Peacock Orders DAYS Spinoff: Beyond Salem

[Liberty City]

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Edited July 26, 2021 by Liberty City

[Vee]

This should have a link. That's from Deadline. Otherwise I'd never have believed it.

This is very good news for DAYS and the genre.

Edited July 26, 2021 by Vee

[DRW50]

It is good that Billie continues to pop up every now and then.

That's the best I can say. 

[Vee]

I can't speak to the quality, but streaming is the only future this genre has and the sooner shows modernize, the better.

[Liberty City]

I did. The "x" is the link. From Soap Opera Digest. 

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[Vee]

You should relabel it because people are just going to think you screwed up the post somehow.

[Forever8]

I wonder is this a test if the show ever got canceled on the network that the series can  go streaming on Peacock? I will be watching and curious to see if the quality will be any better? I wouldn't mind if they allowed them to swear slightly more. 

[Liberty City]

If it follows the quality of Chad & Abigail in Paris and Last Blast Reunion, then I have zero hopes. As for swearing, let's hope some light swearing happens!

Changed it to say "source" instead to avoid confusion. Thanks. 

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[Faulkner]

These were bad but it could be interesting for soaps on streaming to take on some Marvel Cinematic Universe characteristics. Having a mothership and multiple ongoing spin-off series that characters come in and out of but with a tighter focus. For example, a Will/Sonny/Paul series where they can show more of their lives immersed in a gay community, and people like Kate, Sami, and Gabi can pop in (similar to how characters from GH turned up on PC and GH:NS). It would require a creative visionary with a defter hand than Ken Corday and someone to make sure all the different series cohere narratively under the DAYS umbrella, but it would be an interesting streaming model further down the road. A way of introducing a lot of content using tried-and-tested IP.

[Soapsuds]

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[dragonflies]

Days is literally the only soap that seems to embrace streaming and goes with the flow!!!

[RavenWhitney]

Who the hell wants to tune in to Rinna's (sadly) cosmetically botched lips. When will the execs realize that the nearly non existed soap audience is nearly non existent because they rely on tired, over botox'd altered (frozen) faces from the past.  

[victoria foxton]

I wonder if this will have good production values?

[Gray Bunny]

Wow, this is very encouraging to hear.

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  I don't expect too much in terms of the quality (I'm guessing it'll be on par with the Chabby-in-Paris / Last Blast reunion, with more generous usage of sets), but it shows NBC and Corday are thinking long-range for the future of this show and its survival.  And a very smart move to bring in Lisa Rinna, who's now better known for Real Housewives than DAYS. 

[te.]

That's great. Last Blast and Abby and Chad might not have had amazing production values, but it must've done well enough for Peacock to pick this up. Hopefully getting picked up by Peacock properly and not just the DAYS app means that they can at least have slightly better production values, but I'm not getting my hopes up.