HOLLYWOOD -- The producers of a TV soap opera say President Reagan's daughter Patti Davis was dropped because she failed to show up for taping of the show, but the actress' manager says she did not intend to appear on the show beyond the two episodes she taped.
'Rituals,' a new syndicated daytime drama, announced last week that Davis would no longer appear on the show after she called in last Tuesday and asked to postpone her scheduled appearance that day until 3 p.m.
She later phoned to say that 'scheduling problems' would prevent her from taping any time that day.
Davis told the show's producers that her meeting with a book publisher conflicted with her taping of the show.
'We have a $15 million annual budget and a huge cast. We felt it would have been easier for her to reschedule her meeting with the publisher than it would be for us to reschedule all the other performers' appearances and shoot around her,' said Jim Moloshok, a spokesman for Telepictures, which produces the show.
'She was contracted for two days work, which she performed,' said Mike Gursey, Davis' manager. 'The producers then asked her to sign a long term contract, which she declined to do because she never intended to be a regular on the show. We're very suprised to read reports that she had been fired.'
Another World
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Is anyone is from the San Francisco Bay Area? Because I was wondering about the following from KRON-TV wiki entry:
For most of its tenure with NBC, KRON was the network's second-largest affiliate (behind only KYW-TV in Philadelphia) and its largest on the West Coast. Despite this, KRON occasionally preempted NBC programming. One notable omission was Another World, which would eventually air on the station in the early 1990s; KRON's decision to drop the daytime soap opera in the summer of 1998 (leaving Days of Our Lives and the struggling Sunset Beach as the only network soaps on its schedule) is thought to have hastened NBC's decision to cancel it altogether a year later.
Does this mean that if you lived in San Francisco, Another World was only on TV from 1990-1998?