1/12/2024 0 Comments Shane charles shaughnessy“The way they shoot these things now is so complicated, I mean if you saw a daily schedule, it’s like plans for the invasion of Europe,” Shaughnessy jokes. With only five episodes available one has to wonder how they are able to spread things around to accommodate such a large cast, but we can reveal that Shaughnessy will appear in four of the five episodes - one, three, four, and five. So, I didn’t get to say hi to everyone that I would have liked to have done but quite a few, and I worked a lot with Deidre and Drake, so I saw them quite a bit, and Lisa Rinna. You can’t mix with each other, so there’s no kind of hanging out at the canteens for lunch or dropping into each other’s dressing room. “The only sad was because of COVID everyone is siloed. “It was a joy to be back there and to see some of the people,” begins Shaughnessy. Unfortunately, because of the pandemic, the time for getting together with other cast members and reminiscing about the past wasn’t to be. The whole thing is slightly tongue in cheek, the whole kind of story is a little bit of a tongue in cheek nod to those 80s soap opera stories, and I thought, ‘Making it the NBC peacock with these jewels exactly like the logo is brilliant.’”Įvans Vestal Ward/Peacock | Deidre Hall, Drake Hogestyn, Charles Shaughnessy (“ Days of our Lives: Beyond Salem”) I mean, it’s great, I think that’s brilliant. “I have to say, especially when you see the actual… they actually built the Alamanian Peacock and it’s clearly the NBC peacock. When Shaughnessy found out that the Alamanian Peacock was a direct reference to the streaming platform and NBC’s branding as the peacock network, he found it as a source of amusement. It’s always had that potential so to do this and put a chunk of it on a streaming platform where people can interact and have comments and tweet with each other, it’s perfect,” he says. “You can stream it and you got a chat room going at the same time or at ticker speed. “I remember the days when fans would watch the show at the same time while they’re all on the phone with each other so they would have like a kind of conference call with five other people while they’re watching so they can be talking about what’s going on,” recalls Shaughnessy, who points out that streaming is able to do that and more efficiently. “I hope they do more because I’ve always felt that streaming, if it’s used right, is the perfect home for a soap.”Īnother reason streaming would be perfect for the future of soaps is due to how services like Peacock can help bring fans together as they were before the age of multi-platform television. Giving credit to the show’s writers and the “clever” way they pulled things together, Shaughnessy hopes there will be more of “Beyond” than the original five episodes ordered. “It was going to put together the sort of ISA Shane Donovan, John Black, and Marlena, and a storyline that would pluck from the days of Stefano DiMera and the ice princess, and all that stuff.” ![]() It was going to be shot on location in Los Angeles so it would have a different look and a different feel to the ‘Days of our Lives’ in the studio but it was going to have the same sort of characters, and it was going to be a sort of homage to the storylines of the 80s, the sort of golden age,” Shaughnessy explains. ![]() “Originally, I heard that it was going to be…, whether it was true or not, but I heard from my agent that it was going to be on film. I heard from my agent that Peacock decided they wanted to do this standalone five episodes streaming, like sort of mini-series, like some limited series called ‘Beyond Salem’ that was basically ‘Days of our Lives’ but a streaming version,” he reveals while noting that there was a time early on that he understood the show would also have a different look and feel in comparison to the parent series. “So, I’ve been back from time to time but this came out of the blue. When he got that call that Peacock was doing a spinoff of “DAYS,” Shaughnessy jumped at the chance.
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