As The World Turns
February 8, 2009
- I'm finally finishing up my essay comparing primetime and daytime soaps. Including the references, it's going to be pushing 5000 words. Since Friday Night Lights is one of the examples I consider in the essay, I was intrigued by this little nugget I found at We Love Soaps (many thanks to Roger Newcomb for continuing to provide this invaluable resource for serious soap fans): The plot twists might ...
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January 14, 2009
- I was taking a little break at work late Monday afternoon, scrolling though the Media Domain site, and there it was - actually, there were two - "Finally, Sheesh" and "Finally, Spoiler." I didn't even have to open the posts to know that almost a year-an-a-half after their first kiss seen ‘round the world, As the World Turns' Luke and Noah had finally done the deed. ...
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November 12, 2008
- When my cable provider added SOAPNet a couple of years ago, I finally had a chance to see Ryan's Hope. The episodes airing then were from 1980, about five years into the show's 14-year run. I have to confess, the character of Delia Reid Ryan (Ryan Coleridge Crane Coleridge) didn't make much of an impression on me one way or the other. The Delia of the early-1980s, as played by Randall Kennedy, ...
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September 29, 2008
- Like my Red Room colleague, Jennifer Gibbons, I've been in a bit of a funk of late and haven't felt much like writing. Like Jennifer, the election and the economy are sapping my energy. Then my 92-year old uncle died and two days later Paul Newman. So...But that's real life. Then there are the soaps. A couple of weeks ago, Soap Opera Digest published an interview with CBS Daytime Vice-President, ...
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September 3, 2008
- to Helen Wagner, who celebrated her 90th yesterday. Thanks to Roger Newcomb at welovesoaps.blogspot.com (having technical problems and can't insert live links), who shared his memories of meeting Helen a few years ago, which, in turn, prompted me to share the first time I met her. It was maybe 15 years ago, a couple of days after Christmas. My cousin, Michael, and I were visiting the ...
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July 30, 2008
- Well, I was right, Rick Decker is no James Stenbeck. On the heels of yesterday’s announcement that Jon Prescott will be leaving As the World Turns at the end of August, comes casting news that has enormous potential for the show. The boards have been buzzing all day about the returns of Anthony Hererra as James Stenbeck and Grayson McCouch as Dusty Donovan. According to Roger at We Love ...
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July 29, 2008
- When I read about Colleen Zenk Pinter evoking Douglas Marland earlier this month, I was reminded of a comment I made almost exactly a year ago in the midst of a very long exchange sprawled over four blogs, "...although, dare I say that ATWT seems to be back on track. Let's hope I haven't spooked it." I can't remember exactly why I thought As the World Turns was "back on ...
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July 20, 2008
- or the actor. In this case, it's As the World Turn's, Jon Hensley, who's been dodging bullets on the boards since last Thursday's (17 July) big reveal. (For those not up-to-date on this fakakta Carly-Holden storyline, look here and follow the links within.) It's not that bad acting and bad writing are mutually exclusive; in combination, it's not a pretty picture. It's just that sometimes it ...
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July 16, 2008
- Rule # 10 from Douglas Marland's "How Not to Wreck a Show:" "Good soap opera is good storytelling. It's very simple." First rule of creative writing: "Show, don't tell." Marland Rule # 6" "Don't change a core character. You can certainly give them edges they didn't have before, or give them a logical reason to change their behavior. But when the ...
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June 29, 2008
- Finally: I’ve been hearing from a number of reliable sources for several months now about how much One Life to Live has improved under headwriter Ron Carvaliti. With a break a couple weeks ago in what’s still a jammed schedule, I set aside my innate skepticism and decided to have a look. But I wanted to give the show its due. I noted a back then the SOAPnet scheduling glitch, link, ...
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