‘Days like dese’ returns to local TV with COVID-19 theme
“Days like dese” producer, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento
GEMS Theatre Productions will be continuing its popular TV sitcom, ‘Days like dese’ from Friday, August 21, 2020 with the intention of airing a new episode weekly, on all TV stations, nationwide.
The sitcom, which was aired on local television for two seasons in 2017 and 2018, will return with a new message. It will now be 15 minutes long and its theme will be based on COVID -19, its effects on daily lives and coping with it, while still being entertaining.
Each episode will feature two or three actors and filming them apart in respect to social distancing. Filming would also be done mostly in open spaces.
Producer, Gem Madhoo-Nascimento will be teaming up with Sean Thompson in scripting the episodes. Thompson will also film and edit the series.
Episode One will feature two of Guyana’s most popular actors, Sonia Yarde and Simone Persaud.
The original ‘Days like dese’ was set in the living room of a mixed Guyanese middle-income family of good standing and moral ethics. There were children, friends, grandparents, uncles, neighbours and cousins of various income levels and living standards. Social cohesion was reflected deeply in the component of the extended family. Issues affecting our everyday life, for example, domestic abuse, climate change, recycling, trafficking in persons, conservation of basic everyday utilities all played a major role in the series. Education through comedy was its focus.
Actors were Mark Kazim, Nathaya Whaul, Simone Dowding, Ron Robinson, Lavonne George, Mark Luke-Edwards, Rajan Tiwari, Simone Persaud, Kirk Jardine, Michael Ignatius, Joel Gansham, Makayah Smith, Safira Abrahim-Williams, Paul Budnah, Olivia Rodrigues and Kaylee Liverpool.
As the show begins filming its new episodes, the team will continue to tell the story of this family, representatives said, adding that most of the actors listed will also be retained.
