ALL: Which vet or vets are you willing to sacrifice to save your show?

[ANDREA LOATHES REILLY]

"James Reynolds can be released. The only problem with him being released is that we won't have any diversity on the show. That is the show's fault though. They need to start hiring more minority actors and creating characters for these actors. It's sad."

James Reynolds does not add diversity to DOOL. And if Hogan had to cut one of the black actors, why the interesting one? Lexie was far more interesting than the limited Abe, and I think it was a huge mistake to cut her. Hogie is a good writer, but he has proven AGAIN that he can't write for more than 1 black person at a time. He did the same thing on ATWT. He cut 3 really decent black actors/characters and kept the least interesting one (Pete Parros, Ben). Pete is possibly one of the dullest people on daytime. Possibly the world! This is Hogie's pattern, and I hope he overcomes it soon...

Imagine him at OLTL? Yeah the writing would improve, but he'd keep Vince or that obscene mouthpiece of his and cut Evangeline. I am certain of it!

Andrea

[2shane8]

No way would he cut Evangeline. She is one of the most popular characters on the show, and REG is a great actress. There is a lot of stuff coming up with REG, TSJ, and Kassie DePaiva, three of the hottest actors in daytime today.

Rather than cut vets, how about cut some of the people who are no doubt making way too much money, like Mo Benard (although I guess he is sort of a vet now) and Michael Easton? I am sure their paychecks match those of Erika Slezak and Robert S. Woods.

[DrewH]

Um, he's black. That's diversity.

[xDaysAddict]

James Reynolds: never cared for Abe or JR acting,which I always thought was badly over the top.ITA they should have kept lexie.

Josh taylor:even after all those years he is still NOT roman.he adds nothing to the show,and It's time to get rid of him.

Lauren Koslow:either do something diffrent with kate,or kill her and do a great "whodoneit" story.

and Drake H...his acting is dreadfull and the character is just annoying.free marlena and let Deidre do something new.

[SteveFrame]

I just got through watching Suzanne Rogers on Soapography a few minutes ago.

She talked about when Days fired her in 2003. Her words bring home exactly what these older vets face when they get fired or cut to recurring - because they lose their contracts either way.

I didn't tape it so I can't quote her word for word, but she said when she was fired her immediate thoughts were she didn't know how long she would be able to stay in her home. I know that some of them make pretty good money. Rogers and some of them were never big stars and couldn't get the big bucks. She didn't say but I guess she had some in savings, but she knew at one point it was going to run out.

She said there wasn't anything in soaps for her age - no one wanted to hire that age in the world of soaps. She went up for several auditions in primetime but she said she ended up going against Candice Bergen. She said after a certain age all the movie actresses of that age are coming to TV too - so she ended up auditioning against these name movie stars. She didn't really come out and say it - but if you are a producer who are you going to hire for your show a name like Candice Bergen or a an ex-soap star Suzanne Rogers.

[Pest Spray]

DAYS should totally do a big party/ball and do a bomb storyline. Great way to kill of some characters. Have a bomb or a fire, kill off Shawn Sr (while I think Frank Parker is an adorable person, Shawn Sr doesn't serve any real purpose) and some other useless characters and then have it transpire into a "Who Dunnit" story by having Kate as one of the victims but to be found out that she was already DEAD at the time of the fire/bombing. Ta-da, drama and storyline for a few months right there with tons of potential, because several characters would benefit from Kate being gone. Sami, EJ, Lucas, Will, Roman would all be instant suspects. You can bring on the three supercouples, all serving their purpose in the investigation/cover-up. Bo and Hope are cops, John & Marlena can investigate, Steve and Kayla are smack in the middle of the EJ angle already.

Although, it'll be sad for anyone to lose their jobs. But, storyline wise, that's just one of my dream stories.

[ANDREA LOATHES REILLY]

I, again, disagree. One black character in an environment of 20 or 30 characters is NOT diversity. I repeat, that is NOT diversity. It wasn't diversity in the 50s, 60s and 70s, and it certainly is NOT now...Diversity means you have several black cast members (Grey's Anatomy) blending in with the nonblack cast members. And when they all HAVE STORIES and are NOT related, THAT'S GRAVY! Again, Grey's Anatomy...

I don't want to take this off topic, but I needed to make that point.

Andrea

[DrewH]

Haha, Steve, I watched the same thing today. I came home from class and saw Suzanne on my screen. It made me smile, lol. I love her and Maggie.

[DrewH]

One (three if you count Celeste and Theo) is better than none.

[Ms. Walsh]

Aside from financial reasons, I don't see how firing vets would actually save a show. If any of my favorite vets on ATWT were fired (as opposed to quitting or retiring), I would definitely consider stop watching altogether.

If they should cut anyone, it should be new characters that nobody cares about.

I agree with people who say that if a writer can't write for vets, then they don't deserve to be HW. I'm sure that some HWs are willing to write for vets, but the network/advertisers tell them not to. However, TIIC need to realize that soaps come with loyal followers, and that they should be catering to us first, instead of some potential viewer.

[tylerbo20]

is this topic really needed?

[ClassicsSoapFan]

I wouldn't want to lose a single vet on ATWT!

Now,you can take Jeffrey Meek and Austin Peck. Right now please!!!!!

Meek is the one impersonating Craig Montgomery,Peck is pretending to be Brad!!!!

[ANDREA LOATHES REILLY]

I'd say yes, especially for those who are sick and tired of seeing the vets treated like yesterday's trash so that Pig Tramps, Mobsters/Hitmen and non acting models eat up valuable screentime that could be put to good use by some of the vets we have grown to love over the years...

I rather enjoy this topic...

ANDREA

[DrewH]

Then who would become the next vets? Every vet started out as a newbie. You can't just get rid of all the newbie. All of those vets are going to die at some point and then you no longer have a show. Is that what you want?

[R Sinclair]

AMC has pretty much obliterated their vets. Tonya Pinkins, Jill Larson, Vincent Irizarry, Julia Barr, Cady McClain... all disposed of within the last 12 months and the show's still a sh!tfest. They're already giving Lucci sooooo little to work with, so they're saving money by having her work just above her minimum.