DB Awards 2009! Winners Announced.
Y&R was majorly snubbed at this year’s Daytime Emmy Awards – which comes as a shock to absolutely no one – so we at DT & DST decided to “honour” Y&R ourselves with the first ever DB Awards. Thanks to your votes we awarded the best and the worst of the show we love to hate, including Best Quad, Fanwanker of the Year and Worst Storyline.
Hear what we had to say about the winners. Listen now!
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Now on to the winners… (more…)
“When Newbies Run Amok!!”
“When Newbies Run Amok!!”
In continuing with my series of articles answering the question, “why are soaps on the decline,” I’d like to now turn my attention to the problem of the Newbie. It is an ever present problem that has only increased over time as many writing teams, instead of giving the existing character something new and inventive to do, much rather bring a newbie on to “spice” things up. Usually, this has led to disaster. Newbies are being used as band aids to the bleeding wounds that are caused by numerous plot points, dead end reveals, and unimaginative storylines.
In looking at the problems associated with too many newbies (or the overuse of a few newbies) I would like to focus on the Young and the Restless. Sure, many soaps do it, but Y&R in the last eight months has so declined in ratings and quality that they need some serious help. Newbies running amok isn’t its only problem (it has many) but it is a definite offender when it comes to the newbies at the moment. Y&R in the last eight months has been on a steady decline in the ratings and the storylines have left MUCH to be desired. They’ve also, at many times in the past eight months, left me pissed off, disillusioned, and overall- bored. So excuse me if my article comes off a bit bitter. I do apologize (read: not really). (more…)
Is Victoria Rowell returning to Y&R? If so, hell must surely be freezing over!
Well, well, well, its looks as if Y&R’s favorite Diva, Victoria Rowell, is once again in talks to renew her role as Drucilla Winters. Not only is she in talks, but sources say, that she is in the final stages of contract negations. After polls, letters, and fan out cry, Maria & co. have realized that there is only one woman who can play Drucilla Winters. But get this, Dru is already being written into a current storyline, and well since the Winters only have one storyline, it’s not hard to guess which one it is. Not only that, but VR herself was on CNN this past weekend, and said that she’s optimistic that Dru is still alive and bitching. (Well she didn’t say that last part but this is Dru, so…) Per her twitter page, VR stated that the ball is completely in Maria’s court. Let’s pray that she’s a rebounder.
Source: Mr. Brooks
Victoria Rowell’s Twitter
5 Things I’ve Learned About “Love” from Y&R, but Wish I Hadn’t!
I have watched Y&R on and off now for about 20 years, and after 20 years I’ll admit that my memories of plot twists and certain events are rather sketchy. Yet for better or worse — mainly worse– my first recollections of Nicole Reed (aka Nikki Newman) are etched firmly in my mind.
My very first memory of Nikki was watching her weep mournfully before Jack, her then husband, about her addiction to alcohol. I remember thinking, “am I supposed to feel sorry for this character?” If I was, I didn’t! I felt that Jack was much too good for her and could not understand why she was so completely obsessed with a man (one Victor Newman) who did not seem to genuinely love or respect her. But what did I know about “love” at 15? Clearly nothing! According to the Y&R “Bible,” Victor and Nikki are the loves of each other’s lives. They are soulmates; the representation, par excellence, of “real love” in Soapdom.
Sadly, after finding myself enjoying Nikki Newman as a character for the first time in almost 20 years — due to her honest and refreshing relationship with Paul Williams — this past week Y&R has, once again, inveterated why I generally dislike Nikki and loath her relationship with Victor.
On the eve of Nikki’s marriage to a kind, faithful, honest, strong, patient, loving and attractive man — a man that has brought out the best in her — Nikki has decided to throw her hat back into Victor’s ring. For some reason, unbeknownst to me, Victor Newman, a rich, powerful, manipulative, emotionally abusive, narcissistic, vindictive, cruel and disrespectful man, continues to be held up by Y&R’s head writers as the kind of man we women should want and desire. Really writers? Is this what you want to convey to your viewers? (more…)
Are Katherine Chancellor and Michael Baldwin Headed for Guiding Light?
According to CBS Soaps in Depth they are. Although the peeps at Guiding Light are denying it, word is that both Jeanne Cooper and Christian Leblanc have already filmed scenes that will appear in the final episode of daytime’s longest running soap. Guiding Light’s final episode airs September 18th, so tune in then to see if the rumors are true. What do you think of Katherine Chancellor and Michael Baldwin showing up in Springfield? With GL coming to an end, do you think Y&R should pick up some of their characters and/or actors? Personally, I just want to see what both of them look like under the ‘natural’ lighting of GL’s ‘new’ production model, LOL.
Y&R Town Meeting Eric Braeden a No Show
According to Sara Bibel, Last Friday Sony Pictures Television President Steve Mosko called a town hall meeting to discuss the sad economic state of the union with the cast, crew and employees of Y&R, and boost morale before contract renewals where more paycuts will be required.
Despite being on set that day, Eric “I ain’t taking no stinking paycut” Braeden was a no show.
Get the full report on http://www.fancast.com/blogs/tv-news/deep-soap-power-plays/
Delusional Bitch Pick: 7/20/09
For two weeks in a row Christel Khalil has shown that she’s more than just a pretty. In an industry were looks can over shadow talent, CK proved to the critical ass who said that she was nothing more than a hair model, that she’s a good actress. For the past few months the actress has been given cheesy dialogue and has been forced to play a character, who seemed to be lacking any depth or maturity, and at times seemed to show her dislike for such drivel, by phoning in her scenes. But when given good dialogue in a craptastic s/l, CK turned crap into gold. When Lily Winters was diagnosed with Cancer, Christel gave a performance with enough emotional depth to have made a grown man cry. With a maturity that is rarely scene in the character, Lily made some hard choices and although many wouldn’t have agreed with them, most understood. It takes a good actress to not only make you feel her pain, but to understand it. Many didn’t like that Lily wanted Assby by her side, but Christel delivered in such a way that although many not care for her choice of spouse and would like nothing more than to him ran over by an eighteen wheeler, you understood why she wanted him there. And although the character my have left the hospital and went out to look for this man, when she found him she spoke like a woman who needed someone to understand, and to lean on. End the he may not have told her what she wanted to her and may not have been the ear that was needed *cough Billy cough* you knew that it was important for her to see him. In conclusion, although, I believe that this s/l was unnecessary and cruel, I am happy that the viewers of Y&R (especially the dumbass critics) got a chance to see depth of Lily Winters, portrayed so beautifully by Christel Khalil. (more…)
