Didn't Scott recommend the fans push Pierson directly for more Festivals a year or two ago? My memory says this isn't the first time she's suggested that.

Perhaps the social media post was her way of telling the fans who keep asking her: "Sorry, it's not my call. Let the powers that be know if you're interested. In the meantime, let me tell you about my new 4th of July gift set..."

G.

lol! i always appreciated her "personal pitch" at the festivals too. one year she REALLY gave me the hard sell on her non-DS fiction 'Down and Out in Beverly Heels'. i had to walk away. 

more than anyone i'm sure Scott understands the "rights" and liabilities around the "property".

i mean can anyone just throw a "Dark Shadows Festival" or is that trademarked and needs to go through JP? the fact that she no longer speaks to someone she's been in a working partnership with for decades suggests perhaps a "falling out"?

the tone of her remarks were strange.

does anyone follow KLS's personal Facebook page?

this weekend she's put out a statement on potential future festivals or lack thereof. she says nothing's been planned for the year (which we pretty much knew) but curiouser and curiouser claims she is not in tough with Jim Pierson at all and is urging US the fans to "reach out to him" directly to plead the case.

Scott has been the principal player in this whole thing for decades. while she accurately states the cast and crew are not the event organizers but simply invited guests i find it astonishing she's not in contact with Pierson on this. she even suggested the fans "take over" the planning and get the mailing list from JP.

has there been some weird backstage falling out? Pierson must be in possession of the financials. and if it's no longer viable than so be it. make that announcement and everyone can move on. but the limbo around it and the fact that Scott's out of the loop is very odd. 

i thought Wallace created the initial setup concepts and characters...Victoria, the Collins family, Collinsport, Collinwood, the town hoi polloi...then some of the plots that launched the series. Vicki's search for her parentage. Burke's revenge storyline...

but had basically peaced out of the series by the time ghosts and ghouls started to creep out of the woodwork. i didn't know he was ever credited (or miscredited) with writing Barnabas or any of the later supernatural storylines.

i used to love EON. it wasn't "supernatural" in any way but it had a darker, more sinister tone than other soaps.

like a lot of soaps in the late 70s/early 80s it got moved around and dropped by local "affiliates" making it harder and harder to find until it was eventually cancelled.

Was it ever mentioned on DS where Willie hailed from?  I do not recall ever hearing any mention of Willie's hometown on the show.

On one of the DS dvds, John Karlen related in an interview that Dan Curtis and the DS producers wanted John to use a "Southern accent" in his portrayal of Willie.  That's the only mention I remember of where Willie may have possibly come from.  Does anyone know what was Willie's hometown and state?

as i recall James Hall used a slight "drawl" during his brief stint in the role that was abandoned once Karlen stepped in. i'm not sure if that was Hall's own speaking voice or if the plan had been to make Willie "southern" at first.

it ended up not really mattering. Willie was a vagabond. a rootless drifter Jason fell in with during his travels. like Julia he was without meddlesome family connections and made him fully "available" to Barnabas' needs and commands.

believe it or not i watch B&B daily (with some old ladies) in my company cafeteria...

that assessment of the current storyline and any connection to DS at all is beyond a stretch. there's no "time jumps" or "alternate personalities". it's classic soap opera tropes: temporary amnesia. flashbacks. blackmail.

and Bill Spencer is more JR Ewing than "Barnabas Collins".

in fact the plot is very, very much a lift from the classic 'Dallas' potboiler "who shot JR?" with most of the cast serving as a series of red herring "suspects" before the true identity of the shooter was revealed.

i guess it's cute someone at that infamously unreliable clickbait site gave DS a nod but it's really not there.