Is Elaine Bromka (Stella Lombard) the wife in the second commercial?

1 hour ago, Franko said:

Is Elaine Bromka (Stella Lombard) the wife in the second commercial?

Yes.

On 12/23/2025 at 5:22 PM, JAS0N47 said:

SOME 2026 SET MYSTERIES...

Here's a sneak peek of a few sets that will be seen (much?) later in 2026...

On the left, some props from George's Kitchen and on the right, a fancy-looking window area.

Thanks for sharing with us.

2026 DAILY AIRDATE GUIDE POSTED...

2026: https://www.jason47.com/days/episodeguide2026.html

1965-2026 Index: https://www.jason47.com/days/episodeguideindex.html

How long did DAYS run in South Africa?

Edited January 20Jan 20 by DRW50

1 hour ago, DRW50 said:

How long did DAYS run in South Africa?

I am not sure how long, maybe @JAS0N47 may have a better answer, but the show was extremely popular. I remember seeing TV ratings from SA in the late 2000s early 2010s and the show was one of the top “Soapies”, ranking high up amongst the original SA soaps, which are some of the highest rated programs in the country. I think it had a later time slot on TV, so it must of had a lot of young people watching. I believe part of the reason it was cancelled was because of government mandates for more local programming. From what I saw from a Google search that reason got it cancelled a few times as it bounced around channels until 2022. I wonder if the show streams there now?

15 minutes ago, cody_1990 said:

I am not sure how long, maybe @JAS0N47 may have a better answer, but the show was extremely popular. I remember seeing TV ratings from SA in the late 2000s early 2010s and the show was one of the top “Soapies”, ranking high up amongst the original SA soaps, which are some of the highest rated programs in the country. I think it had a later time slot on TV, so it must of had a lot of young people watching. I believe part of the reason it was cancelled was because of government mandates for more local programming. From what I saw from a Google search that reason got it cancelled a few times as it bounced around channels until 2022. I wonder if the show streams there now?

Thanks for such a detailed response.

South Africa doesn't seem to be very sentimental about their soapies as pretty much all are gone now.

10 hours ago, cody_1990 said:

I am not sure how long, maybe @JAS0N47 may have a better answer, but the show was extremely popular. I remember seeing TV ratings from SA in the late 2000s early 2010s and the show was one of the top “Soapies”, ranking high up amongst the original SA soaps, which are some of the highest rated programs in the country. I think it had a later time slot on TV, so it must of had a lot of young people watching. I believe part of the reason it was cancelled was because of government mandates for more local programming. From what I saw from a Google search that reason got it cancelled a few times as it bounced around channels until 2022. I wonder if the show streams there now?

Not sure how long it aired in foreign markets. You asking this question reminded me there was a South African fan of the show that used to message me sometimes. Haven't heard from them in a long time.

Good for her!

From the Characters that Fizzled Thread:

Yeah, Bree was never a 'real character' or brought on with any fanfare. She was needed for a plot function, but I figured they must have liked Marie Wilson so much that they either created Summer for her or kept her in mind until a role came up. Summer was truly a cursed character, and I'm still unclear what was even the point of bringing her on. They didn't seem to have a clear vision for whether she was supposed to be a rootable character or a villain, and that whole convoluted thing with having known Daniel previously and then falling for Brady, who had Daniel's heart... it was a complete mess.

@Michael As you may or may not recall, Bree and Summer were introduced by different regimes. Bree was in the tailend of Tomlin / Whitsell and then Summer appeared a year later in that awkward period of February, 2016, right after Chase Jennings raped Ciara Brady on the Horton couch and Dena Higley took a "sabbatical" until the fall. I think Summer arrived in the mix of the turnover as I recall. I imagine the thought was to introduce another female character of a certain age who was related to the canvas, but not necessarily related to everyone on the canvas.

I didn't love Summer, but I didn't like much of the Griffin led months (late February - August, 2016). I think Summer as a con artist and Maggie truly believing that her child was stillborn could have worked, but it would have been a stretch. I also suspect they may have wanted to go the route of having Maggie redeem another schemer, which was effective with Melanie.

Summer was dumped very quickly though (around August 2016) as I think she was the one who had kidnapped Tate Kiriakis because Kate had paid her to do it as an act of revenge on Victor, if I recall correctly.

That 2015-16 "season" with Griffith & Higley was overrun with confusing, short-run character. They hyped up the casting of Dr. Fynn, played by hot Australian Alexander Bruszt, but they clearly had no vision for the character at all besides "hot" -- they introduced him as an old pal of Daniel's, had him hit on Daniel's fiancée Nicole, sent him on a date with Ava Vitali, and then semi-paired him with Kayla for a hot minute before writing him out. Very weird. And that was the same time period in which they brought on the Hernandez parents -- A. Martinez as Eduardo and Alma Delfina as Adriana -- both of whom flamed out quickly, even though Eduardo made a few weird returns. There was also that lady Blanca, some Hernandez family friend whom Adriana wanted to pair up with Rafe to get him away from Hope. They toyed with her and Jordi Vilasuso's Dario (another one for this thread!) for a minute, then unceremoniously wrote her out and shuffled Dario over to Abigail for a terrible immigration story.

Fynn was the result of some contest in Australian meant to hype either the show's return to Australia or some sort of tie in. I don't think there was much thought there other than we have an actor and the hospital crew had been decimated over the last few years. Originally, Fynn was going to be revealed as the drug dealer in some storyline that was going on at the time, but they dumped the filmed scenes and brought back Rory, J.J.'s pal, instead to be the drug dealer.

I thought Eduardo as Paige's father was a neat twist and propelled the Gabi / J.J. pairing. Someone briefly set up the Hernandezes with Eduardo and Dario as the low level criminal family in town and I didn' hate it (I think the show tried something similar a year earlier with Clyde and Ben Weston).

Adriana never really made sense other than to give the show a complete family unit. I think both she and Blanca were nurses, if I recall correctly. I didn't hate Blanca, but I also didn't lose any sleep when she stopped appearing.

There were also a lot of short term characters attached to the younger set stories that I seem to recall from that era. Real Andrews appeared as Jade's father. Zak Henri appeared as Henry, a friend of the younger set who briefly flirted with a much older Paul Narita after Henry had come out to his (offscreen) minister father.

@JAS0N47 Did Bill Rega briefly leave Days and did he also write Y&R

Edited 1 hour ago1 hr by cassadine1991

8 minutes ago, cassadine1991 said:

@JAS0N47 Did Bill Rega briefly leave Days and did he also write Y&R

The staff database lists him as a script writer from 2/70-4/77, 2/79-4/80.

Not sure what he did from 5/77-1/79 but he could have done YR then I guess.

https://www.jason47.com/days/staffdatabase.html