I admit I had a crush on her at one time...
Posted on 11/12/2019 2:51:45 PM PST by Beave Meister
The long-running daytime soap's future is in flux, though it will continue airing for the remainder of the current season. The future of NBC's daytime soap Days of Our Lives is in doubt after the entire cast was released from their contracts.
The 55-year-old drama — the longest-running entertainment show in NBC's history — will go on an indefinite hiatus at the end of November, although enough episodes have been banked to play out the rest of the 2019-20 season.
NBC and Sony Pictures TV, which distributes the show, declined comment. Calls to producer Corday Productions were not returned.
Corday, which carries the contracts with the cast, made the call to release the actors. Days of Our Lives was renewed for 2019-20 in January; should it be picked up again, production would likely resume in the spring — but the cast would have to negotiate new contracts. Sony Pictures TV and NBC had been in talks for another season when Corday released the cast.
Corday also sued Sony earlier this year, claiming the studio hadn't put forth its best efforts at distributing Days of Our Lives. The claim said Sony made a decision to "eliminate any competition to its wholly owned series The Young and the Restless. … In the annals of Hollywood television, it is difficult to identify a distributor more guilty of blatant conflict of interest, deceit, perfidy, and abuse of market power."
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I watched a knock-off show.
It was called, “Gays With Our Wives”.
I worked on 3 soaps and DOOL was always a hit or miss after long aired serials were coming to an end (ATWT, GL, AMC). Sorry to hear about this. A lot of folks will be without jobs. I left one soap for another knowing the former was about to be cancelled - got out in time!
Erica was in All My Children.
Years ago , we were staying at the Villa D’Este in Lake Como, Italy. The cast of The Bold and the Beautiful was filming there for the week. I had never seen the show but, of course, watched it when we got home. To this day, I’m hooked. Thank God, for the DVR.
Acting jobs are like sand through the hourglass.
I guess Trump’s economy is not performing well enough to keep soap opera stars employed.
Trump’s fault!
I watched All My Children in college, five years after graduating I watched it again a couple times and picked up the story line almost instantly.
Unfortunately nany of the actors now and in the pipe lines are horrible actors.....they ‘act’ like they’re ‘acting’....rather than taking on the role they play.
Soap-Opera “acting”.
Friends of ours had a daughter with severe brain damage from birth. She loved to watch game shows, especially iirc Price is Right. When they heard her favorite was ending they began taping the episodes so they would be able to play them for her after it ended. Depending on the stage of Alzheimer’s your friend has something like that might work or older shows might be online and it could all be new again.
All My Children was big when I was in college. It was on TV in dorms, sorority houses, and the student Union. Classes were scheduled around it.
My ex used to watch it every day. Maybe she still does I don't know.
I admit I had a crush on her at one time...
We all knew to be quiet when grandma was watching Days of Our Lives. If we weren’t she might lock us out of the house lol
“Like sands through the hourglass...”
...so are the implausible plot lines.
Apparently according to what some of my friends have noted if you go to other countries you can often see them being shown but the episodes are from years ago.
I am sorry for the actors but my feeling is that soap operas are just one of several factors that have led to this country’s cultural rot especially among women.
Hopefully compelling programming will take its place. I won’t even use the phrase “God-glorifying” — just something substantive and...cultured.
A substitute teacher of mine in elementary school was a recurring character at the time.
I remember my mom watching the soaps back in the 60’s and 70’s when I was a kid. Her favorites were “The Secret Storm” and “The Edge of Night”, if IRC, The Edge of Night was sort of mix between a traditional soap and a mystery or detective show. Does anyone remember them? I think she also watched “The Guiding Light”.
I also remember my dad would jokingly give my mom a hard time about watching her “afternoon” shows which was of course after all the housework was done and before starting dinner.
But my dad worked construction and sometimes he’d get laid off when work slowed down or because weather delayed outside work and onetime he was out of work for several months because of a very serious on the job injury. So when my dad went back to work, he’d come home and ask my mom what happed on the soaps today and she’d get him up to speed on the various plots. He’d pretend otherwise but I seriously think he got into watching them.
FWIW, many of the old soaps migrated from radio to TV.
When I was in HS in the late 70’s, General Hospital was all the rage and very popular among teenagers, mostly girls I guess, the whole Luke and Laura story line but I never got into it.
But back in the late 60’s there was Dark Shadows. I wasn’t allowed to watch it at home because my Catholic mother thought it too occult and too, well too dark”, so after school, I think it was 2nd and 3rd grade, I’d go to my friend Janet’s house to watch it. ; )
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