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Y&R temporarily stops production; Should Y&R air new episodes during the COVID-19 crisis?; The Abbotts decide to bring Dina home; Theo prepares for war against Kyle; Mariah’s grand gesture; Faith has been skipping school; What’s next for Victoria?; Adam, Victor, and the Montalvo mystery; and Chancellor Media moves into the Dark Horse offices!
PLUS: The Weekly Y&R Chat Poll, “Who Said It” Game, and Opening “The Chatterbox” to Read YOUR Comments!
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE TELL ME WHAT DINA’S WISHES FOR HER LOVED ONES ARE??? Sandra… I was fast forwarding through the commercial beak to find out and instead, up popped a Los Angeles Corona update complete with sign language…
Too long to explain + I watched it this morning on CBS Axcess.
Hey guys! We’re expecting some severe weather this weekend, so I just wanted to mention proactively that if I lose electricity, Y&R Chat would be delayed on Sunday. Hopefully, that won’t happen, but if it does, don’t worry about me! Everything here is good. 🙂
OH, no! What if your roof blows off???
First of all please , plesae please (with 8 e’s) broadcast all of the episodes you filmed Y & R ! Beacause why not… Second. Yes Nick , Nick , Nick for Newman Enterprises instead of Adam. That what i expceted and to see him in a suit again compenstaes it even more 😉 . Thank you ! Thrid. I hope this all dissease , virus sickness , mess will end up soon as possible and we can get back to enjoying the freaking life and simple things , like our community, chat, visiting, meetings (physically) To all of you… Read more »
I voted to continue broadcast of episodes that have filmed. My fear is that this will go on so long, that something will fill that airspace, and Y&R will not return at all. So let’s see what they have! Over ten years ago there was a writers’ strike. In Spring. To fill the airspace, they began producing “reality shows.” And you can see those have taken over a lot of airtime. And the other shows never finished their season broadcast, and some didn’t return. That’s my fear for Y&R. I read they just signed for two more years, so maybe… Read more »
Well, that’s the hardest CHAT thing I ever had to vote on. I caved and voted to continue on with the new episodes, but I think my real answer is to suspend the show and let’s see what’s in the can after life picks back up. I’m thinking of Y&R who would be left so threatened to have shot their wad with nothing to air as normalcy returns. How would they ever catch up to safely be at least one month ahead? Also, I had pretty good luck in CA last week with everything airing (but cut into at the… Read more »
UPDATE – After bragging about getting 5 new episodes last week, today, Monday, I got zapped with the Friday episode programed again as brand new. In the past, CBS has never accommodated viewers in a certain section of the country who missed a particular episode. It has always been tough luck and full speed ahead! Probably now, any extra day they can do a retread is considered being further away from the date when they actually run out of show. Whatever you have to do, Y&R… Only Friday’s show was not actually their most exciting to have to watch all… Read more »
Maybe the super old YR episodes would be fun—characters and plot lines long forgotten or never seen by many fans. Somehow I doubt CBS would dig those out though. I agree that we don’t want to rewatch episodes from the recent past—there’s no fun in that. We would need some real nostalgia. Let’s see Jeannie Cooper in her prime! And Kristoff! And Lauren and Traci singing with Danny Romalotti!
Maybe for copyright reasons they can’t show those? Maybe they would have to pay the deceased actors estates to put their faces on screen?
I feel like Y&R is very powerful, but you never know…
ALERT – The following two character comments are negative, but not about the actresses, surely, just two characters everybody exhnoerates, and I never did like much. HOPE Everyone thinks she was wonderful. O.K. she was. But think: She had an affair with Victor, married many times, maybe not just then. Nicki was with Jack I think. She was with Victor, going to have a baby, they came to GC and got married. She had Adam. She kept him from knowing Victor, which was not her sole choice to make. She wasn’t humble, she had an i-am-blind-and-soft-spoken-so-i-am-special attitude. She was blind,… Read more »
TONI, your comment about Hope going blonde has thrilled me beyond belief. It’s such a small thing with Y&R having to go with what an actor had altered, but when I consider the great Hope, one of the first comments out of me would be, “Yeah, the brown head died and then she came back as an angel with platinum blonde hair!” For the practical, grounded character of Hope to get caught up in such glamor that she couldn’t even see for herself was just so jarring. The actress should have been given a wig to wear like everyone else… Read more »
HA!
If all women who dye their hair blonde are haughty and of questionable character, we might as well give up on humanity now. That’s a pretty harsh analysis. The more troubling flaw for me is keeping a child from his biological parent without due cause, even if it’s complicated. And Victor is certainly complicated (and Nikki wouldn’t have made anything easier). But, parents have responsibilities to the children they bring into the world. Sometimes adoption to another home is clearly best, but open adoption is preferred whenever possible. I have criticized Nick re: Christian and Victoria, Billy & Chelsea re:… Read more »
No, going blonde is worse. It is so out of character for Hope to become a loose woman. Everybody but Hope!
(Please accept this comment in the absurd spirit it is given. But you must know what I mean about the idea of Hope…)
You almost have me convinced Gary! What happened to the actress who played Hope? She had other TV work for a while but I haven’t noticed her in anything lately. Will have to give her an IMDB. Probably off playing a blonde woman of ill repute in a direct to DVD movie…
Hope’s blonde hair wasn’t about her character – my comment was because she is blind. She can’t see her own hair, so why change the color.
I imagine blind people still care about how they look
Hey Ali, I completely agree with you about Mariah’s grand gesture and Tessa’s reaction. It’s like you are at my place of work telling people my personal business. But then again being the lover of Mariah, which I am, it would have been hard for me to say no, to that woman in THAT DRESS, she was looking real good.
The airplane outfit, I can see Tessa holding her ground, but the stage outfit, I would be like okay honey, I forgive you, now let’s go to my dressing room and talk this out.
I’ve been convinced the concert confession was not the way to go, but I do so like the ” GRAND JESTURE”. And this is a soap… I became foolishly caught up. I think the CHAT CEO hit the nail on the head in observing that everything Mariah spilled to millions for social media was already said privately on the plane, with the concert comments offering, “nothing new.” Tessa running off the stage in tears is unclear to me. We will see what we will see… When Tanner proposed to Mariah that he was inviting her to a concert that would… Read more »
Gary, they had a few Tessa and Mariah(Teriah) Fans live in the studio that day for the filming of concert scenes. The voice of the woman shouting “she loves you”, is one of those fans.
SHAROD, was THAT you???
It was me
THAT I would like to have seen. I see you more screaming your fool head of at an Adam concert.
(not that I would gernerally dare call you a fool)
Does Adam sing? Maybe as an Elvis impersonator (with that new Jughead hair situation)? I would enjoy that—line them all up—Michael Muhney, Justin Hartley, Mark Grossman in concert! Yes please…
No, As Shaggy says it wasn’t me.
I think that it would be great to see those old episodes I loved as a younger viewer just to remind me of why I love this show. It seemed there was more focus on family dynamics back then.
I have a suggestion for future podcasts, Ali: how about themes like favorite character, favorite storyline, what we would like to see in future episodes, etc. you could read everyone’s responses on your podcast. Just an idea to keep us all chatting about our favorite soap even if it is not airing.
Why not fill the time with older episodes? It could be very interesting. We could see characters who are often mentioned but who are not currently in the story. We could see stories play out that effect today’s stories. Of course that may be a problem considering how the current writing staff likes to change history.
I knew our present situation was really serious when they suspended production. That is a very important escape for me, and I’ll miss it.
I personally think part of the reason Mariah didn’t bring up Tessa’s past transgressions is because I think she believes they’re not quite the same thing as what she did. For instance, stealing someone’s thoughts from their journal and using them for your own gain is bad but they weren’t a couple then. While they were clearly attracted to each other, they were barely even friends at that point. Blackmail is terrible (although I’d argue not a huge deal in the grand scheme of bad things that people do in GC) but Tessa didn’t blackmail Mariah, she blackmailed Sharon. It… Read more »
Thank you Pressed, I could not say it any better than that. Yes and Amen.
Tessa did many, many hella shady and illegal things in the past that Mariah has forgiven her for. Plus repeatedly lying to Mariah and hurting her family are not small matters. One act of infidelity is bad, yes, but people can forgive and move on. It doesn’t have to be the end of an otherwise meaningful and compatible relationship.
Ellen, you are correct, one act of infidelity can be over come, depending on the circumstances and the couple. But it seems to me that by Mariah’s own words of saying to Tessa, “I don’t know who you are. That’s always been the problem”. Even after being in the womans orbit for three years, does not sound like a compatible and meaningful relationship to me. I honestly believe that Sharon was correct, when she said to Tessa, that Mariah was only with her out of guilt. (After Mariah betrayed Tessa to the WMC, and they left Tessa in the woods).… Read more »
Ali I still am not getting the newsletters. I got one and then that was it they are not in my junk so idk. Can you please sigh me up thanks
Hi Ali and friends we are all OK here everybody is doing well! I believe that they should air the new episodes now because it is a great distraction from what is going on in the world. When I watch Y&R I pretend that I’m in that world anyway (I have heard that that is a psychological problem LOL) so I would like to live in the world of Genoa city for an hour a day or five hours a week I think it is it It’s a crucial distraction for me
It’s really a shame you can’t hear us all cracking up at the jokes you make during YR Chat Ali. You do keep it entertaining! If YR goes to reruns I wonder if you could pull clips from old YR chats from that time period and then tie in current plots and character growth? Easy peasy, right? Or maybe you would like a well deserved break??? We would miss you though.
PS Please don’t send your little daughter (Faith Abby Ali Jr) to military school. She is probably artistic like you & Aunt Victoria.
Here at home while it is raining outside. That is not unusual since it has been raining non-stop for the last three days.
Hey Zoperxplex, yes, that was pretty good – you pointing up how when Adam’s 1st grade girlfriend said Conner is the spitting image of Adam when they were dating – how could that be when Adam actually boasts the face of Gabriel Bingham? Explain that Y&R, or was Elissa (?) just making a polite pleasantry???
Interesting to comtenplate the Y&R continuity dept. letting that slip by…
(Long term, when characters do that whole facial reconstruction thing the writers definiately want us to forget the preposterousness of it)
Prior to that I was wondering how in the world did Chance, in the middle of an undercover job in Vegas, manage to recognize Spider as Adam given the fact that Adam was suffering from amnesia and he had plastic surgery? That happened to be another discrepancy that serendipitously arose to my attention after another Chatter (whose name I have forgotten) brought up the issue of Adam’s amnesia and the time he and Chance spent together in Vegas.