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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 398473" data-attributes="member: 27">I'm not sure if this person knows what they're talking about, but I read a discussion thread about The Gates with the writer claiming that there is a lot of BTS confusion and chaos, that they don't even have the storyline Bible completed.  The CBS/Paramount people are "young" execs who don't know how to start up a soap opera because no new soaps have been created in 25 years!What bothered me most, however is their assertion that CBS is producing the series in Atlanta to help keep the production costs down.  I know from the Dynasty reboot that it is a major challenge to get "name" actors to relocate from LA or New York to do Atlanta-based productions for any length of time.  A month-long film or a guest spot is okay, but a soap is 250 episodes, all year round.  The stars of the series will either have to move there in a semi-permanent way or will have to be lesser-known talents based there already.  While I understand the need to keep costs lower-than-low, I fear they won't be able to draw any "ideal" soap actors whose name recognition might help kick the show into gear.  NuDynasty had great production values and I felt they looked just as professional as a regular network production from LA or New York, but the general feel of being "cut off" from their LA-based lives made the actors unhappy and more eager to leave (especially Nicollette Sheridan and Ana Brenda Contreras).  I have to worry that The Gates will have similar recasting issues or turnover, issues that basically defined NuDynasty in the press.</blockquote>

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