Nelson Branco's SOAP OPERA UNCENSORED: Issue 55

SOAP OPERA UNCENSORED

  Volume 02, Issue 45 (No. 55)

  BY NELSON BRANCO

  Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco

  INSIDE OUR SPECIAL DOUBLE ISSUE — CATCHING UP WITH…. BOBBIE EAKES A YEAR AFTER AMC’S MURDER ! WHY AGNES NIXON IS STILL DEVASTATED OVER AMC’S CANCELLATION; HOW ABC “DISSED” DAYTIME; HOW SHE FEELS ABOUT SUSAN FLANNERY’S DAYTIME EXIT; WOULD SHE RETURN TO B&B; HER MEMORIES OF DARLENE CONLEY; HER NEW PROJECTS; IS MACY ALIVE?, AND THE UPCOMING MARTIN FAMILY HOLIDAY PARTY/REUNION — Casting Exclusive: Four “New” Roles on B&B, DAYS and Y&R! Details Inside! — UPDATE: FIND OUT IF THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS ARE AIRING IN 2013! — DAYS: Brady and Kristen Have Sex! — CLAIM: IS TONY GEARY BLOCKING GENIE FRANCIS’S GH RETURN? — Is Y&R Recasting Chance? Plus: Tricia Cast On Her Y&R Future Only In UNCENSORED! Exclusive: Inside Y&R’s Toronto Tea! — LARRY HAGMAN DEAD AT 81! HOW DALLAS WILL CONTINUE — Exclusive: Deidre Hall On How She Feels About Working With Eileen Davidson Again! — WHAT’S FAILING RIGHT NOW ON THE Y&R STORY FRONT — Is Darin Brooks Returning to DAYS? — ONE LIFE’s ROBIN STRASSER QUITTING TWITTER? — Exclusive: Katherine Kelly Lang: Emmy Update! Plus: Is She Toronto-Bound? — IS GH IN DANGER AGAIN? ABC DEVELOPING A REALITY SPIN-OFF OF GH! — Prime Suds: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST’S Kristin Kreuk Is All Grown Up! Exclusive Interview Inside! — LAST WEEK REVIEWS! — Casting Coach! SOAP PORN! UNCENSORED Quotes Of The Week!

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  Say What?

  UNCENSORED QUOTES OF THE WEEK

  “I have history with the other A.J., but you never know how it’s going to feel because I [worked with Billy Warlock.] Sean [Kanan] and I had never met. But I’m happy to see that I think we had a nice chemistry together.”

  —GH’s Robin Christopher in DIGEST

  Translation: I can wear high heels again.

  “Cane starts to wonder if he’s being phased out.”

  —Daniel Goddard in DIGEST on his new Y&R storyline when Cane learns Neil hired Devon at Jabot

  Translation: Send in the planes, Lane fans!

  "The director asked me to improv at one point in a scene with Lindsay [Lohan] and when I did, she laughed. I thought, 'There's a really nice, young girl in there.’”

  — Judith Chapman on appearing in LIZ AND DICK in SOAPS IN DEPTH

  Translation: Darlings, I should’ve played Liz Taylor.

  “Upon consideration & w/wise counsel, I'm taking 40 days off #Twitter & #Redfin Hope u stick w/me while I DO things not talk/tweet about 'em. That being said: I have more to say (lol) Like you didn't see that coming:) 212 414 5300 THANK YOU! #Twitter has given me so much-TY'ALL:).”

  —Former ONE LIFE diva Robin Strasser

  Translation: When the hell is Cartini bringing me over to GH, damn it?!

  “Life is really interesting — and it gets more interesting the older you get.”

  —GH’s Scott Reeves in a DIGEST feature interview

  Translation 1: Being married to Missy Reeves is never boring.

  “Steve [Burton] is the kind of guy who would give you the shirt off his back.”

  —Reeves in the same interview about his former co-star who helped promote Hurricane Sandy relief efforts Scott was a part of in DIGEST

  Translation: Except when GH needed him to do a love scene.

  Top Story

  Report: ABC DEVELOPING REAL-LIFE VERSION OF GH!

  It just does not stop! As GH is experiencing a creative, critical and ratings renaissance, THE NEW YORK POST reminded soap fans that the fight to save scripted TV on daytime is far from over.

  On Friday, the newspaper revealed that ABC is in the early stages of developing a reality-TV version of GH featuring real-life nurses and doctors from L.A.’s U.S. Medical Center.

  What is unclear is which piece of TV real estate ABC plans on airing the new series. However, the article quotes a source who hints the GH spin-off is intended for either cable or syndication.

  Yeah, right.

  Anyone who knows ABC is acutely aware that the soap-killing network is probably either planning to replace KATIE (which has at least another year and a half on air) or GH with this new brainchild.

  After failed attempts at counterprogramming ABC’s moronic decision to replace high performers AMC and ONE LIFE, it appears the network has given birth to a new strategy: resorting to parasitically leeching onto GH’s brand and audience in their Soapocaust plot instead of creating any more lame lifestyle and talk shows which have come out of the inept ABC development branch.

  No shame.

  Clearly, ABC leaked this information to THE NY POST to test the temperature out there. And so far, it’s pretty cold.

  When will ABC realize we won’t accept anything in the ABC daytime arena other than our beloved AMC and ONE LIFE?

  Probably when ABC hits financial rock bottom.

  Final thought: I wonder if Brian Frons is attached to the project because this sounds like it has his slimy name written all over it!

 

  Suds Obit

  LARRY HAGMAN DEAD AT 81

  TV icon Larry Hagman, who played DALLAS's J.R. Ewing, both in the original CBS series and the TNT reboot, died fittingly in a Dallas hospital on November 23 at the age of 81. The cause was complications from his battle with throat cancer.

  In an issued press release, CBS said, “Television has seen many stars, but there will only be one Larry Hagman. Larry was a larger-than-life personality, both on-screen and off — a master showman and brilliant actor who brought to life a character that transcended the medium and truly captivated a nation.  Today, we mourn the loss of a friend, but remember a man who brought true greatness to his craft and a television character in J.R. Ewing that will never be forgotten.”

  Thankfully, the superstar, who spawned the “cliffhanger,” got to be a part of the critically acclaimed and highly successful DALLAS reboot. Reportedly, Hagman has filmed several key episodes for season two of the TNT/CTV soap, which will debut on January 28, 2013.

  Like Hagman, whose ashes will be scattered around the world, J.R. will get a proper send-off on DALLAS posthumously, promise producers.

  Do you think someone will kill J.R. Ewing in another mystery? I doubt it. Regardless, the DALLAS premiere will no doubt be one of the most highly anticipated and buzzed about season premieres in recent history.

  More sad news: THE HUFFINGTON POST reports that former GUIDING LIGHT and AS THE WORLD TURNS scriptwriter Emily Squires pass
ed away last Wednesday at New York's Mount Sinai Hospital. Squires also wrote for SEARCH FOR TOMORROW, THE SECRET STORM and directed episodes of SESAME STREET. She was 71.

  KATIE Cancellation Watch

  WHY IS COURIC LAWYERING UP?

  Insert laugh track here: On the heels of two local ABC affiliate co-anchors quitting on air (!), comes news that Katie Couric has sought advice from power lawyers including Allen Grubman after her executive producer Jeff Zucker’s name repeatedly came up as a candidate to head up CNN, sources exclusively tell PAGE SIX.

  Zucker has been tapped to become the head of CNN Worldwide after Jim Walton announced he was stepping down. Zucker owns a large portion of Couric’s new daytime show, creating huge complications should he leave. However, last week Mark Shapiro, formerly Dick Clark Productions chief executive, listed as a CNN front-runner.

  A source said, “When Jeff’s name was first touted, Katie met with Grubman to look over her contract.