Soap Operas in Sports??

Today I’m going to take a different spin on soap operas. I’m going to look into the sporting world and look at all the drama that goes on in that perspective. A lot of people are referring to Brett Favre and his career as a “soap opera”.
Favre, who ‘retired’ from the NFL after his many seasons with the Green Bay Packers, came back to the league last year, out of retirement, to play for the New York Jets. After saying he was going to retire again after last year’s season, there is talk now, that he will come out of retirement once again and possibly play this time for the Minnesota Vikings.
I personally do not care either way what he does, but it’s a little strange to me that he is beginning a pattern of playing, retiring, and then miraculously coming out of retirement to play again. I mean come on, if you retired from the sport, accept it and help maybe elsewhere. Clearly you think that you have done what you can do in the sport and you should move on. Apparently Favre is having a bit of trouble let’s say… letting go?
This to me, sounds a little too much like the well known pitcher in the major leagues, Roger Clemens. Clemens made his name playing in Toronto and after a few different teams, multiple times of retiring and coming out of retirement, he landed himself in Houston. I liked Clemens when he was a Blue Jay, wasn’t really a fan when he was a Yankee and then definitely wasn’t a fan when he was an Astro.I mainly felt that way because I find it frustrating when these guys retire, then decide to be heroes and come out of retirement. Okay, I can understand you doing it once, maybe you made a wrong decision. But doing it multiple times? Come on guys… figure out what you want to do with your life and stick to it please.

Soap Opera Pregnancies

Soap opera pregnancies are always the most dramatic, I mean you didn’t think things could get much more dramatic on a soap opera, but I think pregnancies succeed everything. There seems to be plenty of these each year on many different soaps. As I have mentioned before, I watch the Young and the Restless more than any other soap. So that is mainly what I am going to concentrate on for this blog.
Recently, on the Young and the Restless, Sharon Abbott became pregnant. Now, the next question is who is the father? And that is definitely a good one. There are three options, her recent ex husband Jack Abbott, her ex-ex husband Nick Newman, or her recent fling with Billy Abbott. Talk about craziness. Sharon has been up and down and all around with so many different guys on the show but she seems to be back and forth between the same ones, Nick and Jack. Although, I think that if Brad Carlton was still alive on the show, his name would probably be thrown in the mix as well.
Nick and Sharon have been in love for how long? They were high school sweethearts, anyways, Nick and his current wife, Phyllis, their marriage is currently on the rocks because Nick has been seeing Sharon. In my heart, I’ve always had a soft spot for the whole Nick and Sharon thing, they have a son already together, Noah. In my opinion, it would only be the beginning of a happy ending for the two. Nick get a divorce from Phyllis and start his life with Sharon again, we all know that’s what both of them want!

Jack, will definitely want this baby to be his, in his eyes, this may salvage anything him and Sharon may or may not have at this point. I’m not really a huge fan of Jack Abbott, so personally, I hope that it isn’t Jack’s baby. But knowing the writers of the show, they will probably script it to be Jack’s baby. To make things just that more difficult.
Billy on the other hand, was a random kind of out of nowhere. He came back to Genoa City to work for Jabot and apparently was seeing Sharon? I don’t really think that it would bother me if it did turn out to be Billy’s baby, but I guess that would put an end to my fantasy Nick and Sharon ending.
Let’s see what the writers have in mind for Sharon and her baby..

-Media-

Hello everyone, sorry this is a little delayed but things have been pretty hectic with moving back home, playing softball and I’m sure everyone knows what I mean. Unfortunate things had to end the way they did, but there really isn’t a whole lot we can do about that.
This blog, for my media topic, I am going to do media in general. According to dictionary.com the definition of media is the means of communication, as radios and televisions, newspapers, and magazines that reach or influence people widely.
The media is around and influences, I believe, everything a person does. We listen to the media in hopes of good news, searching for bad news, and even for satisfaction. I also personally don’t think that we could live without media. The media helps us learn more about scientific discoveries, it helps us with learning about natural disasters around the world and how to prevent from suffering the same losses. The media also helps us with learning what type of weather or what type of storm will be coming through our area.
People always have arguments that media is showing far too many negative things, which at times is true. But there are so many horrible things going on in the world right now, that it can sometimes be hard to focus on the positives, one of the negatives being the wars going on around the world.
Another thing that is often brought up is the amount of violence that is shown in media. People often believe that with the amounts of violence in the media that is a main cause for all of the violence in everyday life, with the crimes in the streets, abuse, and even rape. There has been an argument on this topic for over three decades about whether or not media violence actually does cause real-life violence or not. In my opinion it does affect people, especially young children. For the simple fact that if they see someone on TV go and do something they will believe it is okay. But at the same time I don’t really think there is a whole lot more you can do to prevent it. It then comes down to Mom and Dad to explain that that is not okay, it’s just TV.

The Daytime Emmy Awards

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blog on Soap Operas. My topic for this week is something that I’m sure everyone knows about or has at least heard of. The Daytime Emmy’s.
The Daytime Emmy Awards are awards that are presented by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences and the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences in recognition of excellence in American daytime television programming. The first Daytime Emmy was awarded in 1972 to the show The Doctors, The Doctors and General Hospital were nominated for Outstanding Achievement in Daytime television.
The Emmy is awarded in 68 categories, including acknowledgements for series, performers and all other technical and creative areas. The Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards season culminates with a televised show that pays tribute to the exceptional work of daytime broadcasting's elite. There have been 35 Daytime Emmy Awards, two of which were not televised (1983, 1984).
As I have previously mentioned in quite a few of my blogs, the acting on soap operas is horrible and people know it, even those nominating people and choosing the winners for the awards. That is the main reason why year after year, they usually have the same people to be nominated for the same awards. In fact, All My Children star, Susan Lucci was nominated 19 times without any wins. She finally came out on top and won for the Best Actress in 1999.
As for the 36th Annual Daytime Entertainment Emmy Awards, it was announced in March that The CW, for the first time, will broadcast the Emmy’s in August. They will be hosted in New York City, the big apple. The location for them is currently unknown, whether they are at the Radio City Music Hall, Madison Square Garden, or another venue, they will find somewhere!
In my opinion, the Emmy’s are kind of an award show that people often forget about. Even though the acting maybe isn’t quite up to the caliber of the actors and actresses on The Oscars I think they still deserve to have the same recognition of others.

Another Soap Off the Air..

Welcome back everyone, this week’s blog is going to look into CBS’s recent decision to pull the plug on their epic soap “Guiding Light”.
Shows go on and off the air all the time, but they aren’t always daytime epics that have aired for decades. They are usually shows that no one watches or don’t have as good of a plot line as they had originally expected.
April 1st it was announced that CBS’s “Guiding Light” would air its last episode on September 18 of this year. CBS’s daytime soap is the longest-running television drama, it started its 72-year run in 1937. The show began as a 15-minute radio serial and then moved to television for the last 57 years. Their reasoning for pulling the show was their loss of 13 percent of their viewers and ranking last among other daytime soaps. As of right now, they are searching for a new home for the show, but no news as of now.
“For many of us, it was the first show we ever watched,” said Lynn Leahey, editorial director of Soap Opera Digest. Unlike prime-time shows that came and went it was constantly in people’s lives. “It really is heartbreaking to see something like this go away.” (Courtesy of baltimoresun.com)
Soap operas in the last few years have been losing popularity in a slow decline, the main reason for that is that the women that were dedicating their time to their soaps are no longer at home during that hour of the day. They are out working, and they are finding the experience that the soap gave them elsewhere in their life.
The show has this year, averaged 2.1 million viewers (since September), with in comparison to last year has a drastic drop. Last year’s viewers were 2.4 million. According to Nielsen, a New York-based TV researcher, the show “The Young and the Restless” is the number one watched soap opera with a viewing audience of 5.3 million.
One thing that may give “The Young and the Restless” a bigger fan base is the time of day it appears on television, it is closer to supper time, after people get off work and come home. I found “The Young and the Restless” an easier show to watch just because of the time it was on television. I can honestly say I’ve never watched “Guiding Light” therefore I don’t know how the show was, but with it being on the air for 72 years, it had to have been good and seeing it go is a great tragedy.

Stars on Soaps

Welcome back everyone, this week’s blog will be on my take on the quality of actors and actresses that are hired for soap operas compared to those in movies and TV shows.
First of all, there have been a few stars that did have their breaks on soap operas, such as Josh Duhamel out of Minot, North Dakota. He originally was attending Minot State University and earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Biology and had planned to be a dentist, but his grades were unfortunately not good enough to get into dentistry school.So Josh decided to move to Los Angeles and he auditioned for All My Children, after his little go on All My Children, Duhamel landed his role on the hit show Las Vegas. From Las Vegas he scored the role as Tad Hamilton on the movie Win a Date With Tad Hamilton, also starring Kate Bosworth.

From what I have noticed, Josh Duhamel is part of a small group that make it to the bigger scenes from Soap Operas. I think one of the main reasons for that is because soap operas are normally known for their horrible acting. If someone sees on their resume that they were previously on a soap opera they may immediately throw them to the “no” pile. But you never really know I guess until you are put in that situation.
I know that if I ever saw a movie that had someone I recognized from a soap opera I probably wouldn’t run out to the store or movie theater to watch or buy it. I laugh at the acting on soap operas. They aren’t exactly the best of actors and actresses but they do their job, they simulate reality and everyday life for those people who enjoy that kind of thing. As far as I’m concerned, if they want to try and go out to act in a movie, then all the power to them. I’m not saying that everyone in soaps don’t have the ability to catch the role in a movie, but their chances are probably smaller than other actors making a name for themselves in movies and TV shows.

Soap Opera Digest

Hello everyone, and welcome back to my blogs on soap operas. This week I am going to talk about the well-known magazine of Soap Opera Digest.
The Soap Opera Digest is a magazine that covers every American daytime soap opera that airs on television. It is an overview of the actors on and off camera. You will learn about what the actors are doing on the screen, during shows, behind the scenes, and even what is going on in their personal life. Because really, what star’s personal life don’t we know about?
The magazine first came about in November of 1975, it currently boasts a subscription sale of around 500,000 as well as more than one million issues bought at newsstands and supermarkets each week. Statistics show that in the early 1990s the magazine had up close to 1.4 million subscribers. Lynn Leahey is currently the editor-in-chief for the magazine and columnist Carolyn Hinsey reviews current series and soap-related events in her regular feature “It’s Only My Opinion”.
I can honestly say that I have never actually read this magazine nor subscribed to it. I’m not saying that it is a bad magazine or anything by any means. Clearly it can’t be that bad with all of the high ratings and subscribers it has had in the past. But the real meaning behind the magazine seems to be letting you know what is up and coming in your favorite soaps. Wouldn’t this just ruin what you are about to see. From what I have heard and see is that it lets you know what is coming up in the next month and to me if you have read it, it would then be silly to actually spend the time each day to sit down and watch the show if you know what is going to happen. I don’t know, that may just be me, but I think I would either have one or the other. Either sitting and watching my show faithfully everyday or subscribing to the magazine and reading it ahead of time. To me, you are getting the same thing out of it either way. It’s just redundant I think, to be reading it and then watching it a week or two later.