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I don't think they wanted to tie in this too closely with what's currently happening on DAYS since they don't know how much of the audience will bother watching Beyond Salem. Plus, I think the way to go forward with BS is not necessarily to follow this group of characters into another season - I quite like the idea of exploring various off screen characters' lives in future installments.

Exactly. I don't think there's a huge mystery to it - we all saw how lazy he got towards the end of his run. I don't doubt that they asked Freddie first since they even brought back Eileen for this, so it makes no sense that they'd randomly recast Sonny if they didn't have to.

I think it's just budget to be honest and probably that they just don't feel like there's a lot of story to tell about them in the main show at the moment. Cynically, they might feel the LGBT bracket is filled by Allie and Chanel.

If AP is/was insufferable then that's reason enough why it blew up. People are willing to cover for people who they think are nice enough co-workers, but if the douche at the office does something bad? Of course people are going to take advantage and try to oust him for it or at least knock him down a peg or five.

It'd be kind of a smart way to recast a character that's been seen as unrecastable to be honest...

How long are the episodes?

Honestly, they're kind of starting to write Liam as Jeff in the original, which... isn't good unless they want us to root for them to split up.

I genuinely wouldn't mind them breaking up Liam and Fallon and have Amanda move in on Liam as I'm sure that'd create more conflict.

Maybe she meant it in the way Ryan's Hope seemed to be about a small community in Manhattan, New York rather than something flashy? Then again, wasn't an extravagant Trump-like family supposed to be featured?

It's a bit odd that nothing has surfaced from it considering the popularity of Peyton Place - hell, you'd think the prime time special at least would've survived somewhere.

I can see Jamey Giddens fitting into Ron's writing team. Take that as you will.

I'd assume that the bottom line is that daytime has always been about being able to churn out a product on daily basis with a very set budget (even when there was a budget). While there's obviously been very creative people who've come from daytime, it's not exactly the place that encourages creativity if you fail to deliver a product so many probably fail out under the pressure of having to deliver something daily, while a lot of people who can not only keep delivering a product but also come in under budget have an easier time failing upwards. I assume DePriest is someone who kept failing upward.

Also, since you're a bit of a nerd about this viafree.se (Sweden) puts up five episodes of DAYS Mondays at 9am weekly. The recent batch of episodes are from July 2 to July 8. For whatever reason the episodes are numbered 14137-14441 instead of 14449-14453. They can be found here: https://www.viafree.se/program/drama/vara-basta-ar They also call it "Season 27", but that has to do with that they originally started airing the show with a four year delay in 1997 (so "season 1" are 1993-94).

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TBF, gay men are often uncomfortable with the emotional part of bisexuality so it's a bit of a given that Ron won't go there.

Scandinavia too - though it's on services like viafree.se.

To be fair, Tripp is basically turning into Austin Pt 100, but I'm not sure writing your male characters like JER is any kind of goal. I guess I at least haven't started wondering how Tripp even manages to dress himself.

I guess this must be a scene from the final or so episode? It's Susan Sarandon's character talking about the christening of her son with Augusta Dabney (?): The music is absolutely hysterically loud.

I mean, I'm happy that it doesn't seem to mean that they're a year ahead in scripting at least. I do wonder if it'll potentially screw up with international broadcasts though - I guess I'll find out and see if it airs/streams here on time in November since we're around two months behind these days. For those purposes I'd assume it would be more efficient to call it 14169A.

Honestly, I wouldn't mind it if they'll just Mike Horton her a bit and let her age freeze for the foreseeable future. Belle should NOT have a 20-something daughter, so I wouldn't mind it if she's still in her "early twenties" if the character goes on a break for a few years and comes back as a recast.

Weird that it's numbered #14442? Surely they can't be almost a year ahead in scripting?

Pretty much - there are a lot of stories about Patrick and Larry playing "pranks" on set and while it makes for cute stories, I could imagine it getting tired really quick especially after filming for ten hours.

Going by the released spoiler pics, it unfortunately seems like they just re-dressed the regular sets. I had kind of hoped they'd use this Peacock windfall on investing on sets (which would benefit the main show), but I guess Eileen Davidson doesn't come for cheap.

I just don't get why they had to add that in at all. Did anyone really wonder if Theo and Ciara fucked? Did anyone care if Theo and Ciara fucked?