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Dena Higley QUITS — SUDS REPORT EXCLUSIVE; Breaking News — TVGC; ATWT actor FIRED
Topic Started: Jul 26 2008, 06:10 PM (133,432 Views)
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cubsgirl
Jul 28 2008, 11:48 AM
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.
Well, producers(especially on Days because of Corday) interfering with their HWs work is no different, yes, but for Ed to just dismiss Higley and the entire team, but NOT fire them, and then work with actors to write the lines for each other? I don't mind actors tweaking their scenes at all especially when they are bad, but this is way beyond just some tweaking or interfering.

And if he wanted Higley gone, he could have just fired her! Yes it may have caused some trouble, maybe even with Corday, but it would have been nothing like this! And in interviews, like that one with Nelson a few weeks ago, he lies(much like Corday) and says how much he loves Higley's work. I know he couldn't just confess everything but its such a sneaky move in a bad way. And underhanded.
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Again the almost hypocrisy with some fans I am seeing on boards is weird and so funny.

When Corday seemingly pulled this coup with Higley to save Days from Hogan, fans were outraged.

Now the same fans are praising Scott for doing the same thing in a similar underhanded way to save the show from Higley.

But I think honestly corday had the show's best interest at heart, but I think Scott was just thinking with his pecker.

Albeit Corday even though he wants best for the show doesn't know how to get it.
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e83talus
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
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?
This exactly when the show went to shit...I think this is when all of ED's stuff began to appear. The show rated high then fell with a huge ass thud. I can not even bare to watch it anymore.
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Oh, and since Ed lied about Higley a bit in his interview, could it be that Days is not renewed yet afterall?

Even though Nelson said it wasn't cancelled, I wonder if this might cause NBC to just pull the plug.
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Professor-in-training

OK, before I leave to see if an orthopedic surgeon will be sawing on my knees..........
I have to chuckle at this, and the first thing to pop in my mind? The Gospels. (sorry, but it's the first context I thought of). Poor Jesus was praised to the skies on Palm Sunday and the same crowd a week later yelled to crucify him.
I have to laugh at those who bashed Higley and praised Ed Scott are now calling for Ed Scott's head and are feeling sorry for Higley. Not necessarily all here, but all over. It's an interesting study in group mob mentality. :P Sorry, I know that will get me reamed while I'm gone, but no matter.........
I really want to hear both sides of the story. Between two extremes, the truth lies.
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Steve Frame
Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM
Again the almost hypocrisy with some fans I am seeing on boards is weird and so funny.

When Corday seemingly pulled this coup with Higley to save Days from Hogan, fans were outraged.

Now the same fans are praising Scott for doing the same thing in a similar underhanded way to save the show from Higley.

But I think honestly corday had the show's best interest at heart, but I think Scott was just thinking with his pecker.

Albeit Corday even though he wants best for the show doesn't know how to get it.
I'm not praising Scott and why is everyone assuming that Scott and the actress did this because they were sleeping together? I know what the blind item was but this report from Nelson said nothing about that and I don't think its fair to assume because it was an actress, she and Scott were sleeping together.
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fenderbabe
Jul 28 2008, 11:53 AM
Hey, any chance that this scandal could actually boost the ratings?
If they were filming it, it would! :laugh:
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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.
I'm not convinced that the hijacking is as extensive as NB's source implies. There's a difference between producers/actors serving as de-facto headwriters and them providing input or tweaking the writers' scripts. It's conceivable that someone with a pro-Higley agenda would imply the former as opposed to the latter.
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ladyofthelake
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
And, mixing the BI about the cokehead/producer banger with this is kinda wrong. Nothing has been said to make that connection.
i don't know...that BI was released less than a month ago...now all of a sudden, ed scott has a pet actress that he is allowing to re-write scenes. you know what they say...if it looks like a duck and talks like a duck....
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I don't care if Scott and the actress were fucking or baking cookies, I say get rid of both of them. We know one thing they were doing - writing the show.
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Nelson is right that Days will have a hard time recovering from this. They are going into the Olympics with all this uneveness and nothing really exciting going on. They have too many writers backstage and all this turmoil behind the scenes. Actors finding out now that other actors are writing the show will cause backstage trumoil among the performers. They will be taking sides in all this.

If Scott is trying to get Corday out too, then the actors who love Corday will side with him against the actors who now like Scott.

Plus they will be looking at fines, and possibly a settlement with Higley now if she sues the show.

It is a big mess that Ed created here.

Since others are hearing the same things from other sources and not just from Higley sources then I see a lot of it being true - esp. if they are saying Griffith might be doing the same thing.
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If Higley were to sue Ed, can't Ed just come out and reveal that Higley was a scab writer during the strike....I'm still hoping Higley quits and Ed stays..And we get a talented writer, who's stuff won't need to be tweaked..

But i'm guessing Ed was behind all the green talk...Steve and Kayla discussing Ava..and possibly bringing Stefano back as Higley didn't want to write for him..
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luvpumpkns
Jul 28 2008, 11:59 AM
ladyofthelake
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
And, mixing the BI about the cokehead/producer banger with this is kinda wrong. Nothing has been said to make that connection.
i don't know...that BI was released less than a month ago...now all of a sudden, ed scott has a pet actress that he is allowing to re-write scenes. you know what they say...if it looks like a duck and talks like a duck....

I agree....to me there is not doubt the pet is the a mistress that has been leaked about for awhile now. I feel NO guilt in saying so.
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Dragonish1
Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM
e83talus
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
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?
This exactly when the show went to shit...I think this is when all of ED's stuff began to appear. The show rated high then fell with a huge ass thud. I can not even bare to watch it anymore.
Just adding to that, D. We all remember Dee Hall's interview in SOD when she thought the big love scene (that was already taped) between Nu-John and Marlena was going to actually happen. That was a total let-down. We should have guessed right there and then something was very much amiss. That was my WTF moment.
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ladyofthelake
Jul 28 2008, 11:57 AM
I have to laugh at those who bashed Higley and praised Ed Scott are now calling for Ed Scott's head and are feeling sorry for Higley. Not necessarily all here, but all over. It's an interesting study in group mob mentality. :P Sorry, I know that will get me reamed while I'm gone, but no matter.........
The show sucked and Dena Higley was listed as headwriter. Judging by her previous work on the show, I naturally deduced that she was the one to blame.

Now I see that they're all to blame, and I'm not happy.
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I'm still in Ed corner..Seeing how bad the show was during Higley's first run..I have no doubt she would have gotten us to that level again..And while the show isn't great now, maybe Ed have saved it...And i don't need to be told about it being unethical...
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Tom Casiello's blog entry is telling to me in that he seems to indicate he is hearing it from other sources as well. And he seems awfully upset by the news for there not to be some truth to it. And he even states about who knows who is writing the show now.

That indicates to me they were doing more than tweaking the scripts.
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Jonatha
Jul 28 2008, 12:01 PM
Dragonish1
Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM
e83talus
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
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?
This exactly when the show went to shit...I think this is when all of ED's stuff began to appear. The show rated high then fell with a huge ass thud. I can not even bare to watch it anymore.
Just adding to that, D. We all remember Dee Hall's interview in SOD when she thought the big love scene (that was already taped) between Nu-John and Marlena was going to actually happen. That was a total let-down. We should have guessed right there and then something was very much amiss. That was my WTF moment.
That was a WTF moment..her and Drake were interviewed and they were saying how hot it was and then it was just kissing in the tent...
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Jonatha
Jul 28 2008, 12:01 PM
Dragonish1
Jul 28 2008, 11:55 AM
e83talus
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
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?
This exactly when the show went to shit...I think this is when all of ED's stuff began to appear. The show rated high then fell with a huge ass thud. I can not even bare to watch it anymore.
Just adding to that, D. We all remember Dee Hall's interview in SOD when she thought the big love scene (that was already taped) between Nu-John and Marlena was going to actually happen. That was a total let-down. We should have guessed right there and then something was very much amiss. That was my WTF moment.
Yes , that was very shocking to all of us. Here we have a scene, a scene even recapped by the actors in a mag and ...poof....nothing airs...very weird, very weird indeed.
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After all... tomorrow is another day!

I'm fairly certain that the two others to rewrite their story is Steven and Mary Beth, but I'm not sure about the overblown diva.

It could be...

-Deidre, if only because Nelson used the term diva to describe her in the next paragraph. I don't buy that so much though because I can't fathom why an actor would write such an awful story (or non-story) for herself.
-Nadia Bjorlin, as Chloe is a real opera diva, but if she is the one going to Ed asking for different scene partners that I don't understand as I don't know why she would want out of JKJ's orbit and ask to be inserted in the Ejamicas mess by having Chloe take up with Lucas.
-Rachel Melvin, because we do know that her and Blake Berris had a falling out before she became paired up with Shawn Christian. If Ed and her were having an affair and were running the show, that would explain why Rachel was given this other love interest and Blake was backburnered and also why we were shoved the Chelsea-Dan pairing down our throats for so long if they were playing out their own affair on screen thus were the only people not grossed out/annoyed by it. Didn't we have a blind item not that long ago that their was a Days starlet that came out of nowhere to dominate the show and that the actress was getting a big coke problem?

My feeling is Melvin.
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