Jump to content

DAYS: Resumed production on Tue. 5/4, no official announcement yet from NBC


Recommended Posts

  • Replies 46
  • Created
  • Last Reply

Top Posters In This Topic

  • Members

 

They likely do not make a guarantee of exact pay. A range is not out of the ordinary. As well, Corday is working with a budget in mind, so Corday would have reasonable knowledge of what kind of money he'd be working with overall - the talent budget is only a part of the overall production budget, and note that Deadline said If-Come deals were being made with 'key' cast members - not everyone. There is likely talent who will be given 'take it or leave it' deals if the show is renewed and others who Corday does not feel need to be secured in advance.  

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I wish Sony would just sell their interest in the show. Sony has always felt like the problem to me with both DAYS and Y&R.

 

I'm assuming NBC wants to keep the show (Today isn't setting the news world on fire, let's be honest so no more expansion; they have no replacements in development). But just how much lower can the damn budget go? lol 

 

And if a game show ever did replace it, the show would be a 'name' not some new development.

Edited by KMan101
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Webmaster

 

Sony is bullish when it comes to getting their shows renewed by the networks. Has been for a long time. So bullish they are literally throwing incentives at the networks to keep their shows on the air even when they make little profit, including sharing ownership, if necessary, for a program (see: The Goldbergs for ABC, The Blacklist for NBC). If they are losing money and make absolutely no profit off of DAYS then I can't blame them for cutting and cutting where they have to. If the ratings continue to dwindle for "Days of our Lives" and the show is unprofitable, who is the show being made for then? A business needs money to function and profit from other programs can't continue footing the bill just so fans of a 57-year-old show are happy.

 

For instance, for the longest time this website had been in the red and I could have shut it down at any minute because there were many times where I couldn't afford to keep it going. I've had to make adjustments where I could to cut costs without sacrificing the reader/subscriber experience. If I didn't have a source of personal income outside of the site, and had the ability to use some of it for the site, the SON Community and the main portion of Soap Opera Network would have been shuttered a long time ago. Essentially, it was on borrowed time. This is the same thing for "DAYS." How much more can Sony do to find ways to make a dollar on a product that is losing its value the longer it is on? Unless there is a huge increase in social media buzz, magazine covers or similar due to a huge storyline that resonates with the masses, this show is just going to continue chugging along on a bare bones budget (worse than a high school play) just so no one gets blamed by the fans for canceling such an iconic show.

 

@KMan101 Apologies. My response above veered off of why I quoted your post. Was mostly a long rant.

 

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...
  • Members
Tamara Braun (Ava) confirmed that "Days" was back in production today. As reported last month, "Days" completed taping its current contract on April 16 and had went dark pending renewal. With "Days" back in production today, all signs point to a renewal, but NBC has yet to confirm the news.
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Unfortunately, your content contains terms that we do not allow. Please edit your content to remove the highlighted words below.
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • Which could make sense , except that we have seen Mariah function for years w/o any real residue pain from her upbringing. Josh decides to randomly make it a thing, when a good writer might foreshadow that for months. It's not like he's just arrived at the show. He's been there for years . Everything seems to be thought out only a few weeks ahead. It's like Phyllis all freaky from being kidnapped when she has done a million other things that didn't seem to bother her at all.
    • Unrelated, sort of, but he looks absolutely nothing like Amanda Setton or Dominic Zamprogna so it's kind of hilarious they decided to make Gio their kid.  It's very clear this was not the original origin story for Gio when they cast him. He is a very handsome guy though. 
    • I tend to agree, although going back to OLTL, Frank has so often cast guys who are meant to be attractive yet come across as cold and dead, I'm surprised he managed to get one who has a bit of a pulse.
    • For all I care, the boy can parade around in a g-string.  It won't make this show suck any less.
    • AMC was about a decade later so things may have changed by then, although maybe they never approached her anyway. She joined Santa Barbara in 1985, when they didn't seem interested in bringing back Hope. SB ended in late 1992, so JFP could have asked her back, but I doubt she did. For as much as JFP clearly had some use for Rick Hearst given that she hired him on GH and kept him around as often as she could, I don't think she ever used Alan-Michael well. I can't see Elvera as Delia, but she could have worked well as Faith - she had a glimpse of a strong personality alongside warmth, which only one Faith ever managed (Catherine Hicks).
    • IIRC, FC reruns aired for awhile on Lifetime, way before the network became the Women in Peril Channel, lol.
    • PAM!! YES!!! You have jogged my memory. She worked at Cedars. She's mentioned in a write-up of Tim's history in the show. It says she was a nurse, but I seem to remember she was a secretary at Cedars, working for either Ed or Sarah. (It's almost 50 years ago, so I definitely could be wrong). I'm certain she was an unwed mother. I recall reading an interview with the actress, Maureen Silliman (I looked it up, that's her correct name, LOL). She started on the show just before the Dobsons started writing it. She was shocked to get a script that said her character had been pregnant since she hit town. I remember a scene where she told Tim she was going to leave SF for a better job for her daughter's sake (really, I think she was upset he was serious about Rita). I don't remember them getting married and leaving town, but according to "Who's Who in Springfield" that's how the characters were written out. Mattson did All My Children for several years, so she might have been persuadable. Here's an interesting factoid I recently learned on these message boards: Elvera Roussel was in the running to play Delia on RH when the show first hit the air. How wild is it that Mattson played Delia for a while? (Though from what I saw of her performance, she was miscast). It's hard to know if Roussel would have been a good Delia. You'd think she would have been better suited to playing Faith Coleridge, but who knows? She didn't get to show a whole lot of range as Hope.
    • If I were to do an EON reboot, I think I would start at the beginning, with Mike Karr leaving the police force in order to begin a new career as an attorney, and dealing with his wife, Sara's, crooked family.
    • I don't know if it was the writing or performance but I felt like we finally got to see the real Ted. Especially the way he talked to Martin when confronted, felt like a completely different person. He felt darker and like a total liar who was mad he got caught. I expected him to be remorseful and want to apologize to each and every family member who he came into contact with but he seemed like he didn't care. It completely changed how I view him and it makes me wonder if this is the direction they're going to take Ted in with the recast.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy