Ed scott Speaks To Michael Logan

[Y&RWorldTurner]

http://community.tvguide.com/blog/TVGuide-...-News/800054969

[detroitpiston]

I don't even know what to say.

[Ann_SS]

Good grief. Seriously, hammers and nails all the way around for these people to nail themselves to crosses. All this behind the scenes drama is ridiculous. You would think that soap operas are important in the scheme of human existence and not just entertainment.

[Ryan]

Michael Logan

Ed Scott

[DaytimeFan]

Interesting, tactful interview on Scott's part. He wasn't willing to dish the dirt. He complimented Higley for God's sake, it's ridiculous. Corday, as always, has his head firmly wedged up his ass. Talk about a moron.

I think Ed Scott knows that he's probably 'over' as far as soaps go. JFP is firmly in place at GH, Y&R will not be getting him back because he appears to be persona non grata at Sony...based in the West Coast with MTS and the kiddos it appears that Ed will be enjoying a well deserved retirement.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Yeah, he'll most likely retire. I can't see him back at Y&R, and Frons won't hire him at GH, since EP's have no power at ABC. He won't be going to an East Coast soap, because he, Melody, and the kids are LA based.

[brimike]

:lol: Couldn't have said it better myself, Ann!

[aMLCproduction]

Wow Just wow. I know COrday is knee deep right now. It really sounds like a power struggle behind the scenes. It's so sad Ed is leaving. Days never looked or felt better. Some one needs to hire him. I have lots of respect for him.

[Errol]

Ed Scott will always be a classy man to me. Wish this never happened, but hopefully the dark DAYS are over and we can have happier news coming our way.

[Southofnowhere]

They should tape the behind the scenes stuff and put it on tv. It would get higher ratings that any soap on the air.

[Cheyenne]

I agree.

For me this article was very sad to read. I feel for the guy. He made a tremendous change with the show, even the actors spoke about the much improved atmosphere on set.

Grrr, I'm really upset he got the boot and Higley got to stay. I've liked her stuff this far, but I MUCH rather have Ed around then her to be honest. I trusted him, I don't trust her.

Btw. It's so funny how things get turned up on internet forums. People talked about how he and a certain actress changed Higley's scripts. Talk about blow out of proportion. lol Makes me want to take things said around the net with a grain of salt until it's confirmed with the source itself.

[Sylph]

That still stays. You can't possibly believe he would go on to admit it in Michael Logan's interview, can you? 

Of course he is going to say "No, I didn't re-write it, I only gave notes on outlines." Yeah.

[MarkH]

The WGA should release the "photographic" evidence. "Notes" will look different from "re-writes". In addition, again, I'd like to know what is usual and customary in this role, and what the WGA will customarily tolerate. All this is relevant, and until that is known (which, as Scott implies, it may never be), none of us can judge what happened here.

As I said when this all broke, I find it hard to believe that a seasoned master of the genre would commit fatal errors. I think he has also acknowledged that he can be bullheaded (blood on the walls), and that he puts the quality of the show first (in his opinion). I can imagine this meaning he DID strong-arm the creative direction of the show...and that then is open to interpretation whether he overstepped his bounds or not.

What is concerning to me is that there are so many discrepant stories about what happened:

- Higley threatened to quit unless Scott was removed

- Corday wanted a change, ostensibly to back Higley and ostensibly to reduce evidence of friction...because the show HAS NOT been renewed by NBC!! (That is a new confirmation, and that may be the biggest news).

- Removal of Scott to satisfy the WGA may have been done to ease up the WGA's pressure for in-strike firings and in-strike scabbings

- The head scratcher for me: SONY may want Scott gone. How does this make sense, since the earlier rumors were that Sony imposed him in the first place??

The Sony part of this is the part that makes no sense to me.

Ironically, I think this little Olympic ratings bump may work in DOOL's favor vis-a-vis renewal, because it IS evidence that there are viewers to be had out there.

Maybe they need to move Leno to daytime (since they're looking for stuff for him), to give Days a better lead-in?

[Sylph]

Of course they will! That's never going to happen, Mark. This is a court case, the documentation is confidential. Until it's over, I believe.

[MarkH]

I'll bet it is never released. It won't go to court. There will be union-level mediation or arbitration, an agreed upon course of action, all kept private...and we will never know.

The good part is that, for me, it lets me cling to my belief that Ed Scott never did anything seriously wrong, but that other agendas were behind his dismissal. It lets me believe that he may yet come to help save my show.