Greg Mengin haastattelu - Eeppisiä potkuja tulossa
- Syksyn jaksojen perustella kai selviää jatkuuko sarja vuoden 2013 jälkeen
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TV Guide Magazine: Word is, NBC instigated this writer change. Is that the case?
Meng: We spoke with the network and collectively felt we needed to take a pause, make a change with the writing and the style of the show for a while and see if that will redirect things. The ratings situation is very complex and difficult, and we have a tremendous challenge with that right now. Everybody on the Days team, and that includes NBC and Sony, our distributor, wants this show to succeed and we're doing everything we can to make it work. We all have different visions as to how to achieve that success but the good news is that we're all in synch on the future. No one wants cancellation. Even though we brought in Darrell and Marlene to reset Days last September, it was always our feeling that the show needed to constantly be nurtured with smaller resets. This isn't the end of the world. We're just resetting it again in an effort to get it right.
Joten sarjaa tullaan resetoimaan jatkossakin? Eikö olisi parempi etsiä kerralla kunnolliset käsikirjoittajat ja sitoutua heihin eikä vuoden välein vaihtaa juonikuvioiden suuntaa.
TV Guide Magazine: Or just straight romance? Could it be possible that the mainstream Days audience does not want to watch the gay storyline and where it might be going? ABC claimed that was the case when One Life to Live suddenly dropped the Kish romance.
Meng: I don't know. I think it's a beautiful story and we are committed to it. But probably it's not the story that most women are going to tune in for every day, the one they don't want to miss. I think it's a story everybody likes, but the women want to see romance. Our goal is to get back lapsed viewers — our family of viewers who stopped watching altogether or aren't watching us every day.
Mä pidän Willin juonikuvioista. Se on yksi harvoista hyvistä juonikuvioista. Romantiikka pitää olla, muttei joka ainoan juonikuvioon tarvitse liittyä kolmiodraamaa tms.
TV Guide Magazine: If romance is what people want, could the problem be that most of your major couples have split up or been separated by circumstance? We're talking about John and Marlena, Bo and Hope, Carrie and Austin, Sami and Rafe, Nicole and EJ. That's a lot.
Meng: People do want to see those couples but the problem is you can't tell good story when couples are together and everything's all hunky-dory. That's the challenge Darrell and Marlene have been up against. They tried some unique ways to split up those couples yet that hasn't quite worked. But they get an A-plus for effort. In hindsight, I do think too many couples splitting up has been an issue. We also brought in the wonderful Sarah Brown [Madison] and threw her into a lot of material very quickly. Maybe too much too quickly. But, again, we feel like we're in a great place to make the next step.
Kuka haluaa nähdä Safen enää yhdessä
. Tämä koko kommentti on surkea. Edelleen, kuinka vaikeaa voi olla kirjoittaa kunnollinen juonikuvio onnelliselle parille. Madison
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