About

The page focus on the self-created soap opera Life of Today. This page is to keep everyone updated on where the soap is at.

Timeline
The years October 1993-July 1996 have already been written. The soap is now set in October 1996 as of now. The 1995-96 season ends October 3, 1996. Then season 4 begins October 4, 1996 and Ends October 3, 1997.


 * The soap is back in the past to write more storylines with the series.

History, Casting, and Story development
In 1993, Rae'Kwon Youmans was looking to create a new soap series, that expresses love, lies, betrayals, teen drama, etc between a younger audience. The soap first premiere October 4, 1993 as a 15-minute show.

When the series first open, it introduced twelve main characters (five recurring characters), with one being introduced later in December, the soap follows the lives between the three core families: Mitchells, Winters', and the Newmans. In October 1995, two additional families were introduced: the Taylors and the Millers, during that the show was extended to a half hour.

In October 1995, the soap was expanded to a 30-minute show, and create a reboot to introduce new characters, new castmembers, new storylines, and to boost ratings. The reboot recieved mixed to postive reviews.

In January 1996, the soap experienced casts cuts and they let go several castmembers and downgraded several  castmembers to recurring status, however despite of this more castmembers were introduced to soap.

Raven Symone and Orlando Brown were the first older adults introduced to the soap they appear in 1996.

This soap has been favored for its lack of recasting of characters, but in October 1996, two characters, Allen Parks and Kimberly Brown were recast by Adam Irigoyen and Zendaya Coleman.

In October 1996, the soap was rebooted once again, and it dubbed as Life of Today 2.0, this reboot returned several castmembers and old characters, introduced new characters and castmembers. This reboot started September 30 and will end March 1. Due to this reboot several castmembers were let go once again (four were let go early).

Castmembers
There are currently over 30 castmembers on the soap, either on contract or recurring.

In October 1995, Life of Today was rebooted and dubbed as Life of Today 1.0, with hiring popular celebrities, with new characters, new families, new storylines, and boosting ratings. Later In 1996 the series had to fired actors to shrink the show's budget and more characters debut to the series despite the cuts in early 1996.

On September 30, 1996 and forward, Life of Today was rebooted once again, and was dubbed a Life of Today 2.0, with this reboot it return several characters, hired new castmembers, introduced new characters, new storylines, and boost ratings. This reboot received mixed to positive reviews and highly praise for a daring move for the soap.


 * List of Life of Today castmembers
 * Regular status
 * Recurring status