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KC talked about being called into NBC’s offices and told if the show was going to continue (he had already discovered that he couldn’t make any deals with abc or cbs), he had to do I believe it was another 30% cut in the budget on top of the previous cuts from other years. They weren’t getting the advertising rates they had and the head company had dropped by like 60% in value. He didn’t want to have to lose the entire family legacy so he made the deal. Because they were the highest priced, he had to let them go with the hope of being able to bring them back if/when the economy improved. He also had to get rid of Kaylah and Patch. People behind the scene also had to take pay cuts along with the actors. The younger cast is a lot cheaper. He decided to keep Bo and Hope as the show’s supercouple (regulars), to bring the show into the future. He figured they could bring the most story into the show, thus keeping it going. (That also explains why Bo had to disappear when they realized that they had worked him beyond his ‘contract’ hours). They are also shooting 1 1/2 shows for each day they work, which also cut down on the hours of the regular workers and actors. Gary Tomlin, producer?, has speeded things up so that things get done faster- less rehearsal time etc.
Anyone have any other comments?
to keep Marlena and John…I would have prefered them to take up a small collection from each of us (desperate times come desperate measures)…hold bake sales – Maggie makes cookies, sell off Day’s memorablila (sp) something recognizable from a Days set, Hope could auction off her earings, hold a lunchon with your favorite character raffle – winner highest bidder – 2nd place gets lunch with Vivian, 3 place gets lunch with Kate…etc., I know these are all rediculous but for Salem to be so turned upside down to loose those two Marlena and John was just awful for us fans…still to this day it is. I just think something else could have been done, where there’s a will there’s a way! It would be a grand day if they could keep it under wraps if J&M were returning – and they both meet up at the pier on a foggy night…
OMG!!! The pier on a foggy night….that would be AWESOME!!! That was my favorite scene from any of the episodes ever!
as they were both getting very high salaries from what I had read. Not to justify the choice he made but it sounded like it would have been either Bope that got let go or J/M and Patch/Kayla too. He decided that Bope would be the couple to bring the show forward for the next years. Let’s face it the network views anyone over 35 as ‘old’ and not prime advertising focus. I still don’t get why they think only 35 and younger people buy the products being advertised. His comment about the jewels of the show: Alice (gone now), Julie (not on much, Caroline (also not on much), Maggie (on the most of the group), Hope, Marlena (off the show), Kate (?), and Kayla (off the show too). It’s weird that he talks about them that way but also cut them. Then you have the guys he loved: Tom (gone), Bo, Patch (gone), John (gone), Stefano, Fauxman (who is his son’s godfather and a long time friend), and sorry I’m forgetting if there were any others maybe Victor. Vivian and Victor were mentioned in the trouble-makers. He views Vivian as nuts. It was interesting to hear that Caroline and Tom Horton were very close to his late mother. Tom even officiated at his mother’s funeral.
Loved your idea of a bake sale! Alice’s donuts for $5 a piece to save the characters you love? lol
and Bo (Peter) pushed and passed 50 a long time ago – so I guess that means that Bo and Hope are going to be "Alice and Tom" in a few short years? Will we have to have a bake sale then to save them? Or are we suppose to "forget" that Bope are grand parents now too?
I pushed 50 about the same time Bo did and let me tell you…Older folks have the real advertising money – the kiddies just have mommy and daddy’s dollars – I just wish the PTB in advertising would realize that.
I think there are a lot more of us "oldsters" watching the show than the younger crowd (teenyboppers) and the show’s ratings go up when Victor and Stefano have a lot of good lines to say instead of some of the drivel that Stephanie spews…IMHO.
Yes, he’s right, Vivi is certifiable "nuts" but that’s why we love her. I’ve been watching just about 20 years now (started late in life compared to some of you all), but one thing I am looking forward to in the nursing home in a few quickly gone-by fast years – is Bo being Victor’s age now and drooling over him…
with the comment about the older people spending but I guess they see it more as the younger ones spending "recklessly" or on the "female products" that they advertise, "baby" products, etc.? Most of the young mothers I know work way too many hours to even ‘record’ the show, never mind watch it live.
Yes, Bope are in the upper age group but, they have Stefano, Vivian, Victor, Kate, Maggie, Julie, Caroline, and Doug that are much further up on the scale. They seem to want to attract younger college age viewers for the future survival much as they did in the glory days of the 80s when they added all the young (at the time) group- Bope, Kayla, Patch, Melissa, Jenn, Jack. I think right now he’s trying to relive the glory days of the 80s, his first years with the show, while still keeping a lot of the long time viewers from the 80s. JMHO
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