Well, JSF, for your sake, I hope that all of your wishes come true.

I just can't see God answering a prayer about NBC's total demise, resulting in the loss of thousands of jobs... for your rejoicing, LoL.

I wouldn't link there if I were you...

But, given the information.

NNNOOOO!!!

I don't want Days on ABC! Christ almighty, I don't want Frons in control of my show!

This just sucks all around. God.

Goodbye, Salem. It was nice knowin' ya! Because as far as I'm concerned, Days (as we know it) is done for.

I'm willing to see where this goes. There are some very interesting Days ahead, that's for sure.

Edited January 11, 200719 yr by Andre

JER wrote the jungle storyline, but not the circus. JER last aired through the last week of November sweeps of 1997, and the circus was like Feb. Sweeps of 1998. Jack was on the verge of escaping prison when JER left.

That is correct.

SSM was already influencing the material that aired in October even though JER was last credited in late Nov.

So if they cancelled Passions, canned OLTL or AMC for Days, and I don't think Days would survive the move (nothing against Days, I just don't see a netork jump and Fronsie control helping the show any)...then we'd lose three soaps, as opposed to just one?

Thanks, Toups.

JSF, why don't you just pray PSNS doesn't get cancelled instead of praying for NBC's demise?

I can fault NBC for not strong-arming Reilly to become the PHENOMONAL soap (and ratings success) that is could have. This show has RIDICULOUS potential that any network should be clamoring over others to exploit. I mean, Lindsay Korman Hartley, Juliet Mills, Ben Masters and Kim Johnston Ulrich -- that ensemble and the flexibility of "Passions" with its camp/serious dynamic -- are reasons enough for networks to fight over the show. It's incredibly marketable and, with the RIGHT WRITER, would be the best soap opera on television, bar none.

:lol: :lol:

GMAFB!

While PASSIONS has potential to CERTAINLY be better than it is now....the entire show (including over 80% of the actors) would need to be axed/fired/replaced for it to even touch most of the other soaps on the air.

And even still, no amount of prayers in the world is gonna make that happen!!

But see, if a writer like Hogan Sheffer came to Passions, he would totally eliminate the supernatural, the fun dream sequences (not the teasing or repetitive ones), and the campiness, and the dance numbers, and all the things that make Passions Passions. He would turn it into a boring Y&R clone or something, and make it super-realistic and basically trash everything that essentially makes Passions what it is.

But see, if a writer like Hogan Sheffer came to Passions, he would totally eliminate the supernatural, the fun dream sequences (not the teasing or repetitive ones), and the campiness, and the dance numbers, and all the things that make Passions Passions. He would turn it into a boring Y&R clone or something, and make it super-realistic and basically trash everything that essentially makes Passions what it is.

Newsflash: JERk's already done that.

The supernatural has been gone from PSNS for ages.

So basically you'd want the new writer to further get rid of the supernatural, and Passions' other essential qualities? That's worse than cancellation.

So basically you'd want the new writer to further get rid of the supernatural, and Passions' other essential qualities? That's worse than cancellation.

Who said anything about a new writer necessarily getting rid of all that? Just because it wouldn't be JER writing, doesn't have to mean that they wouldn't/couldn't respect what PASSIONS is about. JER is not the be all, end all of PSNS.

I can fault NBC for not strong-arming Reilly to become the PHENOMONAL soap (and ratings success) that is could have.

why is it up to NBC to make a writer want to do well, and not up to the writer himself?

why is it up to NBC to make a writer want to do well, and not up to the writer himself?

Exactly. Quality of storylines is the headwriter's responsibility, NOT the network's.

But see, if a writer like Hogan Sheffer came to Passions, he would totally eliminate the supernatural, the fun dream sequences (not the teasing or repetitive ones), and the campiness, and the dance numbers, and all the things that make Passions Passions. He would turn it into a boring Y&R clone or something, and make it super-realistic and basically trash everything that essentially makes Passions what it is.

Hogan sent three of ATWT's leading stars to a spa to get aged and experimented on. You don't know Hogan at all.

Hogan is not a quiet story telling person. He tells big stories, big moments. He researches a show's background, and respects its identity for the most part.

Who said anything about a new writer necessarily getting rid of all that? Just because it wouldn't be JER writing, doesn't have to mean that they wouldn't/couldn't respect what PASSIONS is about. JER is not the be all, end all of PSNS.

its like saying JER is the only one who can and has done supernatural. Dark Shadows ... Strange Paradise ... both 100x better than Passions ever was.