By Ed Martin
One could find worse ways to spend a lazy summer evening than watching a live awards show from Las Vegas featuring many current top acts from shows along the strip.
But when I sat down to watch CBS‘ presentation of the 37th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Sunday I was looking for a celebration of […]

Posted on June 29th, 2010 by admin
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By Ed Martin
The ‘00s may be the new Golden Age of primetime drama, but for fans of daytime serials they have truly been the Dark Ages, right up until the very end. With only 24 days left until the turn of the decade, and just three months after the last episode of Guiding Light, a […]

Posted on December 10th, 2009 by admin
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By Ed Martin
One Life to Live showed me something last week that I haven’t seen in 30 years of soap viewing: A mass wedding of two dozen gay couples. This show has pushed the envelope in a number of crazy ways since the ‘70s, sending its characters to heaven, to an underground city and careening […]

Posted on November 11th, 2009 by admin
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By Ed Martin
Everything about General Hospital that I have come to loathe during the last ten years was on proud, pungent display last week, to such a degree of extreme outrageousness I could not look away.
I must admit that there was an infectious lunatic energy to it all, which could account for my deep fascination […]

Posted on November 9th, 2009 by admin
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Dear Ms. Passalacqua Hayman: 
I wanted to write to tell you how much I enjoy reading your columns and your insights into the soaps.  You are the reason I started buying Soap Opera Weekly so many years ago and I was sad when you left.  I bought that magazine every week, at first for your columns, […]

Posted on November 4th, 2009 by admin
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By Marilyn Henry
There already have been big discussions on the internet about Jonathan Jackson returning to his role as Lucky on General Hospital. Newer viewers who don’t know his work are jolted; other long-time viewers are thrilled. I don’t know whose bad   

In the last few weeks, the show seems to have turned a corner. Good grief, […]

Posted on November 1st, 2009 by admin
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By Ed Martin 
Watching the 36th annual Daytime Emmy Awards on The CW during the dog days of August confirmed what I already knew: These are dark days indeed for the daypart overall and for soap operas in particular.
It’s not that the telecast was all bad: I actually prefer smaller venues for the Daytime Emmy celebration […]

Posted on August 31st, 2009 by admin
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By Matthew Weaver
It’s so hard to be a cheerleader for a team that doesn’t even want to win any more.
In the football team that has become daytime television, the quarterback is spitting on the legacy of the greatest love stories ever told, the wide receiver has been recast with a Melrose Place actress and suddenly […]

Posted on June 30th, 2009 by admin
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Thinking Fans Comment Update: James speculates, “My own preference for bringing back the vets would be a storyline where it is revealed that they all joined a witness protection program and are brought back to testify against Sonny” … while Melanie declares, “The good think about the outrageousness of soaps (and characters like Helena) is that anything is […]

Posted on April 14th, 2009 by admin
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Thinking Fans share their grief: Skylar laments, ”I want to call my great grandmother and tell her the news, as I’m sure she doesn’t know. But I really don’t want to be the one to deliver the news: a friend of 72 years is set to disappear forever”  … while BL says, “I’m glad for all the […]

Posted on April 1st, 2009 by admin
Filed under: GUESTS, Guiding Light | 22 Comments »