"It’s tempting to view this as the final nail in the coffin for daytime. It may be more of an indictment of award shows. The primetime Emmys tanked, thanks to a horribly produced show. The drama winner Mad Men has about as many viewers as Guiding Light. Afterwards, the broadcast networks publicly wondered why they were airing what amounted to a commercial for cable television. Even the Oscars don’t do as well when popular films and actors aren’t Best Picture nominees. Here’s hoping that the TV Academy manages to persuade somebody to air it and soap fans get to celebrate the genre for one night a year."
SNARK: 2009 Emmys Liveblog is in Jeopardy
"Friends, as you can plainly see from the bullet points above, not airing the 2009 Daytime Emmys puts the entire American economy on the brink of doom."
BROTHERS & SISTERS' Proposition 8 gay marriage episode to air the week after the election
Turns out that after production had begun, ABC moved BROTHERS & SISTERS' start date to what the network deemed a more favorable date. What no one took notice of at the time was that by moving the date, at least two episodes — the Proposition 8 and Thanksgiving episodes — would no longer air when they were meant to. Prop 8 is likely to pass in California defining marriage as being between a man and woman and potentially nullifying the gay marriages that have taken place over the past several months.
A Look At The Influence of DAYS OF OUR LIVES On Recent Pop Culture"At an hour a day, five days a week, starting at a time before TiVo, it was true dedication to devote one's interest to such a show. What was found, though, was that the fans weren't the only ones influenced by the fictional Horton, Brady, and DiMera families in the ambigious town of Salem, USA: other television shows and even a few films thought it important enough of a blip on the pop culture radar to make reference to it. DAYS OF OUR LIVES has cropped up in just about every key project in recent entertainment history."
Former OLTL star Blair Underwood: I played Barack Obama more than 20 years ago
On L.A. LAW, Underwood's character, Jonathan Rollins, was the first first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. A few years later during a visit to Harvard, Underwood recalls, "a tall brother with big ears comes up to me and says, 'I am Barack Obama and I am the first black president of the Harvard Law Review. You play me."
Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello on Zach Roerig's FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS character, Cash the cowboy
"As far as the evil cowboy dude goes, he's not bugging me as much as I thought he would. But a word of warning: He's going to seem more evil than ever tonight when a skeleton tumbles out of his closet and right onto Tyra's doorstep."
GREY'S ANATOMY is keeping Melissa George's character bisexual
ABC's good standing with GLAAD should hold steady as HOME AND AWAY alumna Melissa George comes on board Grey's later this month in the recurring role of a college friend of Meredith's. And a bisexual one at that.
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