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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 186279" data-attributes="member: 27">An actor may be under contract to a studio, so when the studio needs actors for one of their projects, it stands to reason they would give preference to someone they&#039;re already paying.&nbsp; Kevin Dobson was in this sort of situation when they hired him to play Mack MacKenzie on Knots Landing.&nbsp; When Tom Eplin was playing Jake McKinnon on Another World, he renegotiated his contract so that he was paid by the production company directly rather than by his show.&nbsp; He did this because Another World was in ratings trouble and he sensed the end may be near.&nbsp; When AW was cancelled, the production company transferred him and his character to one of their other soaps (As the World Turns) because they would have to have paid him anyway. Anyway, I just re-watched S3E1* to see if some of my lingering questions were answered.&nbsp; Namely, did they say whether the Blake/Cristal wedding actually finished up.&nbsp; The uninvited guests turning up would surely ruin the mood of the occasion, but it&#039;s the wedding license, not the ceremony that determines whether they are officially married.&nbsp; No one really clarified whether or not they consider themselves married.&nbsp; The minister may have stopped the vows so he could administer last rites. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite12" alt="o_O" title="Er... what?&nbsp; &nbsp; o_O" loading="lazy" data-shortname="o_O" />Wakeema Hollis might not be in the opening credits (boo!) but she did get the top spot in the &quot;Guest Starring&quot; credits.&nbsp; They had (I think) eleven people in the opening credits so I can see why they might have to hold off on that one.&nbsp; The pictures are wooshing by at lightning speed in an effort to get them all in. Not sure if it was mentioned, but it wasn&#039;t Fallon&#039;s confession at the police station that caused Blake to get arrested--at least in what we&#039;ve seen so far.&nbsp; She told the police what happened when Trixie died, then added that Mack got rid of the body ten years earlier (and not Blake, who said he did it earlier).&nbsp; The police arrived to arrest Blake for Mack&#039;s murder, not Trixie&#039;s.&nbsp; So Blake&#039;s arrest is because (I&#039;m guessing) Adam screwed up when switching the toe-tags.I also noticed that in that preview with Liam in the wheelchair, it was Laura, not Ashley, who was fighting with Fallon.&nbsp; So I guess we&#039;ll be seeing the ol&#039; Dragon Lady again. I&#039;m still leaning toward Liam faking the amnesia.* If you have Comcast like I do, they have Dynasty on their OnDemand service, in case some readers are still looking for a reliable place to see it that doesn&#039;t involve clicking on strange hyperlinks you don&#039;t trust.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 186279, member: 27"] An actor may be under contract to a studio, so when the studio needs actors for one of their projects, it stands to reason they would give preference to someone they're already paying. Kevin Dobson was in this sort of situation when they hired him to play Mack MacKenzie on [I]Knots Landing[/I]. When Tom Eplin was playing Jake McKinnon on [I]Another World,[/I] he renegotiated his contract so that he was paid by the production company directly rather than by his show. He did this because [I]Another World[/I] was in ratings trouble and he sensed the end may be near. When AW was cancelled, the production company transferred him and his character to one of their other soaps ([I]As the World Turns[/I]) because they would have to have paid him anyway. Anyway, I just re-watched S3E1* to see if some of my lingering questions were answered. Namely, did they say whether the Blake/Cristal wedding actually finished up. [I]The uninvited guests[/I] turning up would surely ruin the mood of the occasion, but it's the wedding license, not the ceremony that determines whether they are officially married. No one really clarified whether or not they consider themselves married. The minister may have stopped the vows so he could administer last rites. o_O Wakeema Hollis might not be in the opening credits (boo!) but she did get the top spot in the "Guest Starring" credits. They had (I think) [I]eleven[/I] people in the opening credits so I can see why they might have to hold off on that one. The pictures are wooshing by at lightning speed in an effort to get them all in. Not sure if it was mentioned, but it wasn't Fallon's confession at the police station that caused Blake to get arrested--at least in what we've seen so far. She told the police what happened when Trixie died, then added that Mack got rid of the body ten years earlier (and not Blake, who said he did it earlier). The police arrived to arrest Blake for Mack's murder, not Trixie's. So Blake's arrest is because (I'm guessing) Adam screwed up when switching the toe-tags. I also noticed that in that preview with Liam in the wheelchair, it was Laura, not Ashley, who was fighting with Fallon. So I guess we'll be seeing the ol' Dragon Lady again. I'm still leaning toward Liam faking the amnesia. * If you have Comcast like I do, they have [I]Dynasty[/I] on their OnDemand service, in case some readers are still looking for a reliable place to see it that doesn't involve clicking on strange hyperlinks you don't trust. [/QUOTE]

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