those sheets don't look like they're saffron yellow...

if the candles aren't all blue that will be a major change from the original!

for what these stats are worth KLS appeared in 310 episodes.

grayson hall leaves the other ladies in the dust with 474 episodes. nancy barrett stands at 403. joan bennett at 391. alexandra moltke at 335. somehow lara parker ended up with only 269 although she seems like she's in much more. interesting barrett doesn't come up much in the "leading lady" category much despite being the second in appearances.

no other actresses come close to these totals. make of them what you will.

CB you make very good and legitimate points...

i agree that josette...at least in theory...is one of the most important components of the entire DS mythology. she was an important "presence" long before anyone had ever heard of barnabas collins and maintained that for the rest of the show's run.

but what i've always found striking about josette...and i've said this here many times...is that for her stratospheric prominence and association with the entire scope of the show we actually saw very little of her as a real character. she was only around for a couple of months.

so what i think KLS has done over the years is to manipulate that association to her advantage and retroactively engineer herself into the show's "leading lady". but she really wasn't. it was the idea, the legend, the ghost of josette that was featured on the series so prominently not KLS's portrayal of her.

most of her time she was playing maggie evans...not josette dupres...who was for the most part a supporting character despite a few moments of storyline(and fashion credit)prominence.

KLS is a nice lady but something of a smooth operator...

over time she's engineered her association with the series and in particular josette dupres into slightly more than it actually was.

depending on the time period and storyline "leading lady" status was granted to alexandra moltke, joan bennett, grayson hall or lara parker. at it's best it was never KLS with the possible exception of the three months she played josette as an actual flash-and-blood character during the 1795 period. there it could be argued she was the "lead".

true she did receive an elevation in status when moltke left the program and maggie was brought in as collinwood governess, junior sophisticate and resident ingenue-in-distress. but otherwise it was strictly supporting.

but like i said she worked her time on the series into a very profitable business.

thanks for the link mysterious...

interesting article. although calling KLS the show's "lead" actress is something of a stretch.

i was not aware that ms. scott had sold pomegranate press...

when did she sell? at the fest every year she's still seated at a table filled with pom press books so it seems like she still has an interest in those books selling.

although it would not be possible to "condense the entire run of DS" into a single movie what remakes of the original series...be it the 1991 revival, or the 2004 pilot(which i haven't seen), or this film(given the plot synopsis we've been given)...seem to try to do is condense the highlights of the first year and a half or so into an understandable story.

the introduction of the main collins family, victoria's arrival at collinwood, willie's release of barnabas, the introduction of julia hoffman, a conjuring up of angelique and a taste of the backstory of the whole thing with some sort of flashback to 1795(or, in the case of this film 1772). that seems to be about as far as we can get given the perimeters of a two hour film or the first season of a television series.

they don't attempt to get into the post 1795 plotting during the introductory period. it's too complex. the adam/eve/nicholas blair stuff isn't mentioned. if given the opportunity it would appear that they would like to jump ahead to the quentin storyline. apparently the 1991 series was going to introduce that in season two but it was cancelled. the thing with quentin is that he's a PROTAGONIST. he dominates his surroundings and requires his own storyline for his character to be understood properly. he can't just be hastily written into the background of the barnabas storyline as a supporting player. that's why he wasn't in the 1991 series during the first season and that's why he's not in this film. if a sequel is produced he, and not barnabas, might be the highlighted character.

as far as the program's later, and often questionable storylines, like leviathans and parallel-time, i don't know if any future version of the show would even attempt to get into that or create new storylines.