On 3/28/2020 at 3:59 PM, danfling said:

 

This is certainly not correct.  The ABC network was opposed to the change of writers.  ABC hired him almost immediately as the co-head writer of One Life to Live.

Conboy productions hired Slesar to helm Capitol, a position Slesar held from Nov 1984 through Jan 86.

Poor Maura. She was awkward, sitting in the sun; and her face OMG, so sad!  Martha, Michael and Don were so dignified and classy.  

These numbers should tell execs the maximum audience these shows can hope to attain.  Even as more parts of the country are forced to stay at home, I don't think Days can ever attract more than 2.3 million viewers.  Former viewers know better; it's a low budget sh_t show.  Y&R is the tragedy.  So many loyal former viewers want to return because the show is at least some recognizable shadow of itself.  But with CBS execs forcing the show to write by incompetent committee with depressive Griffith at the helm, don't expect those recently returned viewers to stick around. GH is really in the same boat as Days; former viewers know that head writers Drummer, Varni and Valentini will beat the dead Soprano horse. As long as Carly, Sonny, Jason are at the top of the pyramid former viewers won't return and stick with it (even though parts of the show have been slightly better under O'Connor/Van Etten). B&B is always the same: botox actresses pretending to cry. Either you love watching wax museum characters in action or you don't.

Speaking of Ralph Ellis and Eugenie Hunt. They were prolific (and well respected) soap writers and not only served as headwriters of TD but at SFT twice and other shows. Both were also hired as breakdown writers, script writers and story consultants on various shows.  Eugenie died a few years ago.  

https://www.theridgefieldpress.com/past_obituaries/article/Obituary-Gene-H-Ellis-82-actress-and-writer-14003844.php

1 hour ago, VanessaReardon said:

Is Casiello now officially a scriptwriter? Or will he get a first listed and last listed on March 24 credit? 

Casiello denied he's back as a script writer but I don't believe it was a production error. His websoap ended  and he probably wrote a few terrible spec scripts and didn't get hired at Y&R.

4 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

Yes!

Interesting. I think she and Cherrill will be gone from credits soon. I know Levin started writing scripts for SFT in spring 1980 when the Corringtons were replaced by Linda Grover/John Porterfield as head writers.  

44 minutes ago, Dan said:

Agreed. All three have GL's metaphorical blood on their hands. Along with a host of others. 

Phelps had some high moments until Nancy Curlee quit due to difficult pregnancy. Nancy's writing talent was unrivaled and Jill didn't dare interfere too much; but once Nancy was gone, Jill decided she was a better head writer and destroyed the show with committee of writers then hired a college professor (Doug Anderson) who knew nothing about writing soaps.  Rauch made the show look amazing and hired some great actors.  Remember CBS interfered with Brown/Estensen's stories and forced their own stories written by Wendy Fishman (including clone Reva which was not a story by Estensen and Brown.).  Rauch also didn't want them fired but P&G overruled him. Rauch didn't want Labine and she was a disaster for the show.  CBS and Proctor & Gamble biz execs destroyed these shows as much as Phelps et. al. 

18 hours ago, victoria foxton said:

Is anyone watching the hurricane episodes? 

Are the writers still Levin/Cherrill?

YR script writer Sara Ensley added to associate head writer list on YR today.

Dave Rupel is back on the GH writing team as a script writer according to his recent FB post; his scripts begin airing in late April.

Griffith won't be fired until the writer's guild signs a new contract. They strike on May 1 if negotiations fall through. And since Griffith, Conforti and Harmon Brown are financial core writers they can cross the picket lines.  I think Griffith will be out after contract settled.

LOL. Horrible. I'd rather watch Sami's execution written by Sally Sussman.

Sharon Rose Gabet/Raven Alexander Whitney!

Casey needed to go; his acting the last year has been horrible. Stiff, mumbling, expressionless or overly dramatic.  Maybe he hated the material as much as we did. He showed some promise during the Theo shooting.  I never understood why they didn't keep writing him as a pot smoking, guitar strumming burn out.  There was lots of material there especially after he found out Jack was a rapist. They turned him into a boring cop turned EMT.  Maybe casey can rest, go to acting class and come back more polished if the show survives another year.  I'll miss his hairy chest and pecs.

When she remembered her lines, her version of alex was fine but she needed cue cards a lot. RIP

I wonder if Susan Dansby will return to Y&R as a writer.

Ambitions was a cheap and uninspiring imitation of every campy soap. Jamey ripped off Dynasty, Dallas and a host of daytime shows. There was nothing new or interesting. Cancellation was predictable.

Days flash forward has been a huge failure.  

23 hours ago, Toups said:

Y&R:

- Lisa de Cazotte last listed as Supervising Producer on January 15

 

 

- Noel Maxam first listed as Supervising Producer on January 16

 

 

 

 

Nice to see Noel back at Y&R fulltime (I think), but he should be directing.   However, if Morina gets fired, hopefully Noel will be promoted to EP. 

Noel updated his Linkedin profile to show that he was only interim supervisory producer for three months from November to Jan

18 hours ago, glfaninnyc said:

Two   new writers credited on today’s GH. CJ Hoke was the breakdown writer and Lisa Seidman wrote the script.

Seidman has been around soaps forever. 

CJ Hoke has been GH script coordinator since 2015, guess budget requires hiring the entry level folks.  

Here's CJ's bio
https://www.cjhoke.com

She also has a linked in profile where she lists "freelance breakdown writer" since Oct 2019 and lists four episode numbers she's written to date all airing in 2020. I guess  yesterday's script was No. 14465 and her fourth script is No. 14510 which should air on March 16th.

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=ABC Daytime&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3B4bI%2Bpw8jTzWhJjRDsfHOwA%3D%3D&licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base-background_details_company

On 10/19/2019 at 7:58 PM, victoria foxton said:

Loving (May 5, 1994)

Wow, great sets, great cast, amazing production team; but ABC kept meddling. I never understood why Doug Marland didn't continue to get credit for co creating the show with Aggie. There's a story there.....  Who's the hunk who played the role of Trucker?

Bettie Wysor has written a few scripts for The Doctors in the 1979 episodes currently airing. She as an employee at Benton & Bowles in NYC which is how she got the job writing for The Doctors. Here's her obit. She was out as a lesbian and wrote The Lesbian Myth.

https://www.easthamptonstar.com/archive/bettie-b-wysor

Such a shame that the head writer is so awful but when you look at JER (and other head writer) story history, Ron is just following in that tradition. And it all traces back to Corday who must love this crap. Sad really because Days has the best looking, most talented daytime cast and some great script writers.  So much potential wasted.  Brock as Evan....HOT. Freddie is actually cute and tolerable in those scenes this week.  I think Ron's challenging David/Patrick from Schitt's Creek which is a better soap than anything on the air anywhere.  

OJ Simpson started the decline of soaps. Who would have guessed that criminal Trump would be the final nail in the coffin of the four remaining soaps. The impeachment stuff is going to drive the stake right through Days and GH survival for sure.

6 hours ago, RavenWhitney said:

Y&R has dumped another "storyline writer" inexperienced, recent college grad and paralegal by trade, Mellinda Hensley.  

Days would be written by Frances Newman and Jean Ford who are fi core and probably a bunch of interns and sales associates from the nearby  Ross Dress For Less (who would probably do a better job than the current crew). They could always dust off Mark and Dena Higley.  Days can't stop production so scripts would be churned out.  

B&B is run by Brad Bell. If anyone believes he doesn't write the show during the writer's strike Ha!

Y&R: If Josh Griffith hasn't been fired then he'd be the writer along with Michael Conforti James Harmon Brown is also Fi core. And it makes sense they'd bring him on recently given the possibility of a strike and if Griffith's fired this week at the end of his cycle.