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Could be? I mean, I get if he turned them down for a blink-and-you'll-miss-it part, especially if he's relocated to Florida as the money is not that good. Still, it would probably be good for his "brand" (whatever that is) to appear in it as he'd be able to get Instagram pictures with Lipsa et al. So.... yeah. Might be that he just wasn't asked.

You know things are bad when actually hiring extras is seen as a huge budget investment

Could be. The timing does seem a bit suspicious that he'd randomly announce that - if that's the case, I wonder if he was the one who said no, or if it's the show that wouldn't accomodate him.

The ratings for Dynasty isn't much worse than most of CW's programming considering it's airing late in the summer at 9PM on Fridays after another low-rated drama (Charmed). Most of their viewers just stream.

I'd guess Tudi Wiggins as Meg on Love of Life might make the best list? I've watched her on Strange Paradise and she plays devious very well and it makes me curious about how she did on Love of Life as it sounds like a good role for her.

That's great. Last Blast and Abby and Chad might not have had amazing production values, but it must've done well enough for Peacock to pick this up. Hopefully getting picked up by Peacock properly and not just the DAYS app means that they can at least have slightly better production values, but I'm not getting my hopes up.

I don't mind Freddie either, even if he became lazy but then again so did Chandler Massey and the writing itself.

Eh, well, it's nice to have goals? I guess in theory he could've invested his DAYS money wisely, or more realistically he's going to move on to another profession (a realtor like his wife?). But I agree with @FrenchBug82re: killing off Sonny. He's a legacy character with ties to the canvas, so it's pointless to kill him off since it's just likely they'd revive him anyway. Just have him and Will break up off screen and eventually re-cast down the line if they need a spoiler in Will's relationships down the line.

"You can't fire me I quit" vibes.

No But good on DAYS for getting coverage. He debuts on August 18th.

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Brian appeared on CW's DYNASTY as himself a few episodes ago. Is this BSB's secret comeback plan - to appear on soaps?

I've been re-watching the Maljardin arc because... well, no reason but I have nothing better to do. Honestly, the first 44 episodes with Ian Martin helming them kind of sucks. I know a lot of things were dropped (such as the flashbacks / alternative timeline which would've expanded Elizabeth's role on the show), but it's very repetitious and in itself very inconsistent in parts. I don't think Martin was a very good planner, especially for a soap opera. The show really does get a kick up its butt with episode 45, even if it was never going to become Shakespeare. There are interesting bits that some fan blogs have compiled ( https://maljardinblog.wordpress.com/ ) - such as original outlines that got printed in magazines (which shows you how quick the turn-over was back then), like Erica was originally going to be revealed not to have died from eclampsia, but from plastic surgery after a car accident and trying to gain eternal youth. In Martin's original outline it seems likely that Erica would've never come back to life (which makes sense since they pretty much had women throwing themselves at the balding Colin Fox).

My guess is that we're going to see a lot more possessive EJ when he finds out about the affair and the fall-out of that. I also think that might be why they haven't worked on his and Sweeney's chemistry - EJ is going to go old-fashioned DiMera psycho.

Only three years until we can celebrate 20 years of Charity Rahmer 🥰

It's a shame they hurried with SORAS-ing Belle. I really feel she should've been able to grow up on screen with only minor adjustments to age a la Will, but I guess they wouldn't have been able to push Shawn and Belle as that generations "supercouple" (which turned out to be white bread anyway)...

To be fair, wasn't How to Survive a Marriage kind of doomed from the beginning with the impending expansions of both Another World and Days of Our Lives? Seems more like they let it air with little support to prepare for those shows going to the hour.

Corday said that they left a lot of the intimate scenes up to the actors and how comfortable they felt etc.

Bring on the Olympics cliffhangers! Since Ron is a stunt writer, that's one thing he should be able to achieve, right?

Well that took a turn.

Not in all instances. I thought Alexis firing the gun on Dynasty, causing Krystle to miscarry was a great moment that really showed Alexis' true colours and of course led to Krystle eventually beating the crap out of Alexis.

On an interesting note - a lot of cast members seem to be posting about this move (just saw Deidre posting it), so it does seem like they're pushing it a bit that they're moving so obviously they know how important it is for this move to go well.

The app might continue to exist in some minimal sense, but it's obvious they aren't interested in it and won't be going out of their way to provide material for it. They want people to migrate to Peacock, that much is clear. Ratings matter in the sense that they'll keep DAYS on air as long as they don't think they can replace it with something cheaper that can achieve somewhat similar ratings. But at the same time we all know where it's heading - linear has been dying for years now and clearly there's an increased focus on multiplatform performances. But of course they still have affiliates to keep happy otherwise they might just move it to other platforms.

I have a slight hope that they might actually refresh the set considering they did have a random DiMera mansion make-over. However, the most obvious problem with the set is that they obviously have a limited space and that's really what needs to be adressed with the set.

He went around talking to people basically, among one of those who was in jail (who Fallon paid off not to say anything). I think we're supposed to believe that word travels fast, which might be true. At least this weeks Fallon / Liam story seemed to change the status quo for a bit and had Liam leave (?) temporarily. Since they've made a few Knots references during the run, could the funeral be a fake out a la Gary's on Knots and it's Liam's funeral to try and lure out the people who killed his father?