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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 221233" data-attributes="member: 27">B&amp;B was not a spin-off of Y&amp;R.&nbsp; Though developed by the same production team and filmed on the same lot, Bill Bell developed B&amp;B to be its own show.&nbsp; He did not transfer any Y&amp;R characters to B&amp;B to kick it off; it wasn&#039;t until after the show was well established that they began having crossovers.&nbsp; That makes the two shows operate in the same fictional universe, though.Interesting story about Passions.&nbsp; My guess is that after they acquired the rights, someone actually watched an episode of it and realized there was no way they could air that hot pile of garbage on their channel and still keep their jobs.&nbsp; So they put it on the shelf and &#039;forgot about it&#039; until the licensing ran out.&nbsp; Speaking of Bill Bell, I will never forget when a CNN reporter asked Bell if he had seen Passions, and what he thought of it.&nbsp; He looked kind of stricken, and after a pause he said &quot;I don&#039;t think it would be constructive for me to comment on it.&quot;&nbsp; Which, to me was like &quot;Oh, BURN!&quot;I read somewhere that Y&amp;R aired in primetime in Bermuda, and that it&#039;s like Dallas/Dynasty levels of popular.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 221233, member: 27"] B&B was not a spin-off of Y&R. Though developed by the same production team and filmed on the same lot, Bill Bell developed B&B to be its own show. He did not transfer any Y&R characters to B&B to kick it off; it wasn't until after the show was well established that they began having crossovers. That makes the two shows operate in the same fictional universe, though. Interesting story about [I]Passions[/I]. My guess is that after they acquired the rights, someone actually [I]watched an episode[/I] of it and realized there was no way they could air that hot pile of garbage on their channel and still keep their jobs. So they put it on the shelf and 'forgot about it' until the licensing ran out. Speaking of Bill Bell, I will never forget when a CNN reporter asked Bell if he had seen [I]Passions[/I], and what he thought of it. He looked kind of stricken, and after a pause he said "I don't think it would be constructive for me to comment on it." Which, to me was like "Oh, BURN!" I read somewhere that Y&R aired in primetime in Bermuda, and that it's like [I]Dallas/Dynasty[/I] levels of popular. [/QUOTE]

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