#DOOL The blood bath in Salem
Posted on 09. Jun, 2011 by patti in Cast Changes, DOOL
About 2 weeks ago, Dena Higley was out as head writer on Days. She was replaced by Marlene McPherson and Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr. Darrell was an intern for Days quite some time ago and Marlene was a former writer for Days, so they both are familiar with the show. They both previously co-wrote for Passions, another NBC soap. Obviously with new head writers we can expect changes, however, with demise of AMC and OLTL we are in store for some MAJOR changes!
Executive Producer, Ted Corday, has said that he wants to move
back to a more positive, romantic, intriguing show as opposed to
revenge, drug addiction and prostitution. For that I applaud him. He
also wants to get back to the core families — Meaning the Brady’s
and Hortons. Hurrah! When was the last time we really saw Roman
Brady? How much story have Bo and Hope been given since they
reunited? I am hoping his vision becomes a reality.
It’s going to be till the end of summer thru the fall before we see a
lot of changes. Days tapes well in advance, in fact they have already
taped to mid-August with Higley as the writer.
I named this article “Blood Bath in Salem”. Here is why – last week
it was announced that Crystal Chappell (Carly) and Louise Sorell
(Vivian) have been let go. Yesterday it was announced that Nadia
Bjorlin (Chloe), Tamara Braun (Taylor) and newcomer Bren Foster (Quinn) have been released. Today the blood bath continued when
head producer, Gary Tomlin was let go.
On the plus side, Matthew Ashford will be returning as Jack – Jennifer’s hubby. Rumor has it that Drake Hogestn and Deidre Hall
will be returning as John and Marlena, although for only a short
time. I personally do not think this is a good idea. While John and
Marlena are memorable characters that fans are invested in, if they
are only here for a short time, only to be get written off again, the
fans will be more than irate!
Today it was announced that Mark Hapka will be returning as Nathan Horton. I couldn’t understand him being written off to begin with and
it will be a great triangle with Melanie and Dario.
I would love to see Bryan Dattalio come back as Lucas. They have been mentioning his name a lot on the show.
Who would you like to see come back to Days??
Barbara
09. Jun, 2011
I know who I’d love to see go. It does suck about Louise and Crystal especially Crystal since I’ve been liking the Carly scenes with Daniel and Melanie.
I do agree that it is kind of dumb to bring Drake and Deidre back only to have them stay for a short while since that’s more annoying than not having them back at all. I am glad that Matt’s coming back since I adore Jack. Now that was a case of the third time being the charm unlike the Taylors.
I’m not sorry to see Tamara go at all since I never thought she was right for the role. Maybe they could kill Taylor and Ej which I’d love.
I’d love Lucas to come back to Salem too. He’s a Horton so that goes with what they want to do bringing it back to the Hortons and Bradys. Maybe Roman will finally get some since it has been quite a while for him. I’m at a point where I really don’t care about Bo and Hope.
That’s just weird about Mark. They get rid of him and now bring him back. Oddly he was growing on me when they had Nathan leave Salem.