That is the question isn’t it?  Where is Ken Corday? This is incredibly bad and he was content with making Alarr take some training courses. Ridiculous!

Has anyone seen the list of actors that signed?

I wonder which long term vet it was that said they had experienced this type of behavior so long in their career, and that it was remarkable that it was actually getting worse.

 

 

Just now, titan1978 said:

That is the question isn’t it?  Where is Ken Corday? This is incredibly bad and he was content with making Alarr take some training courses. Ridiculous!

Sitting in his office counting the checks he is not paying to his actors or putting back into the set.

Just now, titan1978 said:

Has anyone seen the list of actors that signed?

Deadline Hollywood is not revealing anything.

Ken is golfing...

Seriously, spoke with someone the other night who knows Ken outside of the genre and I told them to tell him to get off the golf course and fix his show. Either they didn't relay the message or Corday truly doesn't care.

25 cast members signed the petition to oust him.  How large is the cast?  That seems like everyone currently employed signed it.

Edited August 3, 20232 yr by j swift

21 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

Lynn Marie Latham at Y&R comes to mind but it was all anonymous sources at the time and rather discreet. 

There was never anything like this before that I know of. Nothing that went to the outside major trades about a harassment scandal in a very charged time post-MeToo.

Of course Corday has no idea what to do and is freezing up. He can't treat Variety or Deadline like Digest, threaten to pull their access and launch another Plan to Save Days interview where he always pretends to be the dad who went away on a business trip for six months but is home now and all is well.

18 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

 And the fact this is happening again under Sony Pictures Television's control, this shows there is a higher up problem, too.

 

I was trying to imply that but you wrote it out much better, so thank you and I agree. Obviously someone at Sony probably hoped this would blow over…who gave him the written warning again?

6 minutes ago, Errol said:

Ken is golfing...

Seriously, spoke with someone the other night who knows Ken outside of the genre and I told them to tell him to get off the golf course and fix his show. Either they didn't relay the message or Corday truly doesn't care.

He can't care. He cannot, especially if reports claim he's been M.I.A. on that set, while Alarr has been there. He should be ON that damn set throughout the damn day. His mother was a leader for women's rights, and he's on a golf course, essentially pissing on his mother's grave.

6 minutes ago, j swift said:

25 cast members signed the petition to oust him.  How large is the cast?  That seems like everyone currently employed signed it.

It's too bad they didn't at least give a breakdown of men vs women. You'd have to think it was virtually every woman.

8 minutes ago, Errol said:

Ken is golfing...

Seriously, spoke with someone the other night who knows Ken outside of the genre and I told them to tell him to get off the golf course and fix his show. Either they didn't relay the message or Corday truly doesn't care.

Interesting….

Actually I do wonder if Corday isn’t as cognitive as we may think he is these days. His diminished presence as RC has run amok and the rather muted response on the move to Peacock had been noticeable.

6 minutes ago, j swift said:

25 cast members signed the petition to oust him.  How large is the cast?  That seems like everyone currently employed signed it.

Also have to keep in mind of recurring, as well.

4 minutes ago, soapfan770 said:

 

I was trying to imply that but you wrote it out much better, so thank you and I agree. Obviously someone at Sony probably hoped this would blow over…who gave him the written warning again?

Per Deadline Hollwood --

❝ The report was completed by Sony TV and handed over to Corday Prods. as the show’s production company, a source told Deadline. ❞

2 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

 

 

13 minutes ago, j swift said:

25 cast members signed the petition to oust him.  How large is the cast?  That seems like everyone currently employed signed it.

There are 33 contract actors airing this week (taped 6 months ago). So, depending on how many have left or been added in the last few months, the cast size usually hovers around 30-35 at any given time.

9 minutes ago, JAS0N47 said:

There are 33 contract actors airing this week (taped 6 months ago). So, depending on how many have left or been added in the last few months, the cast size usually hovers around 30-35 at any given time.

I knew @JAS0N47 would have the exact number, thank you!

I guess when watching the show, it only feels as if there's just twelve people stuck in three different rooms every episode. 🤔

NBC/PEACOCK AND CORDAY PRODUCTIONS, HERE'S A GREAT CANDIDATE TO BE NAMED CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER....AND AFTER THE CAST & CREW HAS HAD TO SUFFER YEARS OF ABUSE BY A MALE CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER, IT WOULD BE A NICE CHANGE TO HAVE A FEMALE IN CHARGE...

 

"Days" veteran producer Janet Spellman-Drucker, who has been with "Days" for the past 39 years, since 1984. She knows how the show runs better than most anyone else, having spent the past four decades working her way up from answering the phone to becoming senior producer: Watch a 2015 interview with her here:

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWucxYgcWO8 

2 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Where IS the dang union? Why aren't they doing anything about it?

Included in there is the time when they feared retaliation, so they may not have called their union rep.

1 hour ago, j swift said:

I knew @JAS0N47 would have the exact number, thank you!

I guess when watching the show, it only feels as if there's just twelve people stuck in three different rooms every episode. 🤔

Just a NIT, but it says more than 25. 

2 hours ago, titan1978 said:

I wonder which long term vet it was that said they had experienced this type of behavior so long in their career, and that it was remarkable that it was actually getting worse.

If you look at the cast, think of whose been in the business a long time and whose been on multiple shows and the answer can only be one or two people. 

3 hours ago, Errol said:

Albert Alarr is still employed at "Days of our Lives." As a result, 25 cast members have signed a petition calling for his dismissal.

https://deadline.com/2023/08/days-of-our-lives-cast-want-changes-albert-alarr-investigation-details-1235452020

I applaud the cast for sticking together but it's beyond sad that it had to come to this.

I wonder what is going on with Ken Corday. Could it be that he's unwell and that's why he's delegated so much? He was last photographed at the Daytime Emmys last year. It's simply unlike him. He's always intervened when things have gone wrong.