DAYS May be Improving, but Ken Corday is Still a Blithering Idiot
Memo to Days of Our Lives' publicity team. Put a muzzle on your figure head. Althought DAYS has been getting better these last few months— thanks, we hear, to the vision of co-excutive producer Gary Tomlin, along with co-head writer Chris Whitesell's ability to make up for Dena Hackley's shortcomings—every single time Corday opens his yap to insult his own show's fans it only confirms what a complete and utter tool Corday really is. Here's what the Soap Opera Slayer had to say to disgruntled fans of the two most popular couples in DAYS history— John and Marlena and Patch and Kayla— in this week's Soap Opera Digest:
"For the ardent John and Marlena and Patch and Kayla fans, great, you can still see them at their luncheons,. That was then, this is now."
Wow, just wow. Forgive me if my memory is a bit rusty, but I don't remember Coca-Cola telling beverage lovers who didn't dig New Coke to get over it. Un-be-lievable. Yeah, this bozo wants to keep his show on the air! I guess DAYS recent ratings successes have gone to Corday's head.
Whatever DAYS' clothing-deprived emporer may feel about his soap's former actors (Didn't he previously go on and on about how much he adored Drake, Dee and the rest, and how it pained him to have to fire them?), you would think he would show more respect for their fans, you know, the people who have helped keep his golf club membership dues paid up on and off for the past two and a half decades since those couples were formed in mid-to-late 80's .
While I readily admit Bo and Hope (Peter Reckell and Kristian Alfonso) have always been my favorite soap couple—with Santa Barbara's Cruz and Eden a close second— and am selfishly grateful Bope survived the Great DAYS Veteran Massacre of 08-09, and that I'm more than a little bit excited about the return of one of DAYS' most beloved, tragic soap heroines, Carly Manning (Crystal Chappell)—the only woman to ever give Hope a run for her Fancy Face in my opinion—supporting DAYS would be so much easier if Ken Corday would just STFU! Why not let Tomlin give the interviews? We all know he's the one doing all the work.
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4 July 2009
3 years 46 weeks
I so agree with mmarlowem about changing the name of Days,but I will still Not watch it,K.C. is the lowest person in this world and to me and like everybody else says he don't count and never did!
K.C. can have his so call "Now" BS Show!
No matter what fan base or viewers you are,to says this about his own character/actors is beyond BS and mostly to his own Viewers,*Gee who is the next Fan Base will he go after!
What is he tring to relive his younger years,with having all young actors on,that can't act!
So glad I and all the people I know and they know don't watch!
25 February 2009
1 year 6 weeks
I agree about Days being a shadow of its former self. Maybe it will be different when Carly and Justin come back--it might feel like old times. I just can't stand the new characters. I guess Daniel's okay to keep now since maybe he will romance Carly. I'm going to be sick if he romances Hope. I'm sick of his whole male hoebag persona thing. It's getting old. Shawn Christian is a pretty damn good actor and deserves better material.
While I like Nathan (gotta love somebody with the same name as me), I could do without him and definitely could do without Melanie. Mia's acting makes me cringe and Will needs to improve. He shakes his head around too much. Don't care for Arianna either. With all these extra low-paid newbies on, they could have used all that money to pay a second tier actor like MBE or Stephen Nichols. Ken Corday's logic sucks. What a moron. And memo to Ken: not everybody lives in NYC or LA. I know luncheons happen all over the place, but I live in Tyler, Texas, and I don't feel like traveling to a major city hours and hours away just to see actors. That is b.s., and he knows it. His mother and father would slap him cross-eyed for his jerkwad comments and are probably turning over in their graves as we speak, along with Irna Phillips! Kick his ass Agnes Nixon, while you have the chance!
2 April 2009
5 days 17 hours
Wow you live in Tyler Texas? I live in Canton small world lol. The only actor I've seen there is Tyler Christopher (Nickolas GH) and that was during womens day out. I would LOVE for John and Marlena or Steve and Kayla to come to Tyler .
15 December 2008
7 weeks 2 days
I totally agree with Jamey, Ken has made one bad decision after another, culminating with Days ratings sliding down the hill. He quit caring what fans think or want a long time ago. When he let Drake go, he let me go as a viewer. He doesn't care, why should I? And believe, I don't!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
15 May 2008
10 hours 44 min
What the HELL is this man on!? NBC really needs to pull this moron aside and tell him to shut his pie hole! WTF was this?!
22 January 2009
2 years 3 days
I don't watch Days, but did in the 80s and this guy is such a jerk. He obviously doesn't get fans and doesn't care to. By making comments like this he insults all soap fans not just Days fans.
25 February 2009
1 year 6 weeks
Yeah. I'm originally from Pittsburg. I actually live right south of Lindale off of I-20. Anyway, that would be kind of neat for Drake and Deidre and Mary Beth and Stephen Nichols to come to Tyler, but I don't see that happening since they left the show.
29 December 2007
15 hours 23 min
People like that are the reason why this genre is dying.
16 August 2008
3 years 46 weeks
After 30 years, I stopped watching completely. The shitty writing, the casting of talented actors for hacks like the twit who plays Melanie, and the simple disregard for the fans drove me away. It's simple. I have over 200 channels to watch, why would I waste my time on a show that I no longer enjoy?
If Corday hadn't inherited the show, he couldn't have gotten the gig. Plain and simply his only qualification was that he was a music producer. Even then his parents had to get him the job.
16 August 2008
8 weeks 7 hours
Gary Tomlin might not necessarily be more diplomatic, but great post! Corday is trying to put out the fire by peeing on it.
20 February 2008
2 years 32 weeks
Stop talking about my darling Ken Corday! Stop it! Teehee.....
12 August 2008
3 years 16 weeks
lmao omg I loved what you wrote! Especially the STFU part...that was great!
I have been insulted by Corday this past year. I really do think he is an ass and I feel sorry for the actors that work with him. Also, his show is improving but I am not sure how. Personally, I don't care for hardly any of the storylines. Also, I am a John and Marlena fan and Steve and Kayla fan and I get that they are not on anymore but still. You do not insult your fanbases...especially ones that have been supporting your show for over 20 years!
To me, it just seems like everytime I see Corday's interview it is always "I like" or "I see" or "I want"....should it not be what Corday wants but what the fans want? Or did he forget how it works to get a show renewed? Actually more importantly, did Corday forget where ratings come from???
I swear....Corday....I do think they should just fire him! Or...somehow throw him out of power. He obviously does not give a damn!
11 April 2009
9 hours 18 min
Nelson & Tom sitting in a tree...
K.I.S.S.I.N.G!
LMAO!