2007: The Directors and Writers Thread

January 20, 200718 yr

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well is he any good?

Tom Casiello was added to Days Monday credits

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January 20, 200718 yr

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I think McTavish is totally safe again, unless she walks because of what they did to her good friend Cady. Not to mention it was Megan who put the effort into getting Cady back. She did all the wooing and then JHC and Frons threw a contract in front of her. I'd be steaming mad if I was her.

But she knows she'll never get another job so...

As for Alden & Smith, nothing is ever going to come of it IMO. I think we'll hear somewhere down the road that they and ABC parted ways months earlier due to creative differences.

January 20, 200718 yr

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Apparently both Alden & Smith's stints are very temporary.

I don't think any regime changes are going to happpen.

January 20, 200718 yr

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a little suprised Harmon and Esensten are at Days. What good will come out of this. Which soap did they just come from?

I believe their last stint was on OLTL under Malone and Griffith -- I'm not sure. Once Higley came on and started bringing over some of her Days people, they were gone. I don't know what, if any, show they were on staff between OLTL and Days.

January 20, 200718 yr

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B&E's last wrote for OLTL.

Caseillo's at DAYS now? He doesn't really get me excited. Glad Girl, does he have the same agents as Hogan's crew or did he come to DAYS because he worked with Hogan at ATWT or both.

January 21, 200718 yr

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well the ratings are going up on both OLTL and AMC but the complaints are still there,. Sounds like what Days fans just went trhough.I just kant blivev that McT used to write with Nixon and she totlally disrespected her with the so kalled un abortion story

Apparently both Alden & Smith's stints are very temporary.

I don't think any regime changes are going to happpen.

January 22, 200718 yr

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B&E's last wrote for OLTL.
Caseillo's at DAYS now? He doesn't really get me excited. Glad Girl, does he have the same agents as Hogan's crew or did he come to DAYS because he worked with Hogan at ATWT or both.

You're getting good at this, Toups. It's both.

January 22, 200718 yr

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This is today's DAYS credits:

Hogan Sheffer

Meg Kelly

***

Beth Milstein

Peter Brash

Hannah Shearer

Frederick Johnson

***

Gordon Rayfield

Tom Casiello

Barbara Esensten

James Harmon Brown

***

Sofia Landon Geier

Jodie Scholz

Mike Cohen

Bettina Bradbury

and

Bruce Neckles

I have added the astreiks show a page break. The latest Soap Opera Weekly says that Esensten and Brown are story editors.

This is Casiello's profile,taken from SON's Resource Archive:

CASIELLO, TOM
Updated September 22, 2006

As The World Turns

- Associate Head Writer (2000 - 2002)

- Assistant to the Writers (?? - 2000)

One Life To Live

- Associate Head Writer (October 27, 2004 - August 1, 2006)

- Script Writer (September 22, 2004 - October 26, 2004)

Young and The Restless

- Associate Head Writer (September 6, 2006 - Present)

Awards

- Daytime Emmy NOMINATION (2006; Best Writing; One Life to Live)

- Daytime Emmy WIN (2002; Best Writing; As The World Turns)

- Daytime Emmy WIN (2001; Best Writing; As The World Turns)

- Writers Guild NOMINATION (For 2005 Season; One Life to Live)

At ATWT,Mimi Leahey is back in the credits. She wasn't listed Friday.

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January 23, 200718 yr

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When is Bruce Neckels leaving Days?? I thought his episode today (1/22) seemed a little disjointed and just didn't gel. I have never liked him.

January 23, 200718 yr

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- Janice Ferri Esser last listed as Associate Head Writer on January 22

Lynsey Dufour took her place in the everyday credits as of January 23.

So now it goes:

Paula Cwikly

Natalie Minardi Slater

Lynsey Dufour

January 25, 200718 yr

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I love me some Paula Cwickly. Her year stint at DAYS with P. Brash was great!

- Janice Ferri Esser last listed as Associate Head Writer on January 22

Lynsey Dufour took her place in the everyday credits as of January 23.

So now it goes:

Paula Cwikly

Natalie Minardi Slater

Lynsey Dufour

January 30, 200718 yr

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I thought I saw Jeanne Ford's name back in the DOOL credits with the scriptwriters, on Jan 29th episode. Can anyone confirm.

CBS.com has updated YR credits again, taking out Josh McCaffrey and Bernie Lechowich (Latham fired her own husband!) and reordering the writers in the credits list, with Lyndsey DuFour with the senior writers and Janice Ferri as first in the list of scriptwriters.

January 30, 200718 yr

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I thought I saw Jeanne Ford's name back in the DOOL credits with the scriptwriters, on Jan 29th episode. Can anyone confirm.
CBS.com has updated YR credits again, taking out Josh McCaffrey and Bernie Lechowich (Latham fired her own husband!) and reordering the writers in the credits list, with Lyndsey DuFour with the senior writers and Janice Ferri as first in the list of scriptwriters.

LMAO! :lol:

January 30, 200718 yr

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I thought I saw Jeanne Ford's name back in the DOOL credits with the scriptwriters, on Jan 29th episode. Can anyone confirm.

The Canadian credits didn't have her listed, but Sofia Landon Geier was gone. Can someone who has the NBC credits confirm that Ford's name was added and Geier's not listed?

CBS.com has updated YR credits again, taking out Josh McCaffrey and Bernie Lechowich (Latham fired her own husband!) and reordering the writers in the credits list, with Lyndsey DuFour with the senior writers and Janice Ferri as first in the list of scriptwriters.

Bernard hasn't written a script in January. Wonder why he left.

January 30, 200718 yr

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Strange that Bernie has left! He should be Latham's co-headwriter, not Hamner.

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I imagine the writers considered dramatizing the scene involving Madison, Chelsea, and Willow but decided it could easily backfire from a medical perspective. Either Willow would've had to go WAY over the top with her observations, or else her commentary would've come across to many viewers as completely reasonable, especially with Chelsea sitting there smiling & encouraging her, while Madison frowned in frustration. The end result, unless Willow was presented as TOTALLY bizarre, would've appeared that Michele Val Jean supported the position that a "smile and a crystal" are more effective than an antibiotic in clearing up an infection, and I don't believe that's the impression BTG hoped to give.
In this case, it was probably better for everyone to discuss it afterwards to highlight that Willow is down in an internet rabbit hole, and Chelsea was encouraging it.
As Anita said today, "I thought Aunt Melba was completely normal and fine in the brief amount of time I spent with her, but I realized Vernon and his mother had FAR more experience with her than I did."

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I agree. One of my initial complaints... and they are still doing it too much... Lazy writing.

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There is something to Donna Mills in the same regard. Especially as Abby got more and more power for herself, she played her calmer and calmer as the years progressed. Abby is still calculating, but I can’t think of many times any of the three of them went full Valene or Karen. And I love those ladies, don’t get me wrong. But Joan Van Ark can be very histrionic and mannered, and Michele Lee is very soapy in the traditional sense.
The year after Sid died, before Mac arrived, Lee does a lot of quiet, beautiful acting in several episodes. But she can go balls out and did quite often. The whole Chip/Diana story is when it gets really noticeable to me. That run she does to find Diana has left at the end of season 4 is almost comical in her mannerisms and she doesn’t say a word.

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1000% agree. Don't just tell me, show me!

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The storyline with Madison feeling unsupported by Chelsea with her mom is actually interesting because it's different and topical without being overly political, but maybe it would have been nice to like, show it? They are getting to be like Y&R, too much narrating. We should be seeing the dynamics of dinner with her mom instead of being told. It could be done at a restaurant if creating a house set is an issue.

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I can't find the book in Canada - Amazon and Indigo/Chapters doesn't have it, and google didn't help.

By Toups · 4 hours ago4 hr
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I just finished the book! overall it was a pretty good read...definitely more told of the POV and research of a fan which isn't a bad thing (going by JT Cornell is actually clever and hilarious!) and kind of more of a year by year recap of what happen on the show with little anecdotes thrown in. I definitely would love to hear more BTS stuff about certain stories and more of the actors words when it came to doing certain scenes and trying to make sense of the some of the more out there stories. It was good to learn a bit more about JER though. For as crazy as his storytelling was, it seemed everyone in the industry respected his ideas he bestowed upon daytime.

That was crazy to find out how affected Rodney Van Johnson really was at playing the "angry black man" and how he got PO'd at Chris Maleki's Spike for throwing fake punches at him ( I don't recall them fighting on the show though) That's scary he had to really wind down after filming to get all the anger out.
All the love for Ben Masters and the cast not knowing what was really going on with him before his death made me tear up a bit. I didn't realize how much he was involved in Tracy Ross's kids life too!

They even have quite a few paragraphs devoted to the the music having to be replaced on the SCI Fi and Superchannel rebroadcasts which is of course what I always complain about too! LOL That's why I always want to see the original broadcast 1999-2001 episodes pop up more where the music isn't messed with.

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