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DAYS: Josh Griffith OUT! Quan Promoted to Co-HW with Higley!


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Last fall Dena did a facebook chat with fans and all the things she talked about was stuff that aired Dec-Jan. She didn't talk anything about the stuff that actually aired at the time, this was back in August or September after her leave of absence had already been reported. By December, some stories came to a qucik end with little fallout and the feel of the show changed. All writers have a certain feel and style, anyone who's watched Dena's work in the past should know her's by now. The Steve/Kayla/Ava story is a repeat of the same story she wrote in 2008. Rafe being the male lead again being put with the female lead. Expanding the Hernandez family, like she did back in 2009-2011. I could go on, but that's all just the basics. Reliable people have pretty much confirmed it.

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So you're saying that when Dena/Josh started writing, Dena just sat there on the side, for about 3-3.5 months, and let Josh Head Write the show?  Then for about 1-2 months before Dena went on her LOA, Dena was HW while Josh sat on the side?   I don't know about this. It doesn't sound right.   I know what we're seeing right now is when Dena was on her LOA. 

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I could believe in that outline only because Griff has pretty much said how much he loves Patch and Kayla thus the heavy focus they got in the months when the new writers starting to air. And it's something that we are STILL seeing. Given the slowness of his writing (which I liked at his Y&R...ik minority)  I could see Dena throwing in Ava.

 

And Griff's Y&R was about starting some diversity which I see here too with Lani, aged Theo and Rafe's family. Again, that does have Dena over it as well since she loves Rafe as lead.

 

Definitely feel the tone changed. I loved how the tone was. Now it has been hit&miss ffrom week to week with crazy Time jumping.

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The other factor skewing the timeline of who-wrote-what is that the focus from September-December was almost entirely on Chad/Abigail/Ben and Hope/Bo/Aiden/Steve/Kayla. Aside from what was necessary for the murders (Eve's grief, Sami and Lucas's grief) and the bicentennial stuff, it wasn't really a 'regular' show. I imagine they came in with a very strict outline about getting through the serial killer storyline -- and you could see some of Higley's fingerprints there, like with the re-emergence of Rafe The Hero, and Sami's crappy little revenge arc. Once the table was cleared from those two huge, time-sensitive things, you almost immediately saw Higley-type stories (Ava's return, pushing Hope/Rafe) with the Griffith-style darkness and the wild pacing. I would guess that it was during that time that they either started clashing badly in their vision of the show, OR that Higley legitimately had a family emergency.

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The bio on my page is a little outdated. I've updated it since the announcement. Here's my updated bio on him, along with the 50 scripts that he wrote the dialogue for from 2008-2011:

 

Ryan Shigeru Quan graduated from UCLA in 1999 and started off his soap career by winning Procter & Gamble's writing contest for college students. Quan was the writers' assistant for "Passions" from 1999-2005 and served as the show's website coordinator from 2005-2007. He joined "Days of Our Lives" on April 3, 2007 as the show's writers' assistant. He started doing double duty as a dialogue writer from September 2008-November 2008 and September 2009-March 2011. Quan has been doing double duty as both a breakdown writer and writers' assistant since September 2011. He won his first Daytime Emmy Award in 2012 and has been nominated a total of four times (2011, 2012, 2014, 2015). Quan, 38, was born on September 9, 1977 in Los Angeles, California.

 

Here's a list of the 50 scripts that new head writer Ryan Quan wrote for "Days" from 2008-2011:

 

2008: (9)
9/12, 9/15, 9/26, 9/29 (4)
10/6, 10/7, 10/15, 10/31 (4)
11/5 (1)

 

2009: (13)
9/11, 9/25 (2)
10/2, 10/15, 10/30 (3)
11/9, 11/13, 11/24 (3)
12/2, 12/11, 12/21, 12/28, 12/31 (5)

 

2010: (22)
1/14, 1/25, 1/29 (3)
2/12 (1)
3/15, 3/29 (2)
4/14 (1)
5/3, 5/18 (2)
6/1, 6/8, 6/17 (3)
7/16 (1)
8/4, 8/19 (2)
9/9 (1)
10/5, 10/19 (2)
11/9, 11/24 (2)
12/15, 12/27 (2)

 

2011: (6)
1/19, 1/28 (2)
2/7, 2/21 (2)
3/4, 3/17 (2)

 

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