Texas seemed to have an extremely convoluted first year - how quickly did they revamp?

From what I remember of B&B in it's debut year, the show definitely had the imprint of William J. Bell Sr.'s storytelling at the root of it. Sure, they had a number of actors that could best be described, in the words of Douglas Marland as "hair models" but they had the strong presence of Susan Flannery, Jim Storm and Johanna Johnson and Lauren Koslow (and for the material she was given Nancy Sloan was pretty good) in that cast to pull the weight for the others.

Looking at all the preemptions that BTG has had in a short stretch of time, I don't remember B&B dealing with so many preemptions. I feel like Bill Bell Sr would have threatened to take his show elsewhere if they had. Y&R was only its way to become the top-rated soap and sandwiched between Y&R and an Emmy award winning show at that time, ATWT --no doubt, he had a strong hand.

Based on that "Baby Born in the Elevator" nonsense, BTG was clearly trying to do a storyline with Andre, Ashley, and Derek -- which never materialized at all. The writing wasn't there, the acting wasn't there, and the chemistry wasn't there. So glad TPTB realized the entire ordeal was an utter bust and pulled the plug on it.

The writing for Dani Dupree was completely over-the-top initially, almost as absurd as the reboot of "Dynasty", but slowly they made some subtle adjustments that worked to the strengths of Karla & created a mighty likable character out of Dani.

The show has also definitely adopted a much more "CBS/Hollywood" look with subdued lighting and better sound.

Maybe it's because I listen on headphones but the sound for BTG still sounds atrocious to me.