Jump to content

Days: Does Hogan Sheffer Want To Return?


Recommended Posts

  • Members

I think he wants back. That´s probably main reason why Dena so rushes to get rid of every character he had some plans for while bringing in tons of her own newbies. I think either he will just sit back, collect the money and watch the show die, or he will try to get rid of Dena again.

I think right now a lot of people loves Dena (resp. scab) because the vets are on a lot and we are still on the wave created by Sheffer´s outlines. But come March, when her own stories appear on screen and all those newbies starts occupy the screen, you will hear the huge crash.

We also don´t know how much Corday really supports Dena. It seems weird to me she was so adamant to be named CoHW a week before the strike. It could be very well a price Corday had to pay for her willingness to write the show during the strike. And if Corday doesn´t have anyone else to replace her she can easily get everything she wants, because she can say either it will be my way or I´m gone.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Replies 58
  • Created
  • Last Reply
  • Members

I think the more relevant question is would Corday want him back? Higley is cheaper, more willing to do his bidding and- assuming she features J&M and Bope as much as previews indicate- unlikely to draw lower ratings than HS. Also, Hogan doesn't have that many folks in his corner. Most of the big fanbases see Higley as the lesser of two evils. I imagine the cast are generally anti-Hogan given how unbalanced the show has been during his tenure. And since Hogan did nothing for the ratings prior to Ed Scott's arrival, I doubt NBC and Sony are particularly invested in him. The only thing discouraging Corday is the cost of buying out his contract and that can supposedly be avoided if he invokes force majeure.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

But that´s just it. If J/M, B/H, S/K and other vers are on as much as now, they will get way above their guarantee and I´m pretty sure the budget is not that big. For all mistakes Sheffer did, he was atleat trying to build up the future. The sorority gang was interesting enough to not colapse the show when they were the leading story for a week or two. And while the Phelle, Shloe qudrangle wasn´t popular between hardcore Shelle and Phloe fans, it finally shaped the characters enough so they was watchable and enjoyable even for a general audience.

Besides, I really don´t believe juist having S/K, B/H and J/M on automatically means a better ratings. For a while yes. But longterm. All those couple are played out, there is nothing fresh or inovative the show can do with them. And combined with Highley´ s incapableness and her ability to write characters into a corner, I´m almost sure the ratings will already be collapsing when the strike ends.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Administrator

I think he does want to return since this

and the new John/Marlena romance are some of his biggest storylines ever. He also had Belle/Shawn/Philip/Chloe at a good place. I would've loved to see the direction he took with these storylines.

And then Corday will have TWO former Head Writers on payroll. So money is definitely not an issue when it comes to the Head Writer. It's just Corday throwing money away as usual.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Administrator

Me, anti Corday? :huh::unsure:

You know I would forgive him if he brought back Jim Reilly to pair him with Sheffer. Corday would then leave to go on a very long vacation. I would love to see what Reilly/Scott/Sheffer - the dream team - would do to DAYS without Corday's interference. DAYS would be INSANE....in a good way. B)

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I'm worried if he does return or if he doesn't.

If he does return, unless Dena is not FiCore and can't write Days, he's going to probably be fighting with her. And even though Hogan might stand up to her, Corday is going to be on Higley's side. Higley is a Corday-like writer, so I wouldn't be surprised if even with Hogan's there we see ALOT of her influence.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

GREAT post.

I also disagree the vets are anti-Hogan. Drake was the only one that came off that way. The rest of them commented on how much the writing had improved, especially dialogue-wise and after Ed joined the show. Just because they were off-screen the first half of the year doesn't mean they hate a writer. They still got paid and they understood it was business and they had been backburnered before . Drake was the only one that seemed upset about it, at least publicly.

The vets need to be on but in the Fall, Hogan had the right idea. He built up the Shawn/Belle/Philip/Chloe stuff and tossed them in with the vets. He then began to back off on Lucas/Sami/EJ and gave the young cast a decent supporting story. It was all clicking and that is why I hope this strike ends before March because that is likely when nothing but Higley stuff will be airing.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

I swear I just love Erika Slezak. Now, I'm tryting to go back in DAYS time when Dena Higley was writing for DAYS. Was this during the time when Kate Roberts offered Nicole Walker 5 million dollars to marry Lucas Roberts and she was turning into a major alcoholic? I believe Lucas was trying to get custody of Will at that time. And I think Nicole was all about Eric at that time too. Am I wrong or am I correct?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • Members

You're correct. That was Sally Sussman Morrina! I knew it was a female headwriter, but i just got them confused. Now when did Dena Higley write for DAYS? What stories did she do? Please don't tell me Rex and Cassie who were brought to Earth in a spaceship who turned out to be Dimeras and Kate Roberts being the mother! Please don't tell me this!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Archived

This topic is now archived and is closed to further replies.

  • Recently Browsing   0 members

    • No registered users viewing this page.



  • Recent Posts

    • In my usual account on my most used video hosting site with the video title  DAYS 1-8-15 Will & Paul Sex This is an edit I began when I was first teaching myself to edit & at that time I couldn't make it do what I wanted it to do. I pulled it up & finished it this morning. 
    • Or Megan is shot as retaliation for Dave's unpaid gambling debts...while Julie confesses she's the biological mother of Special Guest Star Barry Bostwick's little boy.
    • Finland seemed such an odd choice for a location shoot. ATWT went to Greece and later Spain while GL had Tenerife and there were others in that timeframe. But Finland not being a known tourist destination or offering the tropical/sunny atmosphere usually associated with location shoots seems off brand. Maybe they were negotiating a deal with a tourist association and it fell through.
    • I was talking about 1986, but the glimpses of 1982 are about the same. 
    • I skimmed some of the 1982 synopses; Steve was planning on an opening an office in Finland, and I think Jim went there as part of the preparation. That probably was a big issue; AW had already gone to San Diego that year, with Rachel/Steve/Mitch. And to upstate NY with Pete and Diana. I wonder if upstate was as expensive lol  AW in 1982 has always fascinated me, because of how messy it was 
    • That makes sense. What a messy time for the show. And any changes they made were mostly for the worse.
    • The transition from Neal to Adam was very abrupt, and to be honest my theory is that the character of Neal was designed so that we think he is super shady but then it turns out that he was on the side of good all along so Neal could have seamlessly become a hero of the BCPD with no need for Adam. I don't know whether Robert Lupone was hired on a short contract or if he was fired from a longer-term contract because they decided they wanted someone who was more of a leading man type, but I can imagine a scenario where Charles Grant did both the undercover Egyptian treasure/flirt with Victoria and the straighter-arrow day to day police investigation. But in my imagined scenario the MJ prostitution plotline probably doesn't exist and instead he probably continues a relationship with Victoria. The story seems very odd to me. I assume that David Canary would have been included only because a plotline where Steve is going to Finland in which only Rachel is seen in actual Finland seems unlikely. The synopses explicitly mention that Alice can't go with Steve but would whoever was playing Alice at that time have had the kind of clout to get the remote cancelled? It also strikes me as unlikely that production would have approved the expensive location shoot and *then* cancelled it only because of jealousy. It seems more likely that they rejected it because of the expense but then the jealousy part got added to the gossip speculatively, possibly because while it was being worked out they justified not including more castmembers because of the expense. 
    • My comment has nothing to do with cast resentment, but does relate to the Finland location shoot: It may be a coincidence, but Jim Matthews died in Finland in 1982.  Hugh Marlowe's final episode was in April 1982, but the character probably didn't die untll May or June. (I'm unable to find the character's date of death, only the date of Marlowe's final episode). SInce Jim and Rachel had very little interaction after around 1975, it is unlikely Jim's death in Finland had any connection to Rachel's potential visit, but the choice to have Jim die in that location at that time is a head-scratcher.  I'm sure the writers sent Jim on an extended trip (and off-screen) because of Marlowe's illness.  But Finland seems like a strange choice considering the (then) recently cancelled location shoot.  
    • I totally understand your sloths concern about it and I agree with you. Let’s hope the show plays it’s cards right.    Further comments about the last few episodes: - I liked that one of the attendees was filming the scene. That’s realistic. I wonder if the writers will follow up with that.  - Martin and Smitty trying to drag Leslie out was very heteronormative, so perfectly in line with them two as characters lol.    As for the future: it’s obvious the Duprees will come to accept Eva one way or another, but the rivalry with Kay should be here for the long term   On the topic of acting: the only bad actors I’m seeing are Ted and Derek. Tomas hasn’t proven to be either good or bad, so far, but he’s certainly mediocre and uncharismatic. He sucks the energy out of the scenes and I don’t see any couple of women ever vying for him. 
    • I’m trying to think which actors VW were working with at the time, and none of them had been there for a while. Even like Mac and Ada didn’t have that big of a part in Rachel’s storyline.  And Jamie was involved with all that movie stuff.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

By using this site, you agree to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy