New DAYS, or the end of DAYS? You decide: Emmy winner and soap icon Crystal Chappell shocked myriad fans on Wednesday when she tweeted via her hubby’s Twitter account that DAYS is not renewing her contract, which expires in August. Also, TV Guide announced that her co-star, Louise Sorel has also been axed.
In a no-holds-barred interview with Michael Logan, Sorel surprised many by leaking that Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn are returning to town. Yep, apparently hell froze over yesterday. Calls to Hall to confirm the news were not returned by press time.
Meanwhile, in a Soap Opera Digest cover story, “genius” executive producer Ken Corday blames himself for allowing Dena Higley’s head-writing reign of terror to continue as long as it did, which is why he hired new co-head scribes, Passions/DAYS alums Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr. in the alleged scabber’s stead.
But don’t expect any Passions influences in Salem. (Whew!) Corday explains that his new co-head writers were penning James E. Reilly’s vision on Passions and not their own. The new scribes will return DAYS to its former glory, he adds, and are well versed in Salem’s history since they wrote for the NBC serial in the past.
As for future story, Corday goes on to note that Will’s upcoming gay arc will still continue as planned, but the show had to rewrite three weeks of story to slow down Will’s coming out.
According to insiders, expect more actors to get their walking papers, while more past faves return.
I'm fine with slowing it down. This is from June 3, so I presume we're at the tail end of the slowdown.
It sounds like the recently axed head writer was terrible.
Question: Is John Roman these days, or was he proven to not be Roman? I think they went back and forth on that a few times over the years.
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Date: 2011-06-25 10:33 pm (UTC)New DAYS, or the end of DAYS? You decide: Emmy winner and soap icon Crystal Chappell shocked myriad fans on Wednesday when she tweeted via her hubby’s Twitter account that DAYS is not renewing her contract, which expires in August. Also, TV Guide announced that her co-star, Louise Sorel has also been axed.
In a no-holds-barred interview with Michael Logan, Sorel surprised many by leaking that Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn are returning to town. Yep, apparently hell froze over yesterday. Calls to Hall to confirm the news were not returned by press time.
Meanwhile, in a Soap Opera Digest cover story, “genius” executive producer Ken Corday blames himself for allowing Dena Higley’s head-writing reign of terror to continue as long as it did, which is why he hired new co-head scribes, Passions/DAYS alums Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas Jr. in the alleged scabber’s stead.
But don’t expect any Passions influences in Salem. (Whew!) Corday explains that his new co-head writers were penning James E. Reilly’s vision on Passions and not their own. The new scribes will return DAYS to its former glory, he adds, and are well versed in Salem’s history since they wrote for the NBC serial in the past.
As for future story, Corday goes on to note that Will’s upcoming gay arc will still continue as planned, but the show had to rewrite three weeks of story to slow down Will’s coming out.
According to insiders, expect more actors to get their walking papers, while more past faves return.
I'm fine with slowing it down. This is from June 3, so I presume we're at the tail end of the slowdown.
It sounds like the recently axed head writer was terrible.
Question: Is John Roman these days, or was he proven to not be Roman? I think they went back and forth on that a few times over the years.