Soaps In The Time of Crisis

[Faulkner]

Coronation Street will resume filming June 9.

https://deadline.com/2020/06/coronation-street-to-resume-filming-next-week-1202948003/

[Faulkner]

Gov. Newsom says film/TV production in California can resume Friday (June 12), but with enhanced safety protocols that need to be approved by county health officials.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/california-gov-gavin-newsom-reveals-tv-film-production-can-restart-june-12-1295861

[DramatistDreamer]

On a show like Y&R, considering the fact that Nikki, Victor and Jack's portrayers are all in the over 60s category and any entertaining storyline possibilities for Nick, Sharon and Phyllis have been pretty much exhausted (at least for the writers that Y&R seems to hire), I wonder whether this will force the show to focus on their younger set and write entertaining storylines for them.

[DramatistDreamer]

This is another "Is it just me or...?" type of thoughts but when I read this article, why was my first thought about how a fictional cosmetic company (Jabot Cosmetics) and boutique (Fenmore's) would handle these challenges.  This is how I know I grew up on soaps!

 

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-sephora-and-ulta-the-pandemic-is-changing-the-makeup-buying-experience/ar-BB15hxCm

[victoria foxton]

 

  

  

[SamandWillowFan]

https://www.google.com/amp/s/variety.com/2020/biz/news/los-angeles-county-film-tv-production-restart-1234630759/amp/
Los Angeles County is going to give the ok for filming. I wonder how long it will take the soaps to implement the new protocols.

[Faulkner]

From THR: TV Execs, Writers Grapple With COVID-19 Era Scripts: "We're Not Going to Be Able to Shoot It, So Don't Write It"

 

“Showrunners are being asked to cut extras, reconsider sex and fight scenes and, in some cases, shorten page counts.“

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/top-tv-execs-grapple-covid-19-script-changes-were-not-going-be-shoot-it-dont-write-it-1297752

[Darn]

 

Soaps have been doing this for YEARS now! Always ahead of the curve daytime is.

[Gray Bunny]

 

For sure. Soaps haven't been about "love in the afternoon" for years because all the characters are too busy plotting to kill one another. 

[GLATWT88]

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[Dion]

I suppose we should be grateful that they're not planning on using barbie dolls, cling wrap and perspex screens like in that SNL sketch @Vee posted here 3 months ago!

Edited June 11, 2020 by Dion

[GLATWT88]

I wonder what everyone would think if they did podcast/radio episodes to keep the story going when the new episodes ran out.

[Antoyne]

Tell that to DAYS. All Ciara and Ben do is make out and have sex 

[Vee]

I'll write the OLTL podcast revival to-night! Send me my direct deposit and let me fire people for breathing wrong like Irna did.

 

[amybrickwallace]

 

I'd watch it.

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