Members MichaelGL Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Honestly if you ask me, I think we wouldn't have Passions today, if JER's knack for writing the supernatural wasn't a success on DAYS. I've heard that his first year after Sheri left was awesome, and it didn't have all that silly plot driven stuff we saw in 97. Just IMO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members winterguy125 Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 I agree, and what is scary is that if all these people are leaving that is going to leave Leah in an interesting situation what are they going to make her Co-head?. Note to CBS though start at the top not the bottom. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MichaelGL Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Laiman and Passanante...gawd what an awful team that would be. Even worse if Whitesell was given a position with more power to make decisions. Have Leah and Jean headed a show together before like OLTL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Oh ok..thanks Toups. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted August 14, 2007 Author Administrator Share Posted August 14, 2007 They were Co-Head Writers with Peggy Sloane. Laiman has been a Co-Head Writer since 2005 (same with Whitesell), but a Co-Head Writer with lower status than Head Writer (ala Donna Swajeski at GL). Not really. They're not hiring solely based on having experience doing both breakdowns and scripts. And what's happening is different than what happened at GL. GL fired most of their scripts writers and kept everyone else to write scripts off Kreizman/Swajeski's thrusts. Kreizman is now also the Script Editor. At ATWT, they're just having some writers write scripts off their own breakdowns. Yeah, I've been hearing that for about a month now but didn't post about it because I was told it wasn't a done deal yet. Yup, I posted about this last Monday. It's a mass exodus at ATWT. There's more leaving. I think Goutman is taking it out on the writers. That's why you see some of them jumping ship or being fired. Connor was a producer at AMC not OLTL. I haven't heard anything about Connor becoming a producer at ATWT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 He should be taking it out on Jean Passanante. She is the problem. And he is to blame too because he has final say on what goes and does not go on screen. Can someone tell me why Jean is still safe with her job??? It is ridiculous!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Jay S.W. Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 So OLTL has taken two of ATWT's departed writers? Cascio will be an Associate Head writer, I presume, right Toups? And what will Liz Page be? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted August 14, 2007 Author Administrator Share Posted August 14, 2007 I don't know exactly what they will be doing. But if I had to guess it would be Cascio writing breakdowns and Page writing scripts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Jay S.W. Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Cool. Hopefully Whitesell will come on back to OLTL. People can say what they want, but I like him. 2 changes so far. Alright!! More please Ron. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 You can have him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Jay S.W. Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Look Ron, as long as Jean Passanante herself doesnt come to OLTL, I would take ALL of ATWT's writers , especially Judy Tate. I want her for OLTL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 I'll see if I can get the good vibes..and send Jean your way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dr. Jay S.W. Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 God No!!!!! I saw a picture of her and Ron Carlivati together in the OLTL history book. I hope that doesnt mean, when she gets canned from ATWT, he will bring her in as Co- Head Writer or something!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dan Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Honestly, I think all soap headwriters should take a more active role in editing scripts. Hell, if I was the headwriter, the person who gets flamed at even the most minute detail in the script, I would check to see if the scripts have a certain quality. Also, something that someone mentioned in the DAYS thread. They have been going back and forth on DAYS in regards to the EJ/Sami/Lucas triangle depending on who wrote that day's script. With the headwriter editing scripts, the scripts might be written with the same voice as opposed to different voices for each writer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members IMissAremid Posted August 14, 2007 Members Share Posted August 14, 2007 Yep. I think I was the one who mentioned that. Jodie Scholz writes the episodes that hints that Sami has feelings for EJ on EJ is my friend days while Bettina Bradbury seems to have the assignment of Sami telling EJ he is irrelevant and will always be afraid of him on rape victim days. I'm new to this whole paying attention to script writer stuff so can someone with patience for this noob please explain to me how these episodes get assigned and if when things like this happen it's a case of certain writers seeing script characters differently or a head writer saying to this person you are going to write the pro-EJami episodes and you are going to write the pro-Lumi episodes? Because it's really jarring and I'd like to know what you who know the process better would suggest DOOL do to fix it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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