VelekaCarruthers

Thanks! Appreciate it.

Do you know if Dan is listed all month with the outline writers? Also, earlier in the month someone posted in this thread that Dan was listed as both outline and script writer on 4/2 but you have Joanna as 4/2 script writer. Has Simone Hawthorne been added to the contract outline writers list in April? Thanks!

Letting Paul Rauch drive the creation was the big mistake. If I'm remembering correctly didn't the Corringtons set the original bible in New Orleans where they lived and worked? P&G and some of the other soaps (OLTL/Buchanans) were desperate to copy Dallas. What a shame. The Corringtons were never successful HWs on another show; they should have been left to continue developing SFT which never recovered in the ratings after they departed. So, the show really was doomed from the start if the Bible was reworked to not fit the Corrington's talent and vision. In addition, why would Iris fans want to see her in NOLA or Houston? Made no sense. And of course, network brass always fired the writing team when ratings were not good. Finally, the time slot was a killer. But casting was top notch almost all around.

Emily Culliton last listed as GH outline writer on Feb 25 Charlotte Gibson last listed as GH script writer (I think she's been there since 2016 on contract) on March 11) Maybe she's on leave? She was averaging 3 scripts a month. Louise Rozette last listed as script writer on Feb 18 and first listed as outline writer on March 5

Carlivati or Higley could be writing this show. I hate all these dumb brainwashing, twins, back from the dead with a computer chip, frozen in a chamber I can't even keep up with what all the writers over the years since Labine have done. Korte/Van Etten are weak.

Nice to see Noel giving women directors more shows; it's about time. Janet isn't retired after all.

Good move by Noel Maxam. Clean house of the tired vets and lame Lani replacement.

I can hear Kay Chancellor exclaiming (as she rolls her gin&tonic glass over her forehead): "thank god, Brock, Kent is gone. Now for Griffith." Over these last many years I've felt it's Kent who's the Frons of Y&R. Good riddance.

She hasn't written any of the last 17 episodes; wondered if she's on vacation/honeymoon or on maternity leave? Would be interesting if she was fired as the daughter of writer royalty and with her sister now on contract writing scripts for Days.

Great cast but Louann was such a bad recast for Liza (Erwin's biggest fail during his 9 months as EP). Liza suddenly had a southern accent.

Cary Tye was so hot. I remember an early episode where he and Harley are in bed and he's wearing tennis shorts and well....let's say practice and standards forgot to look closely. I loved Rick Hearst but Carl brought an earthy, sexy, rogue appeal even though his NYC accent flew in the face of the boarding school story.

Days in particular has so many "way past their prime" actors who need to retire. Yes, Josh but Deidre too. Susan Hayes has aged so gracefully and should be on a long term contract with a Horton house set that befits her (and the show's) legacy instead of that beyond tacky (maddening) remodeled, post fire (strike storyline) set. And some of the men who are still in their prime don't look great. The show is just not fun to watch with sound on or off. But the other shows have similar problems: GH must have a cosmetic dermatologist on set because (nearly) every actor regardless of age looks like they just came from a botox/filler/laser session. Faces don't move. Y&R is a mixed bag of paralyzed filler faces and some gracefully aging performers. B&B is unwatchable unless you want to OD on lip and facial filler or you love Thorsten's voice. BTG looks good for the most part.

I saw Jackee's interview with Greg/Rebecca Budig and it's the dentures. Maybe they're new and not a good fit just like Nancy Pelosi. I'm amazed at the number of actors (not just from daytime but some famous movie stars) who can't talk because they're teeth rotted and they have dentures. Get a cleaning every six months, water pic twice a day and brush and floss frequently! PS: I loved JH on Another World and as Mary in night time but the combo of those two character is really all she ever knew how to play.

Bless her heart but Jackee has been mostly terrible since she joined, but has gotten worse.

Marcia and Philip were true finds and, in fact, much of Whitney's recurring casting was fierce. James Douglas (Grant/ATWT), Elaine Stritch (Mrs. DeGroot), Jason Zimbler as Jamie Swift (best kid actor in decades who saved the Logan plot from mediocrity), Christopher Holder (from Y&R but miscast as Peter Love on AW) who couldn't act but was so pretty to gaze upon, Jerry Zacks, Judith Barcroft (fierce), Amanda Blake, J Kenneth Campbell to name some! (I don't know if Whitney chose cringy Willie Aimes who was god awful as Robby or if ABC/P&G dug him up).