The CBS Eye FOCUSed With Very Narrow Lens

I have been lax in weighing in on the upcoming multi-million dollar, anti-abortion, Super Bowl ad sponsored by the ultra right-wing, evangelical Christian corporation, Focus on the Family.  Maybe I am merely desensitized to the hyperbolic antics of Focus On The Family, or as I like to refer to them, Focus On Your OWN Damn [...]

CBS Cancels As the World Turns

Well, first CBS extinguished the Light, and now the corporate giant has stopped the World from turning.  Sounds like media executive edicts of biblical proportions.  What’s next, they make the Bold move to eat their Young?  Not much would surprise me.
Now that ATWT has been canceled, I wonder what will take its time slot?  Let’s [...]

Arrested Development: Serial Handcuffer Strikes Again!

There is a serial handcuffer on the loose at CBS, and it’s not the good kind.  I reported earlier that Crystal Chappell had been restrained in Springfield, and now it appears the network censors have traveled to Genoa City.
Take a look at the footage and the evidence will show there is no daytime conspiracy theory [...]

Mourning Sickness – plot or ploy, it’s just sad

Oy vey! GL, did you really do it? Is Natalia really pregnant? I would love to win a fabulous dinner off my partner, but I admit it would be bittersweet.  Yes, I bet her an expensive dinner at the restaurant of our choice that Natalia was going to end up pregnant with the Frank-furter’s baby. [...]

Network Standards and Practices – Who applies the childproof cap?

As a follow-up to my blog questioning CBS’s apparent decision to de-sexualize the same-sex OTALIA storyline on the now canceled daytime drama, Guiding Light, I thought it would be insightful to examine these network standards and practices, or Program Practices at CBS.
Standards and Practices, put simply in the vernacular, is the department of the network [...]

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