This is FAMILY COURT

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This was a Canadian show with short story arcs. The best they ever did was two impoverished young teen girls with a negectful alcoholic single mother. Initially the sisters embarked on a mission to shoplift food and other household necessities. When it became easy, they started a black market business out of the play house in their backyard. They became contemporary Robon Hoods, supplying their neighbours with grocery items at a much lower price than the local supermarket.

Then they got caught.

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Third Time’s Not a Charm (or 7 Years of Bad Luck): Josh Griffith 3.0 Era

lol man!! @soapfan770!!! 😂😂😂😂 this does bring back the same nostalgia from the MAB thread in the hardest way!!
Eeesh I forgot about Billy’s effin podcast and the Fen/Trey one-off just still makes me sad….

By YRfan23 · 9 minutes ago9 min
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

I somehow don’t feel they’ll put any real effort in trying to find an “outside” voice - at the end of the day, all Sony and CBS cares about is the show coming in under budget and producing episodes as cheaply and quickly as possible. We’re just looking at the very limited cesspool of recycled “talent” unfortunately, but I would love to be proven wrong.
It would be great though if they found another Harding Lemay type though - someone whose background is not in soaps and possibly doesn’t have any real affinity for the genre, but was trained and coached on how to write for it and found ways for it to gel with their creative mindset. Then again, this could go in the Hogan Sheffer direction, which is the last thing this show needs…

By BetterForgotten · 56 minutes ago56 min
Third Time’s Not a Charm (or 7 Years of Bad Luck): Josh Griffith 3.0 Era

Could Claire discover that she is not a Newman and Jordan made it all up/stole another baby or something that rids us of the character/actress.
Maybe Claire at first doesn't believe and the when discovers it's true, tries to hide it b/c she's happy as a Newman. Maybe someone tries blackmail. But her deceit is uncovered . Claire realizes she's living a lie and feels alienated, deciding to skip town for parts unknown.
Victoria is shattered but eventually moves on. That awful retcon can be forgotten.

By Paul Raven · 1 hour ago1 hr
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

Any new writer unfamiliar with soaps would probably want to dump half the cast based on their story history.
It needs to be someone, if not familiar with the show, at least with an understanding of the genre and the limitations in place and some experience in a writing capacity.
Or a new voice co writing with someone with experience.

By Paul Raven · 1 hour ago1 hr
Knots Landing

@All My Shadows Season 6 was Knots Landing best season. The last 10 episodes of Season 6 were to me the peak of Knots Landing.
Season 5 Knots Landing got corporate with Lotus Point, ventured into James Bond/action thriller territory with Wolfbridge, and also got glamorous. IMO going corporate and glamorous was done in response to Dynasty blowing up and becoming a pop culture phenomenon.
Hahaha, that's funny.
Knots Landing isn't the type of soap we'd expect to see a messy wealthy matriarch that tries to control her son's life but Ruth didn't feel out of place at all and I think her story was complete in the episodes that she was in. I loved the scenes where Laura called out Ruth and put her on blast. It's so funny that Ruth preferred villainess Abby over the more virtuous Laura as the ideal mate for Greg.
Ava Gardner arc on Knots Landing was quite the contrast to Lana Turner arc on Falcon Crest. Ava was by all accounts well-liked by Knots Landing cast whereas Lana was allegedly throwing diva demands during her Falcon Crest arc. Then again, Ava admitted that she took the part on Knots Landing for money so she was really in no position to throw diva demands.

By kalbir · 1 hour ago1 hr
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

Half the cast looks checked out. You got to wonder who is riding out their contract just to collect a paycheck.

By kalbir · 1 hour ago1 hr
Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

@Soapsuds Thanks for posting 1983/84.
True. We've seen this in both daytime and primetime.

By kalbir · 1 hour ago1 hr
The Guiding Light 1966

And then the Averys. I had no idea there were so many writers in such a short time period. Seems Irna took over while they searched out new writers. I wonder what the deal was with Gillian?
So did the Soderbergs take over from the Averys?
That was finally stability for GL until they left for ATWT.

By Paul Raven · 2 hours ago2 hr
Looking back...Primetime Ratings from the 80's

Was the A Team better than Cagney& Lacey? Ratings and quality don't always go hand in hand.

By Paul Raven · 2 hours ago2 hr
This is FAMILY COURT

This was a Canadian show with short story arcs. The best they ever did was two impoverished young teen girls with a negectful alcoholic single mother. Initially the sisters embarked on a mission to shoplift food and other household necessities. When it became easy, they started a black market business out of the play house in their backyard. They became contemporary Robon Hoods, supplying their neighbours with grocery items at a much lower price than the local supermarket.

Then they got caught.

By Stevel · 2 hours ago2 hr

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