Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]



Hello, soap fans -- and welcome to Daytime Royalty!

For those unfamiliar, we are an uncensored community for fans and lovers of the daytime genre. We have a no-holds-barred atmosphere in regards to the shows, writers, actors etc. but we do not allow member suffering succotash in any form.

You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use. If you join our community, you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Join our community!

If you're already a member, please log in to your account to access all of our features.

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Dena Higley QUITS — SUDS REPORT EXCLUSIVE; Breaking News — TVGC; ATWT actor FIRED
Topic Started: Jul 26 2008, 06:10 PM (133,429 Views)
Kenny
Member Avatar


brimike
Jul 28 2008, 12:15 PM
Are the nbc boards really down? Strange coincidence.
Yes, they sure are. I've been trying to access for a while now.
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
squee
Member Avatar


PhoenixRising05
Jul 28 2008, 12:20 PM
Tweaking happens all the time and, as I said, I'm sure EP's interfere all the time. We know they do.
Two words for ya: Gloria. Monty.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Rakesh198
Member Avatar


Kenny
Jul 28 2008, 12:28 PM
brimike
Jul 28 2008, 12:15 PM
Are the nbc boards really down? Strange coincidence.
Yes, they sure are. I've been trying to access for a while now.
They are back up now.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kenny
Member Avatar


Tripp
Jul 28 2008, 12:20 PM
So here is what I think it is:

1. Dena writes shit. We all know this.
2. Ed Scott reads the shit, and goes "Shit, this is shit!" So he tweaks it some.
3. Dena gets pissed. Throws a fit.
4. Ed tells her as long as she keeps writing crap, he'll always try to improve it.

I hope that's all it is, for the sake of the show. Because the way it's sounding now, I'm under the impression that it's a complete cluster-fuck of titanic proportions over there and that really scares me for the show's future.
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Days4Life


I really want to hear from someone else on this. There's always two sides to every story...and then there's the truth. I'm positive we don't have the truth yet.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Steve Frame
Member Avatar


squee
Jul 28 2008, 12:30 PM
PhoenixRising05
Jul 28 2008, 12:20 PM
Tweaking happens all the time and, as I said, I'm sure EP's interfere all the time. We know they do.
Two words for ya: Gloria. Monty.
But this goes far beyond interfering. Gloria Monty interfered by telling writers what to write but she didn't overstep and rewrite the scripts.

There is a big difference here. What Ed did totally crossed the line.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Tripp
Member Avatar
Geekette

sitrian
Jul 28 2008, 12:25 PM
That's kind of my read too, Tripp.

I'm not saying Ed didn't cross a line and if he did that he shouldn't get some comeuppance for it but this story is clearly one sided and reputation wise I have to give Ed the benefit of the doubt here when I don't have enough information to know what happened.
And he may have.

But who are we are going to believe? Dena who has been fired by soaps before, including Days and has a reputation for writing bad bad stories? She did walk out on them which is unprofessional and stating all this to the press also comes across as unprofessional.

Or Ed Scott who has been in the business for years with nary a mark on him? He might have lost his patience with her and done something he shouldn't have...but there are two sides to a story. And Days should never have hired Dena in the first place.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Steve Frame
Member Avatar


Tripp
Jul 28 2008, 12:35 PM
sitrian
Jul 28 2008, 12:25 PM
That's kind of my read too, Tripp.

I'm not saying Ed didn't cross a line and if he did that he shouldn't get some comeuppance for it but this story is clearly one sided and reputation wise I have to give Ed the benefit of the doubt here when I don't have enough information to know what happened.
And he may have.

But who are we are going to believe? Dena who has been fired by soaps before, including Days and has a reputation for writing bad bad stories? She did walk out on them which is unprofessional and stating all this to the press also comes across as unprofessional.

Or Ed Scott who has been in the business for years with nary a mark on him? He might have lost his patience with her and done something he shouldn't have...but there are two sides to a story. And Days should never have hired Dena in the first place.
He does have a mark on him too.

The great William J. Bell fired him and he didn't do it just for the fun of it.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
cubsgirl
Member Avatar


Kenny
Jul 28 2008, 11:49 AM
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 am there with you Kenny. There is a part of me that feels bad for her. Like with her blogs, I think she is a good person and wonderful mother. I just don't care for her soap writing. But the way things are being handled, I do feel sorry for her because it isn't completely fair.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Ellie


Kenny
Jul 28 2008, 12:20 PM
Ellie
Jul 28 2008, 12:13 PM
Tom, your 15 minutes ARE UP. Sorry, I know some of you like the guy, but he completely rubs me the wrong way. This story doesn't involve him at all, other than that he's also a writer.
I think he's upset because these are his colleagues and he was also shoved out of a job only for this to take place. I'd be pretty pissed, too.
I would be, too, though I'm not unhappy he was fired, but that's an entirely different discussion. It just rubs me the wrong way that he seems to grab the spotlight with his blog whenever it's available. However, I do give him credit for writing a much more relevant blog than one Ms. Dena Higley.

I hope this is not a stupid question, but Nelson's original post yesterday indicated that Higley quit. I know Nelson replaced that with this post. Are we assuming that Higley is still employed by the show? I will be so upset if she comes out the hero in any of this.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Miss Rhi
Member Avatar


tululabell
Jul 28 2008, 12:18 PM
Wonder what MTS thinks about all of this if she's read/heard about it?
Well this explains why MTS has looked kinda tired and just plain worn out on Y&R for awhile, for the most part it seems like she's been playing Nikki but her heart hasn't been completely in it like it usually is. I thought maybe she was just bored with the Chow storyline, but now I see that it's a lot more then that......


I feel sorry for MTS and their kids...... :(
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Kenny
Member Avatar


Damn, this news has crashed both the NBC board and the SoapCentral Days board, LoL.
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
leelee
Member Avatar


Rhiannon
Jul 28 2008, 12:36 PM
tululabell
Jul 28 2008, 12:18 PM
Wonder what MTS thinks about all of this if she's read/heard about it?
Well this explains why MTS has looked kinda tired and just plain worn out on Y&R for awhile, for the most part it seems like she's been playing Nikki but her heart hasn't been completely in it like it usually is. I thought maybe she was just bored with the Chow storyline, but now I see that it's a lot more then that......


I feel sorry for MTS and their kids...... :(
Me too. Wonder if she knows who he's banging..(if that part is true) or if she just knows what we know basically. :shrug:
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
jane1978


Tripp
Jul 28 2008, 12:20 PM
So here is what I think it is:

1. Dena writes shit. We all know this.
2. Ed Scott reads the shit, and goes "Shit, this is shit!" So he tweaks it some.
3. Dena gets pissed. Throws a fit.
4. Ed tells her as long as she keeps writing crap, he'll always try to improve it.

Yeah, I think this pretty much sums it up.

There is no new news. I think after Nelson posted the first scope someone from Highley´s camp contacted her and give all this juicy scoop. We don´t know how much is true. We don´t know how much is it overblown out of proportion.

We know Dena is angry and left. We know Corday is on the way back and will try smooth things out. And we know Scott is trying to find a new HW, while either someone from his "scab" team (if it exists) or someone from Highley´s team is trying to hold the show together.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
daysfan
Member Avatar


Tripp
Jul 28 2008, 12:35 PM
sitrian
Jul 28 2008, 12:25 PM
That's kind of my read too, Tripp.

I'm not saying Ed didn't cross a line and if he did that he shouldn't get some comeuppance for it but this story is clearly one sided and reputation wise I have to give Ed the benefit of the doubt here when I don't have enough information to know what happened.
And he may have.

But who are we are going to believe? Dena who has been fired by soaps before, including Days and has a reputation for writing bad bad stories? She did walk out on them which is unprofessional and stating all this to the press also comes across as unprofessional.

Or Ed Scott who has been in the business for years with nary a mark on him? He might have lost his patience with her and done something he shouldn't have...but there are two sides to a story. And Days should never have hired Dena in the first place.
Now as much as I do, again, love Ed's producing skills and have always praised him and he has such a better reputation than Higley, his reputation with HWs is not spectacular, as others brought up. He and Kay Alden had major problems, and it ended with him getting fired from Y&R, and I think I heard somewhere that Jack Smith doesn't like him that well. I don't know how he and Hogan got along, but its obvious he HATED Higley's stories, and maybe he didn't want history to repeat itself so he did this. I'm not trying to excuse his actions at all, but I am just saying.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
sitrian


Way way way way way impressed that this board has stayed up. :0
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
PhoenixRising05
Member Avatar


If this is the straightforward truth word for word, then Ed should be fired and so should be anyone else involved. I just think there has to be more. We need to hear another side to this because it just sounds like the Higley side right now. Yes, it could very well be right but there is clearly more to this like who are the actors involved and so on.

One thing...Melvin was not in the Summer of Romance promo and wasn't there another BI about a young actress who wasn't liked possibly being cut? Maybe that is related to this and maybe Melvin is the diva and she will be fired. I mean, for all the obsessing over Chan the show hasn't exactly promoted them like Stax or other couples and not having her in the summer promo makes me wonder. That and they seem to be pushing Daniel toward Kate now. Alot of it kind of adds up to Melvin but I still can't see Scott leaving writing in the hangs of a young actress like that.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
King
Member Avatar


In case anyone wants to call and ask DAYS about Higley:

1. 818 840 4112
2. 818 295 2821
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Brylilover


I don't see how Higley can stay. Even if she is vindicated, it's clear she's not respected by the cast of Days and probably other producers. This is going to divide everyone and if she wins some battle and can stay, would she want to work where she's not respected?
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
OneBadKitty
Member Avatar


PhoenixRising05
Jul 28 2008, 12:40 PM
If this is the straightforward truth word for word, then Ed should be fired and so should be anyone else involved. I just think there has to be more. We need to hear another side to this because it just sounds like the Higley side right now. Yes, it could very well be right but there is clearly more to this like who are the actors involved and so on.

One thing...Melvin was not in the Summer of Romance promo and wasn't there another BI about a young actress who wasn't liked possibly being cut? Maybe that is related to this and maybe Melvin is the diva and she will be fired. I mean, for all the obsessing over Chan the show hasn't exactly promoted them like Stax or other couples and not having her in the summer promo makes me wonder. That and they seem to be pushing Daniel toward Kate now. Alot of it kind of adds up to Melvin but I still can't see Scott leaving writing in the hangs of a young actress like that.
I can see it if he was thinking with his dick.
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
2 users reading this topic (2 Guests and 0 Anonymous)
ZetaBoards - Free Forum Hosting
Create a free forum in seconds.
Go to Next Page
« Previous Topic · General Daytime News · Next Topic »
Add Reply