Passions
| Passions | |
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| Created by | James E. Reilly |
| Country of origin |  United States |
| No. of episodes | NBC: 2,075 DirecTV: 074 (January 30 2008)[1] |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Lisa de Cazotte |
| Original release | |
| Network | NBC (1999-2007) DirecTV (2007-2008) |
| Release | July 5 1999 (NBC) September 17 2007 (DirecTV) – September 7 2007 (NBC) |
Passions is an American television soap opera created by James E. Reilly. The series debuted on NBC on July 5 1999 (replacing Another World), and its final airdate on NBC was September 7 2007. The series began airing new episodes on DirecTV-exclusive channel The 101 on September 17 2007.[2]
Passions follows the various romantic and supernatural adventures of the residents of Harmony, a fictional New England hamlet. Originally centered largely around horror-oriented themes, the series transitioned toward standard drama and comedy with some supernatural elements.
Series history
Notable for its multi-racial core families — the African American Russells, Caucasian Cranes and Bennetts, and half-Mexican Lopez-Fitzgeralds — Passions debuted in 1999 with major fanfare, but also some controversy. Creator Reilly had been credited for a large surge in the ratings for Days of our Lives years before, thanks to "innovative" storylines like that of heroine Dr. Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall) being possessed by Satan. On Passions, heroine Sheridan Crane (McKenzie Westmore) is identified as a close friend of the late Diana, Princess of Wales; soon Sheridan recalls speaking to Diana on the phone immediately prior to the 1997 car accident which took the Princess' life. Sheridan also has a similar accident in the same Paris tunnel, and speaks to a "guardian Angel Diana" who urges her to fight to survive.[3] Sheridan later adopts the name Diana after a boating accident that results in amnesia.
For much of the first three to four years of the series, supernatural elements such as witches, warlocks and closet doors leading to Hell were major plot points, many surrounding the machinations of 300-year-old witch Tabitha Lenox (Juliet Mills) and her doll-brought-to-life sidekick, Timmy (Josh Ryan Evans) — named by Entertainment Weekly as one of their "17 Great Soap Supercouples" in 2008.[4] One central character was Charity (Molly Stanton), a saccharine young woman who would regularly become possessed by the "forces of evil." Though always featuring standard soap opera love triangles, mystery and comedy, over time Passions moved away from supernatural storylines.
In 2003, Passions submitted a trained orangutan named BamBam, who had been portraying the recurring role of Precious, for a Daytime Emmy Award. Precious was the non-speaking live-in nurse and caregiver for elderly Edna Wallace (Kathleen Noone), and held an unrequited love for Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald (Galen Gering), which was depicted in elaborate fantasy sequences. In early 2004, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, which administers the awards, disallowed the entry with the following statement:
Our ruling is based on the belief that the Academy must draw a line of distinction between animal characters that aren't capable of speaking parts and human actors whose personal interpretation in character portrayal creates nuance and audience engagement that uniquely qualifies those performers for consideration of television's highest honor.
During the summer of 2005, the prominent character Simone Russell (Cathy Jenéen Doe) came out as a lesbian; Passions made daytime history by being the first serial to show two women — Simone and love interest Rae Thomas (Jossara Jinaro) — in bed making love. In 2007, it was revealed that longtime hero Chad Harris-Crane (Charles Divins) was cheating on his wife with another man. This was also a daytime first, with the men portrayed in bed together.
Nearly seven years after the debut of Passions on July 5 1999, the NBC-owned Sci Fi Channel began airing the series from its first episode starting February 13 2006.[5] The reruns had originally been announced to begin February 6 2006.[6] Due to low ratings, the reruns were taken off the air as of May 25 2006. On August 15 2006, Passions became the first daytime drama to make full episodes available for download and purchase from the popular online music store iTunes. On November 6 2006, the show also became the first daytime drama to make full episodes available for free viewing via streaming on NBC.com.[7]
Though plagued since its inception by low overall Nielsen Ratings, Passions was historically top-rated in key demographics.[8] The series was not renewed by NBC for a full ninth season in 2007 as a result of the network's decision to extend its morning news and talk show Today to a fourth hour.[9] Satellite provider DirecTV soon picked up the series — with most principal cast members staying on[10] — and began airing new episodes on its original-programming channel The 101 in September 2007.[11] The series ran Monday to Thursday at 2 pm ET/11 am PT, with repeats airing later in the day and on weekends.
On July 3 2007 it was reported that new Canadian premium television service SuperChannel would air Passions in Canada when the channel launched in October 2007, [12] and the series premiered on SuperChannel on October 8 2007. Though Passions episodes were no longer available via iTunes once the series left NBC, DirecTV announced on September 27 2007 that new episodes of Passions would be made available online at NBC.com for a monthly fee. [13] This service began on 1 October 2007 for $19.99 a month, eventually reduced to $14.99 a month.
On 10 December 2007, Variety magazine[14] and various cast members [15][16] confirmed that DirecTV had decided not to renew Passions for another season, but ordered 52 additional episodes to be taped through March 2008. New episodes of the series will air through August 2008, with DirecTV broadcasting three new episodes per week starting January 2008.[14][17] According to Variety, Passions may find a new home on the Oxygen network or even as an Internet-based series. [14]
Cast
Current cast members
Recurring cast members
| Actor | Character |
|---|---|
| Amy Castle | Viki |
| Daniel Chalfa | Marty Lopez-Fitzgerald |
| Nicole Cox | Endora Lenox |
| Jack and Nathan Ecker | Jonathan Winthrop |
| Andrea Evans | Rebecca Hotchkiss Crane |
| Phillip Jeanmarie | Vincent Clarkson |
| Christopher Maleki | Spike Lester |
| John Reilly | Alistair Crane |
| Jill Remez | Juanita Vasquez |
| Daphnee Duplaix Samuel | Valerie Davis |
| Colton Shires | Little Ethan Crane |
| Danica Stewart | Jessica Bennett |
Comings and goings
| Actor | Character | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Danny Woodburn | The Demon Elf | Returns February 11 |
Deceased cast members
| Actor | Character | Year of Death |
|---|---|---|
| Owen Bush | Orville Perkins | 2001 |
| Josh Ryan Evans | Timmy Lenox | 2002 |
| David Bailey | Alistair Crane | 2004 |
| Alice Ghostley | Matilda Matthews | 2007 |
Noted guest stars
| Actor(s)/Performer(s) | Character | Year of Appearance |
|---|---|---|
| Melissa Caulfield (Juliet Mills' real-life daughter) | Nanny Phoebe Figalilly, a role her mother originally played in the short-lived sitcom Nanny and the Professor | 1999, 2005 |
| Julia Duffy | Mother Superior at the convent Whitney Russell ran off to after discovering her lover Chad could also be her half-brother | 2005-2006 |
| Georgia Engel | Tabitha's old school rival Esmerelda | 2007 |
| Judge Mablean Ephriam | Herself, in a fantasy sequence where T.C. Russell takes wife Eve onto Divorce Court | 2003 |
| Bernard Fox | Doctor Bombay | 1999 |
| Marla Gibbs | Irma Johnson, Eve Russell's aunt | 2004-2005 |
| Alternative band Scissor Sisters | Themselves | 2007 |
Historical cast information
- For a full listing of performers by role, see List of Passions characters
Storylines
Passions has featured many longrunning storylines in its nine-year history, including the complicated love triangle of Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald, Ethan Crane and Gwen Hotchkiss. Over the years, both women scheme back and forth, each bearing Ethan's children and winning and losing him repeatedly. Similarly, Kay Bennett's attempts to steal Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald from her cousin Charity Standish eventually evolve into Kay's own triangle with Miguel and Fox Crane.
Both Julian and wife Ivy Crane seek to rekindle affairs from their youth thwarted by their fathers; Julian and married Dr. Eve Russell still agonize over their 1970s romance, which had produced a secret child, while Ivy conspires to drive a wedge into the marriage of Sam Bennett, who had secretly fathered the son she has passed off as Julian's all these years. Both Julian and Ivy ultimately get the objects of their desire and later lose them — for the time being. The long-reaching machinations of evil Alistair Crane — and Tabitha Lenox's often-failed and usually humorous attempts to wreak havoc — are punctuated by long-hidden secrets, revelations of both paternity and maternity, and returns from the dead.
"Soulmates" Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald and Sheridan Crane are continually kept apart by circumstance — mirrored by their past lives as Mark Antony and Cleopatra and passengers on the RMS Titanic, among others — as well as other love interests; Sheridan's marriages to Luis's brother, Antonio Lopez-Fitzgerald, and photographer Chris Boothe eventually lead Luis to find happiness with Sheridan's niece, Fancy Crane, much to Sheridan's chagrin. The series's move to DirecTV also closed the book on the eight-year tortured romance of Whitney Russell and Chad Harris-Crane.
Hidden Passions
In January 2001, HarperEntertainment released Hidden Passions: Secrets from the Diaries of Tabitha Lenox, an inside look into the history of Passions involving all the major characters, written from the viewpoint of Tabitha Lenox. A storyline involving the characters Tabitha and Timmy and the promotion of this book was written into the show, and the book reached #4 on the New York Times Best Seller list. The novel was billed as being canonical, but the televised canon has diverged significantly from the novel since that time.
Trademarks
Pop culture spoofs
Over its run, Passions has become widely known for its numerous parodies of pop culture. One fan favorite was the 2003 spoof of the 2002 film Chicago, in which character Edna Wallace fantasized that she, her demented daughter, Beth, Charlie, and her orangutan caretaker, Precious, had been incarcerated for the kidnapping of Sheridan Lopez-Fitzgerald and her unborn son, Marty. In this fantasy, the three women sang "I Ain't Sorry", a parody of "Cell Block Tango". The song was performed in the style of musical theatre, and was simultaneously mocked and adored by fans. Another spoof popular with the fans was the 2006 Bollywood spoof, in which Gwen dreamt of a life in India with her husband, Ethan, far away from his ex-fiancée, Theresa. The original song accompanying this spoof, "Love is Ecstasy", was a hit with fans, and NBC even put both a video clip and a downloadable mp3 version of the song on their website. The show has also featured storylines and sequences paying homage to or parodying films and books like Titanic, Brokeback Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Wizard of Oz, The Da Vinci Code, The Little Mermaid and Wicked. In nods to Bewitched, the series' "Dr. Bombay" twice appeared on Passions in scenes with Tabitha (not to be confused with Bewitched 's own Tabitha Stevens). When Passions' Tabitha has a child in 2003, she names the baby "Endora," and later notes that her parents had been "Samantha" and a mortal named "Darren."
Dream sequences
One of Passions' most notorious trademarks is the false "dream sequence". Often, the show will play out an outlandish event, or explode a huge secret viewers have longtime been waiting to see, only to immediately after go back and reveal it all to be a day dream. This dream sequence can last anywhere from a few scenes to a few episodes, typically beginning without warning. On Passions, often a dream sequence will begin with no visual cues of any sort what so ever. Often going as far as to include contradictory elements to give the dream sequence credence. (For instance, another character may show up within the dream wearing an outfit, or revealing information that the daydreamer had no possible way of knowing about beforehand.) While a veteran viewer can usually spot a fake dream sequence once it's neared its climax, the fake dream sequence tends to cause confusion amongst the more casual viewer who may not get to catch the revelation that it was all a dream.
Roman Catholicism
Roman Catholicism and its principles figure greatly into the show's themes. Several characters, including Grace Bennett and Pilar Lopez-Fitzgerald, are portrayed as being particularly devout Catholics, often praying with a rosary. Father Lonigan, the blind priest, has the ability to sense evil, causing lots of trouble for Tabitha over the years. Many theological debates on the importance of Catholic marriage vows have arisen over the years as well, as various characters attempt to divorce or remarry.
Fate and "destined" couples
Another trademark of the serial is its preoccupation with the concepts of fate and soulmates. Since the show's first episode in 1999, the writers have pushed several couples onto the viewers, claiming that they are "fated", and, with few short-lived exceptions, have failed to mix up any of the relationships. Some of the early "fated" couples were considered to be those of Luis and Sheridan, Ethan and Theresa, Miguel and Charity, and Chad and Whitney. Common indications of a couple's status as "fated" include (but are not necessarily limited to) Tabitha's desire to split said couple up, an unshakeable love that survives numerous break-ups and relationships with third parties, and/or an ability of one character, or perhaps both characters, to "sense" when his/her "soulmate" is in danger. However, despite the fact that each of these couples has existed as a storyline since the first episodes, the show seems to have given up on the "fated" angle as it approaches its end. Ethan and Theresa are still in love and fighting to be together, but Miguel is now in love with Kay (not Charity), Luis loves Fancy (not Sheridan, though Sheridan schemes to get him back), and Whitney recently left Chad after finding out about his affair with Vincent. Chad later died.
Summertime extravaganzas
Likely due to Passions' school-aged target audience, the show often cooks up large, wild storylines for the summer, which often, but not always, take place in a city outside of Harmony. In 1999, a carnival came to town as characters were introduced; 2000 saw Luis and Sheridan traveling to New Mexico in search of his then-missing father, Martin Fitzgerald, and 2001 witnessed the failed double-wedding of popular couples Luis and Sheridan and Ethan and Theresa, and their subsequent journey to Bermuda, where Sheridan apparently perished in a boat explosion and Theresa wound up married to Ethan's ex-stepfather, Julian Crane. In 2002, Julian and Timmy set out on a journey in the magical land of Oz as Theresa was "executed" for Julian's "murder"; 2003 saw six characters (Chad, Whitney, Fox, Theresa, Ethan, and Gwen, collectively known as the "LA Six") travel to Los Angeles for the summer (and into October), while, in 2004, Luis and Sheridan traveled to Puerto Arena, Mexico, to retrieve his younger sister, Paloma (and ended up finding his missing father, Martin, and her "dead" mother, Katherine). The plot of the summer in 2005 was a deadly earthquake and tsumani, which destroyed much of Harmony and resulted in the death of James' mother, Maureen, while 2006 saw the extravagant Passions Vendetta plot,[18] in which Alistair lured seventeen people (Whitney, Simone, Paloma, Chad, Ethan, Theresa, Gwen, Lena, Spike, Jessica, Maya, Noah, Esme, Fancy, Luis, Beth, and Marty) to Rome, where he planned to take over the world with a chalice stolen from the Pope's private chambers; the plot saw the death of Lena, Maya, Alistair, Beth, and Marty. Summer 2007 saw the resolution of the "blackmailer" storyline as Vincent Clarkson was revealed to be the half-man/half-woman blackmailer and Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald was saved at the last minute from execution for Vincent's crimes.
Sexual violence
Another recurring theme on Passions is sexual violence. Many storylines, especially since 2005, have included rape as a plot point.
In 2005, so many plotlines came to involve an element of rape that fans began to refer to that year as the "Year of the Rapes". Early that year, Paloma Lopez-Fitzgerald was sexually assaulted and nearly raped during a club raid. The show then carried a plotline over whether they should do a rape test while Paloma was in a coma (at the time she was a virgin) and Jessica Bennett was also raped a few weeks later while at a club. Also early in the year, Alistair Crane repeatedly raped his wife, Katherine Crane, while at the Crane Compound. Late in May, heiress Fancy Crane was nearly raped by a man in Las Vegas who demanded "payment" for letting her into a party after she lost her invitation. During the tsunami and later in November, Liz Sanbourne attempted to rape Julian Crane at knifepoint. In August, Theresa Lopez-Fitzgerald was raped by Alistair Crane when she refused to pay him (with sex) for helping her with visitation of her infant daughter, Jane; Theresa later married Alistair, and he continued to rape her throughout their marriage. Also in August or September, Kay Bennett was attacked by a gang of men while walking through the park at night, though Fox Crane soon arrived and the two defeated the group. Liz Sanbourne also revealed during the tsunami that Julian Crane had raped her in Boston many years previously (she later revealed that it had been Alistair who had done the deed, thus producing a son, Chad Harris-Crane).
Oddly enough, men on the show are equally as likely to be violated as women. Fox Crane, Julian Crane, Luis Lopez-Fitzgerald, Miguel Lopez-Fitzgerald, and Ethan Winthrop have all been victims of sexual assault.
Eerie deaths
One unfortunate trademark for Passions has been eerie deaths. In 2002, Josh Ryan Evans, who played Tabitha's extremely popular doll sidekick Timmy, died while on medical leave, just as scenes were airing where Timmy died in the hospital and went to Heaven. Passions had planned to revive the character in a few months once Evans returned from his own surgery, but instead had to write Timmy out. After five years of evil Crane patriarch Alistair being heard but never having his face seen (voiced by Alan Oppenheimer), Passions finally cast the role with longtime daytime vet David Bailey. Bailey was a hit with the cast as well as the fans, but on Thanksgiving Day 2004, he drowned in his pool, just as scenes were airing where various characters tried to kill Alistair, who actually suffered clinical death before being magically revived by Tabitha. Again, the viewers and the producers were stunned, but the show had no choice but to recast the pivotal role (with John Reilly).
Breaking the fourth wall
With its humor and occasional tongue-in-cheek tone, Passions has been known to "break the fourth wall," or somehow call attention to the fact that the show is fictional. In an early episode, Kay, Simone and Zombie Charity were seen actually watching Passions, and when the television in the Bennett's kitchen covered what would have been Theresa's execution, the news report actually pre-empted Passions, cutting in during the theme song just after the appearance of the logo. In a 2002 episode Theresa was giving birth while stuck in a cabin with Ethan and Gwen; she had a hallucination in which the three of them did a dance together and sang the show's theme. In 2004, TC made a reference to "that crazy soap after Days of our Lives", which in most areas airs before Passions. In one episode Fancy Crane used a magazine to hide her face from Noah; the magazine had an image of the then-unseen Rachel Barrett with the sentence "Who is she?" under the Passions logo. Fancy later commented that serials "are just like life; you never know what's going to happen!" In an early 2006 episode, Ivy and assistant Valerie were searching on the internet for Miguel to bring him back to Harmony and interfere with Fox and Kay's relationship. They couldn't find him, but Valerie tracked down his last place of employment: he was last seen working as a gardener in some suburban town on a street called Wisteria Lane. At that time, Jesse Metcalfe (ex-Miguel) was playing a gardener on the prime-time serial Desperate Housewives, which takes place on a street called Wisteria Lane. In the March 30, 2006 episode, while Passions reruns were airing on the Sci-Fi Channel, Simone compared life in Harmony to living in a show on the Sci-Fi Channel.[19] Similarly, in the August 10, 2006 episode, Theresa commented that her office wasn't like a NBC daytime serial, and that she wouldn't hire somebody just because he looked like Jesse Metcalfe (who had portrayed her brother Miguel from 1999-2004). A similar inside joke occurred when the character Fancy had a dream that she was a cheerleader; in real life, Fancy's portrayer Emily Harper was a "Laker Girl" (cheerleader for the Los Angeles Lakers) from 2000-2003.
In the April 6 2007 episode, Kay was watching the sixth [sic] hour of The Today Show (an apparent jab at NBC's decision to extend it at the expense of the Passions timeslot) when it was interrupted with a news report that Luis had been arrested. In one August 2007 episode, Tabitha said that a certain soap opera was starting on DirecTV and she would have to tell her friends not to call her between the hours of two and three PM, blatantly referring to Passions itself. At the beginning of the show's final week on NBC, as Whitney was preparing to move to New Orleans, Theresa asked if she was sure she wanted to go, and Whitney commented that she had already arranged to have her DirecTV hooked up in Louisiana so she could "keep up on everything happening in Harmony."
Promotion and product placement
During its NBC run, Passions was known to "promote" other NBC programming within its storylines, and to incorporate commercial products into the plot in a promotional tactic known as product placement.
Shortly after Passions debuted, Campbell tomato soup was featured as an ingredient in Grace Bennett's tomato soup cake. Also, Nestlé Purina Dog Chow was used to feed Tabitha Lenox's pet cat Fluffy.
In a 2004 episode, TC watched an NBC ad for Days of our Lives on his TV, and went on to praise the writers of Days of our Lives for coming up with such good storylines; Days, at that time, was under the helm of James E. Reilly, head writer of Passions. In the September 4 2006, episode, Fox was sucked into a black hole; he then told Tabitha that it was the kind of black hole that one gets sucked into on the Sci Fi Channel, which was the channel on which Passions repeats aired in 2006. Tabitha then told him stick with NBC (Passions' network). In an episode later in September 2006, Siren tried to get Miguel into bed by singing her Siren's song. Miguel told her that she should not audition for America's Got Talent, which airs on NBC. In another episode, Tabitha talked about The Biggest Loser season finale, which was also aired on NBC. A more recent episode featured characters watching a trailer for the 2007 Diane Keaton film Because I Said So (produced by Universal Studios, which, like NBC, is owned by General Electric).
The real-life 2001 release of the novel Hidden Passions was incorporated into the storyline as a book written by character Tabitha Lenox (the novel was actually written by Alice Alfonsi). For a time, Jessica Bennett was an Avon mark saleswoman, and more recently the show featured Johnson & Johnson's K-Y Jelly personal lubricant, and characters were seen drinking from Brita water pitchers.
In July 2007, Passions began to promote its own move to DirecTV the following September. Several characters' homes were seen sporting DirecTV dishes on their roofs, and characters began to make frequent references to switching to DirecTV.
Theme song and opening sequence
The theme song for Passions is titled "Breathe," performed by Jane French and written by French and John Henry Kreitler. A long version of this theme was also released but was never used on the show.
The opening title sequence used since the show's premiere in 1999, features shots of the city of Harmony and its landmarks. The sequence opens and closes with the show's logo in an italic typeface and in an Arial Black typeface in generic caps posted in front of the cursive form of the title. From time to time, the opening theme is shortened to the last two verses to fit in extra scene time.
Passions is one of the few American serials that, with the exception of occasional abbreviated versions of the intro, has not changed its opening theme since the series debut.
Ratings/broadcasting history
United States on NBC
As a replacement for the long-running serial Another World, Passions claimed AW's 2 PM time slot when it debuted on NBC on July 5, 1999, and spent its entire NBC run there.
Passions debuted ahead of fellow NBC soap Sunset Beach with a 2.1 rating (1.9 million viewers) and remained there until "Beach" was cancelled in December. From January 2000 until early May the show remained dead last among all 10 soaps. During May Sweeps 2000, Passions was gaining in popularity and pulled ahead of ABC's Port Charles. Passions remained ahead of Port Charles until October 2003 when ABC cancelled the gothic serial. The show once again was dead last, and would stay there for virtually the rest of it's run. It did top Guiding Light on occasion, but never for more than one week at a time. During 2001-2003 when the show was at the peak of its popularity, it averaged a weekly 2.1-2.3 rating (which at that time equaled roughly 2.4 million viewers). However, the ratings slowly declined with each passing year, to the point that the show averaged a 1.5 weekly rating (about 1.9 million viewers) throughout much of the 2006-2007 season. The final episode on NBC had a household rating of 1.3/4 (1.68 million viewers). [citation needed]
While Passions was never a big hit in household ratings, the show was a powerhouse in the younger-skewing demographics. For its entire NBC run it ranked as the #1 soap in Girls 12-17, Women 18-24, & Girls 12-24. The show also ranked #2 in Women 18-34 and even overtook fellow NBC soap Days of our Lives for a short period during the 2004-2005 season. In the crucial 18-49 demographic, Passions usually ranked #7, ahead of the long running CBS soaps As The World Turns, and Guiding Light. The highest ranking Passions ever achieved in 18-49 demographic was 4th place in November 2002 and once again in January 2007.
Australia on Seven
Passions was broadcast nationally in Australia on the Seven Network each weekday at 3 pm, beginning in 2001 with the series' 1999 episodes. In 2005, the series was moved to an earlier 9:30 am time slot, before the show's international licensing was cancelled due to the music copyright fees.[20] After new episodes were ceased to be received, it was moved into re-runs in a 2am weekday morning timeslots, though merely as a "filler,". It has recently broadcast a "Series Finale" in its slot, and is unlikely to return to Australian television.
Canada
The series also aired in Canada for its entire NBC run; first on CTV and then on Global in 2001. Beginning on October 8 2007, SuperChannel began airing the DirecTV episodes. The series airs on SuperChannel Monday to Thursday at 2:00 to 2:45 pm ET (without commercials), with encores airing at 4:00 pm.
Croatia on Nova TV (New TV)
It is good to mention that Passions was aired in Croatia (Europe)for two seasons - 520 episodes (1999.-2001.), but the show was cancel for unknown reason. The press release for public was: "The soap was apparently withdrawn for sale from overseas markets by its American producer and distributor, NBC Productions, because it was too expensive to clear the music rights for international distribution." More on Croatian Wikipedia - http://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasti
Awards
- For a full listing of award wins and nominations, see List of Passions awards
Passions has been honored with numerous awards and nominations during its run, including Daytime Emmy Awards, Imagen Foundation Awards, and a GLAAD Media Award.
See also
References
- ^ Passions episode recaps ~ NBC.com
- ^ "NBC'S Passions to work its magic on DIRECTV viewers with all new episodes beginning September 17" ~ NBC.com
- ^ "Protecting icons from exploitation" ~ BBC News
- ^ West, Abby. "17 Great Soap Supercouples: Timmy and Tabitha". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved 2008-01-29.
{{cite news}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ "Passions goes Sci Fi!" - Soaps.About.com
- ^ "Sci Fi Channel revives NBCU's used Passions" - Variety.com
- ^ Passions video - NBC.com
- ^ "Passions matches its highest ranking ever" ~ NBC Universal Media Village
- ^ "The Today Show expands on NBC" ~ MercuryNews.com
- ^ "Passions: Who Won't Survive the Move to DirecTV?" - TV SeriesFinale.com, May 24 2007
- ^ "NBC'S Passions to work its magic on DIRECTV viewers with all new episodes beginning September 17" ~ NBC.com
- ^ "Passions to Continue in Canada" - Soaps.com 3 July 2007
- ^ "Passions: DirecTV Soap Available Online — But Not Free" - TVSeriesFinale.com, September 27 2007
- ^ a b c "DirecTV to cut ties with Passions" - Variety.com
- ^ "Passions Canceled Again?" Soap Opera Digest. January 1 2008, Vol. 33 No. 1.
- ^ "Passions: Cancelled Twice in One Year?" - TV SeriesFinale.com, December 10 2007
- ^ As of January 2008, the series runs Monday to Wednesday at 2 pm ET/11 am PT, with repeats airing later in the day and on Thursday from 2 pm to 5 pm.
- ^ Passions Vendetta ~ NBC.com
- ^ SoapOperaFan.com Episode Summary
- ^ TheAge.com.au - "Passions run amok" 4 August 2005
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