Days: Interview with James Reynolds

[JackPeyton]

Wow. I love him. great interview. love that he watchs AMC for jesse/angie.

I might have to youtube some generations. I never have seen anything from it, and i love love love SSM.

[dragonflies]

Sorry James, Days wouldn't last on Soapnet, and ABC isn't going to pick it up, it would cost them too much money to air it, the licensing fees alone gotta be pretty expensive

That's cool he watches for J&A

[jayoster]

So now we have OFFICIAL confirmation that Hogan really has been let go and that Dena is indeed the new writer. I guess the network or the show won't be annoucing it until the end of the strike. Great interview.

[JackPeyton]

^The strike is over and it has been announced before this.

IMHO, Den is doing better than HS ever did. However, i am not loving her back at days. A lot of people start out well and then fail hardcore.

[Ryan]

We've had official confirmation ever since Toups broke the news.

[jayoster]

I know but at least Dena has been affiliated with Days for over 20 years. The show is good right now but if it gets dull later on it's still better to have a show thats mediocre being written by some one who knows it rather than by some one who doesn't like Hogan.

[LeClerc]

Personally I'm not discounting a move to ABC like everyone is. He specifically mentioned ABC, not just a general statement like "soapNet or another network".

Yes ABC picking up Days is not pragmatic. So? Since when is ABC Daytime practical?

Everyone knows Frons wants Days, and ABC Daytime is effectively several hours of "What Brian Frons Wants". And the man has more power than ever at Disney-ABC.

He made a statement a while back that was interpreted as him saying Days would not be coming to ABC. But that's not what he said. He said that he would not be able to pick up Days (inference: he wants to) if AMC, OLTL and GH were all performing well (inference: if one isn't, hello Days!).

[DaytimeFan]

And the thing is, currently, none of the ABC Daytime soaps are performing that well! GH has lost over a million viewers in the last year and OLTL and AMC are scraping the bottom of the barrel.

If I had control of ABC Daytime, the mind boggles at what I'd do, but anways if it was up to me this is how I'd have the shows go:

AMC: Half hour

OLTL: Half hour

GH: Hour

DAYS: Hour

I really believe that AMC and OLTL would do better if they were 30 minute shows. Naturally the casts would have to be trimmed but I think those shows have casts that are beyond bloated. I really think making those shows 30 minutes could result in tighter shows that deliver better stories and hold the audience's interest better. I don't think merging the shows would work.

GH of course is the ABC golden child and needs to stay an hour even thought it too could benefit from a 30 min format, but it just wouldn't make financial sense. GH would also deliver the numbers necessary to keep DAYS afloat. It would also be interesting to see what would happen with both shows on the same network since they're *so* similar.

[All My Shadows]

If ABC drops any of their soaps for "Days of our Lives," I will personally destroy Brian Frons with my own bare hands. And then I'd go towards TPTB at DAYS. Corday, you'd be first.

[JackPeyton]

I couldnt agree more.

[bakedghoti]

bravo to james reynolds. someone should really revive generations or pattern a new soap after it. daytime really lacks racial diversity. where are more black and latin characters? where are the asians and middle eastern characters? this is why viewership is reducing and reducing. there's no racial diversity in daytime. primetime is pretty diverse racially, but not diverse enough. and many shows cast minorities in degrading ways (ex. samantha who's first episode was completely racist). but daytime is even worse in racial diversity.