Wishful Casting: Finola Hughes as Lesley-Anne Down's Sister on Bold and Beautiful
While watching and— for a change— thoroughly enjoying The Bold and the Beautiful this week, I can't help but think how great it is to see Ian Buchanan onscreen again as Dr. James Warrick. I think all soaps should have more British people. They just class up the joint! Before serving as B&B's answer to Dr. Phil, James had a storied history with the Women Forrester, including an attempted romance with Brooke (Katherine Kelly Lang), and a shared attraction with Stephanie (Susan Flannery).
Who could forget James being deflowered by fellow psychiatrist Dr. Taylor Hayes (Hunter Tylo) at Big Bear? Obviously Ridge (Ron Moss) has, since he sent not one, but both of his less-than-merry wives up to the cabin with the shrink this week.
I think B&B should have James stick around, don't you? I have the perfect romantic partner for him too. Get your pencils out, Barbara Bloom is gonna love this one! I think B&B should cast Buchanan's former General Hospital leading lady Finola Hughes as Jackie M's (Lesley-Anne Down) kid sister Joanie! Get it, two Brits named Jackie and Joanie? Hughes was slated to go to B&B's sister soap The Young and the Restless a while back, but Fronsie nixed that. Maybe Brad Bell can make the lovely—and fashionable—Hughes a wholesale offer she can't refuse?
Joanie Rawlings, a glamorous, recently-widowed, romance novelist, could come to visit her sister and favorite nephew Nicky (played by GH alum Jack Wagner) in LA for a bit. While in town, Joanie could become fascinated by all the sordid goings-on of the Forresters and Logans and decide to pen a trashy roman a clef about the warring clans! (Which CBS could actually sell, just don't let that person who does the P&G books near it!)
Enter the ever-manipulative Stephanie, who asks her old friend James to try to romance Joanie, in order to talk her out of writing the book. Would lightening strike twice for Buchanan and Hughes? Perhaps. If not, there's always Thorne (Winsor Harmon), Whip (Rick Hearst), or Bill (Don Diamont).
Maybe Joanie and the Spencer publishing scion have a past? How would Bill's new love, PR princess Katie Logan (Heather Tom) respond to Joanie's presence in town? Might Bill Spencer have published Joanie's first, best-selling, page turner? Could the rogue have cheated the London lass out of her royalties? What if an angry,17-year-old boy (Zack Conroy), follows Joanie to Los Angeles and quickly gets mixed up with Thorne's now 15-year-old daughter Alexandra? A Spencer son falling for a Forrester granddaughter? Romeo and Juliet meets Ugly Betty!
Then, just when Jackie doesn't think she will be able to stand her provocative sister encroaching on her SoCal life one second more, their mother, the Baroness Minvera Davenger, comes to town— played by Joan Collins! Okay, time for my meds.
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27 June 2008
8 weeks 6 days
LOL - Jackie and Joanie
I love it! You have to check out this vid: www.youtube.com/watch
29 April 2009
1 year 30 weeks
Jamey...
Perhaps you missed a calling and your scenario puts me in the mind of a Jackie Collins. I do agree with you when you say British people (actors and actresses) "They just class up the joint!"
The B&B for me has been touch and go - mostly go as in leave it but I am enjoying this Jackie M storyline. I loved her line when she told Whip on 8/18/2009 show "where were all you handsome devils when I had a drought for two decades."
28 January 2009
15 hours 1 min
BB already has Frisco Jones and Duke Lavery from GH circa 1980's
29 April 2009
1 year 30 weeks
Darren Lomas,
That video clip is some funny you know what. That's Jennifer Saunders of "Absolutely Fabulous" fame playing the Joan Collins role.
28 November 2007
1 year 32 weeks
Much as it would be fun to see Finola reunited with Ian Buchanan, I would love to see her paired with Rick Hearst!
27 June 2008
8 weeks 6 days
ALTn, I know - they are a huge comedy duo here in the UK (though they mostly work apart now!).
PS call me Darren
24 December 2008
2 years 24 weeks
Yes! Brilliant! Thank you! Someone needs to reunite Finola Hughes and Ian Buchanan onscreen, and if GH won't, let B&B take up the slack.
21 May 2008
1 week 6 days
Picky, picky - I think Ian Buchanan is Scottish, not British.
26 December 2008
2 years 3 weeks
Ian is making me laugh so hard on B&B. Love having him back! He and Finola Hughes are magic onscreen together. Even on a little known show called Pantry Raid on the Style Network, they served us up something special.Yes bring back Ian, couple him with Fin's character, and for us fans who have been cheated by GH for years expand the show to an hour so we can have MORE of them!
20 August 2009
2 years 24 weeks
This idea is pure genius! Besides the fact that Ian and Finola have incredible chemistry and are great friends to this day, Fin and Susan Flannery are also neighbors. So I'm sure the three of them would have a grand old time. From your keyboard to Brad Bell's BlackBerry, Jamey! (Not quite so poetic as "From your lips to God's ears," but far more practical.)
I would also love to see another of Dr. Warwick's exes, Sheila, thrown into the mix. It would be great to see Emmy winners Kimberlin Brown and Finola go up against one another.
BTW, OldGHFan, as long as we're being picky, Scots, such as Ian, are British. Great Britain consists of England, Scotland, and Wales.
6 March 2010
1 year 48 weeks
Bring her on. Now that is would make for an interesting drama and also the great use of a talented woman in Finola Hughes. Come on Board Finola.