Not to name names, but in desperate times, desperate measures are sometimes the worst things to resort to, and it's clear now in hindsight and it was clear to the viewers as it was going on what [GL became] was not soap opera. It smacked of ESPN or the evening news and done without and homage to the creator of the show....But the readers of your magazine should know that it wasn't because of one inept person in the last year or two; the show ran its course.
It is umfathomable to me that an executive producer of another soap would make such an asinine and classless comment about the cancellation of GUIDING LIGHT by CBS. It is also incredbily hypocritical considering the decisions Corday has made at DAYS in the past several years. I'm dumbfounded that he would make a comment that GL is nota soap opera considering the fact that GUIDING LIGHT is leaps and bounds ahead of DAYS in quality and entertainment value at the moment. His statement is in stark contrast to the statement Ellen Wheeler made back in December when I visited the GUIDING LIGHT set.
Nothing bad that happens to any other show helps me. It only helps me if we're all growing together. Every success is my success, too. Whatever happens that is good for another show is only helpful to me. I need us all to be, if not growing, at least staying where we are, because there is so little left for any of us. We all need to be supporting each other.
Corday's statment makes Chuck Pratt's "angry lesbian" comments from Monday seem tame by comparison. Sadly, these are the people running our beloved shows. Daytime soaps are dying because so many of the critical people in charge do not seem to respect their audience or the genre itself.
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