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- From: carolh@meaddata.com (Carol Hickmott)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv.soaps
- Subject: SB: bad press from overseas...
- Date: 22 Dec 1992 15:26:17 GMT
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- I found this in the South China Morning Post dated December 17, 1992...
- Apparently the author does not appreciate fine soap opera...I swear this
- is what is written...I had to chuckle at his obvious disdain for our
- stars!
-
- Soap fever in Delhi: Strange happenings over at STAR Plus - Lucky channel
- presenter John Moorehead is in Los Angeles, showing two even luckier viewers
- around the set of the cheap and tacky soap opera Santa Barbara(it has its own
- set?).
-
- Apparently, Santa Awful has taken off in India in a big way and STAR execs were
- astounded first by the show's soaring ratings, and second by the number of
- people who actually entered the competition to visit the set of the daytime
- soap.
-
- Now, to placate the clamoring hordes, STAR has launched a second "Meet the
- Capwells" competition(the Capwells are the central family of the show, with
- acting abilities comparable to the cast of The Thunderbirds).
-
- And the station is flying four cast members to New Delhi - the alleged actors
- who play CC, Mason, Gina, and Julia Capwell - and the 1500 lucky viewers will
- be able to meet them(500 winners bringing two guests each to an "extravagent"
- party at the Taj Palace in February).
-
- This is actually good news, readers. The Capwells are not coming to the
- territory, so you will not have to read about them in Keeping Posted.
- Discriminating viewers in Hongkong have given the never-ending soap the
- thumbs-down apparently.
-
-
- Isn't this a hoot???? alleged actors...Santa Awful...cheap and tacky...I wonder
- what's happening on the show in New Delhi...maybe they're in the middle of
- the bad plots that hit about two years into the show(when the Dobsons left or
- some such crisis)...
-
- Happy Holidays!
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