When were Cherie Bennett and Jeff Gottesfeld promoted to FULL-TIME associate writers for Y&R? June 6th?

They were promoted to the "Senior Associate Head Writer" position on July 11.

I wonder the same thing? How does that work in practice? I have hard time figuring out how did Guza and Pratt function together, let alone 4 writers completely different from each other! Someone had to have a final word. But who was that someone?

And what happened to Reilly? Did he always imagine he would write cr*p like Passions one day and thus only repressed his wishes or did something possess him in the meantime?

I believe Nancy Curlee had the most authority in that head writing team, since she was there the longest and previously served as Pamela Long's co-head writer. Though, I get what you're saying, I still don't know how 4 very different head writers got the job done together.

Nancy Curlee left soap writing after her GL stint and to this day, many soaps have been trying to land her.

Guza and Pratt have a long history of working together. They have written for Santa Barbara and on a few of Aaron Spellings trashy primetime soaps.

What's funny about Curlee/Demorest/Rely/Broderick and Pratt and Guza was that fact JFP was the EP overseeing both teams.

Edited August 12, 200718 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Wasnt Wendy Riche EP first?

Wasnt Wendy Riche EP first?

I was talking about Guza and Pratt's head writng stint on SB, when JFP was the EP of that show.

When Guza made his way to GH, during Wendy Riche's reign, he never worked with Pratt.

He first worked with the UNDERRATED and TALENTED Karen Harris as his co-head writer. It wasn't until 2003, when McTavish was fired, did Pratt and Guza work toegther as head writers on GH.

Pratt and Guza won the Emmy together when Wendy was EP and JHC was Senior Supervising Producer, right?

Edited August 12, 200718 yr by UnaVidaParaVivir

Wasnt Wendy Riche EP first?

Before JFP? Yes. But JFP was EP for Guza/Pratt.

Pratt and Guza won the Emmy together when Wendy was EP and JHC was Senior Supervising Producer, right?

Pratt wasn't with GH in the 90's when Riche was EP and JHC Supervising Producer.

Pratt and Guza won the Emmy together when Wendy was EP and JHC was Senior Supervising Producer, right?

No, Pratt and Guza won the Emmy toegther in 2003, when JFP was EP.

This is GH's Emmy winning team, headed by Guza, during the Wendy Riche era. I should also note, Claire Labine's writing team also won the writing Emmy in 96, during Riche's era.

1999 Emmy win for Outstanding Drama Series Writing Team:

Robert Guza Jr. (head writer)

Michele Val Jean (associate head writer)

Patrick Mulcahey (associate head writer)

Elizabeth Korte (associate head writer)

Mary Ryan (associate head writer)

Stephen Demorest (breakdown writer)

Garin Wolf (breakdown writer)

Craig Heller (script writer)

Bill Levinson (script writer)

Michael Quinn (script writer)

oh, ok. I found the video I was talking about inside the Writers room, which coincides with Pratt and Guza's win.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lGkxQE_gWhA

When Leah Laiman came back to ATWT in 2005, did she come back as an Associate Head Writer and then promoted to Co-Head Writer? Or did she come right in as a Co-HW? For some reason, I didn't document Leah and Chris Whitesell being promoted to Co-HWs in 2005.

I just rechecked and your right. Thanks for catching the mistake!

You're welcome. I love that you keep track of this stuff so glad to help out.

When Leah Laiman came back to ATWT in 2005, did she come back as an Associate Head Writer and then promoted to Co-Head Writer? Or did she come right in as a Co-HW? For some reason, I didn't document Leah and Chris Whitesell being promoted to Co-HWs in 2005.

Laiman was rehired as an Associate Head Writer, but not too long after, she was Jean's co-head writer.

When Leah Laiman came back to ATWT in 2005, did she come back as an Associate Head Writer and then promoted to Co-Head Writer? Or did she come right in as a Co-HW? For some reason, I didn't document Leah and Chris Whitesell being promoted to Co-HWs in 2005.

I'm pretty sure she was Associate Head Writer. I checked Wikipedia, if thats any comfort, and it says Associate Head also.

oh, ok. I found the video I was talking about inside the Writers room, which coincides with Pratt and Guza's win.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=lGkxQE_gWhA

Of course no JER. I wish he wasn't so reclusive.

LMAO at Bob Elton John Guza and Megan McTavish being up there.