By Marlena De Lacroix As I write this, it is only the third day of sweeps and automatically I can give my approval to one storyline, a new one on One Life to Live. Widow and career newspaper publisher Viki Davidson is newly depicted working as a waitress in a diner in Paris, Texas. Hooray! Doesn't Viki, the very portrait of a lady, deserve a … [Read more...]
Archives for 2007
Would You Die For Love?: General Hospital’s Alarming Sweeps Slogan
October 25, 2007 by Leave a Comment
By Marlena De Lacroix "Would you die for love?" That's ABC Daytime/SoapNet's slogan for November sweeps on General Hospital. It bridges four major storylines, including one in which the major young heroine will die on the show, mistakenly murdered by her own pre-poisoned ex-husband/current boyfriend during a gala ball. How can ABC be so … [Read more...]
Can Guiding Light and As The World Turns Survive The Big Change?
October 18, 2007 by Leave a Comment
By Marlena De Lacroix There's nothing soap fans hate more than change. Whether a show's longtime leading teen is recast with a skinnier actress or the show suddenly changes dramatic style with the entrance of a new headwriter, viewers freak out because what they have always prized about daytime drama is its continuity and constancy. Now, in … [Read more...]
General Hospital Night Shift: Good Night and Good Riddance
October 11, 2007 by Leave a Comment
By Marlena De Lacroix General Hospital: Night Shift broadcast its final episode last week and I fear because its first episode was so highly rated the entire show will go down in soap history as a hit instead of the incoherently written and produced mess that it was. Same sets, same writers as daytime GH. ABC Daytime should have learned its … [Read more...]
