All: One soaps budget cut by 50% according to DC

[Gray Bunny]

DAYS of today resembles GL of 2005-2007. Welcome to the club, GH!

[quartermainefan]

Well, Days didn't do that exactly. They dumped Jack, Jennifer quit, all the Lockharts, Tek, Austin and Carrie, Nicole, and then Billie, Shawn and Belle, the 90210 guy, Steve and Kayla and finally Marlena, John and Tony. But they kept Bo, Hope, and Sami and none of those three can be too cheap.

GH has to keep somebody people associate with the show. They should fire two of the four you mention I think, and retool around the other two surrounded by cheap newbies.

[bellcurve]

I wish DAYS' lighting was just as dark as GL's. I swear I need sunglasses to watch a scene.

[DRW50]

At this point I'd like all four to go but I guess I can see cases for most of them staying...except Jason. He is the biggest roadblock on the show and everything is about how awesome he is and how he suffers. Any actual storylines which feature him are halting at best. Since they seem to be continuing what they started when Michael woke up and are grooming him as the new Jason, they should just write Jason out. I still think they should have some story where he suddenly snaps and goes on a rampage, and Michael has to kill him. He can also burn down the Quartermaine mansion, which would cause Edward and Monica to leave town. Tracy would stay, and I would have her steal Carly's hotel from her and run the place herself.

[All My Shadows]

I wish it was OLTL. If they keep "coming in under budget," then ABC needs to stop giving them so much f'n money to put out bullsh!t.

[DRW50]

OLTL will become a family of Pintos

[skiman12082004]

I'm just glad it's not AMC. Maybe this will force GH to make some significant changes that will improve the show.

[MichaelGL]

Oh great, the characters that I love won't get to do any window dressing.

[Guest dc cubs]

Alfonso, Reckell and Sweeney all took pay cuts when Days budget was slashed 40%. That is also when Days started paying much closer attention to the episode guarantees of PR and KA. Previously, it wasn't an issue if they went over guarantees as they got paid the extra money. However, now Days can't afford that and its why PR was sent on a 6 week hiatus last Spring.

[Adam]

Changes, yes, improvement? Highly doubtful. It will definitely be interesting to see just how big a bloodbath occurs.

[Mr. Vixen]

I'm all for giving edward and monica a proper exit rather than having them backburned to hell...but burning down the Q mansion would be wrong. They already crossed that boundry with the Webber house and it would be even worse with the Qs

[DRW50]

I don't even know if it would matter at this point. The family has been effectively cut down to nothing and I'd rather see the set go than see it end up being mob central.

[DaytimeFan]

They certainly did. In fact, everyone at the show took a pay cut. Every. Single. Actor. Including Sweeney. DAYS dropped all the dead weight, shifted the tone and focus of the show dramatically (Suzanne Rogers, for instance, became a major player) and the production model evolved, the DAYS set is dark many weeks out of the year, holidays are long and rehearsal time is nil.

That being said, as a DAYS viewer, I'm happy. The show, even when it's dull, is enjoyable.

[MontyB]

Though I can't stand AMC, I'm glad it wasn't that show or OLTL. In fact, I don't know why anyone thought it wouldn't be GH.

[EricMontreal22]

I think cuz of how DC teased it out and their rep the past year for hating on AMC and seeming to relish anything negative that happens to it.