When I was a kid, I used to love watching how soap operas did Christmas because they made such a big deal about the holiday.
This year, Peacock wants to up the game, so they are giving us Days of our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas on December 16th.
In the telemovie, Will Horton writes Christmas stories about his friends and family based on some of their favorite movie plotlines. However, they will all be filled with lots of twists and turns that only DOOL has perfected.
The special stars Deidre Hall, Alison Sweeney, Eileen Davidson, Jackée Harry, Drake Hogestyn, Camila Banus, Chandler Massey, Ari Zucker, Raven Bowens, Eric Martsolf, Billy Flynn, Paul Telfer, Lindsay Arnold, Lucas Adams, Carson Boatman, Greg Rikaart, Dan Feuerriegel, Zach Tinker and Blake Berris.
This is the second special that Peacock has done with the daytime drama. Back in September, they did a week-long limited series Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem. I cannot wait to see what they do next and who they bring back for it.
For weeks, there have been rumors that Steve Burton was out of General Hospital because he wasn’t going to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Today, he confirmed that his days as Jason Morgan are done. At least as long as they have the vaccine mandate.
In his Instagram video, he said that no one “should lose their livelihood over this.” Call me crazy, but I don’t think anyone should lose their life over COVID-19 if they can get a shot that could prevent that. Not only could it prevent it for them, but also people who really have medical reasons on why they can’t get the shot.
I am sick of the personal freedom bullsh!t. It is not all about you; it is about caring about others besides yourself. Let’s say Burton or Ingo Rademacher got the virus (Burton did), went to work, gave it to a co-worker, and that co-worker died. How would they Feel? We need to protect ourselVes and the people that are vulnerable to the virus.
Stop being selfish, and get the shot. I am fully vaccinated with the booster, and I am fine. So are my friends and family. I didn’t hug my favorite person in the world for over a year until I was vaccinated because she was 7, and I didn’t want to do anything that could harm her. We don’t know how each individual is going to react to the virus. Some are fine, and others don’t survive. I think of the ones that don’t. Plus, we don’t know the long-term effects. How long did it take doctors to discover that Shingles comes from Chickenpox? COVID-19 is too new for us to understand the actual dangers of the virus. It terrifies what we are going to learn about this coronavirus of the next few decades.
Kudos to General Hospital for being the only soap opera that has the mandate. Days of our Lives, The Bold and the Beautiful, and The Young and the Restless need to do better. Sony, what are you waiting for?
Days of our Lives recently had a successful week-long limited series on Peacock, and next month they are getting a Christmas movie.
According to the press release, “Will Horton as he writes a screenplay before his Christmas Eve deadline. Using everyone’s favorite feel-good holiday movie tropes, he creates a festive story based on his family and friends in Salem — but with several twists and turns you’ll never see coming.”
I am sure there will be some blasts from the past in the holiday telemovie. But who they are, we don’t know yet.
Days of our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas debuts on December 16th.
On September 6th, Days of Our Lives is getting a limited series over on Peacock called Beyond Salem. The week-long event is bringing back several familiar faces that we haven’t seen in Salem for a while.
One of those faces is so iconic to the show that one of her was not enough. Therefore, we will get Lisa Rinna as Billie Reed and RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Jackie Cox as, well, we don’t know, but they look like her, whichever she, she is.
Rinna is not the only star to return. She will be joined by Charles Shaughnessy as Shane Donovan, Thaao Penghlis as Tony DiMera, Leann Hunley as Anna DiMera, Christie Clark as Carrie Brady, Austin Peck as Austin Reed, Greg Rikaart as Leo Stark, Chandler Massey as Will Horton, Zachary Atticus Tinker as Sonny Kiriakis and Peter Porte as Kyle Graham.
What is bringing them all together? Over a long weekend, John (Drake Hogestyn) & Marlena (Deidre Hall) travel to Zurich, Ben & Ciara have a romantic getaway in New Orleans, Chad visits some old friends in Phoenix, and Abe (James Reynolds), Paulina (Jackée Harry), Lani, and Eli vacation in Miami. All find themselves embroiled in a mystery involving stolen jewels which, in the wrong hands, could cause dire consequences for Salem. It’s a race against time for ISA agent Billie Reed as she crosses the globe in search of this missing treasure.
Hopefully, if this does well, we get more week-long specials from the Soap Opera on the streaming service. So, make sure to stream new episodes every day the week of September 6th.
It has been over 30 years since 227 ended its run. However, the brilliant comedic timing between Jackée Harry and Marla Gibbs is still going strong. The two actresses have been reunited on Days of our Lives, and it is like no time has passed between them.
Gibbs still knows how to give Harry crap, and Jackée can still give her that bitch please look. Something our television screens have been missing.
Thankfully, we don’t have to miss it anymore because the neighbors are no family, as in mother and daughter.
I hope that Gibbs’ short term stint turns into something longer, just like it did for Harry.
The 90-year-old’s first appearance on the Soap Opera is on August 17th, and I can’t wait because trouble has made its way to Salem.
