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Okay, they don't have a public email per se. Instead they have a Get in Touch page to send them an email message or chat with a live agent from 9:00AM to 1:00AM ET. You can also reach them through direct message on social media at the accounts below: Twitter: @PeacockTVCare Facebook: @PeacockTVCare Instagram: @Peacock I hope this helps!

Okay, so what if fans emailed peacock demanding that Alarr be suspended until the final report is out?

Well, he just cleared the way to control the narrative. Exactly. He should've been suspended months ago.

I wonder if it was Alarr's decision to get rid of their own PR people.

@te. Yes, my first thought was KA's leaving so abruptly. I always thought something was off.

Okay, that makes sense. Unfortunately my impression is that Ken Corday is your basic bump on a log. Sarah Joy Brown has been trying to get someone to do something about a director who assaulted her, where that director is now up on a big movie, or was before the strike. She hasn't even been able to get a reporter interested, I don't think. It's just a crying shame how much this crapola goes on.

Of course, Sony is only their distributor. They're not part of the producing team. But, still they should be able to put considerable pressure on Corday Inc. Is it usual not to have HR?

I thought it was SONY that caused the investigation to happen.

OMG! Really awful. And he has a lot of power & wields it, too. They've got to fire him.

I've met Victoria Wyndham, Charles Keating, Anna Stuart, Linda Dano, Stephen Schnetzer, Larry Lau, Gail Brown, Ricky Paull Goldin, Mark Pinter, Maureen Garrett, Crystal Chappell, Jessica Leccia, Scott Holroyd, Robert Newman, Martha Byrne, 2 writers. I really wish I'd met Connie Ford, Anne Heche, Pete Lemay.

NBC Daytime Head of Writer Development. Lin Bolen 1968-1975, Madeline David 1975-1979, Linda Line 1979-1987. Vice President of Daytime Programming, Lin Bolen 1972-1976. Bolen was very involved in developing & mounting the soap "How to Survive a Marriage", called a women's lib soap, broadcast in 1974-75. She is responsible for taking first "Another World" & then "Days of our Lives" from half hour to hour long. She also did an hour trial run with "The Doctors" but did not pursue expansion there. Bolen was the first female Vice President of Programming at a TV network and she took NBC to #1 in the national Nielsen ratings. Wikiwand credits her hour long shows with attracting new viewers and being hits with young women. Bolen cancelled the fifteen-year run of game show Concentration in early 1973 to replace it with game show Baffle, which ran one year, in order to increase ratings of younger female audiences as daytime and late-night were seen as NBC's profit center at that time, and advertisers wanted programs that attracted young women. Bolen also ended the eleven-year run of Jeopardy!, feeling its demographics were old. The show's creator and producer Merv Griffin did not wish to change the show's format making Bolen commission a new game show from Griffin, Wheel of Fortune, which debuted on January 6, 1975, and was an immediate ratings hit; Jeopardy! would later be revived in 1984. Bolen departed NBC Daytime in the spring of 1976 while it was still #1 to form her own Production Company, "Lin Bolen Productions, Inc." President of Daytime Programming, Fred Silverman, 1978-1982. . He was the man behind the 90-minute "Another World" fiasco. Before NBC he was a huge success at ABC & CBS. His NBC tenure was largely a let-down. Things were so bad that Johnny Carson quipped that NBC now stands for Nine Bombs Cancelled. Many high profile & expensive failures. For example, SUPERTRAIN was the most expensive TV show ever produced up to that point & it was a high-profile failure. Also failures HELLO, LARRY, THE BIG SHOW, and PINK LADY. However, they did launch HILL STREET BLUES, SHOGUN, DAVID LETTERMAN, CHEERS, ST. ELSEWHERE, FACTS OF LIFE, etc. He revitalized NBC's news which yielded TODAY and NIGHTLY NEWS. He put together a corporate team & those people stayed in place when Silverman left to start his own production company. One of them was Brandon Tartikoff who later took NBC to be #1. He got the peacock back into the NBC logo & it was used that way until 1986. Vice President of Daytime Programming, Earl Greenburg, 1981-1983. He was the co-creator of the game show "Fantasy" with Merrill Heatter. It aired on NBC from Sept. 1982 to Oct. 1983. Senior Vice President of Daytime Programming, Susan D. Lee, 1983-2000. Began in 1983 while having second-in-command vice presidents working alongside of her throughout her tenure with NBC Daytime. In 1996, there was uproar when "Another World" killed off the character of Frankie Frame. Word had it that both Susan D. Lee and then-Executive Producer Jill Farren Phelps chose Frankie as the next victim in the show's Fax Neuman serial killer storyline while then-head writer Margaret DePriest ran with the idea and crafted the gruesome, excessively violent murder on camera for Frankie. Susan D. Lee, in April 1999, gave soap opera "Sunset Beach" a 6-month extension taking them to the end of 1999. She canceled "Another World". She mounted NBC's last new soap, "Passions" in July 1999. She did that even though "AW's" ratings were higher than "Sunset Beach's". "Another World" was owned by P&G. "Sunset Beach" was jointly owned by Spelling Enterprises & NBC. "Passions" was wholly owned by NBC. Brian Frons, Vice President of Daytime Programming. 1983–1991. He canceled the long running daytime version of "Wheel of Fortune" (1975–1989). He also added a new soap opera "Santa Barbara" (1984–1993). NBC offered Bridget & Jerome Dobson a sweetheart deal to create it & built them a studio & budgeted more money than had been done before. Dobson/Phelps won 3 Best Show Daytime Emmys. He canceled "Search for Tomorrow" in December 1986, after it was on NBC for 4 years. Frons previously canceled "Search For Tomorrow", while working as the head for CBS Daytime. Frons appeared as God on "Santa Barbara" in a dream sequence involving Mason Capwell (Lane Davies). He brought the short-lived half-hour soap "Generations" (1989–1991) to midday NBC. Immediately after it was canceled BET network licensed it & rebroadcast it several times. "Generations" was a landmark show in that it was two families, one African-American & one white. Created by Sally Sussman-Morina, it was owned by NBC. John Rohrbeck, Vice President of Daytime Programming, 1991–1996. Gave "Another World" another shot to improve ratings and offered them an extension on their contract and instead first, "Generations" was canceled in 1991 and then "Santa Barbara", 2 years later in 1993. Don Ohlmeyer, Vice President of Daytime Programming, 1996–1999. Ohlmeyer was one of the masterminds behind NBC’s “Must See TV” lineup, which included programs like "Seinfeld", "Friends", "ER" and "Law and Order". Famed Television Producer, Executive Don Ohlmeyer Dies at 72 (adweek.com) Sheraton Kalouria, Vice President of Daytime Programming, 2000–2005. Appointed in the spring of 2000 to replace outgoing longtime Senior Vice President Susan Lee. Kalouria had previously worked at ABC Daytime. Kalouria's new job with NBC Daytime was to head development and strategic planning for "Days of Our Lives" and "Passions". Jeff Zucker, President of Daytime Programming, 2000–2007. Canceled the soap "Passions" and sent it to Direct TV's 101 Channel in 2007. Made a now infamous statement about "Days of Our Lives" in 2007 that the show would most likely not "continue past 2009". Annamarie Kostura came from being the "One Life to Live" Casting Director to join NBC in 1990 as Director of Daytime Programs & Casting. In 1995 promoted to Vice President of Daytime Programs & Casting. Ultimately promoted again in 2005 to have supervision over both "Sunset Beach" & "Passions", Vice President of Daytime Programming until June 2007. Bruce Evans, Senior Vice President of Daytime Programming, 2007–2021. Promoted to Senior Vice President on Monday, February 4, 2007. Mr. Evans had already been working at NBC in different positions for several years by the time of his promotion. Mr. Evans previously served as Vice President, Current Series, since July 2000. Among the shows he oversaw included "Heroes", "Law & Order", "Medium", "Crossing Jordan", and "Just Shoot Me". He served as a Director of Primetime series since July 1998 and a manager of Primetime since August 1997. In August 1996, he began his program executive career at NBC as an Entertainment Associate after his job as a coordinator in the same department. In his new position, Evans handles many of NBC's current series as well as having responsibility as head of the daytime programming that is included under Current Series, while also serving as a liaison for Paula Madison, Executive Vice President, Diversity, NBC Universal & Company Officer, General Electric, and her staff as they look to increase diversity in front of as well as behind the camera on NBC's shows. At the time of his promotion, NBC was a month away from deciding on whether to keep or drop "Days of Our Lives", however the opportunity was seen as the ticket to installing new life in the show. "Days" was renewed. As part of a content restructure, Bruce Evans was let go from NBC in February 2021. The daytime division was folded into current programming under the supervision of Jeff Meyerson, President of Scripted Content. (Recently someone mentioned not knowing NBC leadership at a given time. I created this document. Sources: my own notes, my own essays, "Her Stories" by Elana Levine, both "Soap Opera Encyclopedias", an article on Soaps She Knows, an article on AdWeek & Wikiwand. Wikiwand had some errors which I corrected. Specifically it had Ohylmeyer canceling AW, etc. which is wrong. Susan D. Lee did all of that in April 1999.)

I have called it a cockamamie idea. I stick with that. I think it's an awkward time length. Too long for a show. Not long enough for a movie. Probably needs an intermission. Not going to get one. I believe that Fred Silverman was a genius but this was an example of his folly not his brilliance. I tend to think that the half hour was the best for soaps creatively. They managed with the hour. They got into real trouble with 90 minutes. I also place AW's epic failure hour & a half show as one of the top 5 worst things that happened on or to a soap!

ClassicDAYS Marlena Mourns Trista https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnfUVhai258&list=PLKmA2lMn5BKs-vZ9yFwJjD4qyfHAcAb1v&index=5&t=6s

I think many fans hated Ben the redeemed serial killer because they believe in redemption in some cases but not all. Then Alex came on & he wears or plays with glasses, showed off lots of pretty panties for 3 weeks & was pretty much a male chauvinist pig with obnoxious nicknames for his elders. He nailed anything female with a pulse. Then he acted out straight male fantasies with Challie. Fell in love for the first time & became even more obnoxious. Ben & Alex use the same facial expressions. Ben & Alex have the same body language. He's not good to or with other men. He's not good to or with women. Just like Ben, he reveres Marlena. It was appalling that he let on to a client that Maggie was old & inexperienced. The whole Alex-gate thing with Stephanie when Kayla died was so out of bounds. Then you have to ask yourself if you like RSW at all. If I did long ago I sure don't now. They're just digging a hole.

Well, I am interested in reading your thoughts, like always but I don't agree. I'm on record saying that the 90 minute show was a cockamamie idea! I find it to be without merit. And, worse than not being good, I think it's actually bad. It's an awkward amount of time. Longer than a show. Shorter than a movie. Long enough to need an intermission. Not long enough to get one. I believe that Fred Silverman was a genius but this is one of his follies, not an example of his brilliance. Also, I think Pete had plots. I don't think DAYS had stronger plots necessarily. I don't think the Hortons would have made a too-long show more palatable. I think DAYS would have failed with it, too. I have a sense that Silverman had his eye on THE DOCTORS too. Meaning he was thinking high concept "take over the whole afternoon with 3-90 minute blocks"! I think that's a sign that sometime the leadership is crazy. They did an hour-long trial show with DOC. But, I appreciate your thinking outside the box! Besides this quote from this book I bought, there's a newspaper article I will attach here. It's even crazier as it says AW's 90 minute show was a success.

(During 1978-79) "NBC was the only network to cancel a soap, "For Richer, For Poorer," and it expanded one of its hour-long daytime dramas to 90 minutes. It appears the expansion of "Another World," hasn't set a trend. CBS and ABC aren't planning to convert any of their current soaps to 90-minute marathons. The NBC experiment was looked upon as a failure by the two competing networks and they could be right. "Another World" wasn't leading its time period in the ratings as an hour show, so the move to 90 minutes was implemented with the hope of building an audience that would stay for the whole hour and a half. It did not work out that way. In any event, NBC has been toying with the idea of turning "Days of our Lives" into a 90-minute entry." Steven H. Scheuer. (1979). Daytime Programs. TV: The Television Annual 1978-79. Collier Macmillan Publishers. p. 124.

(During 1978-79) "NBC was the only network to cancel a soap, "For Richer, For Poorer," and it expanded one of its hour-long daytime dramas to 90 minutes. It appears the expansion of "Another World," hasn't set a trend. CBS and ABC aren't planning to convert any of their current soaps to 90-minute marathons. The NBC experiment was looked upon as a failure by the two competing networks and they could be right. "Another World" wasn't leading its time period in the ratings as an hour show, so the move to 90 minutes was implemented with the hope of building an audience that would stay for the whole hour and a half. It did not work out that way. In any event, NBC has been toying with the idea of turning "Days of our Lives" into a 90-minute entry." Steven H. Scheuer. (1979). Daytime Programs. TV: The Television Annual 1978-79. Collier Macmillan Publishers. p. 124.

(During 1978-79) "NBC was the only network to cancel a soap, "For Richer, For Poorer," and it expanded one of its hour-long daytime dramas to 90 minutes. It appears the expansion of "Another World," hasn't set a trend. CBS and ABC aren't planning to convert any of their current soaps to 90-minute marathons. The NBC experiment was looked upon as a failure by the two competing networks and they could be right. "Another World" wasn't leading its time period in the ratings as an hour show, so the move to 90 minutes was implemented with the hope of building an audience that would stay for the whole hour and a half. It did not work out that way. In any event, NBC has been toying with the idea of turning "Days of our Lives" into a 90-minute entry." Steven H. Scheuer. (1979). Daytime Programs. TV: The Television Annual 1978-79. Collier Macmillan Publishers. p. 124.

@robbwolff You were right about where you saw it so your brain is doing A-okay! It is now documented. Thanks! (During 1978-79) "NBC was the only network to cancel a soap, "For Richer, For Poorer," and it expanded one of its hour-long daytime dramas to 90 minutes. It appears the expansion of "Another World," hasn't set a trend. CBS and ABC aren't planning to convert any of their current soaps to 90-minute marathons. The NBC experiment was looked upon as a failure by the two competing networks and they could be right. "Another World" wasn't leading its time period in the ratings as an hour show, so the move to 90 minutes was implemented with the hope of building an audience that would stay for the whole hour and a half. It did not work out that way. In any event, NBC has been toying with the idea of turning "Days of our Lives" into a 90-minute entry." Steven H. Scheuer. (1979). Daytime Programs. TV: The Television Annual 1978-79. Collier Macmillan Publishers. p. 124.

So, Monty was in place at GH but neither Arley nor Babbin were yet at OLTL & AMC, respectively, were they? Who preceded them? Apr-May '80

It was really something. And, Mitch just at that point with no warning or foreshadowing or anything did a complete 180. He had been helping Janice & he ended up helping Rachel get Mac to some medical care! Mitch gave me whiplash then.

Well, it climbed up and then there came the 90 minute show and Pete Lemay quit & it did the reverse of the climb.

Thanks for the info. That's very interesting. Someone asked Deidre about Sheri on her FB page with regard to the show now, etc. & in reply she showed that picture. Dadgum.

Chad was ready this morning! He shoved him really hard. A punch could have followed up nicely.

Okay, still sorry for the hassle! Hate spam. Hate scammers! Awful way to start a fresh week.