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WGA-East Says Soap Producers Broke Agreement
2 April 2008 (StudioBriefing)
The Writers Guild of America-East claimed Tuesday that ABC and Corday Productions violated the terms of their recent agreement when they refused to hire nine writers working on ABC's All My Children and Corday's Days of Our Lives, which airs on NBC. Filing a petition for arbitration of the dispute, the WGA-East said that in the Feb. 11 agreement ending the writers' strike, the producers agreed that no writer working as a replacement during the strike would be retained when striking writers returned to work. However, in the case of the nine writers referred to in its filing, the WGA said, the companies refused to rehire them when the strike ended and retained the strike staff instead.

Soap Star Hogestyn Files for Restraining Order
4 January 2007 (WENN)
Veteran US soap star Drake Hogestyn has filed a restraining order against a man who attacked him in his California home. The actor, who has played John Black on daytime soap Days Of Our Lives for over 20 years, claims Carl Raymond Cheney assaulted him and "physically tried to exorcise the devil from me." In court papers, obtained by website Tmz.com, Hogestyn reveals he was relaxing at home with his family when Oregon native Cheney found his way onto his property and charged at the actor's daughter. Hogestyn reveals Cheney was carrying a Bible and screaming, "Where is he? I will cast him out!" The actor adds Cheney was "calling me by my stage name... recalling past storylines, especially the demonic possession of several years past. But more important, he thought I was dead, because the show that aired on Friday 12.29.06 left my character John Black shot and presumed dead." Hogestyn spent 10 minutes grappling with Cheney until he and his 25-year-old son Ben were able to restrain him and call the police. When WENN went to press, Cheney was in custody at the Los Angeles County Jail on $150,000 bail.

Missing 'Passions'? Get It on the 'Net
7 November 2006 (StudioBriefing)
NBC's Passions has become the first daytime soap opera to become available for free online viewing on the same day it is broadcast. Each episode, which is being streamed starting at 6:00 p.m. nightly, can be viewed for up to a week. In 2003, Sony experimented with an online video-on-demand plan that allowed Internet users to access The Young and the Restless, Days of Our Lives and As the World Turns for $1.99 for a single episode or $9.99 per month.

As the Ratings Turn
15 November 2005 (StudioBriefing)
Daytime television programs, which once represented a cash cow for the TV networks, have experienced an enormous audience erosion this season, with ratings for young women down nearly 13 percent, according to MediaWeek. The trade publication said Monday that the networks, unable to meet ratings guarantees to advertisers, are already providing "make goods" -- additional free advertising time -- and that they could experience between $150 million and $225 million in lost ad revenue for the season. The depressed-ratings situation follows a similar downturn last year. MediaWeek observed that NBC's Days of Our Lives has seen a ratings decline of 19 percent among women 18-34 and 16 percent among women 18-49. Over the past five years, the soap opera has lost 35 percent of its 18-49-year-old audience. CBS's As the World Turns and The Guiding Light and ABC's All My Children and General Hospital are also down double digits, the report said.

Aniston Reconciles with Mother
6 October 2005 (WENN)
Hollywood star Jennifer Aniston has reconciled with her mother Nancy, nine years after they became estranged. The former Friends actress stopped speaking to Nancy after she discussed her famous daughter on a TV chat show in 1996 and subsequently wrote about Jennifer's childhood in From Mother And Daughter To Friends in 1999. Nancy brought up Jennifer alone after her actor father, Days Of Our Lives star John Aniston walked out on their marriage when Jennifer was nine. However, in the aftermath of Jennifer's high-profile split from ex-husband Brad Pitt, she is beginning to rebuild her relationship with her mom. Jennifer tells Elle magazine, "I'm thrilled. It's so wonderful. And who knew that this (divorce) would be the thing to initiate this? It's amazing. It's like we get to reintroduce ourselves to each other. I'm just happy she's still here. I'm not saying that there weren't issues that took place that led to this. But I really see now whether it was judging her on how she handled her separation or her situation, but they didn't have the advantages that we have with therapy, with self-help books."

Prolific Soap Opera Writer Dies
2 May 2005 (StudioBriefing)
Emmy-award-winning soap opera writer and producer Bill Bell died Friday from complications of Alzheimer's disease at the UCLA Medical Center. He began his career as a soap-opera writer in 1956 on The Guiding Light, then moved to As the World Turns the following year. In 1966, he became head writer of Days of Our Lives and in 1973, along with his wife, Lee Phillip Bell, created The Young and The Restless. "Every single Monday through Friday for 40 years, one, sometimes two Bill Bell episodes aired on network television. His equal will never come this way again," said Young and the Restless supervising producer Edward Scott on a statement.

People's Choice Winners
13 January 2003 (StudioBriefing)
Sunday night's televised 29th annual People's Choice Awards went pretty much the way the ratings, box office, and record sales indicated they would. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation was voted best TV drama; Friends was voted best TV comedy. Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring tied with Spiderman for best dramatic motion picture. My Big Fat Greek Wedding was voted best movie comedy. Other top awards: Motion picture actor: Mel Gibson; Motion picture actress: Julia Roberts; Female television performer: Jennifer Aniston; Male television performer: Ray Romano; Reality-based television program: Survivor: Thailand; Daytime dramatic series: Days of Our Lives; New television comedy series: 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter; New television dramatic series: CSI: Miami.

Missed Soap Opera Episodes To Be Made Available on 'Net
27 November 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Soap opera fans who miss episodes of their favorite daytime dramas will be able to watch them on their PCs if they join a $9.99-per-month subscription service being rolled out by Sony Pictures Digital Entertainment in March, according to CNET News, which cited people familiar with the plans. The service (non subscribers will be able to catch single episodes for $1.99 each) will reportedly be available on Sony's Soap City website under the menu item "SoapCity Download." The site currently offers printed digests of the plots of Days of Our Lives, The Young and the Restless, As the World Turns, The Guiding Light and The Bold and the Beautiful.

This Kind of Bad Publicity Never Hurts
20 August 2002 (StudioBriefing)
In what appeared to be the kind of negative publicity that could do no harm, it was revealed Monday that one of the contestants on CBS' upcoming Survivor: Thailand had been an actor in at least four soft-core porn films. The CBS website for the show lists 34-year-old Brian Heidik's past jobs as stockbroker, motorcycle and car salesman, writer and actor, noting that he had appeared on Days of Our Lives, Doogie Howser, M.D., and Baywatch Nights. CBS issued a statement saying, "The survivors ultimately have the option to decide what elements of their background they do and don't want written in their bios. ... Brian Heidik certainly is not the first actor to omit certain credits from his biography."

Soaps On PC's -- For A Price
9 April 2002 (StudioBriefing)
Attempting to determine whether TV viewers are willing to pay to see reruns of TV shows that they missed, Sony is planning to make episodes of Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless available on the Internet for a monthly fee. Sony is planning only to put the audio tracks online and accompany them with still photos. According to today's (Tuesday) Wall Street Journal, the episodes, starting with episodes from 1998, will be available for a subscription price of between $2.99 and $7.99 at Sony's SoapCity site.

Dool To Remain On Nbc
25 September 1998 (StudioBriefing)
Ending months of speculation about the possibility that NBC's "Days of Our Lives" (1965), a fixture on the network for 33 years, would move to another outlet, Columbia-TriStar TV and NBC are expected to announce a new five-year deal today (Friday), according to Daily Variety.