Special: It's A Killer Diva Kind Of Christmas
Again With This: Dawson's, Melrose, 90210
Tara Ariano, Sarah D. Bunting, David T. Cole
4.9 • 732 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
AWAWT 172: Let's Watch Linda Gray AND Donna Mills In Ladies Of The '80s: A Divas Christmas!
Life imitates art -- or maybe Lifetime imitates soaps -- as a bunch of daytime divas from an earlier age reunite for a special episode of their old show, and help a couple of young people out of their own way in the process. Call your mom -- she might be wondering which of her favorite stars from Knots Landing and Dallas are still alive!
AWAWT 220: Let’s Watch Laura Leighton In Naked City: A Killer Christmas!
The Naked City (1948) spawned a TV show in the fifties, AND two Showtime movies in the nineties; the second one stars Laura Leighton as an ambitious but ambivalent tabloid-newsmag anchor. It also stars Scott Glenn and Courtney B. Vance as cop partners, but are they (or Bogdanovich's direction) enough to save a corny script?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody. |
| 0:10.1 | This is Again with Again With this. |
| 0:13.5 | Episode 172. |
| 0:16.0 | Let's watch Linda Gray and Donna Mills in Ladies of the 80s. Diva's Christmas. Yuck. And now here are your host. Tara Aronio and Sarah D. Lendon. You know, there are things that we talk about where sometimes at the end I'm like, well, it's too bad. Dave might have enjoyed that. This is not in that category. Dave would not enjoy this at all. Hello, Sarah. I don't think so. I mean, maybe like the first 12 minutes, but... |
| 0:41.3 | No! That's Dave's reaction to that. For sure. Yeah. Accurate. Welcome, listeners. Thank you so much for your support. We are almost at the end of our December and some November of |
| 0:56.9 | holiday treats. This is the newest thing we're covering this holiday season. Ladies of the 80s, |
| 1:03.7 | colon, A Deva's Christmas, premiered on Lifetime December 2nd. It was directed by Christy Will Wolf, |
| 1:10.2 | a Canadian, of course, you can tell as soon as you see it. |
| 1:13.3 | This was definitely shot in Vancouver. She is a veteran member of the Directors Guild of Canada. |
| 1:18.7 | More notably, though, it was written by longtime writing partners James Berg and Stan Zimmerman, who formerly worked together on Gilmore Girls, Roseanne, a very Brady sequel, and Sarah |
| 1:30.3 | The Golden Girls. |
| 1:32.2 | Okay. |
| 1:33.2 | Berg also had a sitcom and development in the late teens called Silver Foxes, the idea of which |
| 1:39.1 | is basically it's Golden Girls, but they're all men and they're gay. |
| 1:42.1 | And I hope this movie gives him and Zimmerman |
| 1:44.6 | enough of a boost because I want silver foxes to happen very much. Yes. Hello. |
| 1:51.7 | The concept of ladies of the 80s, Sarah, let's just get into it. You can break in. It's preposterous. |
| 1:56.7 | I don't care particularly. No, me neither. A long-running daytime soap opera called The Great Lakes, because it's about a family called |
| 2:05.5 | the Lakes, and the matriarch, and they make sure we know she's a stepmother, which is why |
| 2:10.5 | she's barely older than her daughters, is Margo Roberts, played by Morgan Fairchild from |
| 2:15.9 | Falcon Crest. |
| 2:16.7 | All of the ladies' characters' last names nod to the roles that they are best known for by Morgan Fairchild from Falcon Crest, all of the ladies' characters' last |
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