NBC ‘Days of Our Lives’ (DOOL) spoilers finds that Executive Producer Kenneth Robert Corday opens up about bringing the show back in this new Covid-19 era that everyone is living in. Here’s what he has to say.
Speaking to Soap Opera Digest in a new interview, Ken made it no secret that both he and the cast and crew felt incredibly relieved when they realized they had at least six months worth of new episodes still available when the pandemic forced production to shut down all across the board for the film and entertainment industry.
While other daytime television shows such as General Hospital, The Young and the Restless and The Bold and the Beautiful ran out of new material in late Spring, Days of Our Lives managed to go strong all summer long.
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Ken told the publication, “Well, I don’t want to speak in clichés but like the three little pigs, we built our house out of brick and that was only because we had to. Financially, we couldn’t just produce five episodes a week and take weeks off.
We had to produce eight a week for 39 weeks and take 13 off. We didn’t have the luxury of staying close to air; we had to be seven months ahead. So when we shut down March 15, we were golden until October 15. And then the Olympics were pre-empted so that backed us up two weeks and here we are, going back at it for shows that will air in October.”
And while the other soaps had to rush back into filming, Ken was also relieved that he and the cast had some time on their hands.
He said, “Late June, right about the time of the Emmy Awards. We started working with the CDC [Centers for Disease Control And Protection] and L.A. County Health about what the protocol would be, which is extremely rigorous. And now we’re ready to go. We have rapid testing, so we can test people and 15 minutes later, know whether they’re positive or negative, which is a lot better than three or four days of waiting. The studio is much more protected, we’re in a bubble, Plexiglas here and there, we have to be in surgical masks, they can’t be cloth masks, they have to be changed every four hours, we have to do spit tests, or now a nasal test, at least once a week for staff, daily for actors. It’s rigorous. And expensive.”
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