NBC ‘Days of Our Lives’ (DOOL) spoilers finds that head writer Ron Carlivati teases some new spoilers for the hit NBC soap while admitting that the show is finally back on track. Here’s what he has to say!
Realizing that this season is going to be like no other, DOOL head writer Ron Carlivati told Soap Opera Digest in a new interview that while the writing team wants to keep things the same, just for the sake of familiarity, he also knew that changes had to be made, seeing how we all live in a new Covid-19 world.
NBC ‘Days of Our Lives’ Spoilers: Head Writer Ron Carlivati Says The Soap Is Back On Track
Carlivati told the publication, “When they called up and said, ‘It’s time to start gearing up again,’ what [Creative Consultant] Ryan Quan and I did was take a look at the episodes that were all written before we stopped production, because we had somewhere in the neighborhood of 30 or 40 scripts that were already done. So we needed to take some time before we started new episodes to make adjustments based on trying to social-distance people, maybe you don’t need this hug, maybe you don’t need this handshake, maybe you don’t need five people in this scene, maybe you only need three, and mostly those went pretty smoothly. We have our editor, Fran Newman, who jumped in and is making the scripts Covid-friendly and she’s working hand in hand with production.”
With a few schedule reshuffles, Ron Carlivati was relieved that he and the rest of the writing team still had some time on their hands to make sure that the storylines continued where they last left off before the pandemic shut down production back in mid-March.
He added, “And once we did that, the other thing for me was that we were supposed to not air for two weeks because of the Olympics and then that didn’t happen, so right around Ciara and Ben’s wedding, there was the kaboom, and there was going to be a two-week break before you knew what happened. Once the Olympics didn’t happen, they pulled up all of those shows, so the result of that would be that our anniversary show would be a few weeks off, Thanksgiving would probably air on November 5th or something, Christmas would air at the beginning of December, and while we could have just said, “The audience will understand,’ it didn’t sit well with me. I pitched that we insert some shows into October that would put everything back on track. We had to come up with a mini-storyline that didn’t feel too jarring for the audience, that fit in, and when it ended, all the holidays and dates were back in place. There is a sort of seven- or eight-day incident that happens in Salem that was not there originally. But I’m really happy with what we came up with; it doesn’t feel like filler to me. There’s some exciting stuff that happens, there are some people who pop up who are unexpected and it’s a fun little story that does have some real consequences for the show.”
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