2 hours ago, John said:

Not saying there won't be exits but if there are do them gradually. Don't do something dumb like putting them all on a bus that goes over a cliff. I am more into defined characters, romance & family dramas.

I don’t think there are many current U.S-based producers or writers who would go down the U.K. route of just writing a load of characters at once.

Case in point, this stunt killed off 6 characters in one go (though one died 2 episodes later for the drama):

The same producer then axed about 8 characters in the space of a week and a half on Family Affairs in 2003.

Then about 11 characters over a 2-3 week period I believe in Hollyoaks years later in 2010.

 

8 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

He wasn't campaigning for it, though. He said he keeps seeing people suggest him for it, and it was Michael who is now campaigning for it.

That's campaigning in my book. It's just pretending that other people are saying it on your behalf and it wasn't your idea. He brought it up because he's interested in the part.

4 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

That's campaigning in my book. It's just pretending that other people are saying it on your behalf and it wasn't your idea. He brought it up because he's interested in the part.

Yes, that is what I was getting at. Saying without saying! 

37 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:

That's campaigning in my book. It's just pretending that other people are saying it on your behalf and it wasn't your idea. He brought it up because he's interested in the part.

No, he brought it up because Michael asked if he was up to do another soap (fans were asking). Darin made it very apparent while he likes daytime and is open, he's looking into primetime and wants to go back into primetime.

59 minutes ago, Liberty City said:

No, he brought it up because Michael asked if he was up to do another soap (fans were asking). Darin made it very apparent while he likes daytime and is open, he's looking into primetime and wants to go back into primetime.

Thanks for clarifying that. 

Get this! Some poster on Facebook is claiming that Dan & Chris were fired because they went out on strike!! Unbelievable. Absurd. 

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10 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Yew tawking to me? If so, no, it wasn't the delightful Courtney Sherman Simon although I could've messaged her. It was the other Nancy, not Curlee, but Williams Watt. I also have messaged with MVJ but everyone knows she & PM are besties who speak daily. 

Is she retired? Would love if PM brought her to GH

34 minutes ago, cassadine1991 said:

Is she retired? Would love if PM brought her to GH

Which one? Michele Val Jean is bound by contract to B&B, Dadgummit!

Nancy Williams Watt is retired as far as I know. 

Acting like Lucky was some nuanced character once JJ left LMAO. 

How long before we get the news that Valentini is OUT

9 hours ago, Liberty City said:

No, he brought it up because Michael asked if he was up to do another soap (fans were asking). Darin made it very apparent while he likes daytime and is open, he's looking into primetime

I'll bet he is, lol. GH has hired a lot of low-rent meatheads in the last decade but the C-tier romantic loser opposite Scott Clifton is not needed on the show.

Jonathan made himself damn near irreplaceable all over again when he came back to the show despite lousy storylines he didn't like, which is why the show has not recast since. If Guza had had any sense the buddy cop duo of Lucky and Dante would've run the show for years to come like Luke and Scorpio did in the '80s. It was all right there and they squandered it; they were beyond foolish to alienate him enough to leave. After another decade-plus since he left I'm open to a new Lucky recast at this point if the writing is there (which hopefully it will be) and there is no other option, but all these random hunks and failed soap stars don't add up to half a Jonathan Jackson lol. Even Greg Vaughan, a sweet, handsome guy who worked very hard on the show and had some marginal success in the role, never even came close.

As for the rest of GH's current regular cast: At least 60% are worthless and could be slaughtered or fired tomorrow. I do not give a fûck. I'm sure they're all real nice folks to talk to but I'm not here to watch the Best Friends Squad of Nice People Who Give Fun Interviews. Everywhere you turn there's either a worthless character, a boring actor or a character/actor combo pack who is beyond played out and should've exited at a minimum a couple years ago.

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13 minutes ago, Vee said:

all these random hunks and failed soap stars don't add up to half a Jonathan Jackson

This.

I don't think we need to be talking about a Lucky recast in this thread.  There's already discussion in the GH thread.

17 hours ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Which one? Michele Val Jean is bound by contract to B&B, Dadgummit!

Nancy Williams Watt is retired as far as I know. 

Williams Watt. damn…

Patrick Mulcahey wrote this: 

 

Pierpaolo Dongiovanni has corrected me about this. PM had left SB but when the Dobsons returned they asked him to come back & write this stuff so he was back for 2 episodes.

 

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1 hour ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

Patrick Mulcahey wrote this: 

 

MASTERPIECE.

Patrick Mulcahey has class when he writes, that's what I love about him. The dialogue has that 80s, early 90s dramatic feel. GH will surely have some exciting years to come!