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The series was huge success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on March 25, 1970. Ever since 1970, after the first thirty minutes of the show a commercial featuring the phrase "We will return for the second half of Dusk to Dawn in just a moment", was aired with every episode. The series originally focused on its core families, the Haritos and the Bourikas. However several other families have been added, including Dimakis, Kokkinos, Mamalis, and Paraskos families. | The series was huge success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on March 25, 1970. Ever since 1970, after the first thirty minutes of the show a commercial featuring the phrase "We will return for the second half of Dusk to Dawn in just a moment", was aired with every episode. The series originally focused on its core families, the Haritos and the Bourikas. However several other families have been added, including Dimakis, Kokkinos, Mamalis, and Paraskos families. | ||
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| + | While in the act of creating, Dusk to Dawn, Theo and Betty Chronis along with Eugenia Papadakis borrowed the idea of centering a soap opera on a hospital from [[Eternity]], while also centering it on a family of professionals who worked near and for the medical institution. The show later branched off from that to a more widened horizon. The soap opera is set in the fictional town of Sidon. By the 1970s, Dusk to Dawn was nominally regarded by fans and critics alike as the most daring of all the Diadochian soap operas, being the only soap that would feature interracial romance, artificial insemination, and so forth in that time period. In the 1990s to attract younger viewers, the show branched off into supernatural storylines. The new storylines had the desired effect, propelling the soap to the top spot on the list of the most watched daytime soap among woman. | ||
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| + | Just like many soap operas in Diadochia, Dusk to Dawn experienced a steady decline in ratings. In just when the network had predicted in 2007 that the show would not last the next two years, the soap in its bleakest hour made a comeback and experienced a steady increase in ratings, pulling itself back from certain of cancellation. Beginning on October 12, 2010, which marked Dusk to Dawn' 50th anniversary, the show began airing in high definition. In the following year, 2011 former fan favorites were reintroduced and younger characters were introduced in an effort to increase viewership, stabilize ratings, appeal to a younger audience. On December 21, 2014, EERE launched a new logo for Dusk to Dawn at the 2014 Psychiko Christmas Parade, in celebration of the series' fifty-fifth anniversary | ||
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Revision as of 23:12, 2 June 2015
Dusk to Dawn; often abbreviated in English to DUDA or Dawn) is a Diadochian daytime soap opera broadcast on the EERE television network. It is one of the longest-running scripted television programs in Diadochia, as well as the world, currently it airs every weekday Monday through Friday (except on certain holidays). The show debuted on October 12, 1960. The show has long since been syndicated and is available around the world. The daytime drama series was created by husband-and-wife team Theo Chronis and Betty Chronis. Eugenia Papadakis was instrumental the creation of many storylines and many of the show's earliest storylines were written by Lefteris E. Bilias, who went on to create Forever and Always Youthful and The Elegant and the Charismatic, created in 1969 and 1983 respectively.
The series was huge success, it was expanded from 30 minutes to 60 minutes on March 25, 1970. Ever since 1970, after the first thirty minutes of the show a commercial featuring the phrase "We will return for the second half of Dusk to Dawn in just a moment", was aired with every episode. The series originally focused on its core families, the Haritos and the Bourikas. However several other families have been added, including Dimakis, Kokkinos, Mamalis, and Paraskos families.
History and Development
While in the act of creating, Dusk to Dawn, Theo and Betty Chronis along with Eugenia Papadakis borrowed the idea of centering a soap opera on a hospital from Eternity, while also centering it on a family of professionals who worked near and for the medical institution. The show later branched off from that to a more widened horizon. The soap opera is set in the fictional town of Sidon. By the 1970s, Dusk to Dawn was nominally regarded by fans and critics alike as the most daring of all the Diadochian soap operas, being the only soap that would feature interracial romance, artificial insemination, and so forth in that time period. In the 1990s to attract younger viewers, the show branched off into supernatural storylines. The new storylines had the desired effect, propelling the soap to the top spot on the list of the most watched daytime soap among woman.
Just like many soap operas in Diadochia, Dusk to Dawn experienced a steady decline in ratings. In just when the network had predicted in 2007 that the show would not last the next two years, the soap in its bleakest hour made a comeback and experienced a steady increase in ratings, pulling itself back from certain of cancellation. Beginning on October 12, 2010, which marked Dusk to Dawn' 50th anniversary, the show began airing in high definition. In the following year, 2011 former fan favorites were reintroduced and younger characters were introduced in an effort to increase viewership, stabilize ratings, appeal to a younger audience. On December 21, 2014, EERE launched a new logo for Dusk to Dawn at the 2014 Psychiko Christmas Parade, in celebration of the series' fifty-fifth anniversary
