DAYS: Behind the Scenes, Articles/Photos

[Bright Eyes]

Everything old can't become new again until it dies, so I'm all for cancellation. I do think DAYS will be the next soap to go regardless. 

[kalbir]

If Days is on the air as of Monday April 27, 2020, it will move past As the World Turns and become the third longest running daytime drama on US network television.

[will81]

Was the whole point of filming so far in advance soley to save money?

 

Is there any other reason people can think of as to why they would be closing the gap, besides cancellation?

 

Only thing I can think of, and it is a long shot is NBC/Sony still want the show and closing the gap was done simply because taping in advance didn't lead to any real cost cutting/savings and filming in advance was too chaotic from a creative/production stand point and not worth it. Then again, this would seemingly work in favour of cancellation.

 

I honestly can't see why else they would do this now.

 

 

[Contessa Donatella]

Good question. Good points.

[lucaslesann23]

its in such bad shape too with the non existant budget.
But i still dont want to lose it.
i think its got one more year 

all i heard was that The network told them not to film so far ahead.

[will81]

^^^ If it was NBC asking them to close the gap, then that is definitely not a good sign. It sounds like they have plans and as has been mentioned, it would be easier to replace Days if they don't have several months of episodes waiting to be aired. 

 

 

[victoria foxton]

Paul Dini - "Days of Our Lives" scene that inspired "Harley Quinn" character from "Batman"

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[Contessa Donatella]

Thanks for that clip! Loved Sorkin! Didn't she either write or produce

Edited October 15, 2019 by Donna B
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[Contessa Donatella]

I've finished with the Jean Rouverol book and turned to a text that Corday contracted for. Maureen Russell was a fan and a contract historian as well as being a RATSer. She shows a part of her Thanks & Acknowledgments as Thanks to Days fans everywhere but especially RATSers Julie, Laura, the Peel sisters and Joanna. We were the peel sisters. Some of us still are. We came from a storyline where John Black was a jewel thief with a woman partner, who reminded us of The Avengers - Emma Peel & Patrick McNee. That's how I got to be shallotpeel, from garlic peel.  Etc. The text is 273 pgs.

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[Contessa Donatella]

Legend has it that one day Irna Phillips, Ted Corday, and Allen Chase were sitting on a porch in Southampton when they came up with the idea for "Days of Our Lives." The true story is richer, more varied, and, like a true soap opera, more complex. From 1935 to 1940 Betty Corday worked for Young & Rubicam, advertising agency, where she produced two soap operas for NBC Radio: "Pepper Young's Family" and "Young Doctor Malone." After the end of the war in 1945, Ted worked solely in radio soap opera, directing for Irna, including her "Guiding Light" which was the first to move to TV.

[Contessa Donatella]

The front porch story is cute but there were probably a lot of discussions before and after that. They were sitting around talking about what kinds of soaps were on the air, that most soaps were urban-based, that most soaps were hospital settings, what kinds of soaps were not on the air, etc., So, no one had done one in color, so they said, let's do one in color. And, then, they said, let's do one in a rural setting. Finally they said, let's do one unlike any other that's being done. And, with that, they had Tom & Alice & children & grandchildren & a country doctor & a film actor to play Tom. They began with an epigraph, the familiar one and an hourglass, the familiar one.

[slick jones]

Good gawd does everything you see need to be posted.

 

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[Bright Eyes]

 

Especially in three separate posts. So much more annoying to skip through them. 

[Contessa Donatella]

The legacy of individuals at "Days of our Lives" were Ted Corday, Betty Corday, Ken Corday, Wes Kenney, Bill Bell, Pat Falken Smith, ... Bill Hayes said about Wes Kenney, "that he was a bit of a genius. He would watch a scene play and then come over and tell you one thing and turn your dial one notch this way and your co-star's dial one notch that way, and the scene would suddenly go WHAM and just take off. I saw him do it over and over again." Bill Bell was HW at DOOL until he created his own soap Y&R. PFS took over HW duties. PFS left in 1977 and the show went through 3 HWs: Ann Marcus, Ruth Flippen Broks and Elizabeth Harrower. Producer Wes Kenney left and Al Rabin came in. Many HWs came & went. Nina Laemmle, Michele Poteet-Lisanti, Gray Tomlin, PFS came back, MDP tok over, etc. They said that "Days of Our Lives" was the story of a family.

[slick jones]

Wow I did not know that. How interesting.