Peter Reckell

Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso at Australia's TV Logie Awards


Currently in Australia, Days of Our Lives' Peter Reckell (Bo Brady) and Kristian Alfonso (Hope Williams Brady) attended the TV Week Logie Awards in Melbourne on Sunday night (Australian time).  Above is their interview on the red carpet.  The pair were thought to be presenting an award during the show, but this was not the case (it seems). READ MORE

Days of Our Lives, Having "Hope" For Someone Else?


In a "Top 5 Days of Our Lives Characters" podcast episode we just recorded (it will air as soon as I can edit it), Jillian suggested that a Hope (Kristian Alfonso) and Daniel (Shawn Christian) pairing would be "hot." Jamey then agreed that they would "drop it like it's hot" and make him "reconsider" his Bope love, if it got Hope out of the idiotic "Bo The Psychic" storyline.

Would you like to see a Hope and Daniel pairing?

Days of Our Lives, The Enjoyment Factor


As I write this I’m battening down the hatches and looking for a shovel to dig myself an underground bunker, because I have a sneaking suspicion that I’m going to be the voice of unpopular opinion. Let me explain.

When deciding which soaps I enjoy most or discover I'm most interested in watching on my DVR when I get home, I look at two things, quality (writing and acting) and enjoyment. These two can be in the same, or entirely different. The Young and the Restless and One Life to Live fall under the “quality” umbrella. I enjoy them because the writing is on fire and the acting is superb. On the other hand, I can enjoy some soaps at a gut level even though they may not have as good of writing or as strong acting. Call it “the show I like, but no one else seems to” factor. This is how I feel about Days of Our Lives.

On this week’s CBS and Days of Our Lives podcast episode (which should air on Thursday) I reveal that Days of Our Lives is currently my third favorite soap, even beating out the drastically improved Guiding Light and my version of As the World Turns. This is something I have refused to admit, even to myself, for some time. If I did, might it mean I’ve succumbed to Dena Higley’s evil charms? READ MORE

What DAYS Needs to Do If It Wants to Stay on Past 2010 Pt. I: The Hortons and Bradys Generation Next



It's no secret Days of Our Lives is my heart. Like Tara to Scarlett, Llanfair to Viki and the Promises Treatment Center in Malibu to Lindsay Lohan, DAYS is home to me, which is why it pains me to find the land of my childhood, fanboy dreams war-ravaged, and overrun with some strange cow wandering about chewing cud.
 
I wrote last week how the show was actually watchable again, well, watchable won't keep DAYS on the air past 2010. In years past I never worried about whether NBC-U-Later-Soaps would kill Days of Our Lives, because I knew CBS or ABC would readily fight to the death grab up the most buzzed about soap in the last 20 years of daytime television. Thanks to the woeful state of the U.S. economy, coupled with DAYS being written by someone who would make the top brass at AIG shake their heads and go "tsk, tsk, tsk", I no longer have the quiet comfort that Frons or Bloom will pick up DAYS once it's cut by NBC. Hell, Mickey Mouse and Tiffany are having a hard enough times keeping the soaps already on their network lineups afloat, why would they consider bringing DAYS to the table in the shape its in?  READ MORE

Bo The Magic Psychic


Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea....oh wait, this is Salem. Bo the magic psychic lived by the docks. Ok, so I'm not that great at switching things up, but I must ask what happened to the simple days of Celeste as Salem's resident psychic?  Why is it that everyone and their mother seems to be able to have a psychic ability in soaps these days? How much more contrived can Days of Our Lives get? Now that Bo (Peter Reckell) is psychic does that mean that we'll end up with Sami the Horse Whisperer, Dr. Daniel Do Right , Melanie the Power Puff Girl or EJ the Master of the Universe? Next thing we know EJ's going to ride in on a tiger. Of course, what is so scary is that it might just actually happen.

Are you enjoying Bo the Magic Psychic?