Hasn't Canary been talking about wanting to retire for over a year now? I thought him sticking around for the early part of the move was almost a favour by him to the show--now Nelson claims he was fired and wanted to stick around? Umm... what?

I agree. I think him going to LA was a favor in the first place. He has been hinting that he wanted retirement for a very long long time, so Nelson needs to stop with BS like "he was fired and wanted to stay"...He is retiring, and we all know it.

Zendall I thinkhe prob woulda agreed to recurring if it had stayed in NYC, but he definitely wanted out.

If I was an actor like DC I'd really not appreciate reading these rumours Nelson posts as fact.

I agree..I think it's pretty disrespectful.

He's been on the show for 27 years, and he is a staple to the show, to this day! so reading things like this being stated as a FACT must be really insulting to him.

The fact is AMC isn't that stupid--they'd hold onto him if they could, full stop.

Wasn't it last year that Nelson was talking about an actor in a dual role who was being eased out because he was ill or couldn't remember his lines? That was interpreted to be about David Canary. It seems like for whatever reason he puts that stuff out there about David.

He probably puts it outt there because no one in the industry will actually TELL him anything, so he makes [!@#$%^&*] up to try and entice people to come back to his otherwise useless blod.

Can someone point to where DC once said he wanted to retire(before the move)? Cause I don't ever remember him saying anything of the sort. I could have missed it though

Wasn't it last year that Nelson was talking about an actor in a dual role who was being eased out because he was ill or couldn't remember his lines? That was interpreted to be about David Canary. It seems like for whatever reason he puts that stuff out there about David.

Yep I always felt like Nelson pulled that from where he gets most everything: his arse

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Pratt said that DC wanted his role to be lighter last year (granted this was part justification for offing Stewart, but it makes sense to me still...)

Wasn't it last year that Nelson was talking about an actor in a dual role who was being eased out because he was ill or couldn't remember his lines? That was interpreted to be about David Canary. It seems like for whatever reason he puts that stuff out there about David.

There was something a year ago about the soap cruise and how DC was forgetting his lines and Susan Lucci wanted him out of there. No idea how true it is except first they killed Stuart and now DC is off the show. This sort of makes me inclined to believe the gossip because just how coincidental does it get before you have to give pause? I guess he could have just gotten incredibly lucky in guessing that DC's days were numbered. I guess.

It's funny that Nelson's report these days is about 10% filled with already outdate scoop and spoilers and 90% pure BS made up by him. It seems that since he was forced to stop his blind item section(which were lies--come on, multiple male actors in a giant orgy? Noelle Beck's personal toilet being deliberately clogged up by Maura West? Please!) his whole column has entirely become the blind item section, and he is always wrong...like about ATWT's renewal. One week later, its cancellation was announced.

I think ABC very much favors GH. It has always, and I think always will be, their pet. And AMC is definitely their second pit. They promote the [!@#$%^&*] out of those two shows, but yet I dont see anything ever about OLTL. And they almost never mention OLTL in their press releases....I think ABC know that at some point soon one of their soaps has to go, and since AMC and GH have traditionally been their pets, they just gave up on promoting OLTL..It's a shame, because there have been many many times when it is better than both the other shows.

OLTL has always been the red headed stepchild at ABC...it's never been the 'hot show' for the network.

The Emmy pre noms are a snooze. I'm really rooting for the DAYS pre noms, particularly John Aniston and Arianne Zuker, if any two people deserved Emmys, it's those two for carring the show for the last year.

I am surprised that Jess Walton didn't land a pre nom for supporting actress, she told Branco she was going to submit herself...very interesting, especially since Hendrickson has no material to submit and Haiduk's OTT performance doesn't have a hope in hell of winning. It's clear to me that the Y&R prenoms, aside from Doug Davidson's SHOCKING pre nom (way to go Doug!), are very motivated by MAB and Rauch and Sony.

I wonder how forceful the producers are in these nominations...DAYS' really seem to reflect the truth about how the cast feels (though Nadia Bjorlin's pre nom seems like a waste to me, Suzanne Rogers must have had a scene SOMEWHERE that could have worked), B&B's seem to be in line with how the cast rolls, same with GH and ATWT...and then the Y&R, AMC and OLTL pre noms and it seems like they were dictated from a higher power.

Branco continues to be pretty damn offensive. If I were Bloom or Carruthers I'd be very careful to read his articles, there is slander there and they could easily sue and win.

I though he was going to give us more info on the "end of Soapnet" or something.

I thought Arianne Zucker should have been nominated for leading actress, because in all of her storylines that she was in, she was the focus.

Regarding Canary wanting to retire for a while now, there's a SOD interview with him from early 2008 where he was talking about how his contract was up and that he was probably going to sign the new one ABC had offered him but that he was doing so rather reluctantly because he didn't know if he could keep up with the pace of things for a couple more years. So it seems it could have easily happened back then, even when the show was in NY.

The fact is, AMC should have prepared themselves a long time ago for DC's retirement/exit. (What, did they think the man would live and work there forever?) Now, though, he's leaving, Skye would rather be back in Port Charles, and AMC is left with two gigantic holes on its canvas (counting, also, James Mitchell's absence here) that probably will never be filled. (Don't get me wrong, I love Vincent Irizarry's David, too. But let's get serious.)