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Dena Higley QUITS — SUDS REPORT EXCLUSIVE; Breaking News — TVGC; ATWT actor FIRED
Topic Started: Jul 26 2008, 06:10 PM (133,425 Views)
cjknick
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This behind the scenes crap has to stop ... I know the stakes are high because Days is in the tank - but this type of stuff isn't helping. Corday be a man and stop this crap! If Higley has really quit let her go. Hire someone less emotional!
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sitrian


That's my thing. I don't know where this stuff shakes out with Ed but in no way should it lead to Higley coming back.
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Kenny
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sitrian
Jul 28 2008, 01:39 PM
That's my thing. I don't know where this stuff shakes out with Ed but in no way should it lead to Higley coming back.
Absolutely. If her writing hadn't sucked in the first place, there wouldn't have been a reason for re-writes, LoL.
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PhoenixRising05
Jul 28 2008, 12:46 PM
I don't think Higley will come back. Why would she?
Why would they want her to? Sounds like everyone at Days, except Corday, wanted her gone. And Ken might want that now too considering it was "sources close to Higley" who are throwing the show under the bus and trying to screw them, by "outing" all of the backstage goings-on, getting them in trouble with the WGA, etc.
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More to the story — tomorrow!
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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?
I agree-- if Dena stopped writing in June, then the misery that was July:
Marlena's total absence
Java
Dansea with Grandma
Clucas
Phloe
Phorgan
Hennig airtime
Ejole

That would mean one of these is the culprits:
DHog or TBraun (DHog is a Divo, but both DHog and Braun are vets...not known for doing this sort of thing...DHog is 'ungraceful' with his opinions in the press sometimes, though...)
Ari
Nadia (more and more sounding like this is a bakeoff between her are Ari)
Rachel
Shelly
Morgan's real name

Also, SN is notoriously a re-writer.

And Dena's blogs (if they were hijacked) were recently CONSTANTLY pimping Dansea (more Dansea! [PUKE!!!] and S&K fallout scenes.

Im giving myself a headache....
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hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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LOL.


What a week this is going ot be.
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Kenny
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hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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You're killing me here! I can't handle anymore! LoL

The rest of this mess had better be something positive...
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Sharongate, bitches!

hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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Nelson, please expand on the Y&R side of things if you can. :)
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hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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:drunk: Should be interesting.
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hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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I don't think I can stand anymore, Nelson. :drunk:
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hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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Okey I don't want to pressure you or anything but is there a reason you can't post it now? Did you find out something more after you posted earlier today?
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Ponz
Jul 28 2008, 01:30 PM
OneBadKitty
Jul 28 2008, 01:26 PM
Kenny
Jul 28 2008, 01:25 PM
Days4Life
Jul 28 2008, 01:24 PM
Nelson's report said Higley hasn't been the HW for months and yet she previewed the blackout/elevator sex story so it was clearly hers. That was just a few weeks ago.
Oh that's right, I forgot about that. She was talking about how she wanted to find a way to get everyone sweaty and in the dark all across town, Lol.
It said "weeks and weeks" not months and months.
She also previewed the very recent John/Ava sex and referred to an upcoming "wrinkle" in J&M's story.
Yeah, I think this all comes to the fact this report isn´t objective at all. Either that, or is it really recent stuff and we have yet to see any Ed´s amateurish team work. I think it may be related to Stephano return, that´s huge thing, probably one the last chances for the show to lure some viewers back, so I can see Ed wouldn´t want to risk and may stepped in if the Highley´s stories wasn´t good enough.
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Y&RWorldTurner
Jul 28 2008, 01:24 PM
Mason
Jul 28 2008, 01:18 PM
Yeah, I'm not seeing the Y&R connection, either.
Josh Griffith has been doing the same thing at Y&R that Ed Scott's been doing. So, since Griffith might be fired soon since Bloom doesn't want to put up with this BS, Ed Scott is trying to get him to come to DAYS because he was also rewriting stuff and has much better experience as a soap writer to carry out storylines.
I also think the Y&R connection could be that Ed Scott did TRY and do the same to Kay Alden and was part of the reson he got fired.



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But Ed's rep is not completely untarnished. As Alvin and I have both pointed out - a writer got him fired before. Kay Alden hates him and she has a great rep and is loved by everyone she works with but Ed Scott.

The reasons back then were not revealed but Kay Alden personally went to Bell and got Scott fired. Bell would not have done that for no reason.

When Bell was writing Scott would have never tried anything like this with the big man, but I am sure he felt he could walk over Alden but she showed him.


I am sure there is more to this story but plain & simple, it sounds like Ed Scott does not like women in power.
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Oh, lord...there's MORE? LoL
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sitrian


Well if Stef's return is Ed... I have to say it's the only spoiler that has me particularly interested.

I think either Corday is giving all the quotes to the mags and signing other peoples names to them. The rewriting has been going on for a pretty short amount of time... six weeks... three we've seen, three we've not... or it's only happening in one set of stories and not the whole show.
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hunterforrester
Jul 28 2008, 01:41 PM
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Nelson you are a tease!

Makes you wonder how much more :shithitfan:
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Another thought just popped into my head, I remember when Ed Scott first came over to DOOL he was excited about the possibilites. ES was upset that Y&R canned him and was quoted as saying DOOL was going to over take Y&R and be #1 in the ratings. Dena is not the best writer and ES truly wanted to accomplish this and it clouded his judgement.

I am curious as to what Y&R fans and fan boards are saying, anyone know?

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daisysmommy


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Jul 28 2008, 12:25 PM
I would love to know who is writing their own scenes because most of the dialogue between people have really sucked...so it goes to show how stupid they really are.

I totally rule out Ali Sweeney has her character has been destroyed recently, and she has no story. Dee has been pretty bad too. Tamara left weeks ago, so not her. And don't really see much happening with Nadia coming up, other than waiting on Lucas...which really isn't in her character. And Ari, while having some screen time, really hasn't been on THAT much, and just in EJ/Trent orbit.

So I would either guess Rachel Melvin...who has been acting like a little giddy teenager around an older man which makes me REALLY surprised that someone hasn't stepped up and told her to mature her character a bit...unless Scott really likes it when she does that to HIM. Rachel's character has done a total change in the past few months and has shared screen with all the big vets (Vic, Kate, Bo, Hope) not to mention is the new prodigy at the hospital getting involved in the big Theo story.
Her Emmy might have inflated her ego a bit too...not to mention that all the behind the scenes people just love her. She might just have gotten carried away a bit.

Shelley has been on alot too, but her scenes are so bad and repetitive that I think she would ask for something more for herself.

SN and MBE have already said that they went to the producer and got them to write in the Ava talk...who is to say that didn't write that themselves? And just got carried away?

I loved Casiello's post but thought it funny that he said none of his commentary was about him, but in his recap, it was all about him being hired, writing, fired, etc. He made some excellent points about being strung around and the fans paying for it.
It does seem that the execs are totally taking their audience for granted...and the ratings are showing it.

Thanks, Nelson, brimike et al for the scoop!
The ONLY two couples Tom C could have been referring to are Ejami and Jarlena.
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A source close to Higley DOES NOT mean a friend of Higley's necessarily. Also, what part of photographic proof and WGA don't you get, LOL!
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