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DAYS Head Writing Shake-Up: Dena Higley and Josh Griffith IN! Gary Tomlin and Chris Whitesell OUT!
Days of our Lives has finally made a writing change at the top after many of the storylines have just not caught fire with the DAYS audience.
According to a report today via Soap Opera Digest, series EP Ken Corday is welcoming back to the fold former DAYS head writer Dena Higley alongside, and with, former Y&R head scribe Josh Griffith to map out the lives of the residents of Salem.
This mean that Gary Tomlin and Christopher Whitesell are out at the writing helm, and the change will become effective next week on Monday February 16th. Higley has been head writer at DAYS twice … in both 2003 and for a three year run in 2008-2011. As for Josh Griffith, he last served on daytime as head writer for The Young and the Restless ending his tenure there in 2013.
It was no secret that the long-running NBC series which will turn 50 in November needed to make some change in the direction they were headed, but today on social media, fans have been concerned if bringing back Higley is the answer. There are also those who hope that with the addition of Griffith, who has written some very dramatic stories during his soap career that has included One Life to Live, Santa Barbara, and As the World Turns, in the past that perhaps he might help the show in a positive manner.
So, what are your thoughts on the dismissal of Tomlin and Whitesell and the hiring of Higley and Griffith? Comment below!
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DAYS Emily O’Brien Delivers The ‘Power Performance of the Week’
She has been a polarizing character since her arrival in Salem, with some fans screaming Gwen is sucking up too much airtime. HOWEVER, the performances by Emily O’Brien (Gwen) show an actress on top of her craft who can play, as Gwen called herself, “A miserable, vindictive bitch”, or a young woman so deeply-emotionally wounded that you might just come around and eventually feel some empathy for her.
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It all came to a boiling point when Laura (Jaime Lyn Bauer) and Gwen have the long-awaited confrontation in Gwen’s room at the Salem Inn, where O’Brien goes from Gwen baiting Laura to tell her dirty secret of her long-ago affair with Jack (Matthew Ashford), to her utter anger at how because of it, Laura trashed Gwen’s entire life.
Laura reveals the guilt she felt for sleeping with Jack, so much so, that she would do anything to save Jennifer (Cady McClain) and Jack’s marriage. In delight at getting to the root of the truth, Gwen responds: “You slept with Jack? That is just perfect! My father slept with his mother-in-law!”
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Next, we see that there had been a struggle with Laura dead on the floor bleeding out of her head. A freaked-out Gwen does not know what to do. She realizes she will be accused of murder. With no one in town to call, she decides to call her father, Jack. When he shows up at the Salem Inn, Jack is shocked, and grief-stricken to see his mother-in-law, dead. Gwen swears to Jack this was an accident and that she did not kill Laura, and that he has to believe her. Jack decides he will stand by his daughter. Gwen wants to get rid of the body, Jack says he can’t be involved in a cover-up, so he calls Rafe (Galen Gering). When Rafe arrives at the crime scene he is very suspicious of Gwen, and takes her down to the station.
Scene after scene, O’Brien layered her performances with venomous and ominous undertones, illustrating a woman with so much emotional baggage who becomes desperate to save herself. For all these reasons, Michael Fairman TV names Emily’s work, The Power Performance of the Week.
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UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! Didn’t Day’s fire Higley at least twice because of her hack writing skills?
Her first was in 2003, then she was co-head writer from 2008-2011. She lasted a long time while each of, I believe three, her co-headwriters were let go, including Christopher Whitesell.
I’ve never begged for her dismissal like I have the newly fired writers.
Higley had been a headwriter for a 3 year stint… 2008-2011
whomever replaced her… thereafter, DAYS became good…. years 2012 and 2013 improved dramatically….
2014 most disappointing
whats going on now… is not that badly written
it’s the dour dullard actors that need to be replaced
Daniel, Jenn, Ben, Jordan, Clyde… sometimes I think it’s time for ABS to go as well… she could be replaced by Kelley Missal
They did , but Dena had way better ratings from her writing than Whitesell & Tomlin , she had some terrible stories but her stuff was not nearly this boring. Plus Josh Griffith will be her partner. So he might balanced her out.
I do know THIS…Under Dena Higley there was a lot of kidnapping and people having psychic visions and a WHOLE LOTTA BED HOPPING LOL…Sami was in a safe house with Rafe and Kate was in bed with Daniel…Marlena wanted a divorce and on and on…I think Josh Griffith could help reign her in but i somehow feel that Hogan Sheffer should have been added to this mix also…we can overlook that mile high we own a vegas airplane crap story…the rest of what he did was great..i even liked the let’s get to see Stephano’s back story..though it dragged on… Read more »
He was great on y&r so I am expecting only good on Days. A 6yr old could write better than what’s on now.
Amen!!! It is about time!! lets get some faster moving stories and some of your previous audience back….
We have to wait at least five months to see the changes. By then the show could already be hot because it’s been way better the last few weeks than the previous few months.
Agree, the last couple weeks have been good. Sonny-Paul-Will story leading the pack.
Always concerned what change means for my favorites, John and Marlena…….Would have been happier with Sheri Anderson coming back….She knew how to write for them! Will have to wait and see how it plays out……..in 5 months when their stuff airs!
Would have loved Sheri Anderson back. She knew how to write, PERIOD!
But I doubt she would ever come back as Head Writer, I have a strange feeling that there is too much interference in the creativity process, from the powers up…
Not really happy about Dena Higley but Josh Griffith is a fairly decent writer.
So maybe, just maybe it will be OK.
I hope ABC and Ben Sherwood follow suit and make a change at GH after this Fluke debacle. GH has turned to complete schlock and it’s time for a change there as well.
Please TPTB! Let Fluke be over already!!
Nooooooo!
I agree.
If you’ve got the petition, I’ve got the pen bro!!
first order of business, backburn the jonases, and front and centre the bradys and hortons: eric, carrie , austin( pecK), shawn d and belle !!!
please and thank you!!!
Been there, done that with Carrie and Austin. Those two are a bore to watch.
austin peck and christie clark are both gorgeous and their last round was unfortunately cut short however the rafe , abby storyline had lots of potential
Days has had a Dr. Dan OVERLOAD. Back burner him and his love life! Forward, harch for the Horton’s and Brady’s. Agree.
LOL. love the Peck part. No doubt right?? Muldoon was a complete washout as Austin a few years ago. He looked like a drag queen with badly botched plastic surgery. He ceased being Austin once Peck took over.
Pat muldoon is austin and better actor , they wanted him act like austin peck’s austin.
Not sure how I feel about this, but the show definitely needed some shaking up. It has become beyond a snoozefest since EJ and Sami left. Rafe and Nicole are being wasted, and Serena is awful, not the actress, the character. Hope things turn around. GH’s 50th was beyond explosive, I hope DAYS follows suit!!
Dena Higley loves Nicole! Remember the baby switch storyline involving Nicole, EJ, Sami and Rafe? Nicole was at her best and that was written by Dena!
YES ! factoids like this are why I so appreciate so many of yous i’m more than over with the three amigos : Daniel, Brady, and Eric… I still say… they need to bring on a new Peter Blake… and wallah… Nicole rises from the ashes with the phoenix…. LOL again… much to Stefano chagrin… at least if Nicole is in love… in the lead… respected… she’ll rise to the occasion… and leading lady her act… where she belongs let her wreak havoc on all of Salem…. a strong leading man…. i’d love Jason Brooks back…. just strengthen the DiMera… Read more »
Much of that questioning coming for a hoarde of people who “claim” they are not interested in the show, over how Higley wrote two characters who no longer exist on the show (for now).
Time for the Ejami crew to move on and stop blowing up social media regarding things they “no longer support”.
The best thing about EJ and Sami was when EJ was with Nicole…Dena Higley!
Days needs Mike Horton…id love it if Mike and Eve became a pair…can you imagine the look on Jens face if Mike came to the Horton home for dinner with Eve as his date…lol…its time Paige and J.J. move to a different storyline that doesnt mainly involve JJ bedding Eve…storyline is a bust imho!!!
I think it’s a good thing – or at least the lesser evil. Meng is still there as EP to keep things focused on the core families, but fresh ideas and plots were needed. Higley had some success with the ratings last go around and she knows the characters and history well enough. Don’t know much about Griffith but some fresh blood can only be a good thing. TomSell did a lot of things right – the show has been mostly watchable under them, but they didn’t know how to move a plot along or to deliver payoffs at the… Read more »
Higley and Griffith? Oy.
I remember her time on One Life To Live and his stint on Y&R and neither one’s storytelling impressed me. The show would’ve been smart to promote Lorraine Broderick to headwriter — she did some brilliant work during her days on All My Children.
I would leave lorriane on the writing team.
Really! Higley! That was the best DAYS could find. Her time at OLTL was dismal.
I agree with that.
Pamela Long Hammer…PLEASE RE THINK THIS DAYS!!!
Pamela Long Hammer?
Um, no. Her stints on One Life To Live and Santa Barbara were awful.
just, oh no
some of the actors just need to go…. to beef up the cast… and cohesive knit… for gelling with, committing to… and rally around
Daniel
Jenn
Ben
Jordan
Clyde
UGH
with these 5 gone… it would shake the cast up to the core
Patrick, They’ve made Daniel their leading man! He’s everywhere-Super Dan! Even when he’s wrong, over losing it at Jen cuz she told Eric what Nicole did before he could & after bedding his bestie’s ex, intercourse or not, it’s all good. Jen’s went from a full-on, hard-core meltdown to coming back & apologizing-now she wants to be his bestie & wants him to share all of his Nicole problems w/her! Oh, please writers! Brady, who walked in on Dan & Kristen naked & nasty, was mad at him like 5 minutes, then just high-fived him & said he understood..it’s all… Read more »
Yes, the Beverly Hillbilies(Clyde, Ben, Tammy) need to go…and less focus on Super Doc Dan who i believe is the only dr. on staff at the hospital who specializes in every area of medicine…he performs surgeries, deliveries babies, ect…the only thing he cant cure is the headache he gives me everytime he is on screen…glad Kayla is involved with Sonnys case…biggest fear will be a Daniel and Kayla pairing…i mean who is left for Daniel to bed…maybe dumb Eric…dumb Eric and dumber Daniel deserve each other…lol…as for Melanie id rather listen to nails against a chalkboard than hear this ditzy… Read more »
and Melanie.
Her return has not been good for the show.Her ”acting” style is so weird and disconcerting that
I can’t wait to see any scene she is in end.
Word. A “bratty” Melanie wears thin very quickly.
My wish is Days brings back the Salem Strangler and ill settle for Melanie as his one and only victim…
oh, if Liam was still around…he could “take out” Melanie.
bringing back Melanie was a complete waste, the actress tries too hard and is not even funny. her scenes are uncomfortable to watch. Maybe, Clyde and his crew could go after Melanie next.
problem solved. exit stage right, Melanie.
I think Clyde is gone and Jordan is gone in March (thank God!). Ben should follow. I’m okay with Jen and Daniel–they just need to not pair the two up and write something interesting for them.
No Jen does not need to go. Jen needs a writing team who knows her character and will restore that character. This regime butchered the character and turnes her from spunky beloved heroine into an overwrought hand-wringing clingon, and that is NOT Jennifer. I have high hopes that Higley will return to us the Jennifer we know and have always loved.
“Bravo,” Aden! One of the most perceptive remarks that I’ve read in ages! With occasional exception, the program’s “talent” bench is deep. Hackneyed, repetitive and insultingly shallow character-and-storyline development is what truly ails “Days” now. If they genuinely want the show to survive, “Corday-and-Company” need to address this fatal flaw promptly and aggressively.
Rafe is pointless, and mostly always has been. He needs to go.
I agree, Rafe is pointless. I believe someone posted that Rafe is like part of the scenery. So true!
Days needs to write-out/kill-off, Rafe, Daniel, Ben and Melanie.
I agree with all but Jen…she is an iconic character…i want her brother Micheal to return and become romantically involved with Eve…id love to see Jens reaction to that pairing…make the 5th character to drop Melanie…she acts like such an airhead!!!
right on JimH
love the idea of a nuMIKE Horton … and… for Eve…. this will keep the animosity going with adult tension and humor…. between Jenn and Eve… with no more children involved! once and for all!
As long as Dena and Josh aren’t smoking meth, everything will be alright!
I guess the newly fired writers didn’t have a good plan for DAYS 50th and Dena and Josh showed an outline that blew the execs away!
My #1 request…FASTER PACED STORYLINES!!!
I second this request. Even TomSell’s stuff would have been much better if it hadn’t been told at the speed of molasses. Days team should be required to watch GH regularly for an ongoing lesson in quicker pacing.
Something had to be done for the show to survive. I love Kassive DePaiva, but the storyline with Junior, ain’t working. Daniel and Nicole = BLAH! I am also not buying Brady and Melanie. Maybe the the relationship started too quickly and it seems forced. The show needs a lead couple with routing value. I also don’t think the answer is to bring back past veterans and just have them decorate the set. Compelling stories that have a mix of drama, suspense and a little humor could be the fix that DAYS needs. Also, Deidte Hall can do more than… Read more »
I still say : DAYS : Sony : NBC
please bring back : the Donovan family
Shane, Kimberly, and Andrew : with Eve and Theresa to forefront the Brady family
could Andrew be paired with Abs or Paige ?
I love JimH idea of bringing back Stephen Schnetzer… he’d be a great mogul to offset and tango with : Stefano and Victor… also an intriguing pairing with either or Marlena or Kate
or Mary Beth Evans….. ??? could this new regime be a sign that at last, Kayla is featured….
Mary Beth Evans and Stephen Schnetzer for thee WIN
Paige is Andrew’s niece.
Paige is Andrew’s niece. So I on’t know why you would want them paired as a couple. I like your idea of bringing back the Donavans especially Andrew but if they are going to bring back Shane they need to recast Eve with Charlotte Ross or a new age appropriate actress. The actors currently playing Shane and Eve are just too close in age to believably play father and daughter. Some things I would like to see: Bring back Peter Blake played by Jason Brooks or an equally handsome/talented new actor. As much as like Billy Flynn as Chad, it… Read more »
@Bryan OMG : on Florencia Lozano as Justin mistress tour de force ! is it certain that Paige father is Billy Warlock Frankie Brady? the behind the scenes production team … need to move on… and upwards… Kristian Alfonso and Melissa Reeves… get over yourselves…. Jason Brooks is the sexiest, smoldering, talented, GREAT, actor…. and yes…. if only to see the brother/sister team of Peter and Kristen acting TOGETHER again… and yes, this twosome would OWN Salem….. beware… dang I love ideas that this would blow and spill over and out ! ps: it would make my world turn to… Read more »
Robb Derringer as Peter Blake.
I think they did some great stuff, particularly Sami’s 2014 arc, Haiden and crafting the introduction of Paul, (and I guess giving Dannifer it’s final bullet?!) but I also think it’s probably for the best. I think soaps in particular need change things up to keep them from becoming stale. Like someone else said, the past few months have been particularly slow – especially when you compare it with the rate things are moving on GH – but I just hope that they find the right balance between old and new characters, and the sometimes re-writing of personality traits. I… Read more »
not surprised. DAYS has been horrible lately,and with the 50th coming up things needed to change. I question why their bringing back Higley,but I think it is a great decision to bring in Josh Griffith,who I thought did a great job at Y&R.
More focus on the Hortons, Bradys, and Victor and Maggie…get rid of Jordon, Ben, Daniel, Melanie, Clyde…less focus on the Dimeras until Kristen returns…bring back Bill, Laura, Shawn, Belle, and Mike…can you imagine Jens reaction if her bro Mike started dating Eve…shocking…Lucas and Adriene ok but lets have the drama of Sonny/Will/Paul come between them…Paul is a keeper…write out Serena stat and bring her back 3 months later as Sarah Horton and paired with Brady…hire Stephan Schnezter as Steve Olsen and put in triangle with Kate and Roman…have Paul turn out to be Abes son and bring his mother to… Read more »
Also bring back Brandon Walker…pair Nicole with Rafe…have Nicole learn she was adopted and her mother is really Lee Dumonde or Linda Anderson played by Robin Strasser…have Kayla also interested in either Mike or Abe!!!
Josh Griffith I can understand: he has done some excellent work in the past, and though he has no history with Days, he will, if past experience is an indicator (and if he’s given a chance, given all the interference), get to know the characters and come up with some good material.
Dena Higley? Wow. They must be desperate. And I cannot imagine what kind of a combination she’ll be with Griffith, as their approaches are about as antithetical as it gets.
Let’s hope this works.
Above I commented they should have added Hogan Sheffer…but what about Pamela Long Hammer…she kept Guiding Light more than watchable and at a fast clip…did they even approach her??
I love soaps but I feel like I keep doing the same dance over and over again. Every time there’s a HW change, I hold my breath and hope for good things and say that the new HW has to be better than the previous one. I watched the last time Higley was Days’ HW and it was a mixed bag, mostly bad and now she’s back. I’m not happy or unhappy at this news. I only know that instead of watching Days 5 days a week, I watch it once or twice at most and usually end up doing… Read more »
I am going to be cautiously optimistic. Maybe a combo deal like this will play to both of their strengths rather than weaknesses. Areas to work on – I think the best story on right now is the Paul/Will/Sonny triangle (that isn’t an official triangle yet) although the motivations for getting that story where it is have been lacking (particularly in regards to Will). JJ needs to be moved out of Paige’s orbit, but this thing with Eve isn’t working. The idea seemed scandalous but it’s not compelling like the Ava/Morgan story was at GH (a hot story they squandered… Read more »
Kate Mansi : Abs is she a woman or still childlike…. ???? since the golden circle debacle… and the trysts with all failed pairings… she doesnt’ have any focus… she started out so strong… YES… with Patrick Muldoon’ Austin.. its was funny comedic and challenging now that EJ is gone… and the original Chad is gone… Austin is gone… Ben is the most glaring dullest partner… DAYS please do not waste nuChad … Billy Flynn till Kate Mansi can get her acting chops in order…. I’m over watching her immature antics… and … all this sex … that’s not interesting…… Read more »
People are bitching and moaning, but Dena Higley isn’t a horrific head scribe, and obviously, she has a good relationship with Days of Our Lives or else Sony and NBC wouldn’t allow her to continually be re-hired. As for Josh, his tenures at The Young and the Restless were my favourite, especially following the mess left behind by Maria Arena, so I look forward to seeing what he can bring to the scene, alongside Ms. Higley. However, I don’t get why they didn’t just promote Lorraine Broderick from a breakdown writer to co-head scribe alongside Griffith, that would’ve been a… Read more »
beautiful thread about Lorraine Broderick…. especially about her best work on AMC… you and plenty other posts feel the same way
I don’t know… what with Dinley history of DAYS… perhaps she’ll be more trusting if she has quality coworkers in Josh and Lorraine
here’s hoping
I said above they needed to leave Lorraine on the writing team.
Dena Higley isn’t horrific? Oh my, Scott. We do have a different definition of that word. I think she’s one of the worst out there. I can’t imagine what they were thinking. (If you were going down this road, why not go all out? Oh, I guess Megan McTavish wasn’t available, and we know Pratt just got hired at Y&R. Higley isn’t far behind.) Lorraine would certainly have been a better choice. While I would maintain that she’s never really head-written any show successfully other than All My Children (her periods as headwriter of As the World Turns and One… Read more »
Pratt’s tenure at Y&R, so far, is quite entertaining. So, I’m holding out to see how it handles the series.
I don’t watch but never understood the logic of filming so far ahead. If something is not working you don’t have the opportunity to fix. A lot of viewers can be lost in 5 months.
Isn’t the real issue that Days has had years to figure out a way to resolve the film scheduling issue and never addressed it. Remember when EJ and ABBy were so hot on social media. Its clear Days never really saw it coming and they had filmed to far ahead to take advantage of all the buzz this story created and adjust their story lines. If GH had worked that way they’d have missed Luke and Laura. Days is currently trapped for months with dull characters that are not working out and fans have to wait six months to see… Read more »
You must’ve been reading my mind, Elilzabeth.
I couldn’t agree more, jonboy.
I agree a change was necessary but I am nervous about Higley and excitd about Griffith. I agree with other posts about Higley, if she didn’t work out twice before why go there a third time. Hopefully the combination of the two will work, the show desperately needs something. I am loving the addition of Christopher Sean to the show and hope they don’t damage that story line.
We need a change because a lot of the stories of late have been boring, but don’t know that Higley is the answer. He should have hired someone new to the show.
Well…it has only really been in the past 3 months or so that things started going south. For the past couple of years under this regime, Days was mostly on fire. Is Lorraine Broderick still around? If so, I hope they keep her in any capacity. She elevates any writing team and any show. Personally, the most I ever ever ever enjoyed Days was the brief run of Paula Cwikly and Peter Brash circa 2002-2003 before they made the colossal mistake of bringing back James Reilly. Dena Higley is one of those polarizing writers. Her work on OLTL was not… Read more »
Well, I don’t know what to say, have been watching DAYS for a little over a year.
It’s been better lately, but for a few months it was kind of dull and dragged out. This nonsense with JJ and Paige’s mom, c’mon.
The character of Ben, no offense to actor Rob Wilson, is dull. The storyline of Jordan and her brother running away from Clyde is played out and just not that compelling.
I also agree that Serena serves no real purpose in town – and as for Melanie being paired with Brady – please.
Well, if these new(ish) writers drop the ball and don’t come up with a GOOD storyline featuring John and Marlena, after watching DOOL for forty years, this fan is outta here!
it could be tough, ballsy, and showy to mess with a show so close to celebrating their 50th year on AIR….
this could be very telling, revealing, of the commitment NBC/SONY/DAYS is
I gotta hang in
I couldn’t agree more! Drake and Deidre are LONG overdue for their own story. Put the newbies and the overused actors on the bench.
Well Days has gotten off track really fast– never realize how much at the core of the show EJ and Sami were, until they were gone and once they were gone the show lost focus. They need get the core families back to the heart of show– there are lot of Horton’s and Brady’s out there–so there is no need to go invent a bunch of newbies to fill the gaps in this show. Not sure this new team will do this, but hopefully they will.
The show was bad even when EJ and Sami were on. I really don’t miss them. At one time before they (as far as I am concerned) totally destroyed EJ’s character, I would have been disappointed to hear that the actor was leaving,, but instead I didn’t care. I was one of those that was happy that Sami was leaving. It meant the end of the horrible pairing (imo) called Ejami. . The way they both were written was just unpleasant to watch. I use to fast forward every scene they were in. I stopped watching the show altogether before… Read more »
I couldn’t have said it better myself, Dee!
Use Lorraine Broederick people! She is a fantastic writer and is already writing at DAYS! Would really be great of Ken Corday stepped away and they brought in a stronger EP because he is just dried out IMO!
OMG didnt Erika Slezak lament online that Dena writes stories she thinks are great but no one else likes or something to that effect? If a class act like Erika went out of her way to say that Dena must really be bad. I never watched OLTL much so I have no idea one way or another but I am very worried about Days which has been boring lately but I couldnt bear to see it cancelled. It has too much history and too much potential.
This is the program with daytime TV. Instead of bringing in fresh blood they rotate the same quacks even those that damage the shows as much such as DH did.
This show needs shaking up but these are not the writers to do it. They have half of a good cast Eve,JJ,Victor,Maggie,Eric,Nicole Theresa,,and Paul. Then they have some characters who just take up space Jen,Daniel,Jordan. They need a new EP, someone like Jen Peperman.
I have watched “DOOL” since 1982, when Roman, Marlena and Salen Strangler were the rage. I have seen some great story lines and characters. I have also seen a lot of things that did not work. It seems the show did not have a Plan B for when Sami and EJ left the show. Eve, Paige, Serena and Melanie are NOT the answer. Paige is the most unhappiest character that has ever been on the show. The storyline with Eve and JJ has no redeeming long-term fallout. How many people continue to sleep with someone they HATE? Are we supposed… Read more »
Amen, Ray. Every single storyline revolves around the bedroom, one way or another. There is no meat offered….all I see is smoke and no substance. I do, however, anticipate where the dice will fall with the Sonny/Will/Paul triangle. That IS a story !!! Adrienne and Lucas? When and how did that happen? I turn back and a budding romance is in the making? Wow, that took me off guard! Serena should crawl back under her rock; Brady should grow up; and Melanie should do something with that nondescript hair….LOL. I have already spoken my peace about Eric and Daniel. Perhaps… Read more »
I agree.
I hope the new regime respects the powerhouse that is Kassie DePaiva and gives her front burner stories where she isn’t saddled with whiny teens. Such a talent that is wasted on the show right now.
I am just glad Tomlin and Whitesell will be going soon. I couldn’t watch their version of Days. It was awful. Terrible story telling, and I couldn’t take the destruction of characters I liked once upon a time. I will probably start watching the show again in 5/6 months time when the new writers stuff starts airing.
Nick was one of those characters that I felt was destroyed. He was a sweet guy that was very insecure. He got sent to jail for protecting Melanie and everything that happened to him since then was bad. The so called good people of Salem were so quick to judge and hate him and no matter what he did even when he was trying to get his life back on track was sabotaged by people like Sami and Kate. I loved the part when he came back after he was thrown in the river and I was looking forward to… Read more »
Tomsell was so hit and miss. Take a look at what’s going on right now on screen. The Sonny plot would have been so much more interesting if they had Will sleeping with Paul a third time during the stabbing, turning him more into Sami. They could have also raised the stakes for Paul by having his family already in town and pressuring him to leave. The Aiden story is one step above boring; luckily the two actors make it bearable. But the Feb sweeps story is dull as dishwater. Aiden should have been Paige’s father and connected to Eve.… Read more »
Your comment makes a lot of sense. Dena Higley does know the history of the show and Josh Griffith did some good work on Y&R. So this combo might actually work very well. I also agree with you that TomSell’s downfall was the awful EJ/Sami’s exit and absolutely no build-up afterwards and no clues about the 50th. The only good storylines are the Sonny, Will & Paul and now the Hope & Aiden, which is picking up. But what a misuse when it comes to Nicole! She should have been in a good frontburner storyline right after EJ & Sami’s… Read more »
Aiden’s dead wife should be the baby sister of Larry Welch!
An unfortunate consequence of taping 5-6 months ahead is that when they do a regime change like this, they’re basically admitting that what’s coming up isn’t worth watching, both because it got those writers fired and because a lot of it will be abandoned/ reversed when the new writers start airing. I think I’ll check back in with Days around August or September, hopefully there will be a big buildup to the 50th.
The sooner they get rid of the homosexual storyline, the better!
Well, glad Days is making a change, but if it is the right change will be determined. Storylines are not interesting now. Haven’t watched much in ages. If Dena wrote the baby switching s/l , that may have been one of the better s/l’s in the last few years, but it went downhill with the dragged out kidnapping and hit bottom with the Rafe doppledanger – got too mean, dark, ugly for my taste in a soap opera. So if she can write s/l’s with some twists and turns, romance, and keep the show upbeat and more positive, she may… Read more »
Hope they can redeem kristen dimera bring back ava, nathan, brandon, cassie and rex
I think Ken Corday needs to retire and hand over creative control. Maybe Cythia Cidre would be good now that Dallas is cancelled, I loved Dallas, did a great job but had no network support
Hire some Empire writers and maybe this soap dish might have a chance. Lack of diversity=lack of interest in my home.
YAHOOOOOO! FINALLY! I am elated that Chris and Gary are out and UNLIKE so many here (BOOOOOO) I am willing to give Dena a chance. I firmly believe that Gary was DIRECTING her to write some of the stuff she did. Now that he is soon to be gone, she can tell the stories she wants to. Also, at least she didn’t put my John in a coma and have him leave town once a month for months like Chris and Gary did. Being a head writer is a thankless job, DAYS fans need to stop being so hard on… Read more »
Just put John &Marlena in a front burner storyline and stop putting them on for two three minutes a week. These talented actors have been placed on the backburner for far too long. We want to see more of a reunion between them. Not just a little stroke of the hand hear & there. We need the romance back in this show.
They should also make a change at EP and hire Jennifer Pepperman. She did a great job with One Life to Live re-boot.
I’m very concern what I’ve been seeing on Internet regarding Days of Our lives might be Cancelled Pls tell me its ” NOT TRUE ” I’m a True #1 Loyal Fan for yrs a long time . I’m truly concern since few Main Major Actors & Actress hve left in the past and RATINGS hve Plummered alott . Why Can’t they bring back few old time Main Strong Characters in the Past for example Bo , Patch , Jack , Vivian , Celeste , Ivan , Dr. Rolf ,Peter Blake , Chloe , Phillip . Sean D , Belle ,… Read more »
I’m happy to see Gary and Chris go! But even happier to see Dena return. Her baby switch story was one of the best written and crafted stories Days has ever had! Truly character driven and thoroughly entertaining. I just want Dena and Josh to save Days of our Lives….
I hope you pick up the unfinished storylines of Stephanos coin & do character 101-WHO the characters’ character is before the storylines assassinate them more. THANKS.
PLEASE…enough bed and shower scenes – please, no psychic junk. Fire up #Ericole #Danifer #Jarlena FIND RAFE a good storyline.Get their hair styled and dress them like real women n men. What happened to the class of the adults? Get Will out of those babyboy looking junk clothes. Stop torturing “Teresa”. Melanie back off Brady. Go away Serena.
Josh Griffiths don’t you DARE kill any of the children who are still on Days. It was a TRAVESTY you killed Delia off. STILL miss that great little actress. With that said, don’t do anymore baby switching DNA junk. ENOUGH OF THAT ALREADY!
Since November of 2012 the storylines got worse n worse. Can you bring back Carrie for Rafe? They were REALLY HOT together.