Soaps By Remote

Assailed

This evening I was standing in my kitchen making salad to take for lunch tomorrow - three weeks to Hawaii, three weeks to Hawaii, must eat salad, must eat salad - ignoring the TV in the other room when I was assailed by the sound of Cameron Matheson yelling at someone.

Needless to say I recognised this sound instantly given it's one we're all very familiar with. 

In this case though, it was coming from something called Instant Beauty Pageant and I was doubly horrified.  I'm sure this travesty has already aired in the US and has probably been around here for a while too, but I have managed to avoid it.  Because arrgg!  And I only came in for the last minute of Cameron yelling.

I'm not even going to get in the stupidity of that show.  But, how does he have the time?  And why is he still contaminating AMC with his "yeah he's a nice guy but his character and most of his acting sucks" if he's got 25 other jobs?

Anyway, just thought I'd share my annoyance.

Now I'm going back to watching Top Chef and eating steamed fish.  They balance each other out.

Three weeks til Hawaii, three weeks til Hawaii...

Higley-Bush-Calivati-Obama

Nelson Branco has a great interview with Trevor St John (OLTL's Todd) over at TV Guide Canada.  That Higley-Bush comment is one for the ages, but that aside it's a really interesting interview.

Promotions

I see that ABC Daytime/Soapnet is sponsoring Jezebel today, keeping up their rather odd celebrity endorsement program.

I find the whole campaign odd, but I'm glad they're actually promoting their shows.

Self Promotion

Got kids? Kid at heart? Suffering through a cold winter and want to watch some sun and surf? Want to see just how far the Aussie accents of Ingo, Thaao and Tristan have faded by getting a dose of the real thing? So sick of soapy death and destruction you’re ready for an onslaught of pretty cheery teen shenanigans aimed at 7-14 year olds? Just desperate enough to trawl through the credits to find my real name?

Then do I have the show for you!

Coming to Nickelodeon in March is H2O – Just Add Water!

Comedy, drama, adventure, special effects, Mermaids!

Watch, watch, watch! Tell all your friends. Friday March 14 at 8/7cent.

Sorry for the diversion into self-promotion, but it’s a pretty big deal for us to have sold to a major US network, and now we’d like to become a ratings juggernaut in the States, obviously. Not least because I’d like the show to continue to take me on shopping work trips around the world for another few years, as it has been for the last couple.

Now back to your regular soapy programming.

How is that smell?

Right this instant I am watching the smell the fart Days of Our Lives episode of Friends.

I was just about to start catching up on last week's episodes of Days and up pops the first appearance of Dr Drake Ramoray (how did they spell that anyway?), so of course I had to stop and share. Judging by the episodes of Days I'll recap shortly, perhaps Brandon Beemer could use a few lessons.

Just thought I'd share.

Apropos of very little

The Days costume department, whatever their many failings, don't hold a candle to The Biggest Loser wardrobe department and what they dress Ali Sweeney in.

TBL is on on Friday nights here and often I have it on on mute while I'm catching up on the week's Days on my computer. I can't help looking from one screen to the other occasionally and thinking that even at 27 months pregnant they were dressing Sami better than they dress Ali on that show.

Super Ryan!

I guess we’ve found the Dance With the “Star” most likely to cross over to All My Children…

I can already see that “C” morphing into an “R”…