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Catty's Corner: Passions

Posted by misscatty on October 4, 2010 at 2:00 PM Comments comments (0)



This is my first post about Passions and I don't have as much to say as I do about everything else.  Anyway I like Harmony there is a lot of secrecy going on and the back stabbing and lying is like wow.  I am so sad that Luise and Sheridan are having a ard time getting off the ground I can't stand Jullian or Allister they are snobs and kind of like the cartton villians from my old Satur...

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Donald Says: My Memories of AS THE WORLD TURNS

Posted by Donald Peebles on September 30, 2010 at 3:41 AM Comments comments (1)
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As a longtime soap opera fan, viewer, watcher, fiend, lover, and junkie whore, I have first heard of As The World Turns 25 years ago in 1985. I began forcing my late grandmother, Sally C...

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Catty's Primetime Corner: Desperate Housewives

Posted by misscatty on September 29, 2010 at 8:56 PM Comments comments (0)

Sorry I am so late with this review but this has been another one of my very over booked weeks but what can a stay at home mom do but run all over town.  Seriously I have been busier than AMC's number one busy body Kendall.  lol.

Anyway let me start by saying Vanessa Williams get props for being o...

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Catty's Primetime Corner: Desperate Housewives

Posted by misscatty on September 21, 2010 at 10:46 AM Comments comments (1)


 

Gabby, Susan, Lynette and Bree are best friends and neighbors and always getting wrapped up in the drama on Wysteria Lane.  In the 1st season their friend Mary Ellis Killed herself and they spent the season trying to get to the bottom of what made her do such a thing.  Ever since there has been one myst...

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Catty's Primetime Corner: The Vampire Diaries

Posted by misscatty on September 21, 2010 at 10:19 AM Comments comments (0)

 

This is The Vampire Diaries.  It airs every Thursday at 8 - 7 central on the CW.  This show is set in a town called Mystic Falls with an interesting history.  It is set around Elena and two hot vampire's named Stephan and Damon.  The show started showing good guy vamp Stephan arriving in Mystic Falls and getting enrolled in the local high school in an attempt to get close to Elena.&...

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Catty's Corner: Tell me about it

Posted by misscatty on September 20, 2010 at 3:09 AM Comments comments (0)

 

Where to begin?  Oh yea the towns people had a party during David's funeral.  I know that most of them are tacky as hell but that was the worst show of poor taste I ever saw.  They had the nerve to think David was a worse person than they ...

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Gay is NOT the New Black on Daytime

Posted by Donald Peebles on September 15, 2010 at 4:56 AM Comments comments (4)

 

 

I am extremely disappointed to see the lack of diversity on daytime soaps. As a longtime African-American gay viewer and lover of soap operas, I would think daytime soaps would be full of characters from all walks of life. We have President Barack Hussein Obama as President of the United States of America and he is biracial (African-A...

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Catty's Corner: Drama Drama Drama

Posted by misscatty on August 30, 2010 at 10:31 PM Comments comments (0)

 


IIIIIIIIIIIII'mmmmm baaaaaack.  Sorry I have been gone so long but this has been one helluva summer.  I am not going to bore you all with the details but my life breifly was a soap opera.  Anywho to the task at hand I am as usual annoyed and opininated ...

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DAYS: Sweetheart Melissa Reeves Is BACK

Posted by Donald Peebles on August 28, 2010 at 3:35 AM Comments comments (0)

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I just love Melissa Reeves very much.  I have always thought she was pretty since she joined "Days of Our Lives" in 1985 when she was known as Melissa Brennan.  She is returning t...

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Days: Good Girl, Bad Girl: Gabi's Metamorphosis

Posted by Donald Peebles on August 28, 2010 at 3:09 AM Comments comments (0)

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Gabi Rodriguez has been let go from her role as Gabi Hernandez, Rafe and Arianna's younger sister. She was very lackluster anyway. She was written into the show as a filler for Rafe and Arianna. S...

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DAYS: No Passion For Lindsay Hartley

Posted by Donald Peebles on August 28, 2010 at 2:08 AM Comments comments (0)

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I couldn't believe when I read on Soap Central about "Days Of Our Lives" firing Lindsay Hartley from her role as Arianna Hernandez.  i thought she was going to stay with the show for many y...

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DAYS: Is Robin Mattson A Recast of Lee Dumonde?

Posted by Donald Peebles on August 28, 2010 at 1:17 AM Comments comments (1)

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I was shocked but not surprised to hear soap legend and royalty Robin Mattson has joined the cast of "Days of Our Lives" as an inmate named Lee.  Robin has that daytime star power and she has demonstrated ...

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Days: Mary Beth Evans Comes Back to Save The Day

Posted by Donald Peebles on August 25, 2010 at 11:38 PM Comments comments (0)

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I couldn't believe it when soap opera royal Mary Beth Evans was returning to "Days of Our Lives" as Dr. Kayla Johnson. She wa...

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Days: Kristian Alfonso's New Contract and Storyline

Posted by Donald Peebles on August 18, 2010 at 12:26 AM Comments comments (0)
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Although Bo and Hope are divorced and she just lost her beloved grandmother, Alice Horton, her portrayer Kristian Alfonso has inked a...

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Soap questions for you!

Posted by timeaftertime on August 5, 2010 at 10:03 AM Comments comments (0)

In this we take a moment among all the maddness in daytime to reflect on what got us into this in the first place.  I think it is always helpful for us as fans and for the brass if they ever happen to read these things.  So get your minds going and thinking back and share as I share with you.
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Soaps that didn't make it: PLATINUM on UPN

Posted by timeaftertime on July 20, 2010 at 7:51 PM Comments comments (0)


When UPN was still a network trying to make its way as a viable network television alternative to its then competitors ABC, CBS, FOX,NBC, and WB.  They launched the first urban weekly drama about two rivaling hip hop music labels called Platinum. The series lasted a total of 6 episodes before it was canceled.&#...

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MyTVNetwork's Failed telenovela's American style

Posted by timeaftertime on July 20, 2010 at 12:49 PM Comments comments (0)



In this we discuss what went wrong with the American versions of the latin telenovela sensations that aired on MT TVNetwork.  There were a lot of issues that came along with what could have been the next phase in the soap world with telenovela's and I'd like to lay out my thoughts on that for you.  So enjoy. 


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Constructing a Daytime Drama: The theme of the series

Posted by timeaftertime on July 19, 2010 at 12:30 PM Comments comments (0)


In the second edition of Constructing a Daytime Drama we discuss the necessity of a theme of a soap opera that is a must to distinguish yourself from the competition.  By lisiting the theme...
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Constructing A Daytime Drama: Villains and Vainesses

Posted by timeaftertime on July 18, 2010 at 7:15 PM Comments comments (0)



In this we begin the series on discussing how to construct a daytime drama.  Our first in the series focuses on the writing the Villain and Villainesses characters.  I lay out the different type of back female and male characters that every soap opera...

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Daytime Rewind: Keith Hamilton Cobb!

Posted by timeaftertime on July 14, 2010 at 5:35 PM Comments comments (1)

In 1996 The uber popular All My Children star and then ratings grabber Keith Hamilton Cobb (ex-Noah) was so popular that he made the coveted People Magazine's The 50 Most Beautiful People In The World list. ...
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