{"id":4417,"date":"2018-11-12T04:36:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/?p=4417"},"modified":"2018-11-12T04:37:42","modified_gmt":"2018-11-12T12:37:42","slug":"another-stevens-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/blog\/2018\/11\/12\/another-stevens-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Steven&#8217;s Out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I do hate to sound crabby, but if I can\u2019t be crabby, who can?&nbsp; I\u2019m really disappointed in most of these reboots.&nbsp;&nbsp;<strong><em>Murphy Brown<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;might as well be filmed in slow motion at an old age home,&nbsp;<strong><em>Roseanne<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;was fine until Roseanne died, and&nbsp;<strong><em>Charmed<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;has no magic.&nbsp; Perhaps it\u2019s these disappointments that explain my fondness for&nbsp;<strong><em>Dynasty<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;\u2013 as long as I don\u2019t compare it to the original.&nbsp; Last week,&nbsp;<strong>Nicollette Sheridan&nbsp;<\/strong>had a great moment when her Alexis popped a potato chip in her mouth after saying, \u201cIf you haven\u2019t noticed, Cristals come and go around here.\u201d&nbsp; We\u2019re barely into season two, and we\u2019re already on our second Cristal.&nbsp; But wait, there\u2019s more \u2013 Steven is out.&nbsp; The current actor,&nbsp;<strong>James Mackay<\/strong>, revealed, \u201cWhile Steven had a choice to leave, unfortunately I didn\u2019t.\u201d&nbsp; Executive producer&nbsp;<strong>Sallie Patrick&nbsp;<\/strong>was not pleased.&nbsp; She blames the firing on \u201cnotes from the network\u201d, mentioning that \u201cthe series just lost its sole queer couple. &nbsp;Let\u2019s hope Steven\u2019s leave of absence is temporary.\u201d&nbsp; My sources tell me that the network has an intriguing idea \u2013 recast the role.&nbsp; Why?&nbsp; Because that\u2019s what they did in the original series.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do hate to sound crabby, but if I can\u2019t be crabby, who can?&nbsp; I\u2019m really disappointed in most of these reboots.&nbsp;&nbsp;Murphy Brown&nbsp;might as well be filmed in slow motion at an old age home,&nbsp;Roseanne&nbsp;was fine until Roseanne died, and&nbsp;Charmed&nbsp;has no magic.&nbsp; Perhaps it\u2019s these disappointments that explain my fondness for&nbsp;Dynasty&nbsp;\u2013 as long as I<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4427,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4417\/revisions\/4427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.billymasters.com\/custom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}