document_title: Boo! A Madea Halloween

question_text: who does tyler perry play in madea boo

question_tokens: who does tyler perry play in madea boo

text: Boo! A Madea Halloween

text: Plot[edit]

text: The film begins on the day of Halloween with Jonathan (Yousef Erakat), a young fraternity leader from a local university, and his fellow frat brothers discussing their upcoming Halloween party outside their frat house. Tiffany (Diamond White) and her three friends Aday (Liza Koshy), Rain (Bella Thorne) and Leah (Lexy Panterra) are walking past their frat house, as Jonathan and the rest of them all go over to them to invite them to the party and seem to flirt a little. Brian (Tyler Perry), Tiffany's father and Madea's nephew (Uncle Joe Simmon's son), catches them at the frat house, which he had ordered Tiffany not to walk by and angrily orders her and her friends to get in the car with him, to which she refuses and tells him they can walk home because it's right around the corner. Brian forbids her from going near the frat house ever again and reveals that he is sending her and her brother to their mom's house while he is out of town, much to her dismay. Later on that day, Brian spies on Tiffany's conversation with Jonathan, the frat president, on a mobile tablet and notices how sexual things seem to be getting, much to his anger and indignation.

text: That night, Madea (also played by Tyler Perry) and Aunt Bam (Cassi Davis) are sitting outside of her home on Halloween Night giving away candy to kids trick-or-treating while Bam is secretly stealing back some of the children's candy, until one kid (dressed as a cow, which Madea mocks the kid's mother for) notices her stealing his and an argument ensues. After that a clown approaches with a huge jack-in-the-box, which frightens Bam. As the clown is approaching, Madea threatens him and dares anything to jump out of the box. Another clown pops out and she immediately punches the clown, causing it to fall out of the box. It is revealed to be Uncle Joe (also played by Tyler Perry), Madea's brother and Brian's father, and Hattie (Patrice Lovely), a longtime friend of Madea and Aunt Bam, who then go on to explain they were just trying to scare them for fun. Meanwhile, in order to keep Tiffany from sneaking off to the Halloween party, Brian calls Madea, out of options, to stay there and look after Tiffany to keep her away from the party. Madea agrees and Bam, Joe, and Hattie tag along with her after Brian promises to pay Madea. Tiffany and her friend Aday, realizing that Madea and the others are there to watch them and keep them from sneaking to the party, decide to trick them into sleeping early by faking a story about a man named Mr. Wilson who committed murders in their house, and she tells them that the only safe rooms are the bedrooms. She then convinces them of the story's authenticity by secretly hitting a remote control to turn the lights off in the house to frighten them.

text: Tiffany and Aday sneak off to the party, but Madea perspicaciously sees through the scheme after finding pillows placed under the blanket on the bed in their bedroom to look as if they are sleeping. Madea then goes to the frat house and crashes the party as she searches for Tiffany, but Tiffany's friends and Jonathan both lie to cover for her. Madea tries to shut the party down, but is thrown out by the frat brothers into the bushes outside the frat house, by Jonathan's orders and leaves defeated. However, one of the frat brothers discovers that Aday is underage and throws her out of the party which is then shut down once again when Bam calls the police due to Tiffany being underage. The frat brothers realize that Madea and her friends are the ones who called the police on them and decide to prank them back by scaring them, unaware that Aday had been hiding behind the bushes near the outside staircase, underneath the front patio, and overheard their entire plan.

text: Back at home, Tiffany still claims that she was asleep the whole time and had been sleeping in her father's room, even though she was supposed to be in her room. The frat brothers then begin their pranks by scaring Hattie, Joe and Bam by posing as the ghost of Mr. Wilson (which Jonathan had learned from Tiffany earlier) and by one of the frat boys, Horse (Brock O'Hurn) dressed as a scary and deranged homicidal clown in the house. Madea, Hattie, and Bam leave the house and drive away out of fear. They in turn leave Joe alone with the clown, which he knocks out with his cane while he is smoking marijuana through a hookah.

text: Madea's car breaks down up the road and the three are pursued by the rest of the frat brothers and partygoers who are posing as zombies that chase them down. Madea, in a panicked frenzy, runs inside a nearby local church, that is led by Aday's parents who are ministers, and finds interest in being saved, believing that the things she is seeing are punishment for her sins. A female parishioner, who was praying when Madea ran inside, then tries to get Madea to calm down by consoling and comforting her and tries to lead her to Christ and get her to become saved. Aday's father (Javon Johnson), who is revealed to be the pastor of the church, and Aday then lay down a confession, telling Madea that all of the things happening with the ghosts, clown and zombies were tricks being played on them by the frat brothers as revenge on Madea for shutting down the party and calling the police. Madea finds Aday's apologies sincere, but says the frat boys will be more sorry when she cancels the party and has assistants condemn the house. Aday agrees with the plan and she, Hattie, Bam and Madea then vengefully come up with a plan to make the brothers pay.

text: Brian is also called back into town by Madea to deal with Tiffany for sneaking out of the house and going to the party. When Brian orders her to come downstairs she is at first hesitant, but then finally comes down. When he asks and confronts her about sneaking off to the party, she boldly admits to it and tells him to get over it. It is clear Tiffany has no respect or appreciation for Brian as a parent due to him being a pushover and refusing to discipline his kids the same way he was raised by Joe. Madea, Hattie, and Bam then begin to pack Tiffany's clothes up in bags to throw her out of the house. This plan works and Tiffany and Brian lay their feelings out about Brian's wife cheating on him and him being a pushover. Brian, finally toughening up, participates in helping to throw her out and exclaims that she can either live there with him, abiding by his rules and respecting him, or go out on the street on her own. Tiffany apologizes to Brian and the women for her behavior and agrees to listen to her father's rules. Madea hopes Tiffany has learned a lesson as she is also mad at her for letting the fraternity brothers prank her with such scary things. Afterwards, the police return to Brian's house looking for Tiffany, revealing to her that her best friend, Aday has gone missing. They then take her with them and handcuff her.

text: The next day, the police knock on the door of the frat house and one of the brothers discovers the body of Aday with her throat slit and blood spewing out in the basement. The brothers are arrested after the police find Aday's body and they are all placed on a prison bus. Rain and Leah are also arrested for bringing minors to an "over-18" party, as well as Tiffany for her alleged involvement. A brawl breaks out on the bus with the prisoners, scaring everyone including Jonathan. Aday comes out of the house and everything is revealed to be a prank. The girls are grateful that Aday is alive, who reveals that the blood and mortal wound was just special effect make up, and Jonathan apologizes for his and his frat brothers' behavior as well. Just then, Madea learns, much to her shock, that Brian called in actual police officers for the prank. They find a bag of marijuana in the frat house as one of which (Dominique Witten) recognizes Madea as an old acquaintance. Madea, Jonathan and the rest of the frat brothers flee from the officers, fearing they will all be arrested for real as the film ends.

text: Cast[edit]

text:
Tyler Perry as Mabel "Madea" Simmons, Brian Simmons, and Uncle Joe Simmons
Cassi Davis as Betty Ann "Aunt Bam" Murphy
Patrice Lovely as Hattie Mae Love
Bella Thorne as Rain Mathison[5]
Diamond White as Tiffany Simmons
Yousef Erakat as Jonathan
Lexy Panterra as Leah Devereaux
Andre Hall as Quinton
Brock O'Hurn as Horse
Liza Koshy as Aday Walker
Kian Lawley as Bean Boy
JC Caylen as Mikey
Jimmy Tatro as Sean
Tyga as Himself
Mike Tornabene as Dino
Bradley Martyn as Frat Boy #9
Mario Rodriguez as Frat Boy #10

text: Production[edit]

text: Production on Boo! A Madea Halloween began in mid-January 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia, with filming only lasting six days.[6] On March 4, 2016, Lionsgate released a teaser trailer for the film,[7] and on July 14, 2016 the official trailer was released, as well as a parody poster of Halloween.[8]

text: Reception[edit]

text: Box office[edit]

text: Boo! A Madea Halloween grossed $73.2 million in North America and $1.6 million in other territories for a worldwide total of $74.8 million, against a budget of $20 million.[1]

text: The film was released on October 21, 2016 and opened alongside Ouija: Origin of Evil and Jack Reacher: Never Go Back, and was expected to gross $15–17 million from 2,260 theaters in its opening weekend.[9][2] The film grossed $9.4 million on its first day and an above-expected $27.6 million in its opening weekend, finishing first at the box office and ranking as the fourth-best debut for a Perry film.[10][11] In its second weekend the film grossed $17.2 million (a drop of only 39.6%) and remained first at the box office, despite facing competition with the newcomer Inferno ($14.9 million).[12]

text: Critical response[edit]

text: On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 21% based on 33 reviews, with an average rating of 3.8/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Boo! A Madea Halloween won't win Tyler Perry's long-running franchise many new converts – but at nine films and counting, it hardly needs to."[13] On Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating, the film has a score of 30 out of 100, based on 14 critics, indicating "generally unfavorable reviews".[14] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[15]

text: Accolades[edit]

text:
Award
Category
Subject
Result

Golden Raspberry Awards
(37th)
Worst Director
Tyler Perry
Nominated

Worst Actress
Nominated

Worst Screen Combo
Nominated

That same old worn out wig
Nominated

text: Sequel[edit]

text: Lionsgate announced that a follow-up titled Boo 2! A Madea Halloween will be released on October 20, 2017. The following logline was released: “Madea, Bam, and Hattie venture to a haunted campground and the group must literally run for their lives when monsters, goblins, and the bogeyman are unleashed.”[16]


document_title: Population Registration Act, 1950

question_text: what was the purpose of population registration act

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text: Population Registration Act, 1950

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text:
Population Registration Act, 1950

Act to make provision for the compilation of a Register of the Population of the Union; for the issue of Identity Cards to persons whose names are included in the Register; and for matters incidental thereto.Citation
Act No. 30 of 1950Enacted by
Parliament of South AfricaDate of Royal Assent
22 June 1950Date commenced
7 July 1950Date repealed
28 June 1991Administered by
Minister of the InteriorRepealing legislation
Population Registration Act Repeal Act, 1991
Status: Repealed

text: The Population Registration Act of 1950 required that each inhabitant of South Africa be classified and registered in accordance with his or her racial characteristics as part of the system of apartheid.[1][2][3]

tag: p

text: Social rights, political rights, educational opportunities, and economic status were largely determined by the group to which an individual belonged. There were three basic racial classifications under the law: Black, White and Coloured (mixed). Indians (that is, South Asians from the former British India, and their descendants) were later added as a separate classification as they were seen as having "no historical right to the country".

text: An Office for Race Classification was set up to overview the classification process.  Classification into groups was carried out using criteria such as outer appearance, general acceptance and social standing. For example, it defined a "white person" as one who "in appearance is obviously a white person who is generally not accepted as a coloured person; or is generally accepted as a white person and is not in appearance obviously a white person." Because some aspects of the profile were of a social nature,[2] reclassification was not uncommon, and a board was established to conduct that process. For example, the following criteria were used for separating the coloureds from the whites:[2]

text:
Characteristics of the person's head hair
Characteristics of the person's other hair
Skin colour
Facial features
Home language and especially the knowledge of Afrikaans
Area where the person lives, the person's friends and acquaintances
Employment
Socioeconomic status
Eating and drinking habits

tag: ul

text: This law worked in tandem with other laws passed as part of the apartheid system. Under the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act of 1949, it was illegal for a white person to marry a person of another race. With the enactment of the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, it also became a crime for a white person and a person of another race to have sexual intercourse.

text: Under the act, as amended, Coloureds and Indians were formally classified into various subgroups, including Cape Coloured, Malay, Griqua, Chinese, Indian, Other Asian and Other Coloured.[4][5]

text: The South African Parliament repealed the act on June 17, 1991. However, the racial categories defined in the act remain ingrained in South African culture[6][7] and they still form the basis of some official policies and statistics aimed at redressing past economic imbalances (Black Economic Empowerment and Employment Equity).[8][9]


document_title: List of medical abbreviations: L

question_text: what does la stand for in medical terms

question_tokens: what does la stand for in medical terms

text: List of medical abbreviations: L

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Medical abbreviations

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0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Latin abbreviations
Prescription abbreviations
Acronyms in healthcare
Abbreviations for medical organisations and personnel
Abbreviations for diseases and disorders

text:
Sortable table

Abbreviation
Meaning

L
leukocytes
lumbar vertebrae (L1 to L5)

L&D
labor and delivery

LA
left atrium
lymphadenopathy
local anesthetic

LAAM
L-alpha-acetylmethadol

Lab
laboratory (in health care, usually referring to clinical laboratory)

LABA
long-acting beta agonist

LABBB
left anterior bundle branch block

Lac
laceration
lactate

LAD
left anterior descending (a coronary artery)
leukocyte adhesion deficiency
left axis deviation (see electrocardiogram)
lymphadenopathy

LAE
left atrial enlargement

LAH
left anterior hemiblock

LAHB
left anterior hemiblock

Lam
laminectomy

LAN
lymphadenopathy

LAP
leukocyte alkaline phosphatase

Lap
laparotomy

Lap appy
laparoscopic appendectomy

LAR
low anterior resection

LARP
left → anterior, right → posterior (path of the vagi as they wander from thorax to abdomen)

LAS
lymphadenopathy syndrome

Lat
lateral

lb
LB
pound or pounds (mass)

LBBB
left bundle branch block

LBO
large bowel obstruction

LBP
low back pain

LBW
low birth weight

LCA
left coronary artery

LCHAD
long-chain 3-hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A dehydrogenase

LCIS
lobular carcinoma in situ

LCM
lymphocytic meningitis

LCMV
lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus

LCP
Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient

LCPD
Legg–Calvé–Perthes disease

LCV
leukocytoclastic vasculitis

LCX
left circumflex artery

L&D
labor and delivery

LDH
lactate dehydrogenase

LDL
low-density lipoprotein

LDL-C
low-density lipoprotein cholesterol

L-DOPA
levo-dihydroxyphenylalanine

LEC
lupus erythematosus cell

LEEP
loop electrical excision procedure

LES
lower esophageal sphincter
lupus erythematosus systemicus

LE
lupus erythematosus
lower extremity (human leg)

leu
leukocytes

LFT
liver function test

LGA
large for gestational age

LGL
Lown–Ganong–Levine syndrome

LGM
lymphogranulomatosis maligna

LGSIL
low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion

LGV
lymphogranuloma venereum

LH
luteinizing hormone
lightheadedness

LHC
left heart catheterization

LHRH
luteinizing hormone–releasing hormone

Lig
ligament

LIH
left inguinal hernia

LLD
leg length discrepancy

LLE
left lower extremity

LLETZ
large loop excision of the transformation zone

LLL
left lower lobe

LLQ
left lower quadrant

LM
left main

LMA
left mentoanterior (fetal position)
laryngeal mask airway

LMCA
left main coronary artery

LMD
local medical doctor

LMP
last menstrual period—first day of the menstrual period
low malignant potential

LMWH
low-molecular-weight heparin

LN
lymph node
Logical Observation Identifiers Names and Codes (LOINC)

LND
lymph node dissection

LNG
levonorgestrel

LNI
lymph node involvement

LOA
left occipitoanterior (fetal position)
level of activity
lysis of adhesions

LOC
loss of consciousness
level of consciousness (e.g., "altered LOC from head trauma")

LOF
leakage of fluid

LOH
loss of heterozygosity

LOI
loss of imprinting

LOL
little old lady (often LOL in NAD—see House of God)

LOM
limitation of motion

LOP
left occiput posterior (fetal position)

LORTA
loss of resistance to air (in anesthesiology; when placing epidural, LORTA indicates entrance of needle to epidural space)

LOS
length of stay

Lot
lotion

LOT
left occiput transverse (fetal position)

Lp
lipoprotein

LP
lumbar puncture

LPH
left posterior hemiblock (see heart block)

LPL
lipoprotein lipase

LPP
lichen planopilaris

LQTS
long QT syndrome

L/S
lecithin-to-sphingomyelin ratio

LS
lichen sclerosus
Lynch syndrome

LSA
lichen sclerosis et atrophicus

LSB
left sternal border

LSIL
low-grade squamous intraepithelial lesion

LST
laterally spreading tumor

LR
lactated Ringer's solution

LRINEC
Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections Score

LRTI
lower respiratory tract infection

LSCTA
lung sounds clear to auscultation

LT
heat-labile enterotoxin

LTAC
long-term acute care

LTCS
low transverse cesarean section

LUL
left upper lobe (of lung)

LUQ
left upper quadrant (of abdomen)

LUS
lower uterine segment

LUTS
lower urinary tract symptoms

LV
left ventricle

LVAD
left ventricular assist device

LVEDP
left ventricular end diastolic pressure

LVEF
left ventricular ejection fraction

LVF
left ventricular failure

LVH
left ventricular hypertrophy

LVOT
left ventricular outflow tract

LVP
Large volume paracentesis

LWBS
left without being seen

Lx of ch
laxative of choice

Ly
lymphocytes

lytes
electrolytes

text: Lists of medical abbreviations


document_title: List of Premier League broadcasters

question_text: who has premier league tv rights in usa

question_tokens: who has premier league tv rights in usa

text: List of Premier League broadcasters

text: Broadcasters[edit]

text: These are the countries and channels that broadcast the Premier League for 2016-19:[5]

text: Broadcasters by region[edit]

text: African broadcasters[edit]

text:
Language
Broadcaster

Sub-saharan Africa
English
French
Supersport
Kwesé Sports
Canal+

text: Asian broadcasters[edit]

text:
Country
Language
Broadcasters

Afghanistan
Afghan
Ariana TV

Bhutan
English
STAR Sports

India

Maldives

Nepal

Sri Lanka

Bangladesh
English
STAR Sports
Gazi TV

Pakistan
English
STAR Sports
PTV Sports

China (mainland)
Mandarin
CCTV
CSPN
BTV
SMG
SZMG
GDTV
GZTV
CBG
SDTV
XJTV
TJTV
FMG
DLTV
JSBC
ZZTV
HBTV
Tencent
LeSports
PPTV
Super Sports

Hong Kong
English
Cantonese
now TV
LeSports

Indonesia
English
Indonesian
beIN Sports
RCTI
MNCTV

Japan
Japanese
J Sports
NHK
Sportsnavi

Kazakhstan
Kazakh
Russian
Setanta Sports

Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyz
KTRK Sport

Macau
English
Cantonese
Portuguese
Super Sports

Mongolia
Mongolian
Sansar HD
SPS Premier Sports Channel

South Korea
English
Korean
SBS Sports
SPOTV

Malaysia & Brunei
English
Malay & Cantonese
Astro

Myanmar
English
Burmese
Sky Net

Philippines
English
Tagalog
beIN Sports
ABS-CBN

Singapore
English
Singtel TV

Taiwan
Mandarin
English
Eleven Sports

Thailand, Laos & Cambodia
Thai
English
beIN Sports
PPTV

Tajikistan
Tajik
Varzish TV
Football TV

Uzbekistan
Uzbek
UZ Report TV
Futbol TV

Vietnam
Vietnamese
English
K+
TTTV, BDTV (VTVCab)
FPT Telecom

text: European broadcasters[edit]

text:
Country
Language
Broadcasters

Albania
Albanian
SuperSport

Kosovo

Serbia
Serbian
Croatian
Macedonian
Slovenian
Sport Klub

Croatia

Bosnia and Herzegovina

Montenegro

Macedonia

Slovenia

Andorra
Spanish
Movistar+

Armenia
Armenian
Armenia 2

Austria
German
DAZN

Azerbaijan
Azerbaijani
AzTV

Belarus
Belarusian
Beltelradio

Belgium
Dutch
French
Play Sports
VOO Sport

Bulgaria
Bulgarian
Diema Sport

Cyprus
Greek
CytaVision

Czech Republic
Czech
Digi Sport

Denmark
Danish
TV3 Sport
6'eren

Estonia
Estonian
Viasat Sport Baltic

Finland
Finnish
Viasat Sport

France
French
SFR Sport

Georgia
Georgian
Silknet

Germany
German
DAZN

Greece
Greek
Cosmote Sport

Hungary
Hungarian
Spíler TV

Iceland
Icelandic
Stöð 2 Sport

Ireland
English
Sky Sports
BT Sport

Italy
Italian
SKY Sport

Latvia
Latvian
Viasat Sport Baltic

Liechtenstein
German
French
DAZN
SFR Sport

Lithuania
Lithuanian
Viasat Sport Baltic

Luxembourg
French
VOO Sport
SFR Sport

Malta
English
GO Sports

Netherlands
Dutch
Ziggo Sport Totaal

Norway
English / Norwegian
TV2

Poland
Polish
NC+

Portugal
Portuguese
Sport TV

Romania
Romanian
Eurosport 1
Telekom Sport

Russia
Russian
Match TV

San Marino
Italian
SKY Sport

Slovakia
Czech
Digi Sport

Spain
Spanish
Movistar+

Sweden
Swedish
Viasat Sport

Switzerland
German
French
DAZN
SFR Sport

Turkey
Turkish
S Sport

Ukraine
Ukrainian
Football TV Channel

United Kingdom
English
Sky Sports
BT Sport
BBC Sport (Highlights only)

text: Latin American broadcasters[edit]

text:
Country
Language
Broadcasters

Brazil
Portuguese
ESPN Brasil

Argentina
Spanish
DIRECTV Sports (7 matches)
ESPN (3 matches)

Bolivia

Chile

Colombia

Ecuador

Paraguay

Peru

Uruguay

Venezuela

Bolivia
Spanish
ESPN (3 matches)

Paraguay

Costa Rica
Spanish
SKY Sports

Dominican Republic

El Salvador

Guatemala

Honduras

Mexico

Nicaragua

Panama

text: Middle Eastern and North African broadcasters[edit]

text:
Country
Language
Broadcasters

Israel
Hebrew
Sport 1

Middle East and North Africa
Arabic
English
French
beIN Sports

text: North American and Caribbean broadcasters[edit]

text:
Country
Language
Broadcasters

Canada
English
TSN
Sportsnet

Caribbean
English
Flow Sports

United States (including Puerto Rico & the U.S. Virgin Islands)
English
Spanish
NBC Sports Network
Telemundo

text: Oceanian broadcasters[edit]

text:
Country
Language
Broadcasters

Australia
English
Optus Sport
SBS

New Zealand
English
beIN Sports

Pacific Islands
English
Sky Pacific

Papua New Guinea
English
Digicel Play


document_title: Will Horton

question_text: who is the inmate that said will is alive on days of our lives

text: Will Horton

text: Casting[edit]

text: Identical twins Shawn and Taylor Carpenter originally played Will. They were only six weeks old when they started, and they portrayed Will from babyhood until six years old (1995 to 2002).[9][38] In 2002, Days decided they wanted a trained young actor playing Will, and nine-year-old Darian Weiss was cast,[9][39] and the character was rapidly-aged[38] three years. A year later (2003), Christopher Gerse took over as Will. Gerse was able to attend regular school whilst working on Days, including playing on his school's basketball team,[40] just like his character.[citation needed] In 2005, Days were again planning to rapidly age Will, and were "actively seeking out a new actor to play the role" — but the plans were shelved when new storyline for the younger Will "became available", and Gerse was retained to "preserve the believability of Alison Sweeney and Bryan Dattilo as his parents".[41] Will was not aged again, and Gerse continued until 2007[9] when Will was written out (by having the character go to live with his uncle and aunt in Switzerland). In addition, for one episode in January 2008, Gerse provided Will's voice for a phonecall.[42]

text: In 2009, Will now sixteen,[13] was reintroduced with actor Dylan Patton.[9][43] In 2010 the role was again recast with Chandler Massey, a newcomer to daytime television, reportedly to facilitate a new storyline.[44] Before he started, Massey watched as many episodes of the series as he could find to familiarize himself with the character.[45] Massey's younger brother Christian was employed to play Will in flashbacks for the episode of February 8, 2013.[46] After Massey's second Emmy win in 2013, he revealed he would vacate the role to return to university after his current contract expired.[47][48][49] Executive Producer Ken Corday said, "I wish he would stay. I keep telling him to change his mind, don't go away ... The door will always be open here to Chandler. We are not going to recast Will, but I wish him well".[50] Massey expressed he would support a recast, saying "I don’t want Will and Sonny to break up. I want them to be together forever and go off and get married", and "if they decide to bring someone else to play Will, I won't be upset and bitter. I want what is best for WilSon!"[51] On August 23, 2013, it was reported Massey had left the show effective immediately, and the show would go ahead with a recast due to the character's current storyline.[52]

text: On September 12, 2013, it came out that Guy Wilson was cast in the role of Will.[53] His costar Freddie Smith revealed the switch between Massey and Wilson would happen as quick as the news of the recast, saying, "If you blink and open your eyes, you’ll be like, 'Wait, there's a new Will?!' ... It’s literally just 'BOOM!'"[54] Massey made his final appearance on January 2, 2014, and Wilson made his first appearance on January 8, 2014.[55] Wilson later revealed that when he tested for the role with Smith, Smith did not know that Wilson was reading for the role of Will, saying "I wasn't supposed to tell him". Wilson said "the whole experience was a soap opera, because everyone knew something that someone else didn't know."[56] Wilson's last airdate was October 13, 2015,[57] with the character portrayed as dead.

text: On May 8, 2017, Entertainment Weekly announced that Massey would reprise the role of Will, beginning September 2017. Massey told the publication: "I am so excited to be bringing Will back [...] I can’t wait for the fans to see what we have planned."[35] Sweeney, whose return had been previously announced, told Soap Opera Digest: “I’m so excited to work with Chandler again. It will be fun to see what they have in store for our characters.”[58] Massey made his return appearance as Will on September 15, 2017.[37][59]

text: Development[edit]

text: Characterization and family[edit]

text: In the show, the character is named William Reed at birth – with "William" being after his aunt Billie Reed (Lisa Rinna),[60] who is both the sister of Austin Reed (who's believed to be Will's father when Will is born), and half-sister to Lucas (Will's real biological father).[60] When Will's real paternity is publicly revealed two years later, Will's surname is changed to Lucas's. As Lucas is using his mother's surname of Roberts, Will becomes Will Roberts - which is the name Will has through most of his childhood. In 2007,[11][12] when Will is nearly fifteen, Lucas changes both their surnames to that of his father, Bill Horton. Will is the great grandson of Days of Our Lives original couple, Tom and Alice Horton.[10]

text: Will's parents, Sami and Lucas, have an on-and off-relationship over the years, and this affects Will. The Sony Pictures web page for Will stated his "turbulent upbringing" makes the young Will "moody and suspicious",[61] but About.com's profile on the character says Will overcame the turmoil of his upbringing, and grew up to be a "kind-hearted" and "level-headed" teenager.[62] In an early interview, Massey said Will is "a great guy .... he kind of had an interesting upbringing, but he turned out to be a really good kid, very forgiving." Massey added: "He doesn’t like being lied to, definitely, but that happens all the time to him. He's very mature for his age. Sometimes it seems like he is the parent in the relationship" (with his mom Sami).[63]

text: Will has a streak of optimism, demonstrated in his childhood ambition to get his parents together as a couple, against all odds.[60] He has a "strong bond" with his one-time "father", his "beloved" Uncle Austin, and his Aunt Carrie.[60] Will also has a close relationship with his Grandma Marlena (Deidre Hall), who helps him through his struggles to come out.[64] She tells Will he is "one of the bravest men I've ever known".[65] Wilson said Will is "very passionate about everything he does".[66]

text: Talking about Will and Sonny's relationship, Massey said Will "being insecure" creates drama, but Will and Sonny were "by far the most stable, most logical and loving" couple on the show.[67] Wilson called the couple "great communicators",[68] and "one thing that Will and Sonny have is a sense of humor".[69]

text: Beginning with the marital conflict storyline that kicked off in the fall of 2014,[70] commentators thought Will was written as if he had had a sudden "full-on personality transplant".[70][71][24]

text: With his best female-friend, Gabi Hernandez (Camila Banus), Will is the father of Arianna Horton (played by Harper and Sydnee Udell).[10][72] Arianna's birth was portrayed on the show, as was Will's and his mother's.[73] Will has a long-time best male friend in Tad "T" Stevens[74] – played by Brendan Coughlin,[75] who has played opposite Patton, Massey, and Wilson.[76]

text: Sexuality and coming out[edit]

text: When Dylan Patton played him, Will was characterized as straight.[77] Will (aged 16–17) had a girlfriend in Mia McCormick (Taylor Spreitler), and Patton was unaware of any intention to make Will gay.[77] At the start of Chandler Massey's era, Will was also characterized as straight. Massey told Afterbuzz TV "It wasn't till later" and "I guess something that I was doing made them think, 'this guy should be gay! And this will be great!'". Massey explained: "They sat me down and told me 'we have this great story for Will – he's going to be coming out – and we want to let you know that's the direction we're going in.'"[78] After Massey learned of this in February 2011, uncertainty was cast over the storyline, as Days of Our Lives changed head writers and executive producers.[79] Massey said that, while he was not told whether or not they would proceed, he played Will "with his sexuality in mind".

text: In June 2011, actor Freddie Smith joined the show to play Sonny Kiriakis, an openly gay character.[80] Will and Sonny quickly become friends, and initially, the two characters share a "bromance". Massey told Jacobs of We Love Soaps that Will has a close relationship with Sonny, and Will looks up to and respects Sonny because Sonny has encountered hate but remains confident and comfortable with who he is. Massey said Will admires these qualities in Sonny as "they are rare to see."[45]

text: In November 2011, Days of Our Lives announced that Will would be coming out as gay. Both NBC (the show's broadcaster in the USA) and Sony Pictures Entertainment (its international distributor) approved of the storyline. Co-Executive Producer Greg Meng said "we are excited to have the encouragement and support from both NBC and Sony to tell the inspiring story of a young man learning who he is as he defines and creates his relationships with others."[81] Massey said that he was "thrilled" to play Will in an "empowering way that will show his struggle to accept who he is". He wanted the storyline to help other people to accept themselves for who they are.[81] The Daily Mail reported that the storyline was part of an attempt to attract a younger audience.[82]

text: Massey revealed Will's struggle with his sexuality would not be romantic. In the show, after Will meets Sonny, he starts rebuffing his then girlfriend Gabi Herdandez's attempts at intimacy; and when she ends her relationship with Will, he has an emotional breakdown and smashes up his aunt's kitchen (the place where Gabi breaks up with him).[83] The scenes were fun to film, according to Massey, but a "challenge to do them convincingly". He said Will had had a lot to deal with throughout his life, and so Will "has put his sexuality on the back burner and hasn't really dealt with it";[79] Massey said Will was "living with self-loathing and disgust over not being able to accept himself", and that Will drinks alcohol to make himself feel "less awkward". Boozed-up, Will does something he wouldn't have if he were sober: Will kisses one of Sonny's gay friends, a young man called Neil (Jesse Kristofferson). Sonny sees them at it, and Massey said it's "one of those moments when Will wishes he could turn invisible".[84]

text: Eventually, with the help of his family and Sonny, Will accepts his sexuality, and learns to live happily as an out gay man. Massey was pleased the storyline would reach a "big audience" and he hoped it would promote tolerance.[79]

text: Bryan Dattilo, who plays Will's dad Lucas, praised Massey's scenes in the coming-out story, saying "Chandler just rips up every scene. What a great actor! Before I left the show we'd worked together in only one or two scenes. When I came back I'm going,'Who the hell is this guy?' I didn't know it was the same kid!"[85]

text: Revival[edit]

text: In reaction to the killing of Will, "fans were outraged in a way rarely seen before in Days history, not comprehending the purpose of killing a legacy character ... who we watched grow from birth in real time onscreen", according to soap journalist Hope Campbell.[26] On January 23, 2017 news broke that Days of Our Lives had a new headwriter in Ron Carlivati,[86] a Daytime Emmy Award-winner for headwriting at One Life to Live[87] and a two-time Writers Guild of America Award-winner for headwriting at General Hospital.[88][89] Then on May 8 news broke of Chandler Massey's return as Will,[35] and Carlivati engaged fans on twitter with an exclaim of "Whaaaattt??? Will Horton is dead! Or is he! How can this be?! Tune in and find out!"[36] Carlivati talked about his motivation to bring back Massey in an interview with Soap Opera Digest, saying "it seemed like the death of Will Horton was not a popular decision and was viewed as a mistake. I wanted to take a look at that and see if there was a way to repair some of that damage.”[90] Executive producer Ken Corday said: "People hated the fact that we killed Will, but we did. Now we’re fixing it."[91] In September 2017, in an interview with the New York Post, Massey opened up about Will's revival, stating: "Will certainly wouldn’t be the first person to come back from the dead. They [the writers] have a medically plausible explanation."[92][59]

text: Storyline[edit]

text:
"Will's paternity drove story for DAYS in the 90's. The character provided a living crucible for the twisted love quadrangle of Sami, Austin, Carrie and Lucas. Will was also a central factor in the delicious, decades-long war Kate and Sami waged against one another."

Jamey Giddens, Daytime Confidential[71]

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text: Will is born to Sami via Caesarean section. Sami has convinced herself, and everyone else, that Austin is the father, and Austin welcomes Will as his own. But when Will has an accident as a child, his blood is tested, and Sami then realizes that Lucas must be Will's real father. In order not to lose Austin, Sami says nothing, and changes hospital records so no one knows – but her brother Eric (Jensen Ackles) and sister Carrie (Christie Clark) uncover the truth, just before she is going to get married to Austin. The wedding is stopped, and over the following years, Will is centric to several custody battles between his parents. In addition, he is caught up in the bitter feud between Sami and Kate Roberts (Lauren Koslow), who is the mother of both Austin and Lucas.

text: Despite his turbulent upbringing, for many years Will is a quiet, eager to please little boy (played by Shawn and Taylor Carpenter). He loves both Austin and Lucas, and he gets upset when he cannot see them, and when his father Lucas is in a coma after a fire. However, after Lucas takes him on holiday to Africa in the summer of 2002, Will (now Darian Weiss, and nine years old) becomes spoiled, bold, and obnoxious. He talks back to his parents and calls them by their first names. He also starts to play rough with other children and ends up hurting his cousin Abby on more than one occasion. Everyone worries that his unstable home life is the cause of his antics.

text: Eventually his childish behavior subsides. But when a serial killer (the Salem Stalker) begins offing his relatives he gets afraid - and it doesn't help that both his parents are, for a time, suspects! Will (now Christopher Gerse) comes home from school one day with a black-eye, after he has gotten into a fight defending his parents honor. Will does everything he can to get his parents together, so that he can be like "other kids" with a father and mother who live together. Several times it seems that Will's dream is going to come true, but Sami, or his grandma Kate, usually manage to throw a spanner in the works. So when Lucas marries Sami's sister Carrie Brady, and Sami gets engaged to Austin, Will is happy, as he loves both his aunt and uncle, and his parents. But when Sami jilts Austin at the altar, Will cannot cope and runs away to Chicago. Sami fears he has been kidnapped and goes onto the news to plea for his safe return. When Will returns, he is surprised to find out the kerfuffle he has caused.

text: Carrie has an affair with Austin and they leave Salem (the show's fictional town) together, and Lucas moves back in with Will and Sami. Will is pleased to have his parents together once more, and to his delight, Lucas and Sami become engaged. They marry despite Kate's attempts to stop them, and Will is over-the-moon that his dream has finally come true. But his happiness does not last, as crimelord Stefano DiMera (Joseph Mascolo) tells Sami she has to divorce Lucas and marry Stefano's son EJ DiMera (James Scott) to end the longstanding Brady-DiMera feud. When she refuses, Sami's step-dad (Will's "grandpa John") is killed (or so they think). Sami gives birth to twins, and the girl (Allie) is Lucas's, but the boy (Johnny) is EJ's – and this is due to EJ having raped Sami on a night she made love to Lucas. Sami decides that the only way she can protect the lives of her family is to marry EJ, but Will is furious that his family is being torn apart by EJ. He is so upset that he does something very rash, that is only revealed years later. After Sami and EJ are married, Will is brought home to Lucas by a police office who finds him underage-drinking. Will doesn't want to be in Salem any more – and wants to go live with his Uncle Austin and Aunt Carrie in Switzerland. His dad agrees to this, and Will leaves America. Six weeks later, Sami phones Will to tell him that his dad has been arrested for the shooting of EJ DiMera.

text: After his dad is released from prison, and his mom divorces EJ, Will (now Dylan Patton, and aged 16) returns to Salem in February 2009. Disappointed his parents are not back together, Will is stunned when his mom tells him she has adopted a new baby – Grace Brady. Sami is lying to Will, as in truth, she got pregnant by EJ, and after divorcing EJ, gave birth to a daughter – and the "adoption" is Sami's way to keep EJ from knowing. Will meets and befriends Mia McCormick (Taylor Spreitler), who like Will, is a new student at school. Mia encourages Will to accept Grace as his sister. Mia and Will start dating, but Will knows she is keeping secrets. Eventually, it comes out that she herself had a baby secretly after getting pregnant by an ex-boyfriend, Chad Peterson-Woods (Casey Deidrick). She gave away her daughter to Nicole Walker (Arianne Zucker), the new wife of EJ DiMera; the plan being that Nicole would pass the baby off as hers and EJ's. Grace contracts meningitis and dies, and Will and Sami are distraught. Will is further hit when Sami tells Will that Grace was his biological (half) sister. Five months later, everyone is shocked when it is revealed that Nicole Walker secretly swapped Mia's baby with Sami's baby (who she knew was EJ's child), and Nicole has been bringing up Sami's daughter (named Sydney) all along; whereas Grace was actually Mia and Chad's. Sami is re-united with her child Sydney, and Mia learns her daughter is dead.

text: After a break, Will and Mia start dating again, but when Mia two-times Will with Chad, Will (now Chandler Massey) breaks up with her. Despite starting out as rivals for Mia's love, Will and Chad become friends. Chad also befriends Will's best mate − Tad "T" Stevens (Brendan Coughlin).

text: Will's mom marries the former FBI agent and policeman Rafe Hernandez (Galen Gering), and Will loves living with them and his three young siblings as a family. His friend Gabi Hernandez (Camila Banus) is Rafe's young sister, and Will begins dating her. They graduate high school together, and on graduation day, they meet Sonny Kiriakis (Freddie Smith), who has just returned to town after traveling the world. Will and Sonny quickly become friends, and Will learns Sonny is gay. After befriending Sonny, Will avoids being intimate with Gabi, and she ends the relationship. Will catches Sami cheating on Rafe with EJ, and in an angry and upset mood, he goes to a party with Sonny, gets drunk and kisses a young man named Neil (Jesse Kristofferson). Will talks about the kiss with his grandmother Marlena Evans (Deidre Hall), who promises him her support and love. His grandma Kate also supports and accepts him, saying she has known for a long time. Will confides in Sonny that he is not ready to come out as gay, and, trying to resist his sexuality, he has a one-night stand with Gabi that results in a pregnancy. As Will enters into a relationship with Sonny, Gabi, with Will's agreement, pretends that the baby has been fathered by her new boyfriend Nick Fallon (Blake Berris), who is Will's second cousin. Will and Sonny split when the paternity of Gabi's baby is revealed, but soon reunite. Nick doesn't want Will involved in the coming baby's life because he is gay, and when Nick discovers that it was Will, not Lucas, who had shot EJ years before, he blackmails Will to sign away his parental rights. After Will and Nick are both attacked by a former prison-mate of Nick's, and Will is shot whilst trying to save Nick's life, Nick relents – and Will is correctly named as baby Arianna's father on her birth certificate when she is born. When they leave hospital, Gabi and Arianna move in with Will and Sonny, and together they form a three-parent family, with Gabi, Will and Sonny bringing up Arianna together.

text: Will (Guy Wilson) marries Sonny in April 2014. Gabi rekindles her relationship with Nick, who pressures Gabi to seek a court decision that will drastically limit Will's access to his daughter. Shortly after a court date is set, Nick is shot and killed. Thinking that Sonny did it, Will confesses to protect him. This causes Gabi, the real killer, to admit to killing Nick, who she felt was a threat to her and Arianna. Gabi accepts a plea deal and goes to prison, leaving Arianna in the care of Will and Sonny. In October 2014, Will and Arianna leave Salem temporarily with Sami, who is mourning EJ's death, but they return in December 2014. Will's absence and Sonny's financial troubles with his new club have strained their relationship. Will finds out that Sonny has spent all their money, and Will plunges himself into his work as a journalist. He is assigned to interview injured star baseball player Paul Narita (Christopher Sean), whom Will soon suspects is gay but closeted. Will sees an opportunity to get an important scoop about what it is like to be a gay professional athlete, and also to help another gay man to come out. Recognizing that Will is keen to confirm that he is gay, Paul seduces Will into bed with him. Will is immediately remorseful, but he continues to interview Paul and encourages Paul to come out to the world in his article, sharing his own coming-out story with him. What Will doesn't know is that Paul is Sonny's ex, to whom Sonny had proposed to before he had met Will, and Paul had only declined because he didn't think he could be an out gay athlete. Paul's athletic career is now at an end due to his injury, and unbeknownst to Will, he has already tried to get back together with Sonny. Sonny learns that Paul is Will's interview subject at the same time he hears about Will's infidelity, but he is stabbed in the park as he goes to confront them. Sonny's memory is impaired while he recovers, but when he remembers what Will has done, Sonny rejects Will and leaves Salem to convalesce. When he returns, they struggle to mend their relationship, but Will's infidelity is made public and the Kiriakis family turn against Will. Desperate to repair his marriage and terrified of losing Sonny to Paul, Will does all he can to get Paul to leave town. When this fails, Will tries playing match-maker to pair Paul with Derek (Spencer Neville). To help things along Will shares his interview notes about Paul with Derek, to help him win Paul's heart. But Paul realizes Derek knows stuff he has only told Will. Sonny is furious when he finds out about Will's machinations, and leaves town again, ostensibly to take care of Kiriakis family business. Will is distraught, but he holds onto the hope that they will be re-united. Gabi is released from prison on a technicality, and Will and Arianna welcome her back into their lives.

text: Ben Weston (Robert Scott Wilson) asks Will to be his best man in his upcoming wedding to Will's cousin, Abigail Deveraux (Kate Mansi). Will calls on Abby at the apartment she shares with Ben, to give her wedding venue information that he and Sonny had put together when they were engaged. Abby has to go out, but the cable guy is due to come that day, and Will offers to wait in the apartment. Whilst there, Will reminisces about his own wedding, and then phones Sonny (who is in Paris, and a different time zone) and leaves him an emotional and loving voice message, fully admitting his fault in their breakup, and expressing his unconditional love. After this Will notices a red necktie in Ben's trash can. This surprises Will, and makes him think of the serial killer currently at large in town who has murdered two women by strangling them with such a necktie (which is left with the body). Ben arrives just as Will is holding the tie and thinking about this. Ben acts alarmingly, and Will realizes Ben is the Necktie Killer. Will tries to leave, but Ben knocks him out. Just as Will is coming to, Ben strangles Will with the tie. Will is apparently killed on October 9, 2015.[93]

text: Sonny is elated to get Will's message, and immediately gets ready to return to Salem, to reunite with Will. Whilst packing, he is told Will has been murdered. Sonny is devastated, and he returns to Salem to bury his husband rather than reconcile with him. Meanwhile, Ben has made sure Chad DiMera (Billy Flynn) is the prime suspect in the murders; but as Ben's relationship with Abigail self-destructs, he becomes increasingly violent and unhinged. After he nearly murders Abigail and Chad, Ben is arrested and publicly revealed as the Necktie Killer.

text: In 2017, it is revealed that Will (Chandler Massey) did not die when he was strangled. When Will had entered Ben’s apartment, he was being followed by Susan Banks, who was planning to abduct Will in an act of revenge against Sami, whom she blamed for her son EJ’s death. When Ben slipped out after strangling Will, Susan and her associate Dr Wilhelm Rolf (who had revived Sami’s step-dad John back when he was thought to be dead) secretly entered, and Dr Rolf found Will to be unconscious but breathing. He then injected Will with something that would make him appear to be dead. After Lucas and Sami had viewed Will in the morgue, Dr Rolf revived Will. It turns out that Will’s family unwittingly buried an empty coffin at his funeral, and Will, who had lost all his memories, was taken by Susan, who took care of him, but made him believe that he was her son EJ.

text: In the fall of 2017, Sonny and Paul are to marry, and Ben escapes from Bayview Sanatarium, and crashes their double wedding with Chad and Abigail to announce that Will is alive. This is met with a high degree of skepticism, but Sonny, who thinks Will died thinking Sonny didn’t love him, really wants to know the truth, and says he can’t marry Paul until he knows. Sami returns to Salem to find out the truth. When investigation reveals that the claim that Will is alive originates from Dr Rolf, this ignites hope that it is true. The investigation leads to an address in Memphis, where they find Susan. Will is working at a local bar, and Lucas is the first to see him, but he is inebriated, and thinks he is hallucinating and does not realize he has really seen Will. Paul then sees Will, but is afraid to tell people in case he loses Sonny. Eventually he confesses to Sonny, and Sonny and Sami find Will, and discover that he does not recognise them, and does not believe that they are his real family. But John persuades Susan’s partner Roger, whom Will trusts, to admit to Will what Susan has done. And Will, with some encouragement from Marlena, decides to return to Salem, to find out who he really is.

text: Reception[edit]

text: Coming out story[edit]

text: Days of Our Lives "first gay kiss"[94][95] was welcomed by critics. Soap journalist Michael Fairman[15] called it "one of the best daytime television coming out kisses", and said the best part was "Sonny sees the whole thing!"[96] Online blogger Perez Hilton described the scenes as "incredible" and "absolutely wonderful".[97] Pascal Parvis of Têtu noted Will and Neil's kiss was "not a little" and said "what could be better" than the serial's first gay kiss lasting two episodes.[98] Both The Huffington Post and Perez Hilton remarked favorably on Days showing a hot "steamy make-out" session as opposed to just a kiss,[97][99] and Hilton praised the serial and NBC for not "bowing down to bigoted pressure".[97] Sara Bibel of Xfinity said Will and Neil got the "full soap treatment" (as for heterosexual couples) claiming daytime soap operas in the past have panned the camera away during same-sex kisses.[95] There were also jibes at Days of Our Lives belated featuring of man-to-man intimacy: Joachim Ohnona from Pure People pointed out it took more than ten thousand episodes for Days to air their first gay kiss;[100] and Dan Avery of Queerty said the serial "made television history yesterday when it became the absolutely last show to show two men kissing", and "he’ll get some bed scenes by 2016".[101] Entertainment Weekly's Lynette Rice commented "a first gay kiss is no longer much of a milestone on broadcast TV, but for Days of Our Lives it represents the latest effort to remain relevant",[94] and Xfinity's Bibel noted it was remarkable for a show with a reputation for being "socially conservative".[95]

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"Head writers Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr. developed the character layer by layer, and then bounced him around like a ball in a pinball machine as he had to deal with the 'am I gay?' realization .... Having seen friends go through this before, I've never seen a more honest approach."

Jessica Radloff, Glamour Magazine[14]

text: Fairman called Will's coming out story "excellent",[102] "powerful",[103] "emotionally impactful",[104] "relatable",[103] and "believable",[104] and credited Days of Our Lives for keeping it "edgy, dark, and very raw".[96] He said the writers and actors did "a subtle, compelling and beautiful job relating the struggles of young man trying to face and accept who he is, and the ramifications he fears it will have for him with his family and society";[102] and he also praised the writing for "addressing what parents fear for their child when they come out", saying "a lot of important points were made throughout the dialog."[104] Fairman gave his accolade of "power performances of the week" to Chandler Massey and Deidre Hall (playing Will's grandma Marlena, who helps Will come out),[102] and gave Massey his "Best Overall Performance" of a daytime younger actor in 2012,[105] and praised Massey's performance as "remarkable", "fabulous",[103] and "beyond sensational".[16] Jessica Radloff of Glamour Magazine, said: "In any other actors hands, the story would not carry the same weight. Massey brings a pureness to the role of Will that makes you love him. This is a brilliant young actor who will move you to tears based on a look alone."[14] Massey submitted the episode where Will kisses Neil and talks to Marlena about it to the Daytime Emmys in 2013,[4] and won.[5] Anthony D. Langford of AfterElton.com noted the "terrific chemistry" of Massey and Hall;[106] whilst Rick Nelson of the Star Tribune found the storyline to be addictive viewing.[107]

text: Will and Sonny's romance[edit]

text: Will Horton's romance with Sonny Kiriakis was generally well-received by critics and the audience. TV Guide said that "while it took 45 years for the show to introduce its first openly gay character (Sonny) and another year and a half to have him find a male partner (Will), the wait was well worth it. This steamy, star-crossed saga has had drama to spare (Paranoia! Blackmail! Impossible parents!), but its real success lies in the fresh, easy charm of these two young men."[108] TV Source Magazine named Will and Sonny Best Couple of 2012 in the Days of Our Lives series, saying "One of the most refreshing things about Will and Sonny’s relationship is it's portrayed just as any heterosexual couple would be. Watching them grow from friends to being in love was one of the highlights of the year for DAYS."[109] Jeremy Helligar of The Advocate declared Will and Sonny "groundbreaking" because "their domestic stability (and sex life!) is so front-and-center on Days". He compared them favorably with 1992 series Melrose Place, whose gay character Matt Fielding "never got so much as on onscreen kiss", whereas Will and Sonny "are regularly shown in flagrante delicto and basking shirtless in post-coitus afterglow." "How far we've come", he exclaimed.[110]

text: Wedding[edit]

text: Hollywood reporter Greg Hernandez[111] called the wedding "great, great stuff", and said he was "wiping away tears left and right". He confessed, "I used to get lost in fantasy as a teenager that I would marry a guy" and explained how his imagined festivities were very much like Will and Sonny's wedding. He was thrilled that "with gay marriage becoming legal in a growing number of states" his fantasy "can actually come true for young gay people dreaming about that today", and he said "that is why I will be forever grateful to this soap for giving us this episode, this wedding that was filled with love and supportive family and friends. It’s the way it should be and always should have been", and he "loved every minute of it".[112] Michael Fairman declared it the "best wedding" of 2014, and praised it for being "beautifully acted", with "inspired writing" and "touching speeches", saying "every time we watch this we need hankies".[113]

text: When on June 26, 2015, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled to make same-sex marriage a right across all states of the USA,[114] soapcentral.com published an article celebrating the Supreme Court's ruling with a look back at the first same-sex marriages shown in USA soap operas: the first female-female marriage (Bianca and Reese on All My Children) and the first male-male marriage (Will and Sonny on Days of Our Lives), saying both were "incredibly special".[115] Commenting on the importance of the couple at the time of Will's revival, Krystyn Burtt of SheKnows said, "The storyline began to play out in 2012, when few states had marriage equality. By the time the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that same-sex marriage was a right in all 50 states on June 26, 2015, Will and Sonny were already married. Days of Our Lives had shown fans how important all types of love stories were and how they deserved representation on daytime TV."[116]

text: Marital strife[edit]

text: In Soap Opera Digest's "Best and Worst" end-of-year reviews, Will and Sonny got "Worst Marital Conflict" in both 2014[117] and 2015.[27] Digest criticized the writing, saying "it was not the write stuff".[117] Greg Hernandez said it was as if Will had had a "sudden personality transplant" and "none of it feels true";[70] and Fairman said the character became "unrecognizable" in his actions.[24] Soap Opera Digest complained that Will "inexplicably succumbed" to Paul's advances and that it added "insult to injury" when it was subsequently revealed that Will had a previous episode of infidelity when off the show. They remarked: "when Will and Sonny tied the knot, it was a groundbreaking moment based in love, which is why it is impossible to comprehend why the show spent the better half of the last two years trying so hard to unravel this historic union".[27]

text: Murder[edit]

text: Former Days writer Kola Boof,[118][119] tweeted "I think the killing of Will Horton is one of the biggest dumbest mistakes in Days history. On many levels."[120] Soap Opera Digest condemned the killing, saying it was "sick and violent", and "it got people talking all right, but not in a good way," and whilst realizing the show needed to boost ratings, "killing off a legacy character like Will was not at all the way to do it." They said "Will holds a special place in the hearts of Days viewers", because they watched him "grow up on-screen after his birth in 1995", and "his sensitive coming out tale in 2012" added to his "cherished status".[27] TV Guide Magazine's Michael Logan tweeted "Killing Will is a dumb-ass move. He's not just a legacy character & LGBT icon, this crazy hot mess was storytelling gold. Insane."[121] Logan expanded in his end-of-year review, saying it was "dead wrong" and "idiotic" and "the murder of Days of Our Lives’ landmark gay character Will Horton via brutal strangulation meant the loss of an insanely fascinating fire-starter who had kept the show spinning for years," adding "many are calling the move homophobic."[28]

text: Michael Fairman[15] labelled the killing as "The Worst Decision" in soaps in 2015, saying "to kill the legacy character of Will Horton by having him brutally murdered ... sent a message to the LGBT community, and the viewers, that caused a major negative backlash." Fairman gave the runner-up for "Worst Decision 2015" to Days not having Will's husband upfront at his funeral, "Will’s husband Sonny was relegated to the second row ... Not cool!"[24] Tony S., a columnist at soapcentral.com, said the family photograph of Will, Sonny and Arianna blowing off Will's grave "came across as a promise from someone in charge to homophobic fans ... as, 'Congrats, you won't have to worry about their kind anymore.'"[122]

text: James Lott Jr[123] of AfterBuzz TV said Will's murder was a "jump the shark moment", and "I just couldn't believe it!" He said Will was "a character that has been on since pre-birth", and is "related to almost everyone on the show", and "I mean this is really ridiculous to me: to kill Will Horton!" Lott described his experience watching it happen and thinking "you're ruining the show right now - this is the biggest mistake you could have made," and "as the life was coming out of him, the life was coming out of me at the same time, as a long-time viewer."[29] Lott's Afterbuzz TV colleague Tony Moore[124] called Will's death "gruesome" and "hard to watch", and bemoaned "the whole gay storyline is just going to be done away with." He criticized the writing, in that Will didn't run, cry for help, or fight back.[29] Tony S did too, writing "Will was just as fit as any other Salem heartthrob, but was so discombobulated by a toss to the fridge that he couldn't fight back. Alllll riiiggghhhttt", and "he had a child and husband to live for – to fight for – yet the writers seemed like he couldn't die fast enough."[122] Several commentators criticized the lack of repercussions in the story. Laurisa, a columnist at soapcentral.com, wrote "the people of Salem were no more invested in solving this crime than they were before Will's death."[122] Michael Logan wrote "Will’s death was pretty much forgotten by the people of Salem within days, even by his own mother,"[28] and Soap Opera Digest said "the end game" was "nil", and "people were giddily partying to honor Salem's birthday party mere weeks after his graphic murder!"[27]

text: Mark J Freeman[125] of Afterbuzz TV talked in strongly critical terms about pandering to viewers who dislike seeing gay characters on TV: "instead of just saying 'a majority of middle america doesn't like the gay storyline: let's kill them' ... how about being the change?" Freeman framed it in an historical context, saying, "there are things in American history, that a majority of people ... thought was right, and it didn't make it right, ... and it doesn't mean that change should not have happened."[29]

text:
"Does anyone in the TV industry know or care that Days of Our Lives exterminated their iconic gay legacy character and pretty much abolished all things gay on the show, just in time to celebrate 50 years on the air?"

Question addressed by Matt Roush in TV Insider's Ask Matt column[126]

text: Fans expressed outrage via social media[25][127] and letters to Soap Opera Digest.[128] Social media fan reactions were published in Hollywood Life,[25] and 2paragraphs.com,[127] with one fan saying: "Will Horton was a beacon in the face of bullying and persecution. Today, you expect LGBTQ youth to watch his life strangled away".[25] Soap Opera Digest printed a letter saying: "In my 30-plus years as a Days viewer, I have never been more disgusted by a storyline than the violent strangulation death of a gay legacy character ... As the mother of a young son who was struggling with his sexuality, we were able to watch Will come out, fall in love, and get married ... Now I regret ever encouraging him to watch."[128]

text: In another published tweet a fan thanked Alison Sweeney (who plays Will's mother, Sami Brady) for "voicing our disgust" to the killing of Will.[25] Sweeney told Soap Opera Digest: "I was angry. I felt betrayed and hurt", and "this particular story point is something that I just don't agree with and I didn't from the moment they told me. And I don't understand why they did it." Sweeney said: "it breaks my heart that there is no Will anymore."[129]

text: Return[edit]

text: Will's revival was welcomed by critics.[130][131] Kristyn Burtt of SheKnows wrote: "The return of Chandler Massey to Days of Our Lives this fall has been a huge watershed moment for NBC. The character of Will Horton and his love story with Sonny Kiriakis, played by Freddie Smith, was a groundbreaking one on television. It really is a romance for the ages."[130] Hope Campbell of SoapHub said the killing of Will "ushered in a downward spiral for the soap just before its 50th anniversary that never stopped – until now. Welcome back, Will, and welcome back, Sami."[131]

text: Awards and nominations[edit]

text: Darian Weiss, Christopher Gerse, and Dylan Patton, were all nominated for Young Artist Awards for their portrayal of Will.[132][133][134] Gerse was nominated twice – in 2004 and 2005.[132][133] In 2010, Patton received a nomination for a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series,[19] and the next year (2011), Chandler Massey was nominated.[20] Massey went on to win the Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Younger Actor in a Drama Series – never before won for a gay character[21] – three years in a row, in 2012,[6] 2013,[5] and 2014.[7]

text: Days of Our Lives won the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Daily Drama in 2012,[135] 2013,[3] 2014,[136] and 2015,[137] in recognition of the characters and stories of Will Horton and Sonny Kiriakis and related characters.


document_title: Mughal gardens

question_text: who laid out the first mughal garden in india

text: Mughal gardens

text: History[edit]

text: The founder of the Mughal empire, Babur, described his favourite type of garden as a charbagh. They use the term bāgh, baug, bageecha or bagicha for garden. This word developed a new meaning in India, as Babur explains; India lacked the fast-flowing streams required for the Central Asian charbagh. The Agra garden, which was renamed after Partition of India as the Ram Bagh, since it lied in Hindu majority portion is thought to have been the first charbagh. India, Bangladesh and Pakistan have a number of Mughal gardens which differ from their Central Asian predecessors with respect to "the highly disciplined geometry". An early textual references about Mughal gardens are found in the memoirs and biographies of the Mughal emperors, including those of Babur, Humayun and Akbar. Later references are found from "the accounts of India" written by various European travellers (Bernier for example). The first serious historical study of Mughal gardens was written by Constance Villiers-Stuart, with the title Gardens of the Great Mughals (1913). Her husband was a Colonel in Britain's Indian army. This gave her a good network of contacts and an opportunity to travel. During their residence at Pinjore Gardens, Mrs. Villiers-Stuart also had an opportunity to direct the maintenance of an important Mughal garden. Her book makes reference to the forthcoming design of a garden in the Government House at New Delhi (now known as Rashtrapati Bhavan).[2] She was consulted by Edwin Lutyens, and this may have influenced his choice of Mughal style for this project. Recent scholarly work on the history of Mughal gardens has been carried out under the auspicious guidance of Dumbarton Oaks (including Mughal Gardens: Sources, Places, Representations, and Prospects edited by James L. Wescoat, Jr. and Joachim Wolschke-Bulmahn) and the Smithsonian Institution. Some examples of Mughal gardens are Shalimar Gardens (Lahore), Lalbagh Fort at Dhaka, and Shalimar Bagh (Srinagar).

text: From the beginnings of the Mughal Empire, the construction of gardens was a beloved imperial pastime.[3] Babur, the first Mughal conqueror-king, had gardens built in Lahore and Dholpur. Humayun, his son, does not seem to have had much time for building—he was busy reclaiming and increasing the realm—but he is known to have spent a great deal of time at his father’s gardens.[4] Akbar built several gardens first in Delhi,[5] then in Agra, Akbar’s new capital.[6] These tended to be riverfront gardens rather than the fortress gardens that his predecessors built. Building riverfront rather than fortress gardens influenced later Mughal garden architecture considerably.

text: Akbar’s region, Jahangir, did not build as much, but he helped to lay out the famous Shalimar garden and was known for his great love for flowers.[7] Indeed, his trips to Kashmir are believed to have begun a fashion for naturalistic and abundant floral design.[8]

text: Jahangir's son, Shah Jahan, marks the apex of Mughal garden architecture and floral design. He is famous for the construction of the Taj Mahal, a sprawling funereal paradise in memory of his favorite wife, Mumtaz Mahal.[9] He is also responsible for the Red Fort at Delhi which contains the Mahtab Bagh, a night garden that was filled with night-blooming jasmine and other pale flowers.[10] The pavilions within are faced with white marble to glow in the moonlight. This and the marble of the Taj Mahal are inlaid with semiprecious stone depicting scrolling naturalistic floral motifs, the most important being the tulip, which Shah Jahan adopted as a personal symbol.[11]

text: Design and symbolism[edit]

text: Mughal gardens design derives primarily from the medieval Islamic garden, although there are nomadic influences that come from the Mughals’ Turkish-Mongolian ancestry. Julie Scott Meisami describes the medieval Islamic garden as “a hortus conclusus, walled off and protected from the outside world; within, its design was rigidly formal, and its inner space was filled with those elements that man finds most pleasing in nature. Its essential features included running water (perhaps the most important element) and a pool to reflect the beauties of sky and garden; trees of various sorts, some to provide shade merely, and others to produce fruits; flowers, colorful and sweet-smelling; grass, usually growing wild under the trees; birds to fill the garden with song; the whole is cooled by a pleasant breeze. The garden might include a raised hillock at the center, reminiscent of the mountain at the center of the universe in cosmological descriptions, and often surmounted by a pavilion or palace.”[12] The Turkish-Mongolian elements of the Mughal garden are primarily related to the inclusion of tents, carpets and canopies reflecting nomadic roots. Tents indicated status in these societies, so wealth and power were displayed through the richness of the fabrics as well as by size and number.[13]

text: The Mughals were obsessed with symbol and incorporated it into their gardens in many ways. The standard Quranic references to paradise were in the architecture, layout, and in the choice of plant life; but more secular references, including numerological and zodiacal significances connected to family history or other cultural significance, were often juxtaposed. The numbers eight and nine were considered auspicious by the Mughals and can be found in the number of terraces or in garden architecture such as octagonal pools.[14]

text: Sites of Mughal gardens[edit]

text: Afghanistan[edit]

text: Bagh-e Babur (Kabul)

text: India[edit]

text:
Humayun's Tomb, Nizamuddin East, Delhi
Taj Mahal, Agra
Aarm Bagh, Agra
Mehtab Bagh, Agra
Safdarjung's Tomb
Shalimar Bagh (Srinagar), Jammu and Kashmir
Nishat Gardens, Jammu and Kashmir
Yadavindra Gardens, Pinjore
Khusro Bagh, Allahabad
Roshanara Bagh
Rashtrapati Bhavan, New Delhi (1911-1931)
Vernag
Chashma Shahi
Pari Mahal
Achabal Gardens
Qudsia Bagh
Pune-Okayama Friendship Garden-Phase_II

text: Pakistan[edit]

text:
Chauburji
Lahore Fort
Shahdara Bagh
Shalimar Gardens (Lahore)
Tomb of Jahangir, Lahore
Hazuri Bagh
Hiran Minar (Sheikhupura)
Mughal Garden Wah

text: Bangladesh[edit]

text: Lalbagh Fort


document_title: Girl I Got My Eyes On You

question_text: who sang i got my eyes on you

question_tokens: who sang i got my eyes on you

text: Girl I Got My Eyes On You

text:
"Girl I Got My Eyes On You"

Single by Today

from the album Today

B-side
"Sexy Lady"

Released
1989

Format
7" single, 12" single

Recorded
1988

Genre

New jack swing
R&B

Length
4:59

Label
Motown

Songwriter(s)
Wesley Adams, Lee Drakeford, Gene Griffin, Larry McCain, Larry Singletary

Today singles chronology

"Him or Me"
(1988)
"Girl I Got My Eyes On You"
(1989)
"Take It Off"
(1989)

"Him or Me"
(1988)
"Girl I Got My Eyes On You"
(1989)
"Take It Off"
(1989)

text: "Girl I Got My Eyes On You" is a 1989 single by R&B vocal group, Today. The single was their most successful of six chart releases on the Hot Black singles chart, peaking at number one for one week.[1] As was the case with all their releases, none of Today's singles crossed over to the Hot 100, however, "Girl I Got My Eyes On You" peaked at number twenty-nine on the dance charts.[2] The song chorus is interpolated from Carrie Lucas 1982 single "Show Me Where you Coming From".


document_title: Give My Head Peace

question_text: who plays uncle andy in give my head peace

text: Give My Head Peace

text: Background[edit]

text: The concept originated on BBC Radio Ulster music programme Across The Line in the late 1980s, as a five-minute slot. The radio version used many of the characters and plot ideas used in the later TV series.

text: Pilot: Two Ceasefires and a Wedding[edit]

text: Its first television appearance was in a made-for-TV film called Two Ceasefires and a Wedding, shown on BBC Northern Ireland (31 August 1995), poking fun at the clichéd "love across the barricades" plot that features in many dramas about Northern Ireland. In this case the lovers were Emer, the daughter of a "prominent" Sinn Féin activist, and Billy, an RUC constable. Their wedding is opposed by their respective families, and ends in farce, although Billy and Emer were happily married.

text: Series[edit]

text: A full series was then commissioned by BBC Northern Ireland. Some changes were made to the format prior to the series going ahead - with the character of Cal (Emer's brother) changing substantially, and the introduction of other recurring characters such as Big Mervyn and Red Hand Luke. A few years into the series, Nuala McKeever (Emer) left the series to pursue other interests, and a new love interest for Billy was introduced in the form of Emer's previously unseen sister, Dympna.

text: The series continued to run on BBC One NI until 2005, taking a hiatus as the Hole in the Wall Gang began work on a new series called Dry Your Eyes. Give My Head Peace usually screened in a prime-time Friday night slot, opting out from network BBC One. In mid-2004, a selection of episodes were shown across the UK on BBC Two in a late-night slot during weekends.

text: The 50th episode, entitled "Secondary Colours" aired on 27 December 2002.[2]

text: Cancellation[edit]

text: The final Give My Head Peace episode was transmitted on BBC One Northern Ireland on 28 December 2007. This was supposed to be the last ever episode but during the final few seconds, some writing appears quoting "That's All Folks?" suggesting that the show could return in the future. According to Tim McGarry, the reason for the show's cancellation was due to a mis-sent email, received by a BBC executive in charge of the show's production. Allegedly, McGarry had hit reply rather than forward to the intended recipient.

text: 2016 return[edit]

text: Give My Head Peace returned for a one-off 40-minute long episode titled "The Farce Awakens" on 28 December 2016. It was filmed in Northern Ireland in October 2016. Television presenter Christine Lampard made a cameo appearance.

text: 2018 return[edit]

text: The Series returned with an eleventh series which began broadcasting on 19 January 2018.

text: Live[edit]

text: In recent years, they have performed live shows at a selection of venues across Northern Ireland. The 2004 show was chiefly made up of scripts from the 2004–2005 series. In 2007 a new live show entitled Dry Your Eyes it's Give My Head Peace was held in Derry's Millennium Forum and the Grand Opera House to celebrate ten years of the show. This production showed material from GMHP and Dry Your Eyes and was very well received. The next live show in 2008 followed on from the final television episode, called Give My Head Peace: Back From The Grave, and also featured the Dry Your Eyes characters. In 2009, the gang went on their last tour called "Give My Head Peace: The Final Farewell Tour". However, the show returned on an annual basis with "Give My Head Peace: The Annual Review" touring Northern Ireland. The performance features the show's regulars, with the notable exceptions of Mervyn and Red Hand Luke, and also features a stand-up set from Tim McGarry who plays Da.

text: In 1999 a video & book was brought out. The only DVD released to date is of series 6, in November 2009, and is available at Give My Head Peace

text: Characters[edit]

text: The principal characters are:

text:
Da (Tim McGarry) - He is an Irish Catholic who represents a stereotypical Irish nationalist. He believes very much in Irish culture, despite the fact he admits he cannot speak a word of Irish. He is a Sinn Féin spokesman (later an assemblyman) and prides himself on his 'friendship' with Gerry Adams, trying to copy his outward appearance by wearing a beard and glasses. Da is shot and killed by Ma and Dympna in the last episode after it is revealed he prevented Liam Neeson from proposing to Dympna and was suspected by Ma of having an affair with a woman named Siobhan, who also tries to kill Da, but misses. Da lived in the Divis Tower on the Falls Road. It is suggested that he was in the IRA even after becoming a Sinn Féin member, considering that in the 2016 special "The Farce Awakens", Ma claims that he was wearing a balaclava when she met him, and that "when he says 'the boys', he means the Ra".
Cal (Damon Quinn) - Although he is a grown up man, he still lives at home and often behaves like a child. He supports his father in the struggle against the British imperialism and does whatever Da tells him, no matter how daft. In the pilot "Two Ceasefires and a Wedding" he is portrayed as a sinister Irish Republican Army activist. In the series however, his character is dumbed down and he is the "thick one" of the family. At the end of the series he falls in love with Siobhan, a Protestant woman who had previously posed as a Republican to get closer to Da, who she was madly attracted to.
Uncle Andy (Martin Reid) - An old-fashioned traditional loyalist whose twin loves are British Ulster and Elvis Presley. He is very argumentative, and determined to take offence at even the mildest suggestion that anyone in authority is trying to oppress him. He often devises elaborate political or moneymaking schemes with the aid of Big Mervyn, but owing to their shared lack of intelligence or foresight, these inevitably fail. Andy is shot and killed by Billy in the last episode after it is revealed that Andy and Mervyn had been taking out huge loans in Billy's name, eventually leaving him penniless.
Billy (Michael McDowell) - Andy's nephew and an RUC (later PSNI) officer. He fell in love with and married Emer (and later Dympna). Throughout the series' life, there have been occasional hints that Andy may be more than just his uncle. In the 2003–2004 series, however, the writers knowing that they couldn't keep up that pretence for too much longer, the story was finally "wrapped up". In the final episode he murders both Uncle Andy and Mervyn, but receives a pardon from Martin McGuinness and Ian Paisley. He then commits himself to clearing Dympna's name, despite being shacked up with two other women.
Emer (Nuala McKeever) - She is like her mother not interested in politics, but unlike her mother more intelligent. Emer is more interested in fashion and in men. She is married to Billy but later leaves after the second series and runs off with a Spaniard.
Ma (Olivia Nash) - Da's cynical, sharp-tongued wife. She is neither very intelligent nor very interested in politics and tries to be a warm-hearted Irish mother. However, as she has very little but contempt for her family and everyone else, she is convincing nobody. With her non-sectarian attitudes, she accepts her Protestant son in law Billy, and also has a mild crush on Uncle Andy.
Dympna (Alexandra Ford) - replaced Emer as Billy's girlfriend when she ran off with a Spaniard. She is Ma and Da's other daughter, and is just as shallow as Emer, but is a great deal more pretentious. Often lectures Billy and Andy on intellectual matters, despite her limited knowledge. Dympna eventually married Billy in a chaotic ceremony in Rome at the end of the 2002 series. It is possible that she is in fact the daughter of Ma and Italian Cardinal Vincenzo. In the last episode she is jailed for 20 years for murdering Da.
Big Mervyn (BJ Hogg) - A burly, leather-wearing loyalist, and Uncle Andy's best mate. Not the brightest. Mervyn is shot and killed by Billy in the last episode.

text: Other occasional characters are:

text:
Red Hand Luke (Dan Gordon) - born-again Christian and violent loyalist psychopath. Also a "Shugo" Duncan fan. He acts like a big child, and when he doesn't get his way, savagely beats everyone up, usually Andy and Mervyn, who often live in fear of the next time he (literally) bursts through Andy's front door. At the end of the series he converts to Islam in order to get arrested (as he longs to return to prison), after which he is placed in a specially constructed prison in the middle of Belfast Lough. Andy and Mervyn attempt to break Luke out, but he falls into the lough, protesting that he cannot swim. His fate is left ambiguous.
Sammy (Gordon Fulton) - The landlord of the "Loyalist Kneebreakers", Andy and Mervyn's favourite haunt, a rowdy loyalist drinking den. Makes matchstick models of Stormont in his spare time.
Pastor Begbie (Paddy Jenkins) - A recently introduced character. Like Red Hand Luke, a born-again Christian and feared loyalist, now a 'Presbyterian minister'. He and Luke met whilst they were in jail. He often gets Andy and Mervyn to perform painful and/or humiliating tasks for him, and threatens them with a visit from his 'henchmen' if they refuse. By the end of the series he is running an estate agency called Pastors New.

text: There have been other characters that have made one-off special appearances over the series to great effect. One such example was a Christmas special entitled "The King and I"[3] where Elvis Presley (played by impersonator Martin Fox[4]) saved Andy from a very dangerous situation.

text: Home Media[edit]

text: VHS[edit]

text: A VHS was released containing the following three episodes; Hollywood On The Falls, Red Hand Luke, The Peace Dividend.

text: DVD[edit]

text: A number of DVD's have been released in the United Kingdom.

text:
Release name
No. of discs
Episodes Included

Series 6 Part 1
1
Three episodes - Intiminadation [sic], The Drugs Don’t Work, A Christmas Carol.

Series 6 Part 2
1
Three episodes - Day In The Life, Seven, The Shoes Of The Fisherman.

Series 6 Vol 1 & 2
2
Includes the six episodes mentioned in above releases.

text: Digital[edit]

text: The 2016 special The Farce Awakens (21 October 2016) and the documentary A Beginner's Guide (28 December 2016) that was broadcast on BBC One is available on BBC Store.[5]

text: Trivia[edit]

text:
The phrase "give my head peace" is a common idiom in Northern Ireland meaning "leave me alone" or "stop bothering me".
The theme song of the series is "She Says" performed by The Saw Doctors. It was released as a single in Ireland in the late 1990s.