Gates threads.

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Today showed why almost no one comments on this crap soap.

-- We're back to pretending that there aren't SCORES of cosmetics companies out there --  only Jabot and whoever else opens up shop in Genoa City to be the competition. No real business runs this way.

-- Marchetti is supposed to be an internationally-renowned fashion house, yet both Chelsea and Sally are ready to walk after being high-level executives there.

-- It's not often women leave choice executive positions in their field of expertise to work in a business they're clueless about.

-- Sally had a lot of nerve shading Chelsea with "It's easy to see Adam's influence on you" when the same damn thing is happening with Billy.

-- I'm glad Lauren told Michael to quit, since we've all been mouthing that for weeks. None of that story is helped by CLB's over-the-top acting.

-- The scene with Victoria helping a sick, coughing Cole walk to their car on the way to the hospital was laughable. Wouldn't rich people call a damn ambulance?

-- Claire was really concerned, wasn't she? She stayed in the doorway instead of helping her mother, and then headed right to Crimson Lights for coffee. Why bother with checking on her possible terminal father at the hospital?

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I never understood the point of Marchetti. Summer left the show for a job there in Italy. OK.

When she returned they had Jack buy the company. Why couldn't Summer have returned and simply stated it was not a good fit, she missed her home , family/friends etc

It was absurd that this internationally successful fashion empire could just be bought by a US cosmetics firm at the drop of a hat.

What was the point when they never did anything with it at all? Summer simply could have gone to work at Jabot.

And wasn't there some nonsense about an offshhoot called Marchetti Home? Was Phyllis attached to that at some point?

This show...

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Yes, Billy was all nostalgic about the Abbott home and didn't like the changes,yet he had no second thoughts or respect when completely renovating Chancellor.

He could have actually mentioned that misguided step as evidence to Diane that these type of changes can backfire.

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-- The fact that we know the mess that Billy made when he renovated the Chancellor place makes his entire sadsack attitude pathetic. I wanted someone to smack the hell out of him.

-- And why did Diane care so much about Billy's opinion beyond hearing he liked it better before? Why continue pressing him on it? Josh Griffith clearly thinks this is a storyline, and it isn't. It never was.

-- So Mariah cheated on Tessa offscreen. OF COURSE it was offscreen. Then we got this ridiculous, convoluted explanation of why she cheated, ending in her announcement that she doesn't have any character at all. GMAFB.

 -- Now we'll get the cliche garbage of Mariah confessing to Tessa, who turns to Daniel for sex even though she's a lesbian. (Please spare me the comment that Tessa is bi.)

-- The excuse for Summer leaving town? Also pathetic. Why in the hell would she have to leave town to find a new creative director for Marchetti?

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Tessa clarified a few years ago that she is gay and not bi.   I find it offensive that the show is teasing her with Daniel.

Mariah told Sharon she went emotionally/mentally to a dark place, and while she was out of town on business she got drunk and did something bad.  But Mariah didn't say she cheated.  The show wants us to assume that, but she didn't say that.  She could have taken drugs or who knows what.  All we know is that she feels shame and doesn't want Tessa to know.  Mariah says the inner darkness is due to the longterm influence of Ian in the past, and she hasn't healed from that.

With a *good* writer, we could have organic conflict in the Teriah marriage, without cheating.  But JG isn't a good writer.

 

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Which could make sense , except that we have seen Mariah function for years w/o any real residue pain from her upbringing. Josh decides to randomly make it a thing, when a good writer might foreshadow that for months.

It's not like he's just arrived at the show. He's been there for years . Everything seems to be thought out only a few weeks ahead.

It's like Phyllis all freaky from being kidnapped when she has done a million other things that didn't seem to bother her at all.

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After today’s rushed and abrupt exit for Summer I immediately realized that Josh & Co. were very blindsided by AL’s decision to leave. 

Not the first time this has happened to JG either; see MM & HK’s exits in 2021, MM’s exit in 2022, and of course TSJ’s exit last year. Obviously JG and our executive in charge of nothing Steve Kent don’t have a good handle on casting disruptions.

And Mariah having an offscreen affair is [!@#$%^&*] ridiculous!! Meanwhile Tessa’s blonde hair is overkill with the number of blondes on the show already.

I said the same thing 3 years ago…of course it was utterly ridiculous everyone was mad at Sally for getting Summer he dream job (don’t ask lol) but there was so much the show could have done without bringing on the Marchetti angle.

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So little makes sense on this show.

I wish there was a garbage can emoji. That sums up 90% of the show right now.

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