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She moved to the Carlton Hotel aka the Clue movie set during the final two seasons. You really should take the time to watch at least season 9. It was a creative upswing. NOTE: Aaron originally bought the Clue movie set in case Dark Mansions went to series, but when it didn't he just recycled it for the Carlton Hotel.

I think it's a shame they've botched Kristen so badly to be honest - when she first came back in 2012 it seemed like they were going to at least make her semi-sane. With the time jump it also seemed, again, that they were going to try to at least ground her to earth with her relationship with Lani (lesbian subtext and all). But Ron's gotta be ronnin', I guess.

He might have abs and seems like a nice person, but it's time they got rid of Ben. Glad to see Paulina staying put.

It's also the fact that the clothes are clearly in Lauren Koslow's size and I doubt they have the budget to buy another pair to specifically fit Stacey Haiduk.

Which shows gained an audience beyond the initial co-vid bump last year? I assume that most "bumps" these days will also just show up on streaming either way. Most people I know haven't watched broadcast in the past year - they've been binging available shows.

Linear television is overall dying. Shows that would've been pulled after one episode five years ago now get renewed. The CW is basically a showcase for shows you can stream on either Netflix, HBO Max or CBS All Access. I assume in the future all networks will function more like that.

Glad it's renewed for two seasons so we at least don't have to do this next year. It does feel like around every nine-ten months they start treading water because they're unsure if they're going to be back or have to quickly wrap up.

I just assume they didn't want to reveal any other mourners.

Jeff. He's been marked for death for a while now. Either that or they remembered that Steven still exists and they need to get rid of him.

Yeah, it's been said before, but DAYS probably has the best breakdown writers because if they didn't then the show just would make less sense than it already is.

Definitively. The show deserves closure. I do wish they would stop with the one year renewals though. I think it's hurting the show as it seems like they end up treading water storylinewise towards the end of the yearly renewal in case they have to write a quick ending.

Interesting that there was an edit at the start when the guitar was supposed to break, so we didn't see it. I assume something went wrong since in those days video editing was expensive and was rarely done, instead they just opted to film the entire show "live" onto the tape. I guess something went wrong on the set when it was supposed to break.

If they're going to keep Ava around for the long term I guess this is a good story as any to keep her from just being a talk-to to Tripp. (Watch Ron kill her off next month)

Eh, I'd say both Pratt and Ron have the exact same issues with writing - they can write exciting stuff for a few months, but are usually unable to keep it up and usually dwindle into nonsensical camp (rather than good camp).

Yep. Look at Grey's Anatomy - there's like three people who were on the show from the pilot currently? And they'll still have to cut popular characters every now and then despite being one of the highest rated shows in the lucrative 18-49 demo. Of course, Grey's is a workplace soap, so it's easier for people to just quit and write in new characters. For a family soap it's much harder as you can only introduce that many long-lost siblings, cousins and whatever before it starts getting ridiculous...

It's likely that his script was rejected at least. If it's not completely dead they might try to get another writer and try again, but the writing was on the wall when it wasn't ordered to pilot.

Maybe he got fired.

The move + less tight writing (the stupid jewel plot comes to mind, plus I recall someone pointing out that Peyton went from actively plotting to overhearing plot points) + the fact that soaps repeated lousy and unlike Fox, the WB didn't have the money to order more than 22 episodes of their shows killed it.

I don't think so, but it's been a while since I watched. Well, Cassie was added in the second season so I guess they sort of retroactively added her back in.

That's very cool actually! I knew that there was supposed to be a fourth friend who was still living in New York (which eventually became became Cassie), but was dropped since they didn't want to do dual action in Savannah / New York. I had no idea she was cast and even shot scenes.

From the same article: So yeah, Corday / Sony have been making deals with cast members if it's renewed already. So it doesn't sound like a "let every actor go off contract" situation.

Honestly, if they make no profit of the current production on DAYS then maybe a good idea is to, I don't know, CAPITALIZE ON THE HUGE BACKCATALOGUE OF EPISODES THEY HAVE LAYING AROUND? I mean, I'm just suggesting something here, no pressure.

I don't even think you necessarily need to "airdrop" entire "seasons" these days - if anything, it does seem like a lot of streaming services are experimenting with some sort of weekly release (The Flight Attendant went 3-2-2-1 episode(s) per week). Which makes sense - the advantage of dropping episodes weekly is that people come back and inevitably look at other content. Daily releases might be too much, but I could see a model where they plan on releasing episodes 2-3 times a week depending on which days they usually release new shows to get the maximum amount of exposure for those shows.

From Deadline: https://deadline.com/2021/04/days-of-our-lives-nbc-renewal-season-57-1234740897/

So will Jan just become part of the jail crew of villains that escape twice or so per year?