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Dena Higley QUITS — SUDS REPORT EXCLUSIVE; Breaking News — TVGC; ATWT actor FIRED
Topic Started: Jul 26 2008, 06:10 PM (133,436 Views)
OneBadKitty
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I'm not going to defend Ed Scott by saying he did rewrites and what have you because that happens all the time anyway, and I'm not quick to say that Higley is such a bad writer that the rewrites were warranted. It sounds to me like he basically took the writing duties away from Higley (which is what's going to get them in trouble with the WGA) and it also sounds like he's trying to take control of the show away from Corday and he did it in an unethical manner.

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I don't think Drake Hogestyn is one of the actors. His story has been pretty consistent, while shitty, from the beginning until now.
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Holy crap, 81 people are logged on.
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Jul 28 2008, 11:19 AM
None of the stories seem to have drastically changed. The John and Marlena story seems to have a direction, as does the Daniel and Chelsea story, as stupid and sick as it is. Although speaking of Daniel and Chelsea, the Kate angle has come out of nowhere, so maybe Lauren Koslow is the other actor that was given the chance to rewrite story and put herself in Daniel and Chelsea's storyline.
Oh shit, I hope LK isn't involved, because we already know she's really good friends with Scott...who I'm sure would probably pull for her to get some screentime.
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You know...I never thought of it but Nadia and "overblown diva" fits. No one in the cast ever talks about her so it's not clear if she's well-liked by anyone but Jay. She was barely on after the plane crash and all of a sudden in May her airtime exploded and she got a new pairing with Lucas out of nowhere. Scratch Ali and Bryan and substitute Nadia. I think she has to be one of them.

I do appreciate what Ed does with the show and maybe he had his reasons but this was really horrible to do. I know Higley may not be the best but just push for her axing. Don't undermine everything and fuck the show up because that is what this did. It fucked the show up. It destroyed cohesion and direction and just made everything into a clusterfuck.

I don't think Ari is involved though. I know she's on alot but so is James Scott, who is also involved in several stories. I don't think looking back on who has wrote scenes for themselves in the past (SN) or helped write scenes (KA) is going to lead us to who is involved. I think you have to look at people who had little faith in the writing to begin with (Drake), had little screentime for awhile and then had a rapid increase in screentime which involved something coming out of nowhere (Nadia) and then you have to look at who may be in a story that started off one day and maybe changed completely at some point, to which I have no idea as everything feels disjointed overall.
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OneBadKitty
Jul 28 2008, 11:23 AM
I'm not going to defend Ed Scott by saying he did rewrites and what have you because that happens all the time anyway, and I'm not quick to say that Higley is such a bad writer that the rewrites were warranted. It sounds to me like he basically took the writing duties away from Higley (which is what's going to get them in trouble with the WGA) and it also sounds like he's trying to take control of the show away from Corday and he did it in an unethical manner.

On the surface of all of this, I agree with you Kitty. It's what's underneath the surface that stinks.
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ges
Jul 28 2008, 11:08 AM
Sounds like there is another side to this story to me.
Definitely.

There's much more story to tell.

We need to find out why... how... when... who...

The cast must've thought they were in heaven. "Hey, we can write our own stuff? Awesome! Let's have my character fuck this character in an elevator, and this character can fuck that character... and we're all just gonna fuck all summer! And we'll get NBC to promote the hell out of it as a 'Summer of Romance' and it's gonna be great! Oh yeah, and Theo's autistic."

This story has many layers and it's gonna take a while to get to the bottom of it. Is it possible for the actors to be fired?

Ed Scott, damn it. You and Corday should've just fired Higley and gotten someone more capable. Don't do this underhanded shit that's gonna end up screwing the show over even more in the end. Ugh... just ugh. As for Corday, this just goes to show how out of touch he really is. If this doesn't prove it, nothing will. The man is CLUELESS at running a business. Absolutely clueless.
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OneBadKitty
Jul 28 2008, 11:23 AM
I'm not going to defend Ed Scott by saying he did rewrites and what have you because that happens all the time anyway, and I'm not quick to say that Higley is such a bad writer that the rewrites were warranted. It sounds to me like he basically took the writing duties away from Higley (which is what's going to get them in trouble with the WGA) and it also sounds like he's trying to take control of the show away from Corday and he did it in an unethical manner.

And that's how I feel as well. Yes, executive producers are known for taking a writer's work and tweaking it if they feel the need to. But to totally rewrite stories and allow various actors to do the same, totally undermining the writer and her team. That's not fair. And it's not ethical. And it's just not something I ever expected to hear Scott doing.
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A lot of the ramifications of this sort of thing could definitely involve heavy WGA fines (to what amount, I'm not sure). If the show has to pay large union fines because of this as well as the strike/scab issue, it could really hurt the bottom line for the show financially.

Now, to play devil's advocate, perhaps Scott and some actors didn't like how Higley was writing the show and/or specific characters. All of the higher profile actors have been playing their characters for years (and are often part of key couples). Many times, when a new writer with limited knowledge of a show takes over, they meet with the actors to get their take on their characters since those actors often know their characters and histories far better than anyone else. Maybe those actors went to Scott with their concerns about how their characters and storyline were being written out of concern for the integrity for their characters and Scott allowed them to tweek certain things (actors tweeking or rewriting bits/scenes of dialog to be more in line with their characters' histories/traits is something that's gone on for years on all shows) and then it snowballed from there into rewritten entire storylines and plot points. It might have all started as very innocent and well-intentioned, but got wildly out of hand with some less-than-ethical actors taking it as an indicator that they could go overboard with their re-writing.
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King
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Kristian Alfonso has barely been on so it can't be here.

I don't think Ari has hit diva status yet.


This is big news, but it still didn't blow me away the way I thought it would. But it is very, very big.


It's funny that Higley hasn't been writing the show, but people have been bashing here for months and months.
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I'm sure Ed Scott's time at Days is coming to a close because of this. Because of all the legal trouble and how its said in the article he wants Higley back, Corday will most likely fire him.
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Well we can rule out Deidre, Ali, Kristian, Renee, Lauren and LeAnne - why because they barely are given any dialogue as of late or under Dena for that matter.

So who do we have left: Nadia, Ari, Rachel, Kristen, Marybeth. anyone else??
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Jul 28 2008, 11:24 AM
Oh shit, I hope LK isn't involved, because we already know she's really good friends with Scott...who I'm sure would probably pull for her to get some screentime.
You're right. You do you ahve to remember that Koslow and Scott are very tight. And Kate's involvement in this storyline has certainly come out of nowhere. We know Higley is all about Roman and Kate, so for her to write Kate going after Daniel, that doesn't make sense.
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Sharongate, bitches!

Ed Scott's contract is up this August I believe, if he's gone, you know why...
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I am not ruling out Dee. No way.
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cjknick
Jul 28 2008, 11:26 AM
Well we can rule out Deidre, Ali, Kristian, Renee, Lauren and LeAnne - why because they barely are given any dialogue as of late or under Dena for that matter.

So who do we have left: Nadia, Ari, Rachel, Kristen, Marybeth. anyone else??
I don't think we can let go of Lauren that easily. Her involvement in Daniel and Chelsea's story has certainly come out of nowhere. Maybe she was sick of not having anythign to do and given her close friendship with Scott, maybe she went to him.
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Nadia also replaced Ali in the 10 of ad. That could be coincidence.
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Paul8148
Jul 28 2008, 11:10 AM
I think the other two are Steven and Mary. I know Steve wrote his exit screens durning his last GH stint.
Yeah, wasn't something mentioned recently about Steven and Mary Beth going to the show's producers and asking them to address the Ava situation or something?
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DrewHamilton
Jul 28 2008, 11:26 AM
fenderbabe
Jul 28 2008, 11:24 AM
Oh shit, I hope LK isn't involved, because we already know she's really good friends with Scott...who I'm sure would probably pull for her to get some screentime.
You're right. You do you ahve to remember that Koslow and Scott are very tight. And Kate's involvement in this storyline has certainly come out of nowhere. We know Higley is all about Roman and Kate, so for her to write Kate going after Daniel, that doesn't make sense.
But Lauren mentioned she didn't even know that her character and Daniel even had a past relationship it seemed to come out of left field for her too....

If I had to guess, my guess would be Marybeth or maybe Nadia (because I have always been clueless as to why she is still on Days ... why she is still there and MM is gone - plus the plot thickens - why did her boyfriend get the old heave hoe?????)
Edited by cjknick, Jul 28 2008, 11:32 AM.
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