UNBELIEVABLE!!!!! Didn’t Day’s fire Higley at least twice because of her hack writing skills?

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.

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!

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.

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!!!

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!!

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”.

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 rate viewers today expect. My main criticism of them, though is that their style is overly somber – it can be sort of a downer. Their stories are also overly simplistic and don’t really challenge the audience or surprise the audience for the most part.

We’ll see what’s in store with the new regime when they start airing I guess in July or so. I’ll tune in to sample it. Until then I’ll stick to GH because Days isn’t doing it for me right now.

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.

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

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!!!

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 give her grandson advice and chase after John. The woman was once and probably still is a fan favorite. Give her more to do.

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 know it’s hard to keep fans happy with the use of their long term characters, as people only want what they’ve grown to love, (John with Marlena) but frankly, it can get pretty dull pretty quickly if the same old characters are getting front and centre story lines. I think as long as Dena Higley and Josh Griffiths can strike the right balance between old and new, young and mature, and keep the pacing right, the 50th year could be a real treat.

Good luck to them both – and to Gary and Chris too.

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 Salem for the reveal!!!

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.

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 other things while it’s on. Judging by the ratings, I’m not alone. There are alot of characters who need to go and alot of stories that need to be scrapped, re-written or moved along. Whatever this new HW does, I hope it allows Days to stay on the air for a few more years, at least.

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 away). Eve really, just isn’t working period. Eric is a nice idea of a character but as handsome as Greg is, he brings no fire to the role. When he was a priest, the calm zen thing worked – but now, I just keep wondering if he is on some mood settling drugs. Nicole is a vivacious character wasted on Eric and Daniel and should be front and center – written right, she could be Day’s new female centerpiece. I still think Serena has potential but the writing is doing the character no favors right now and they are risking totally turning the audience against her. I am one of the few I suppose who actually loves Melanie – but Melanie is a quirky character who needs the right partner to work with – and they haven’t found it. Brady seems to only have two stories – off the wagon or sexing it up with someone, and the sexy part plays to his strengths but there isn’t anyone sufficiently compelling AND sexy on the show right now for him to be paired with. Rafe – sorry, he’s just set decoration and has been for some time. I like Abigail and her detour with EJ brought out a side of the character I really liked – until she started freaking out and blaming EJ for the whole mess. The new Chad is a real find and should be showcased. Poplar Bluff trio needs to go – the story is particularly damaging the character of Kate who is coming off needlessly cruel and clueless. And I won’t name names, but there needs to be a couple of well thought out recasts. The last writing team’s three biggest issues – the ending of the Sami/EJ story was horrendous considering how much lead time they had; the lack of ANY story to pick up the slack once EJ/Sami/Kristen were off the show – the immediate THUD of all energy on the show coming to a stop was criminal, AGAIN considering how much lead time they had to prepare; and their inconsistent pace of stories – some drag on so long that by the time we start to get to the meat, we are bored to death while others speed up so quickly we are left wondering how in the world the characters even got to this point. I guess we will all see by… 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 brilliant idea. Broderick is known for bringing core families to the surface with brilliant storylines; her last few months on All My Children were some of the best the series had ever had.

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.

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 good…so not good in fact, that class act Erika Slezak spoke out publicly about it. Classic example of a writer not fitting a show. However, I enjoyed most of her work from her 08-11 reign on Days. The baby switch, Carly and Vivian returning, Nathan/Melanie/Philip/Stephanie….that was all her work and those were all well received stories. She set Maggie and Victor into motion,as well. She gets the show and the characters. Now Josh Griffith…I am of mixed feelings. His last stint at Y & R was the most mind numbingly boring, pointless, non-storied tenure possibly in soap history. Nothing happened, things went nowhere, and then Delia died, and then poof, he was gone. But I know he has done good work in the past, notably on Santa Barbara. I hope these two are a good match, because this is the big anniversary for Days…the big five oh!!!! We need writers who can create enthralling umbrella stories that honour the.past while moving forward. We need writers who will bring back beloved vets for the occasion and seamlessly weave them into current story. Gary Tomlin has such a history with the show, I think it might have been better to have him and Higley as a team, but I am not hiring. There are two professions in the world that can have 0% effectiveness or productivity, and yet individuals in these two fields can maintain employment…those being Weatherman, and Soap Opera Headwriter. I certainly wish Higley and Griffith all the best. Enough newbies!!! You have 50 years of history….draw on it!!!

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!

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.

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 to be excited that Lucas and Adrienne are making goo-goo eyes at each other? Brady, Melanie, Daniel and Nicole are FRIENDS, not long-term love stories. It felt gross seeing Melanie and Brady in bed. These two were best friends with a brother/sister vibe years ago. Here are some suggestions: Cut your losses on characters who continue to take time away from Kate, Victor, Maggie, Sonny, Will, Paul. Give Nicole someone that loves HER, not another psycho love story. Stop pushing couples into bed when they have never had an official date (Nicole/Daniel, Melanie/Brady). Serena and Eric are being pushed down our throats before we care about her. Stop bringing in characters and dragging out their back story (Jordan, Aidan). Write a realistic storyline for Kate, like a breast cancer stortyline. Have another town murder storyline and get rid iof uninteresting characters. Bring back Carrie, Chloe, Phillip, Belle and Shawn-Douglas. Add some siblings for Sonny. Send Eve and Paige back to California. Give characters a few redeeming qualities instead of making characters cardboard villains (Eve, Theresa). Beef up Chad’s time with Abby and Melanie.

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.

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. Cliint, the new hunk, could be Aiden’s brother. There are so many connections they just don’t make and they island their stories in addition to dragging them out ala Irna Phillips from the 1950s. Jordan’s plot has been a huge misfire from the beginning and she’s still on the screen. Having Clyde be the follow up to the horribly EJ ending just put salt in the wound. The final EJ/Sami story was Tomsell’s biggest failure and I think that’s why they were let go. They were given a huge casting boost with heavy hitters from OLTL plus the return of Melanie (boo) and they blew it. I think Higly’s in there because Corday gets to choose one of two HW positions; Sony picked Griffith whom they considered returning to YR. Corday went with family; HIgly is family to him and with the show on the chopping block and filming so far in advance, they can’t afford to have two newbies as HW. Dena can think fast about history and legacy characters. Just imagine when they were hired or pitching their stories, that they had to read months of written bible plus watch months of shows already in the can and then craft future story based on that, story that won’t appear for at least six months. It’s an impossible task.

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 be OK, but if she reverts back to the dark, mean, and ugly, count me out – I can watch the news for that. Actually, I would not mind if they went more along the lines of Cedar Cove type storylines and characters with focus on relationships, quirky town, community events, that show is popular, but maybe soap operas have to have a bit more grit now. The issue is not to slide into the mean, dark, ugly – soaps are supposed to be for a nice take me away escape whether you watch them during the day or another time. Life is challenging enough you want to watch soaps, so you can relax, let the troubles of the day disappear for a short time, and dream a little- fantasy – that is when soaps were good – like the Bo and Hope romance. I know times have changed, so storylines have to change, but the essence of a soap opera is to escape, so writers have to keep that in mind. Who wants to escape into something dark, mean, ugly? Keep it upbeat and positive, Dena no matter what direction the storylines go.

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 her.

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 , Mimi , Bonnie , Mike Horton , April Ramirez , Diana Colville , E.J . recast and Sami recast if they won’t comeback … or even Bring in Sonny Brothers Alexander , Joseph and Victor for a Storyline also Andrew Donovan Teresa Brother … 50 TH Anniversary is coming Nov 8th i believe The Stories now hve to Wrap up some of the Major Boring ones Please there not working OUT at all I know New WRITERS are Immediately are hired in now WHY did it get to this point of Not so great stories What Happen to the HORTONS < DIMERA , BRADY , CARVER Famliy values and what about Bring in The GRANT FAMILY Valerie especially that amazing Actress who played her make her the Matriarch of her Family a New Generation where it ties into Maxine and the Hortons Family with also David Banning … Would Love to see Ratings Sky Rocket Immediately if GH can do it so can DAYS Come on KEN CORDAY and NEW WRITERS This was TED & BETTY CORDAY LEGACY don't let them down as well as your Loyal Millions of FAN Base … That turn in 5 DAYS a WEEK PLS here OUR OUT CRY REGARDING LOW LOW LOW RATINGS AND VERY BAD STORYLINES THERE NOT WORKING PLS REVAMP THE SHOW ASAP We would like to see DAYS on pass the 50TH ANNIVERSARY …MAJOR CHANGES NEEDED IMMEDIATELY OUR HEARTS ARE VERY CONCERN to many Online & FB talk regarding Cancellations …. PLS Now is your chance to TURN the SHOW around and BRING RATINGS UP to a 2.3 or more God Bless you guys always huggggs … PLEASE HERE OUR CONCERNS ….

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.