BOOOOO!
BOO I say to NBC for not saluting their soaps on their 75th anniversary special Sunday night!
Instead of the scripted Q&A session (which, unbelievably, featured Diedre Hall being told that daytime was NOT gonna be mentioned), we could have had 10 minutes of soap highlights. But I guess that's what you get when the Saturday Night Live crew writes your show.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES is the network's second longest running show after MEET THE PRESS, and ANOTHER WORLD ran more than 35 years. The soaps underwrote nighttime programming for many years, and it was wrong to include everything else but.
I'm actually glad that I had to work last night and couldn't tape the show like I wanted to. What an appalling slap in the face. Rest assured, I've fired off several angry emails to the appropriate people today.
Wrong! So Wrong!
I totally agree! But I have to say, I was NOT surprised in the least. Soaps are ALWAYS overlooked, for their importance to networks, and to their audiences. I never see or hear anything about soaps on TV other than something that is designed specifically for soaps themselves like the Daytime emmy Awards, etc. But in every part of the entertainment industry soaps are continually overlooked. I was just told by an assistant at the casting department of 20th Century Fox that soap actors can't even get in the door. There seems to be some stigma to being a soap opera. Boy, if everyone knew how fantastic soaps could be (and were in the early 80's, imo).
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