Sentences with phrase «of daytime soap»

There was practically nothing normal about the month - long South Florida trial of Christopher Glenn, which unfolded like a strange blend of daytime soap opera, The People's Court and The Bourne Conspiracy.

Linzy's performances, and the visual language he draws upon in his still - and moving - image work, borrow from cultural artifacts that are rooted in the tropes of daytime soap operas, reality television, Hollywood drama and situational comedies.

It was a cheesy, somewhat sleazy - looking thing even back then, with its scantily - clad actresses, sets that looked like something out of a daytime soap, and some spectacularly inept acting.

Robbie has found herself relocated to Wall Street after a lengthy stint on Ramsey Street, the home of daytime soap Neighbours — and she's not the first Aussie to complete her training on the programme.

In the hallowed tradition of the daytime soap opera, writer Chris Morgan brings back original street racer Letty Ortiz (Michelle Rodriguez) from the dead.

The sheer number of close - ups rivals that of daytime soap operas, which at least edit theirs together better.

He's been acting for twenty years, racking up credits in the likes of daytime soap «Guiding Light» and action drama «Prison Break,» among others, alongside tiny roles in «Minority Report» and «The Sweetest Thing.»

Mom (Virginia Madsen) seldom emerges from the master bedroom («my comfort nest»), where she is lost in the dreamland of daytime soap operas.

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It was the daytime soap opera of particle physics.

The SOAP encoding style is based on a simple type system that is a generalization of the common features found in type systems in Find listings of daytime and primetime ABC TV shows, movies and specials.

Back in the U.S., Hagman began to make progress in his career, tallying up several TV guest - star appearances (including, presciently, a smiling villain on an episode of Sea Hunt), a regular role as lawyer Ed Gibson on the daytime soap opera The Edge of Night, and a beautifully played supporting role as a Russian / English interpreter in the nuclear nailbiter Fail Safe.

The American public is enthralled with the judicial system so much, that afternoon courtroom reality shows like Judge Judy have all but eliminated the once housewife popular soap operas off of daytime television.

Adapted from the daytime Gothic soap of the late»60s and early»70s - a seminal TV experience for the prepubescent Burton - Dark Shadows is a nutty romp that's as much about celebrating a significant blip in the pop - cult continuum as it is a tale of bloodsucking, of grudge - holding, and the stress involved in maintaining a 200 - room, two - century - old house.

That said, the finale does have a twist of another kind — a big reveal so asinine, and played with such gloopy sentiment (and overlaid with an out - of - place Kelly Clarkson song), that it makes oft - mocked daytime soap operas seem subtle by comparison.

Part of Jack's journey in «Mr. Mom» is a low point in which he gets addicted to a daytime soap opera.

Dark Shadows (Warner) is by definition a big screen remake / revival of the late 1960s gothic soap opera, an actual daytime serial that took a turn into a world of vampires, witches, werewolves, curses, and other romantic old - school horror movie staples.

Their most recent production was Burton's Dark Shadows (2012), an unsuccessful attempt to recapture the potent mixture of soap opera and horror tale that had been a daytime television hit in the late Sixties.At the time of Richard's death, he and his wife were preparing with HBO a television series titled The Decalogue, 10 one - act plays set in modern day Los Angeles, each based on one of the Ten Commandments.

Lumet saddles Kym with a family - tragedy back story that wouldn't be out of place in a daytime soap opera, and at least one scene — when a comic scene suddenly turns hushed and somber when the father is reminded of this tragic event — rings false.

Known for his difficult temperament, down - on - his - luck actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) finds work on a trashy daytime soap opera by disguising himself as a woman by the name of Dorothy Michaels.

But in the home stretch, «Fifty Shades Freed» leaves the sexy stuff behind and turns into a combo platter of a cheesy, easily solved mystery - thriller and an overwrought, daytime soap opera melodrama.

The show feels a little cheesy at times due to the budgetary restraints, and some of the cast members (namely Chloe Benet and Brett Dalton) have a daytime soap opera feel to their performances, but when it's firing on all cylinders, «Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.» is a lot of fun.

Later on the sullen, silent kidnapper (Peter Stormare) is seen watching a daytime soap on a set with poor reception while he distractedly scarfs down junk food, which is considered more worthy of our interest than the kidnapped woman who lies dead in a corner of the same room; precisely when and how she died is made to seem a trivial matter — a passing detail, lost (as it were) between commercial breaks.

Coker is also co-author, with his wife, of Boob Tube, a novel that explores the wild and wacky world of daytime television soap operas.

Pascal, who along with her late husband John, got their start writing for the ABC Daytime soap opera The Young Marrieds, and initially pitched Sweet Valley High as a daytime sudser, talks about her upcoming adult novel Sweet Valley Confidential, which will revisit the saga of Jess, Liz, their friends, lovers and frenemies, 10 years after they graduated from high Daytime soap opera The Young Marrieds, and initially pitched Sweet Valley High as a daytime sudser, talks about her upcoming adult novel Sweet Valley Confidential, which will revisit the saga of Jess, Liz, their friends, lovers and frenemies, 10 years after they graduated from high daytime sudser, talks about her upcoming adult novel Sweet Valley Confidential, which will revisit the saga of Jess, Liz, their friends, lovers and frenemies, 10 years after they graduated from high school.

Mark and his wife Lesleyann co-authored Boob Tube, a novel that explores the wacky world of daytime television soap operas.

Our novel, which explores the dark underbelly of Hollywood celebrity, targeted fans of daytime television soap operas.

Cats aren't interested in daytime soap operas, but video footage of bugs, birds, and fish are sure to entertain your indoor cat while you're at work.

Classic daytime TV soap operas such as All My Children and The Days of Our Lives have fueled many of Kalup Linzy's hilarious video vignettes.

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