Nelson Branco: Clinically Insane or Just Drunk?

I hope he had a cigarette afterward.

Does Carlivati need a restraining order?

I think we're so just so desperate for good soap that we hail the first not-terrible writer as the great white (and handsome) hope. Yeah he's cute but next to JER and Hogan, that ain't hard!

Nelson Branco regularly posts at awards expert Tom O'Neil's GoldDerby Forums, the latter's joint venture The Envelope | "L.A. Times." I know this, because I have been a regular there since O'Neil launched GoldDerby.com in 2001, and my name here as the same one used there. And Branco has been providing posters with links to his latest column.

A lot of folks there don't appear to be considering the soaps as a dying genre (or at least they're not outright writing anything to such effect). I don't believe it would be wise of me to try and convince them it is. That fantastic April 27 "Snarkcast" -- a.k.a. WoST Brian's Finale -- I linked so others could absorb why I'm in agreement with Brian (and, of course, Snark); well, so much to agree with me, but to consider whether they have the same observations.

At O'Neil's Web site, we talk awards. But I find myself not giving a rat's rear to try and fake and finesse any minimal level of enthusiasm for the 2007-08 contenders. So, congratulations to award-worthy performances! But please don't insult my intelligence in trying to pass off any of the crap that are today's daytime soaps as being Emmy-worthy as best-drama, -directing, and -writing contenders.

Seriously. He went way overboard. Ron's definately improved the show but after Dena Hackley a group of monkees would have been an upgrade.

I wonder what would happen if he ever saw Hollyoaks...:)

Ahhh, forget "Hollyoaks". Forget all of the current soaps. Friends, *I* am getting back into the website business. That's right, I'm combining my writing abilities with my web abilities to create a site dedicated to the greatest drama that has EVER been on television... There will be clips and full episodes and original fiction picking up the story... A top-notch website dedicated to the very best drama ever: FASHION HOUSE!

: Don't be mockin the MoBo.

WoST Brian,

Make sure you charge for access to your new Web site. You don't want a revival of "'The Jerry Springer Show' Guests Come to Take a Dump" once again. Life is challenging enough.

I know your lights are on, Brian, but is anyone home?

Ahh, Rashad... can't a guy dream? I feel as if my contributions to the web have some life left yet... Seriously, though, I HAD debated creating a site dedicated to "The Edge of Night". No joke. I had exchanged emails with Johnny Barranco a few weeks ago (composer and vocalist of the late 70's/early 80's theme) and an idea hit me to do up a site (not like Mark Faulkner's... different, heavy multimedia in the style of WoST) with rare clips, full episodes, etc., with a section devoted to original fiction. I thought about giving it a shot reviving the serial through my writings. I dropped the idea of a full-blown site almost as soon as thinking it up... however, the idea of writing some original storylines updating things in Monticello still appeals to me. Stay tuned.

Carlivati is not cute. Frank is cute. Ron is "eh"...but, that is completely irrelevant. Branco is a bit sick in his praise of a not very experienced head writer. Ron has not even worked at another show. I'll have to google this to confirm, but I don't think Frank has ever worked at another show either. So now the viewers are stuck in this daisy chain of limited/brainwashed writers/producers who wouldn't know fresh story if it hit them in the face. Show hopping is, at least, one way to get some teeth. I'd rather a Hogan who's been around to a guy who just sat around and by process of attrition was made head writer.