https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgWEDVIFGN0 NATAS announced today that they are postponing the June Daytime Emmy Awards indefinitely.
The awards show has been struggling to find a home for the last few years. I wonder if they will go on after the pandemic is over, and last year’s show was not the last one. I hope it does go on. These are some of the hardest working people in the business and deserve to be recognized.
However, they did say, “Judging continues, and we look forward to announcing our incredibly talented nominees later this Spring. We are working on some interesting alternative ideas for how to best recognize the honorees later this year and will share more details in the weeks ahead.”
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The Young & The Restless is in its 47th season and they are not getting old and tired as I said in the headline. In fact, a day after Days of Our Lives got another season, CBS decided to up the renewal game. They picked up the Soap Opera for not one, not two, not three but four more years. That means the Daytime Drama will be on the air until at least 2024!
All of this is great news! So many people want to write off this genre, but it is still going strong. If you can survive working in Soaps, you can survive anything in Hollywood. It is the best training ground with the most loyal fans. Something so many people overlook. Like ABC did when they canceled All My Children and One Life to Live. Such a stupid mistake. However, just one of their many.
It has been six years since One Life to Live ended, and Linda Dano and Erika Slezak are still friends. Their characters might have had their issues on the soap opera; but in really life they get along.
Not only that, they have not aged a day since they were the soap divas that everyone loved to hate!
PS Never watched OLTL, but of course, I know who these gorgeous women are.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL1PveyLgIo Last week, it was reported that Days of Our Lives released all of the cast members from their contracts as they wait to find out whether or not NBC would pick up the soap opera for another season. Well, Entertainment Weekley says that Executive Producer Ken Corday had some good news for the cast yesterday, the daytime drama will be back for another year.
Who will be back for season 56? Only the sands in the hourglass know that answer for now. Hopefully, they are getting a big ratings boost, thanks to the time jump story, that they will all be back. Even though I have not watched DOOL in years, I want to see it go on and on!
Days of our Lives is just about to wrap up production on its 55th season, but as of now a deal has not been made between NBC and Sony for anymore seasons.
Therefore, TVLine is reporting that everyone in the cast has been released from their contacts.
Does that mean that NBC’s lone soap opera is over? Not quite yet? The show tapes 8 months in advance, so there are episodes into the summer. There is hope that it will be back and production can begin again in March.
Here is the snafu, now that the actors do not have contracts, there is nothing that says to they can get their old salaries back. For the cast members who have been their a long time, their salaries might be greatly reduced. Thus, it will be up to them to decide if they want to come back at a lower rate. Which means some favorites might not return if the show is to return.
As someone who grew up watching DOOL, I hope they find a way to bring it back. Especially since this year time jump off such an interesting concept.
