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Beth's Days page had a very comprehensive summary with sources.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080828123415/http://www.bethsdayspage.com/days/missy.html

Here's a portion of it - mods, let me know if too much of the article is quoted:
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On Sept. 12, Corday Productions, Inc. (co-owners of Days) filed a breach of contract suit against Melissa Reeves, the wife of Scott Reeves, in Los Angeles Superior Court.

The suit, which is a matter of public record, seeks: Actual damages expected to be in excess of $770,000, according to proof; to prevent Reeves from acting on another daytime drama while still under contract to Days; all legal fees pertaining to the case; and for such other and further relief to the extent that the court deems it proper. "Ms. Reeves' services and her role on Days of Our Lives were truly unique," states the suit.

Reeves, whom the suit alleges "was being paid in excess of $500,000 per year by Corday...and was one of the two lead female characters on Days," stopped reporting to work early last November. Although the actress was contractually bound to Days for one more year, the filing alleges that in a phone call on November 10, 1995, "Ms. Reeves was crying, and stated that the reason she could not come to work was that her husband, Mr. Reeves, had insisted that she leave the show because of a previous extra-marital affair between Ms. Reeves and one of the other significant male performers on Days." Said performer was not named.

The suit continues: "Ms. Reeves stated that she regretted having engaged in the estramarital affair and that the affair had concluded at or around Labor Day weekend."


ETA: You're right AHM. Both JB and MR swear that's just a false rumor.
Edited by six, Jun 26 2012, 10:02 AM.
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Ah....I seee....ok, well thank you everyone for educating me on this bit of Days history!
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AHM
Jun 26 2012, 09:34 AM
Be it true or not, I'm sure the Reeves family would rather it not be coming up again. I think even a Peter recast would cause it to start circulating again and that MR wouldn't be too thrilled with Peter being revisited.
That's exactly my point. Even if Peter was played by another actor it would still be an issue. Missy is one of Corday's favorites, the last thing he wants it to make her uncomfortable so she leaves again.

Phoenix also has a good point that maybe Jason Brooks doesn't want to come back either. Which is why I say don't recast. I really liked Peter but the best thing is to just let the character stay in the past, a past that happens to be the last successful era this show had. But he could, and should, still be mentioned if the situation calls for it, like the Stefano and EJ scenes last month. Pretending he never existed is an insult to all of us who watched. The same goes for other characters like Cassie and Rex.
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Seeing some nasty comments out there about the DOOL win, a lot of it from fellow writers. A great submission won. It happens. Now be nice. And gracious. You know who you are. Smiley face.
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^She's right. I'm not a MarDar fan at all but that episode was very good. I can see why they won for it. I'm guessing the negativity is coming from other shows and that is just classless. Not like Y&R and GH don't have enough Emmy wins as it is.

I agree with Sindacco that they should at least mention characters like Peter, Rex, and Cassie. I will say this, though. If the show has no intention of getting Peter back, I would prefer they just kill him off. Have Kristen return and mention how he got killed. Maybe they could say that she escaped and went to break her brother out of jail since she needed an ally to help in her plans. During the escape, he was killed. Something like that. I just hate having characters languishing about somewhere if there is little chance, if any, of them ever returning. It would be different if there was some sort of substantial chance that he could but it doesn't seem that way.
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Former ‪#Days‬ headwriters share their belated ‪#DaytimeEmmy‬ acceptance speech with In Depth
11:11 AM - 26 Jun 12 via web
http://cbs.soapsindepth.com/2012/06/days-writers-share-their-belated-emmy-speech.html

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Former DAYS OF OUR LIVES headwriters Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr., weren't at Saturday night's Daytime Emmys to accept their award for Best Writing, but in a joint statement, they have shared their sentiments exclusively with Soaps In Depth:

"We are so sorry we were not able to attend the awards show, but are thrilled to have won! We would like to thank [DAYS executive producer] Ken Corday for his endless support and for entrusting us with his family legacy, and [co-executive producer] Greg Meng for always believing in us and having our backs -- we share this award with both of them. Thanks to NBC and Sony for helping keep the genre alive. A very special thanks to the fans -- without their devotion and commitment there would be no show. We also want to thank our amazing cast and crew. And, lastly, we want to thank our mentor and friend, James E. Reilly. We know he is watching over us and smiling."


Classy. Would have loved to see JER get a shoutout at the Emmys, even though I wasn't a big fan of his work.
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Much prefers sweevil, snarky EJ over Father Figure Fucktard Eejiot.

Wow - so other writers are being shitty about the DAYS writing win? I agree, it's not like the other shows don't have enough Emmys. I think it's great that episode won.
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Much prefers sweevil, snarky EJ over Father Figure Fucktard Eejiot.

DiMeraFan67
Jun 26 2012, 10:29 AM
cbs soapsindepth þ@soapsindepthcbs
Former ‪#Days‬ headwriters share their belated ‪#DaytimeEmmy‬ acceptance speech with In Depth
11:11 AM - 26 Jun 12 via web
http://cbs.soapsindepth.com/2012/06/days-writers-share-their-belated-emmy-speech.html

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Former DAYS OF OUR LIVES headwriters Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr., weren't at Saturday night's Daytime Emmys to accept their award for Best Writing, but in a joint statement, they have shared their sentiments exclusively with Soaps In Depth:

"We are so sorry we were not able to attend the awards show, but are thrilled to have won! We would like to thank [DAYS executive producer] Ken Corday for his endless support and for entrusting us with his family legacy, and [co-executive producer] Greg Meng for always believing in us and having our backs -- we share this award with both of them. Thanks to NBC and Sony for helping keep the genre alive. A very special thanks to the fans -- without their devotion and commitment there would be no show. We also want to thank our amazing cast and crew. And, lastly, we want to thank our mentor and friend, James E. Reilly. We know he is watching over us and smiling."


Classy. Would have loved to see JER get a shoutout at the Emmys, even though I wasn't a big fan of his work.
It's a shame they couldn't be there to accept the Emmy. For all the crappy things MarDar did - they will still go down in history as the team that won DAYS their first writing Emmy in 30 plus years.
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That is a classy speech. I wish they could've delivered it live. There tenure hasn't been good but you only need one good episode to win and that episode was worthy. They did something never done in 30 years and it is quite the accomplishment given how the odds are always stacked against Days at the emmy's.
Edited by PhoenixRising05, Jun 26 2012, 10:35 AM.
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AHM


It does seem from that tweet that the win was based mainly on a good episode being submitted, more than overall good writing.

Perhaps the show should take a look at the episode that won. Though eggbaby is on that episode, there are other, very powerful, things that deservedly netted the win. Psst . . . Jack, PTSD, Jennifer . . .
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Monkey Paw: Eileen Davidson returns as Kristen/Susan only to be written by Tomlin & Whitesell. Discuss.
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Jun 26 2012, 10:07 AM
Missy is one of Corday's favorites, the last thing he wants it to make her uncomfortable so she leaves again.

Now see, this is something I don't understand, even though I've been a big fan or hers (grain of salt, as I'm more a JnJ fan than an MR fan). But she isn't in the young bracket. They've done the story of Jennifer moves on from Jack, like, seven times already. Dan/Jen haven't been ratings gold. Shoot, did MR's return do a darn thing for ratings? At least there was a bump with the returns in September. If the show won't use what could be a powerful story for JnJ, why insist on keeping her and not shipping her off with MA? I think it's odd.
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LoL I think JER would be horrified by how boring MarDar made the show.
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When it comes to the Best Writing Emmy, I think they should have to submit a full week of episodes. It's easy to write one decent stand-alone episode, but it's a little harder to write five episodes in a row that are cohesive and compelling and consistent with story threads that aren't dropped and characters whose personalities don't change every five minutes. That's part of what they should be judged on. Soaps are serials. The stories don't start and end in one episode, so why should they be judged on only one episode for the Emmy?
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Jun 26 2012, 01:18 AM
Nicole and Kristen as adversaries would be WOWOW!
OMG! AZ and ED in scenes. DAYS, please make it happen!!
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AHM
Jun 26 2012, 09:34 AM
^Google Melissa Reeves and Jason Brooks affair, and you should get plenty on that subject.

Anyway, rumor is that when she broke contract and left in 95, it was because she'd been having an affair with Brooks and her husband found out. NBC even sued her, and she had to pay some large sum, which I guess Corday donated to AIDS research.

ETA: I see Six and Kenny beat me to it. Though, Six, I'm pretty sure Reeves and Brooks still maintain there was no affair, but that there is some language in the lawsuit documents that indicates there was an affair. I'm not sure of any of this though. Be it true or not, I'm sure the Reeves family would rather it not be coming up again. I think even a Peter recast would cause it to start circulating again and that MR wouldn't be too thrilled with Peter being revisited. Also, the show did pretty much erase the faux years for JnJ. I don't know though, they might bring Peter back. I would hope not though. I didn't even watch the faux years, so I can't speak to it really, but it doesn't seem Peter's a character people have been clamoring to see again over the years. Also, I am opposed to yet another man sniffing around Jennifer. I suppose with Jack gone though, it's got to be someone, and I'd consider even Peter better than Dan. But I want Jack back!
If Peter comes back with a new face and a new identity and kills Daniel for sniffing after Jennifer, I could see some point to his presence. Especially if Jack then comes back from wherever and takes on Peter. Other than that, I'm not convinced the character's that vital to the show. Kristen always seemed to be the more dominant Blake sibling.
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Glad to see MARDAR's very well written acceptance speech, but do I even have to ask why they didn't attend the Emmys? What could they possibely be doing, not to go to the Emmy's? Despite was went down with the show, if MARDAR were nominated, they should have been there, it is a once in a lifetime thing. Not thrilled with MARDAR's writing style, but Jack's breakdown was one of their best work, given that MA is a top actor and rocked his scenes out the park, which probably helped.
Company politics & DAYS should be ashamed. I wonder why they talk highly of Corday & Meng? Would they talk nicely about ppl who tossed them? I wonder who was truly responsible, I'm thinking it was NBC/Sony.
Edited by Dreamer, Jun 26 2012, 10:59 AM.
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Kenny
Jun 26 2012, 10:50 AM
When it comes to the Best Writing Emmy, I think they should have to submit a full week of episodes. It's easy to write one decent stand-alone episode, but it's a little harder to write fives episodes in a row that are cohesive and compelling and consistent with story threads that aren't dropped and characters whose personalities don't change every five minutes. That's part of what they should be judged on. Soaps are serials. Their stories don't start and end in one episode, so why should they be judged on only one episode for the Emmy?
THIS is agree with. A full week of episodes for writing (especially if it's going to the whole team) would be ideal. Ditto for other "team" awards like directing, best series, makeup, hair, etc.
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Jun 26 2012, 10:39 AM
Monkey Paw: Eileen Davidson returns as Kristen/Susan only to be written by Tomlin & Whitesell. Discuss.
The monkey paw I'm most worried about is Kristen returns and the writers write her as obsessed with Rafe/Dan and fights to have them. :puke: I am literally frightened to death over this possibility.
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Jun 26 2012, 10:50 AM
When it comes to the Best Writing Emmy, I think they should have to submit a full week of episodes. It's easy to write one decent stand-alone episode, but it's a little harder to write fives episodes in a row that are cohesive and compelling and consistent with story threads that aren't dropped and characters whose personalities don't change every five minutes. That's part of what they should be judged on. Soaps are serials. Their stories don't start and end in one episode, so why should they be judged on only one episode for the Emmy?
Eh. You see what GH does. They usually do a week long stunt that is Emmy bait. A show can easily write a week's worth of good shows, especially if they know that is what it takes. I suppose it's better than one good episode though.

There is no way to do it where it works well in determining a real winner. I think the most fair thing to do would be to not submit anything and have the voters have to watch the shows at random times a year. In other words, keep it quiet and don't tell the shows when the voters are watching the shows. They can maybe tune in for one week every 3 months or something and take their observations into account, write them down on a survey form or something, and choose a winner based on that. I would do that for drama and directing too. That way shows can't just produce Emmy bait. You should be judged on your CONSISTENT work and something like this would motivate shows to be good all year round.
Edited by PhoenixRising05, Jun 26 2012, 11:02 AM.
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