Scott Humphries
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Author of "The Age of Melodramatic Miniseries"
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Forty years this week since the miniseries version of "Kane and Abel" premiered, on November 17, 1985.
This is a very melodramatic miniseries and therefore it's right up my alley!
The story follows a decades-long rivalry between two men born on the same day but into very different circumstances.
This is a very melodramatic miniseries and therefore it's right up my alley!
The story follows a decades-long rivalry between two men born on the same day but into very different circumstances.
November 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Forty years this week since the miniseries version of "Kane and Abel" premiered, on November 17, 1985.
This is a very melodramatic miniseries and therefore it's right up my alley!
The story follows a decades-long rivalry between two men born on the same day but into very different circumstances.
This is a very melodramatic miniseries and therefore it's right up my alley!
The story follows a decades-long rivalry between two men born on the same day but into very different circumstances.
The world is a duller place without the witty Jilly Cooper, last of the OG bonkbuster queens. So glad she got to bask in the recent success of the excellent TV adaptation of "Rivals".
#jillycooper
#jillycooper
October 6, 2025 at 8:11 PM
The world is a duller place without the witty Jilly Cooper, last of the OG bonkbuster queens. So glad she got to bask in the recent success of the excellent TV adaptation of "Rivals".
#jillycooper
#jillycooper
This week is the 40th anniversary of the terrific miniseries, "Deceptions". It's a glamorous, fast-paced romantic melodrama, filmed in England and Venice, about identical twins who trade places. Starting Stefanie Powers and Barry Bostwick, it has everything that was wonderful about escapist '80s TV.
May 25, 2025 at 12:01 PM
This week is the 40th anniversary of the terrific miniseries, "Deceptions". It's a glamorous, fast-paced romantic melodrama, filmed in England and Venice, about identical twins who trade places. Starting Stefanie Powers and Barry Bostwick, it has everything that was wonderful about escapist '80s TV.
There were many juicy roles for the ex-Charlie’s Angels during the 1980s, and one of Cheryl Ladd’s most complex (and unusual) was the true story miniseries A DEATH IN CALIFORNIA, co-starring Sam Elliott. It’s compelling, but not an easy watch. It first aired May 12-13 1985.
May 17, 2025 at 9:50 AM
There were many juicy roles for the ex-Charlie’s Angels during the 1980s, and one of Cheryl Ladd’s most complex (and unusual) was the true story miniseries A DEATH IN CALIFORNIA, co-starring Sam Elliott. It’s compelling, but not an easy watch. It first aired May 12-13 1985.
DEADLY INTENTIONS aired May 19-20, 1985. Michael Biehn is a psychopathic doctor who torments and tries to kill his wife Madolyn Smith.
There was a quasi-fictionalized 1991 sequel, with Harry Hamlin playing the doctor. It has a scene of Hamlin watching Biehn play him in the miniseries. Very meta!
There was a quasi-fictionalized 1991 sequel, with Harry Hamlin playing the doctor. It has a scene of Hamlin watching Biehn play him in the miniseries. Very meta!
May 17, 2025 at 9:39 AM
DEADLY INTENTIONS aired May 19-20, 1985. Michael Biehn is a psychopathic doctor who torments and tries to kill his wife Madolyn Smith.
There was a quasi-fictionalized 1991 sequel, with Harry Hamlin playing the doctor. It has a scene of Hamlin watching Biehn play him in the miniseries. Very meta!
There was a quasi-fictionalized 1991 sequel, with Harry Hamlin playing the doctor. It has a scene of Hamlin watching Biehn play him in the miniseries. Very meta!
It's 40 years this week since the miniseries LACE II first aired.
Quite an interesting case study in '80s era melodramatic miniseries for several reasons, but mostly because it proved how difficult it is to make lightning strike twice.
Quite an interesting case study in '80s era melodramatic miniseries for several reasons, but mostly because it proved how difficult it is to make lightning strike twice.
May 5, 2025 at 5:04 AM
It's 40 years this week since the miniseries LACE II first aired.
Quite an interesting case study in '80s era melodramatic miniseries for several reasons, but mostly because it proved how difficult it is to make lightning strike twice.
Quite an interesting case study in '80s era melodramatic miniseries for several reasons, but mostly because it proved how difficult it is to make lightning strike twice.
This is the one that I have :-)
April 15, 2025 at 2:27 AM
This is the one that I have :-)
I so enjoyed participating in the commentary for Kino Lorber's Blu-ray of the 1988 miniseries of James Clavell's "Noble House".
Amanda Reyes provides commentary on each of the four episodes, with a different focus in each one. I join her in the final episode with a focus on the 1980s miniseries.
Amanda Reyes provides commentary on each of the four episodes, with a different focus in each one. I join her in the final episode with a focus on the 1980s miniseries.
February 25, 2025 at 11:19 PM
I so enjoyed participating in the commentary for Kino Lorber's Blu-ray of the 1988 miniseries of James Clavell's "Noble House".
Amanda Reyes provides commentary on each of the four episodes, with a different focus in each one. I join her in the final episode with a focus on the 1980s miniseries.
Amanda Reyes provides commentary on each of the four episodes, with a different focus in each one. I join her in the final episode with a focus on the 1980s miniseries.