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Ken Corday: "The Show I Was Looking At Was No Longer 'Days of our Lives' To Me"

http://www.welovesoaps.net/2015/07/ken-corday-show-i-was-looking-at-was-no.html?m=1

I hate his interviews. He makes me less excited for things.

So...he is going to get back to basics with the show, by firing weak writers and replacing them with scribes who are significantly WORSE? It's like firing Megan McTavish, and then crowing with excitement about replacing her with Charles Pratt.

Corday simply does not get it, and his continued involvement/interference with the show is hurting, not helping, it.

This is so tiring....

I truly believe in my heart that he means what he says and wants the show to succeed; the problem is that he has no freaking idea how to run a show.

It's funny that this is an exact repeat of 2011, except the replacement writers are recycled. Rearranging the deck chairs...

So, after Andre's imminent return, no more Back-From-The-Dead storylines on Days of Our Lives? Let's see how long that lasts. You know Jack's gotta come back to reunite with Jennifer and close up the show at *some* point.

"I felt like the car was headed for the edge of the cliff."

The streak of Ken Corday: World Diplomat remains unbroken.

And yes, Shawn is right. It's a tragedy, because so many of the right pieces are there, have always been there IMO. But they squander chance after chance, story after story, couple after couple year after year. I gave up on them after they cut loose McPherson and uh, the other guy? Thomas? For all its flaws, that was the first time DAYS had looked like an intelligent, competent, adult-oriented soap to me in over a decade. DAYS will never get it together unless Ken Corday gets out of its way and stops bringing back people and making choices that only make Ken Corday feel secure - and that will never happen.

I truly believe in my heart that he means what he says and wants the show to succeed; the problem is that he has no freaking idea how to run a show.

This. Exactly. Poor Ken.

In the past 12 years of having these "The plan to save Days!" plans, beginning with the rehiring of JER in 2003 have any of them actually worked? I know the firing of all the vets in 2009 did the show some good for a year and a half before it fell apart, but all of these other not so bright ideas for improvement usually backfire and cause even more deterioration.

In the past 12 years of having these "The plan to save Days!" plans, beginning with the rehiring of JER in 2003 have any of them actually worked? I know the firing of all the vets in 2009 did the show some good for a year and a half before it fell apart, but all of these other not so bright ideas for improvement usually backfire and cause even more deterioration.

Well, it is 2015 now, and DAYS is still here as one of only four soaps. So yeah, I guess you could say something has worked.

The quality of the product in the past 12 years? That's a different debate.

Corday turns a blind eye or does whatever it takes to keep it under budget, all the while the show turns to crap. Then, when it's time to shape up and get a renewal from NBC, he spends his personal dough to try to steer things on track and bring back actors that were proven hits 20-30 years ago (cuz let's face it: the newer viewers haven't been coming in since the mid-90's)

Edited July 2, 201510 yr by Gray Bunny

The plan to save Days 2015" Show reruns and then start fresh!

Well, it is 2015 now, and DAYS is still here as one of only four soaps. So yeah, I guess you could say something has worked.

The quality of the product in the past 12 years? That's a different debate.

Corday turns a blind eye or does whatever it takes to keep it under budget, all the while the show turns to crap. Then, when it's time to shape up and get a renewal from NBC, he spends his personal dough to try to steer things on track and bring back actors that were proven hits 20-30 years ago (cuz let's face it: the newer viewers haven't been coming in since the mid-90's)

I'm happy that idiot Zucker's 2007 prediction of Days' imminent cancellation never occurred and that Days 2009-2010 was entertaining and defied daytime trends in all categories.

Blame Langan, blame Higley, blame Reilly, blame Sheffer, blame Tomlin, blame Wyman. Yet of course Corday is innocent of it all! Of course we know who the real rubber stamper is. I somehow managed to faithfully watch through all those years but the 2011 reboot was the kicker for my self to stop watching regularly. Something about it a few weeks off just didn't feel right and then we had Sami cheating on Rafe with EJ and I said forget it. I've kept with the show here and there but never found myself watching full time really until the final months of EJ and Sami last fall until I quit again after they left.

Edited July 2, 201510 yr by soapfan770

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Edited July 2, 201510 yr by soapfan770

I read the whole interview, and I really believe KC cares about Days. This is a massive reboot. The biggest in the shows history. That being said, I really do believe the show will be good. Will it please everyone? No. But they seem to have all their ducks in a row this time. We'll see how it works out.