Thursday, September 7, 2006

comes off exactly like a B-movie. Actors we don't know, a not-exactly-original plot...

As I kind of put it in the Secret Obsessions thread: who are these people? yeah. really who are they? are there just plenty of aspiring actors who haven't worked been in much of anyth yet? TCA Pictures

I merely copied the link from my post in the Secret Obsession thread. There's barely a difference between these two "series" aside from the relative star power of SO:FH.

Pretty comparable with DESIRE--very uneven acting, lots of eye candy, over-the-top cartoony action, and a slick production. is it? Has Bo Derek taken some acting lessons? Not that she's a threat to Meryl Streep, or Joan Collins for that matter, but she actually played the part.

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due to the original weirdness surrounding the naming scheme that My Network TV has partially eschewed, the main thread for all the Secret Obsessions shows is over here.

And so it seems that MyNetworkTV is doing away with the umbrella titles and just calling the shows by their proper titles like their Spanish language forebears, as this announcement on what would've been the next Desire cycle shows. So I'm guessing no more Table for Three--that story is simply now Desire, much like what would've been the first Secret Obsessions story is now simply Fashion House. ~ in one the umbrella name became that of the specific series (why? wasn't Table for Three its proper title?)

The trailer on the MyNetworkTV site has been adjusted to only reflect the Desire title--no more Table for Three, which is further confirmation that the umbrella titles have been eschewed. (Now, no doubt there will be a future story bearing only the Secret Obsessions moniker.)

Yeah, the trailer no longer has any Table for Three to be seen anywhere.
I think they simply renamed the Table for Three story to plain old Desire--which I guess would fit in the most vague sense due to the mess with the brothers "desiring" the same woman. So Desire is no longer an umbrella title for all the 8pm stories, just the title for this first story. From the looks of it MyNetworkTV is just going the normal novela route, with each self-contained story going by whatever title it has (hence, Fashion House and presumably just Art of Betrayal.). As vague as it is, Desire is a better title for a lusty soap than Table for Three.

Near the bottom of the synopsis page for Desire, nee Table For Three, it reads: "Desire, part of the Desire series."

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