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Dena Higley QUITS — SUDS REPORT EXCLUSIVE; Breaking News — TVGC; ATWT actor FIRED
Topic Started: Jul 26 2008, 06:10 PM (133,433 Views)
jane1978


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Jul 28 2008, 11:33 AM

Wow...you know I love Ed but maybe they should just clean house. Scott, Higley, whoever. You can't gave that kind of shit going on at the show because then you make others unhappy. What a mess.
It will not change anything. Every producer is trying to put his ideas in the writing, especially if the show is in troubles. Tom Langan was pretty much controlling SSM. Stephen Wyman had conflicts with Sheffer all the time. This is the way creative process work. Yoy can believe you have the best ideas and stories in the world, but if the producer doesn´t like it you have to rewrite, not get angry and sulk.
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Rakesh198
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Loved Tom's latest blog.



WTF NBC boards are down? Ugh!
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Dragonish1
Jul 28 2008, 11:40 AM
It amazes me that ED was almost able to get away with this...How Could Corday allow this to happen?...Do you suppose Ed has dirt on him? Is there a photo of Corday fucking a goat or some other barn yard animal floating around out there?...This is nuts!
Corday was supposedly on vacation, like always when bad stuff happens, so its possible that he left and Ed hijacked the entire thing, but at the same time, Corday does NOT know how to run a show properly, so I am not surprised when it comes to him.
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This just makes me think that Dena's actual scripts and stories must have been so horrible that Ed and some of the actors just couldn't bare to put it on the screen..So they tweaked stuff, and while the show isn't great now...Its probably better than what Dena would have given us..Maybe she planned to bring the goop back and have Tony run Club Echlon...And give Steve and Kayla In The House..

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King
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I bet this will bring Corday's lazy ass back from vaca REAL fast!
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I don't think any episodes have aired yet that ES & Co. have written especially if they've only been writing for weeks.
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Kenny
Jul 28 2008, 11:32 AM
Matt
Jul 28 2008, 11:16 AM
Keep in mind that most writers aren't on the set on a daily basis (if at all) and don't even see their how their written material plays out until the see it on air (often weeks and months after they've originally written it). We don't have a time frame on when Dena saw the show, *knew* that what she was seeing wasn't what she'd written. BTS re-writings could've been going on for months before she even knew what was going on (with much of the rewritings not even airing yet).
Very true.

Hasn't it also been said that Higley has a tendency to not watch the shows she writes for? Without watching, it might've been difficult for her to realize what was going on.
I have to agree with you. We have yet to hear Ed Scott's side of the story. I'm sure he's not going to just roll over and play dead. He must value his reputation. It will probably split the actors into camps like the Lumis and Ejamis. Yikes!
Just don't cancel the show.
Where the hell does Corday vacation in Siberia? Does he not have a cellphone? Or does he just not give a damn. So now, I guess we'll have 6 hours of Good Morning America. Which I have never seen and never will. :drunk:
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Sharongate, bitches!

Kevc1980
Jul 28 2008, 11:46 AM
This just makes me think that Dena's actual scripts and stories must have been so horrible that Ed and some of the actors just couldn't bare to put it on the screen..So they tweaked stuff, and while the show isn't great now...Its probably better than what Dena would have given us..Maybe she planned to bring the goop back and have Tony run Club Echlon...And give Steve and Kayla In The House..

That still doesn't change the underhandedness of all of this and the fact that Ed Scott had NON-UNION people rewriting the work of WGA members, which isn't legal.
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Not sure where everyone is posting comments about this news. But it sounds nothing more like people crying sour grapes because someone else doesn't like their work. What sort of makes me laugh in a way is that there are people praising what we are seeing on screen right now. I for one haven't cared for the show in months. But there are people who have been loving the show. Don't know when this all started happening or if it is referring to stuff yet to be shown on screen. I haven't read Tom C.'s blog yet, but I know in interviews Corday was basically telling Hogan and his team what to write, etc. It does sound like a common occurance.

Now the fact that WGA is getting involved does make it seem different. But again funny in the light of how weird it was how Dena actually got the head writing job. Just sounds like one of those times where unless you are in the middle of it, we don't all understand all the directions it can go. Need to keep seeing how it all plays out as the days go on.
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King
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Tom's blog is great.

We're ALL seeing it devoured before our eyes.

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Professor-in-training

jane1978
Jul 28 2008, 11:32 AM
Interesting, but not nearly as shocking as I thought/was afraid of. First, this source is close to Highley so he is not objective. I´m sure Ed Scott is doing changes in the scripts, most of producer does. But part of the HW´s job is accept those changes and work them in, not throw hissyfit and refuse any rewrites which is what she apparently did.

This all IMO stems from the fact Dena seems very impulsive/nerve woman with a lot to deal with. She wants to be good HW but she doesn´t have the abilities/time/patience so she blames everybody else who tries to clean her mess. This source says Ed is asking some actors to write their story/scenes. Is it told in a negative way but honestly, that´s exactly what the actors praise Ed Scott for. They say he talks with them about the storyline and he allows them to change the lines to work better. Is that bad? Of course not. If Scott is the one responsible for the recent Ava/Kayla/Steve scenes he did the right thing.

Anyway, this really seems more like a scream of angry, unappreciated woman who thinks everybody is against her than an objective report. We will see what happens next.
Excellent, Jane!! :hail:

I don't know. To me, it reeks of Higley whining, pointing fingers, and overblowing this all out of proportion. But, I don't know enough about the business to know if the writer's guild has to investigate ANY allegations, no matter how dumb, or if they have to have proof?
I have to laugh about putting Mary Beth Evans and "diva" in the same sentence though. Nadia would be my suspicion. I actually wouldn't rule out Hall, either.
And, mixing the BI about the cokehead/producer banger with this is kinda wrong. Nothing has been said to make that connection.
Anyway, I'd like to hear both sides of the story. It's already obvious Dena Higley can't handle pressure. For all we know, she is taking the changes that Ed Scott and actors are legally allowed to make or suggest and blowing it all out of proportion.
And LOL at the comment about the coitus interruptus comparison!
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Jul 28 2008, 11:37 AM
Then he can dismiss Ed, the pet actress and if he feels it's best, Higley too.
You know, part of me feels bad for Higley, and part of me doesn't. To have the fans so against her, but her bosses and the actors against her as well? No matter how bad her writing may be, there's an ethical way to go about things and just just wasn't ethical in the least.

I can't imagine Ed Scott working in daytime after this.

Yet once again, it all goes back to the same common denominator... KEN CORDAY. If that man didn't have his head so high in the clouds, he might actually open his damn eyes and keep this kind of shit from happening. Why, why, why?! His mismanagement may very well cost the show everything this time. It was only a matter of time, IMO.
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I don't think it is Deidre as she has said for 20 + years that people who are far smarter than she are charged with writing for Marlena. I can't see her all of a sudden after 30+ years on this show to walk into the Producers office and demand to write for charcters and then to write awfully for her and Drake.

Lets review when things went topsy turvy. This would be the week of May sweeps. By the first week in June:

Ejami was apart
J&M were apart and Marlena was shipped to Colorado for the second time in a month.
Java starts.
Max is angry, adopted and in love with Stephanie heated up.
Dansea fell in love.
Payla had their baby and disappeared with the big white elephant in their room that was Steva almost making love to Ava.
Lucas returns and turns to Chole.
Phillip drops Chloe and falls instantly for Morgan.
Bope are the environment police.

None of these twists in s/l' or direction have been good for any of the vet Diva's so I can't see it being them. MBE, Deidre, and KA are either barely on or being written horribly. Who would voluntarily do that to their character?
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Jul 28 2008, 11:48 AM
Kevc1980
Jul 28 2008, 11:46 AM
This just makes me think that Dena's actual scripts and stories must have been so horrible that Ed and some of the actors just couldn't bare to put it on the screen..So they tweaked stuff, and while the show isn't great now...Its probably better than what Dena would have given us..Maybe she planned to bring the goop back and have Tony run Club Echlon...And give Steve and Kayla In The House..

That still doesn't change the underhandedness of all of this and the fact that Ed Scott had NON-UNION people rewriting the work of WGA members, which isn't legal.
How can Days scream foul over this after the stunt they pulled during the strike? And then afterwards where they fired most of their writing staff.
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People keep giving Scott the benefit of the doubt here and that he changed Dena's stuff because it was bad. Maybe but maybe not. Maybe the actress just wanted to be seen more - who knows. Esp. if she is sleeping with him and Dena wasn't using her properly.

As Alvin pointed out in the other thread - I couldn't remember all of it.

Remember that Kay Alden hates Ed Scott and got went to Bill Bell and got Scott fired. Kay Alden is not the type of person to do that - so there had to be a reason. Maybe he tried the same shit with her.
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No it's clearly underhanded. No question.

But sometimes when the ship is sinking you can't stand on principle. I'm really not defending Scott here. It looks like he's in for a world of hurt... and so be it...

But it's only half the story.

Coups are always always always underhanded... just sometimes they are underhanded for the better.

And the only way this one is going to get cleared up is a wholesale cleaning of house.
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The low ratings, the negativity on the boards, the prospect of cancellation, the writer's strike playing into this ... Ed Scott was told to fix this thing and he may be trying his damnest to do just that! I can't fault the guy! But to let actress do the re-write well that's not a very brilliant idea!
Edited by cjknick, Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM.
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King
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Whether or not this source is Higley's and isn't objective...I mean...she is still going to sue DAYS, likely...so it is a big deal.
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sitrian
Jul 28 2008, 11:51 AM
No it's clearly underhanded. No question.

But sometimes when the ship is sinking you can't stand on principle. I'm really not defending Scott here. It looks like he's in for a world of hurt... and so be it...

But it's only half the story.

Coups are always always always underhanded... just sometimes they are underhanded for the better.

And the only way this one is going to get cleared up is a wholesale cleaning of house.
Yep and I've seen people defending Corday and his attempts to save the show no matter how underhanded, unethical and low lifed they were so why not Scott?

I'm not defending him but to me the real culprit is Corday for creating this situation in the first place.
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Hey, any chance that this scandal could actually boost the ratings? No? Ah, I'll always have hope.
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