She never got the ratings up. It was stuck at the bottom.

She managed to get the show back in Emmy contention after being virtually ignored – sans Linda Dano’s nominations and wins – for almost a decade. But many were turned off by her trying to turn AW into the cheap Daytime version of ER, complete with a knock-off opening theme.

AW at this…[Read more]

What year do you think Lucci deserved to win?

I would’ve voted for her in 1996, 1999 and 2001 (Sorry Martha Byrne). She shouldve been nominated in 2004/5 for the aftermath of Bianca’s rape – but I’m not sure she was even prenominated.

And in 1987 she submitted Mark’s intervention.

In 1990, she submitted Erica begging God not take Bianca after she became ill.

In 2001 she submitted Bianca coming out to Erica.

In 2003 she submitted Chris Stamp’s death.

The category has mostly had great winners. I think we should ignore the awards after 2011 because with the cancellations there has been so little competition in the acting categories. In the 1980s there was something like 150 people competing in the supporting categories. Which is amazing to think about.

There were some strange wins – the…[Read more]

For whatever GL was decimated after Marland departed the show to co-create Loving with Agnes Nixon. Almost all the characters he invested in disappeared.

Yes McKinsey not even being nominated that year was pretty criminal. And maybe helped convince her that her time in daytime needed to end. (She also complained about the storylines around this time and supposedly didn’t like working with Zaslow). The oversight of Kate Collins for her dynamic portrayals was also a major debacle. Guiding Light at…[Read more]

SeanFlynn/ScottFerguson … then he got banned and this place went downhill fast.

Eileen Fulton, Vicky Wyndham and Deas are the remaining (and still living) major P&G stars Alan has yet to include. Wyndham always seemed prickly and is probably long over wanting anything to do with AW – nobody really had anything to say about her in the AW reunion.

I hated Buzz Cooper! The Coopers ate the show, but I admit Deas was a major…[Read more]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XwOgExCAGaY&feature=emb_title

They’ve had some technical snafus but they overall have been wonderful – to see what they’re up to now and their memories of these past shows.

I enjoyed the first two most of all, especially to see someone like Maureen Garett again.

It was a great moment and one of the best speeches in awards show history.

The rumor was by the mid-1990s that Susan had more to gain by losing each year than by actually winning the award and thus she submitted bad episodes. In a way that mad sense. Just imagine the trajectory of her career if she won way back in 1978? She most likely would not…[Read more]