From Lynn Leahey in Soap Opera Digest's newsletter:
though talks hadn't ended between GL's Beth Ehlers (Harley) and her show as I write this, she is taking a month off and and is exploring her other options. Ehlers is an amazing actress and I can't imagine GL without her — but wherever she lands will be one lucky place.
Either CBS/PGP needs to fire Wheeler/Kreizman NOW, or just f$#king SHOOT GL
AND PUT IT OUT OF ITS MISERY.
I would love for Beth Ehlers to get the hell out of daytime because she's
landed a lead role in prime-time and/or film. That's what I would really
like to see happen for her. She's an honest performer—and an award-caliber
pro (how loathsome this year's useless best-actress race, which doesn't
include Ehlers because she wasn't on the ballot!)—whose style has evolved.
I had a feeling when RPG left that BE was unsure (maybe even felt a little
defeated) when it came to her future with the show. So sad really, and
Beverlee McKinsey's death only makes the whole sad state of GL even sadder,
that this once great show is a first year film student's shadow of its
former self. Just for grits and schmiggles, put all the men in suits, and
toss big ol' church lady hats on the women's heads, and cram the whole damn
cast into the country club... see if we can get even a *spark*. Maybe
instead of always looking forward, trying to reinvent the wheel, maybe
Wheeler needs to take a moment to look BACK. Things don't HAPPEN on GL
anymore, it's just a wash of boring little incidents.
Um sounds kind of fishy to me in light of Martha Byrne and Ricky Paul
Goldin leaving and that new GL cinematography that looks like a cheap porno
film. Ellen Wheeler spun it as new and creative when it was really a
creative way to get rid of the union help. I think P& G in other words is
saying "BE take a big pay cut or you are toast!"
Well I heard over at Soap Central GL has been renewed through the end of
2009...but now it's starting to remind me of the final months of AW when
only Cass, Felicia, Vicky, Jake, and Marley were on and everyone else was a
bunch of nobodies. The only days of GL I ever watch anymore is whenever
Reva is on, and those are becoming fewer and more far apart...imagine
that...