This news will not save GH from oblivion. No one cares about an actress who played an 1980s character on a cancelled soap.  When GH stops revolving around murderous thugs it might gain a few more viewers.  Writer Courtney Simon summed it up best why she never felt comfortable writing under Guza and left after a short stint. The show was built around criminals.  Check out Alan Locher's interview with her and Peter Simon. It was brief and refreshing to hear the truth from a writer.

Looks like Michael Eilbaum is no longer directing Y&R; makes sense since he's based in NYC and was flying out to CA. UPDATE: he's back 

1 hour ago, j swift said:

Agreed (although I would add RKK's pension for short shorts)

But

I have to put in a good word for Stephen Yates.  He was Rachel-est of the Jamie's.  They shared the same hair and an artsy vibe.  They were also both vulnerable with a hair trigger temper that interfered with their relationships.  It was a shame that the character changed so much in later iterations because I thought Yate's Jamie seemed like the one who really shared some character DNA with Rachel (certainly more than Amanda or Matthew ever did). 

I agree with you. I loved him.

13 hours ago, Xanthe said:

 

While I can't blame Sandra Ferguson for not wanting to work with RKK, I found the Amanda and Evan scenes quite painful. I skipped over Stacey and Derek altogether. It was nice to see Felicia and Lucas, though. I liked her much better with Lucas than with Mitch.

Sandra could never act her way out of a paper bag.  RKK was okay as long as he was half naked and mouth shut.  Charles Flohe was inconsistent. Had some good scenes on Edge where he played tender emotions nicely but he never cut it on AW and the character had potential being Janice's son. I've always been amazed over the years that TPTB on many shows seem to have difficulty finding outstanding performers to fill the role of the adult/aged children of the show's vets. Some get it right. Grant Alexander and Mike O'Leary were fantastic for years as Phil and Rick.  Y&R has failed with Josh and Amelia as Victor and Nikki's kids.  They can't get the right actor for Ashley's daughter or Nick's kids, Noah and Summer. All these actors are terrible.  On AW, they couldn't keep actors in the Jamie role for very long. Bekins was the best fit. After him, none of the others worked.  Look what they did with Lorna.  Alicia was awesome then we got Sky Chandler. Terrible

12 hours ago, Paul Raven said:

Mart Hulswit was cute as younger man but by the early 80's he was overweight and balding thus the decision to let him go.

Don Stewart had aged much better, so Mike was retained at that time.

Exactly, remember they were competing with Gloria Monty's GH at the time. The interesting thing is that Luke/AG was never hot and aged a lot. Gloria and AG made it work.  The Dobson's had played Ed/Mike/Rita/Holly for years.  It needed a bit of a rest anyway.  I never liked PS as Ed even though I like the actor. He was a sourpuss as my Granny used to say. I think he always resented playing Ed and it came through.

9 hours ago, titan1978 said:

I always wanted to see what Scott and JFP could do together. She likes that darker lighting esthetic, and they both usually produce shows that look more expensive than they are (not counting her cheap looking Y&R).  If she was a fan of melodrama at all Y&R with Scott would have worked.

 

And this is coming from someone that is not a JFP fan.

Nooo. Jill ruined the Y&R look; she turned it into Santa Barbara.  Awful. And Mel turned up the lighting even more. I thought Morina would bring some darker, Wisconsin Frank Lloyd Wright design back to the show (from the 1980s) but the lightening is worse than under Jill or Mal.  The sets are awful. I never thought I'd say this but with the exception of Hope Brady's recently showcased psychedelic half den on Days, Salem often looks better than Genoa City.

On 8/31/2020 at 4:36 AM, victoria foxton said:

March 4, 1981

The 1981 writer's strike happened in summer 81.  Bunim hired actor Don Chastain to write the show and she fired Upton after the strike ended. Chastain briefly held the head writer role and ruined things with some crappy boxing story. I think he was still appearing as Max.  Upton's real life son was named Garth. He died in 2004 of lung cancer at age 60. Gabrielle was still alive, having been born in 1922. Never found an obituary so she still may be alive!  Amazing that she wrote the show solo.  IMDB doesn't list that she was also head writer for Love of Life, an unwatchable period where she focused on a former prostitute.  But I really liked this episode. Classy, Directing, music, pacing was all so classic soap.  Dignified.  Sheri was sensational.  Rod never knew his lines. he was no Tony Geary!  You have to give P&G credit for giving Bunim an EP title when she was so young (she had been an associate producer). She must have been really talented and wowed the execs.  I loved most of her EP stint on ATWT too.  Sad when you think of the crap on tv today.

What killed the character was making her a police officer/detective.  Hated all of that. It ruined Hope.

LOL. Ron crafting stories after several martinis.  No one cares about Tamara unfortunately (not to mention Ava).  I wish someone would bring quality soap storytelling back from the dead.

So he's the father of Ally's baby?

Am I the only one who wants Ben to kill Ciara; she totally deserves what he's about to do. I don't think Ron intended for fans to wish Ben finally gets someone who is stupid enough to bring it on.  Bye Ciara. Maybe Paige can teach you how to move your brains from your boobs to your head. LOL. And why does the costume designer dress Ciara like she's Adrienne Barbeau on Maude?

Ron's best story since he joined is the Aly pregnancy story but of course it's short lived and involves a bunch of actors Corday had to fire to meet budget this year.  The 'who gets the baby' in the old days would have lasted a year at least.  It was all so rushed and played along side another Ron special train wreck, Eve's revenge, which was unwatchable as usual.

Grossman is looking rough. What happened?  

The lighting on the show is so bright now I need shades to watch.  Morina's worse than Mal Young re the overall look of the show.

Susan Dansby confirmed on her Facebook page that she begins as a Story Consultant on YR on Sept 1.

Which head writer was responsible for the Search plot where Clay was killed?

Why was P&G determined to keep Gillian Spencer as a co-headwriter? She was paired with Sam Radcliffe, then David Cherrill, then finally Sam Hall all within a few months. Not sure if it was hack Shenkel who hired her; he had no business as a soap EP.  He went over to AMC as EP for a short run (I think he developed cancer and had to quit) and he hired Spencer as a story consultant on that show.  Sharon Gabet mentioned that Spencer created the Brittney character. What a mess.  But Whitesell and DePriest did even more damage. Whitesell was a good director period. Spencer was a good actress and good script writer period.  End of story, P&G often overlooked the veterans on the production staff for EP roles.  When I watch episodes from 82- to early 85 I'm struck by how good the show was; it had stabilized especially under Potter/Soderberg/Purser and they gave the show legs again. It felt more like a more up to date Lemay version without all Lemay's boring scenes and awful dialog. Casting was stellar. Sets, costumes. It all worked. I suspect NBC kept interfering as Days became more popular and cultish and outlandish.  

Rick Draughon gone from Wednesday's Days credits and script writer Kathryn Schock was moved into his place. Wow. He's been with the show a long time.

I didn't hear Dansby say she's temporary. She's back as a storyline writer/editor I believe (taking over for Amanda Beall who's now co-headwriter).

Jean was a network employee before she became a soap writer. She was with ABC's writer's development program.  Like McTavish and Higley, Jean was constantly hired because she was the associate head writer to whomever was exec producer of each show she worked on.  At NBC, she and Laiman were hired to replace Culliton because he wouldn't bow to network pressure.  Goutman had her wrapped around his uncreative middle finger.  I think ABC had hopes that she'd be a good Nixon trainee but she didn't have the chops which is why she ended up being a P&G hack.  Y&R hired her for the same reason. Phelps was the head writer, along with Kent and McDaniel, no doubt.

Tom C was Hoagie's assistant. Hogan promoted to breakdown writer whomever (as an assistant) helped him turn in outlines (there was another Tom and Meg Kelly). Read Tom's eulogy after Hogan's death to find out how their relationship developed.

On 7/31/2020 at 2:29 PM, jcar03 said:

April 3rd - Flashback Episode 4/2/19

April 10th - Flashback Episode 7/30/18

April 17th - Flashback Episode 1/17/18

April 24th - Flashback Episode 11/12/18
May 1st - Flashback Episode 4/1/14

May 8th - Flashback Episode 11/27/18

May 15th - Flashback Episode 3/30/18

May 22nd - Flashback Episode 4/1/15

May 25th - 5/8/14 (Nurse’s Ball)

May 26th - 5/9/14 (Nurse’s Ball)

May 27th - 5/12/14 (Nurse’s Ball)

May 28th - 5/1/15 (Nurse’s Ball)

May 29th - 5/5/15 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 1st - 5/25/16 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 2nd - 5/23/17 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 3rd - 5/24/17 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 4th - 5/25/17 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 5th - 5/17/18 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 8th - 5/18/18 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 9th - 5/21/18 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 10th - 5/20/19 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 11th - 5/21/19 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 12th - 5/22/19 (Nurse’s Ball)

June 15th - 2/7/07 (Carly & Sonny)

June 16th - 9/24/13 (Carly & Sonny)

June 17th - 9/14/15 (Carly & Sonny)

June 18th - 10/14/15 (Carly & Sonny)

June 19th - 10/12/16 (Carly & Sonny)

June 22nd - 12/3/03 (Jason & Sam)

June 23rd - 11/10/04 (Jason & Sam)

June 24th - 10/12/05 (Jason & Sam)

June 25th - 7/21/11 (Jason & Sam)

June 26th - 9/22/11 (Jason & Sam)

June 29th - 1/29/10 (Sonny’s Children)

June 30th - 6/4/10 (Sonny’s Children)

July 1st - 11/17/14 (Sonny’s Children)

July 2nd - 6/29/15 (Sonny’s Children)

July 3rd - 2/26/16 (Sonny’s Children)

July 6th - 4/8/08 (Sonny’s Children)

July 7th - 5/4/10 (Sonny’s Children)

July 8th - 5/7/10 (Sonny’s Children)

July 9th - 1/6/11 (Sonny’s Children)

July 10th - 7/25/16 (Sonny’s Children)

July 13th - 4/28/20

July 14th - 4/29/20

July 15th - 4/30/20

July 16th - 5/4/20

July 17th - 5/5/20

July 20th - 5/6/20

July 21st - 5/7/20

July 22nd - 5/11/20

July 23rd - 5/12/20

July 24th - 5/13/20

July 27th - 5/14/20

July 28th - 5/18/20

July 29th -  5/19/20

July 30th - 5/20/20

July 31st - 5/21/20

 

If you take the 8 episodes where Billy Miller was presumed to be playing Jason it would move the character to #4.

Would be interesting to list who was head writer for each repeat episode (other than 2020)

Today's episode (Monday US): when did it originally air?

The actor who played Seth was so lackluster.  Marland and producers had trouble casting some important male characters over the years. Caleb is another.  Love righteous Kim. What a treasure (character and actress).

Just realized that 2.5 years into Pam Long's first HW tenure, she had created 22 out of the 30 contract players on the canvas. 

You have to distinguish the ones who really do cry naturally and the ones who use a chemical too induce. All the actresses on days seem to use something that makes their noses red and turns up the tears. 

Kim Zimmer and Judi Evans are my top picks for natural criers.  

Hi Jason: in her interview, KA mentions that she filmed her last episode before covid break and that it would air on 10/15. Jason47's Days production schedule list mentions that 10/5 was the last episode taped before the break. How can that be since they moved up all the dates anyway to cover the summer olympics?

2020:
Week of 1/6/20-1/10/20 DARK WEEK # 1
Week of 1/13/20-1/17/20 DARK WEEK # 2
Week of 1/20/20-1/24/20 DARK WEEK # 3
Week of 1/27/20-1/31/20 DARK WEEK # 4 
Week of 2/3/20-2/7/20 # 13913-13920 (airing 8/10/20-8/19/20)
Week of 2/10/20-2/14/20 # 13921-13927 (airing 8/20/20-8/28/20)
Week of 2/17/20-2/21/20 DARK WEEK # 5
Week of 2/24/20-2/28/20 # 13928-13935 (airing 8/31/20-9/10/20)
Week of 3/2/20-3/6/20 # 13936-13942 (airing 9/11/20-9/23/20)
Week of 3/9/20-3/13/20 # 13943-13950 (airing 9/24/20-10/5/20)
Week of 3/16/20-3/20/20 DARK WEEK # 6
PRODUCTION SUSPENDED INDEFINITELY DUE TO PANDEMIC

https://daytimeconfidential.com/2020/07/24/kristian-alfonso-weighs-in-on-days-exit