Rumored Peter Reckell last tape day
According to about.days, Peter Reckell's last tape day is July 22nd. The 22nd is a Sunday, so that will probably be revised.
Please keep the comments here on topic. There's no reason to post about Matt Ashford here.
Forget fan faves, more newbies.
ReplyDeleteThese writers can't write for newbies and they don't know how to cast good actors, the only tolerable solution would be to bring back some young characters/actors tied to core characters like Belle, Shawn, Philip and other Chelsea, Max ect...and still they will not fill the hole to characters like Bo or Jack...
ReplyDeleteThey will work better than some new characters like Rafe and his dull family ect.. (characters which were created by this Tomlin crew who is AGAIN in charge) and the problem remain the same : good storytelling has to be there. But without somebody like Bo Brady..well there always will be a problem..same for the lack of Jack who was one of the few really interesting, dynamic characters from all these years on Dool.
DeleteThe show is already unrecognizable even with vets on the show now with nothing to do. What do DAYS have to lose with newbies when the show is already on borrow time? If y&r can be revamp in the 80's when they were on cancellation watch, why can't DAYS?
ReplyDeleteIt's better to have Bo gone then to have Jack back, at least they are written better off screen.
i am just so sad to see him leave once again. he is going to be missed
ReplyDeleteBeing part of "The beloved 18-49 demographic" won't matter if you don't have a rating box or dairy, without them your rating view don't count.
ReplyDeleteAnd, just watching a soap for only vets and quit watching if they are not on is just being a naive fan and why these soaps can't evolve, staying within the status quo is not helping in the long run for marketability of soaps.
The reboot proves that even vets being the focus that they can't carry the show anymore and that the show needs to create new blood to rejuvenate this soap again; in front of the camera and behind the camera. Vets and replacing bad writers with good writers doesn't always equal good business for ratings.
Really? Happy that DAYS is "the way they are" with a 1.9-1.8 with the vets?
ReplyDeleteI guess some fanboys/fangirls will never change. LOL!
No, I don't post on SON but I do look there often. I just don't like the atmosphere over there as it is too elite and grochy to post there.
ReplyDeleteBut, the thing is ratings should matter to you and any fan who wants these vets on the air; without it, the network and the production company (with Sony losing millions and billions of dollars at the moment and over the past couple of years) have no reason to keep the show on the air or keep any of the cast and crew on the show, including your precious veteran actors and crew who have high price tags (even under budget-tighten soaps.) Why should NBC and Sony spend money on a show that is making the same ratings as many of the non-soap programs who have less budgets. Don't take my word for it, Broadcasting and Cable show the syndication ratings every week to prove this point.
Sure the firings of vets from the reboot is due to politics, but at the end of the day, the ratings don't justify the budget to keep Peter, Matt, Patrick, and many vets on the show.
I'm all for taking a soap into the next generation than keeping a rinky-dink model that is pushing this genre off the air.
If you want your vets, the DAYS have to invest in the now and in the future.
JER fan, eh. 'Nuff said. LOL!
ReplyDeleteThink about this, what if, heaven forbidden, that one of your favorite current vet on DAYS were to passes away? Are you going quit watching the show if they are not on anymore after their death or continue watching the soap? Would you want the soap to stay on the air and make creative and casting changes after your favorite actor passed on to deal with the loss?
ReplyDeleteI'm just being a realist, I don't watch or quit just for the actors because that just make me less of a fan of this genre and doing a huge disservice to the show itself; actors and crew come and go all the time but the show itself will always be there (when they can.) I'm for supporting this genre and the show and not allowing the actors to dictate when I should be a fan or not or when should I watch a show or quit, I don't want any actor having that kind of power over me and neither should the fans as well.
I'm not saying that people should stay with the show when its in the toilet, people should watch or quit a soap more than just an actor whether they're a veteran or newbie.
I feel that Peter has more of a chance to move into primetime instead of staying in daytime at the moment.
Anon, the VETS ARE NOT on, hence the 1.8 ratings. All we have on are the idiot twenty-somethingers, plus GG, JS and AS on all the time. Read Jason47's monthly rankings for months. Matthew Ashford, and Missy Reeves are not even on once a week, barely bi-weekly, and when they are, they are pretty much background. Do Drake and Dee really have anything, Drake had the idiocy of Alamainia, which alienated folks, but Dee had nothing, except for the same dialog with Chandler's Will -- she even lost the therapy sessions with Matt's Jack. Peter and Kristian have nothing. And we know that he and Matt are not going to be on the show. Matt out right fired, and Peter strong armed into not renewing his contract, but being forced to take another massive paycut.
ReplyDeleteTheir newbie young people are not working. The only ones Freddie and Chandler cannot save the show. And though there is a potential for a couple and though it is a good thing to have a gay couple on DAYS, Meng is right you cannot just have a gay storyline, you will alienate viewers who also want to see other romances. And there is none. All are either insta-romances, which includes J/J's off screen and unromantic reunion.
But I disagree about those teens you mentioned Alistair, the ratings crashed in the summer of 2002 because of the summer of hell. And that brought in Dena the first time. Since then the show has spiraled rapidly downward. I also remember reading an interview by Frances Reid in 2002 -- though it could have been 2001 -- and she bashed the actors playing those characters, saying that the young actors on the show were not talented or experienced as they used to be. And I agreed.
You are so biased CalAggie87 it is not even funny, AS has certainly not more storylines than DH, her storyline is about Will right now nothing more nothing less.
DeleteOf course you don't talk about AZ storylines who are not needed but are here despite being some dud..Same can be said about the Austin and Carrie stories..
As for the vets in general, i quite like them and think they are needed on the show but it doesn't change they had storylines these past months and yep it was boring and ridiculous for the most part..so try to be at least just a little more objective..maybe blame the writing but not some other characters..it is ludicrous.
p.s: i don't count Jack of course, they clearly butcher his potential stories but he is the only one.