Word: townes
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...made and broadcast because, when all is said and done, they continue to generate a good deal of money--$50 million to $60 million a year for a successful one. NBC's new hour-long series, centered on four families and set in the fictitious New England seaside town of Harmony, runs right after the popular Days of Our Lives in most areas, replacing Another World, which went off the air last month after 35 years...
...result will also incorporate the bizarre. In fact, one of the characters will not really be a human being at all, but a doll who comes to life as a sounding board for the local witch, Tabitha Lenox (Juliet Mills). She will occasionally ride around town with "Timmy" (Ally McBeal's Josh Evans) on the handlebars of her bicycle. "I needed someone for this crazy person to talk to," Reilly explains, "and all of a sudden I got this idea. I said, 'No, no. You're being silly. Time to go and have dinner.' But I kept on coming back...
...these instances in which a call to Agent Mulder might seem in order, Passions would appear indistinguishable from almost any other soap opera. Marxism may not find much expression in contemporary American pop culture, but it certainly still thrives on daytime serials, where conflict often revolves around a town's monied Protestant dynasty and its less privileged newcomers. Here, we have the Cranes vs. the Lopez-Fitzgeralds. In typically unseemly soap opera fashion, it is Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald (Lindsay Korman), Hispanic and the daughter of a maid, who is the gold digger who goes after Harmony's wealthiest young scion...
...White always left town on his birthday," he said, "because that's when the reporters would show up, bothering him. He'd tell us at the store where he was going, but nobody else...
...With reporting by Peter Hawthorne/Cape Town, Jane Holligan/ Lima, Simon Robinson/Nairobi, Regine Wosnitza/Berlin and Nicholas Le Quesne/Paris