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IMO, there are some crappy writers who should not be employed. So, in that case, which writers would you bring in to compensate for the bad seeds? I'll get the ball rolling.

All My Children

Going:

Courtney Bugler

Amanda L. Beall

Chip Hayes

Rebecca Taylor

Jeff Beldner

Addie Walsh

Coming:

Nancy Curlee

Lorraine Broderick

Michelle Van Jean

Patrick Mulcahey

Carolyn Culliton

Staying:

Joanna Cohen

Kate Hall

Stephen Demorest

Michelle Patrick (demoted to Scriptwriter)

So..my credits would look something like this:

Written by:

Barbara Esensten

James Harmon Brown

Lorraine Broderick

Nancy Curlee

Stephen Demorest

Carolyn Culliton

Joanna Cohen

Kate Hall

Patrick Mulcahey

Michelle Patrick

Michelle Van Jean

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Here would be my vision of the perfect AMC staff

Created By:

Agnes Nixon

Executive Producer:

Felicia Minei Behr

Written By:

Kay Alden

Lorraine Broderick

Agnes Nixon

Judy Tate

Kate Hall

Michelle Patrick

Stephen Demorest

Joanna Cohen

Karen Lewis

John PiRoman

Directed by:

Casey Childs

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Guiding Light

Created by

Irna Phillips

Executive Producer

Jean Dadario Burke

Co-Executive Producer

Susan Bedsow Horgan

Consulting Producer

Deborah Joy Levine

Written by

Nancy Curlee (head writer)

Trent Jones (head writer)

Hal Corley (head writer)

Jill Lorie Hurst (story/script editor)

Pamela Long (story/script consultant)

Emily Squires (creative consultant)

Nidhi Mehta (writer’s assistant)

Rebecca Sils (writer’s assistant)

Michael Hollinger

Leslie Esdaile Banks

Roger Newman

Jeff Ryder

David Rupel

David Smilow

David Kreizman

Ron Renauld

Jay Hammer

Tita Bell

Joyce Brotman

Kimberly Hamilton

Penelope Koechl

Danielle Paige

Rebecca Hanover

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The Bold And The Beautiful

Created by

William J. Bell & Lee Philip Bell

Executive Producer

Frank South

Co-Executive Producer

Rhonda Friedman

Consulting Producer

Jeffrey Lane

Written by

Patrick Mulcahey (head writer)

Jim Houghton (co-head writer)

Jeffrey Lane (associate head writer)

Michael Minnis (story editor)

Teresa Zimmerman (script editor)

Rex M. Best (creative consultant)

Maura Penders

Sara Kettler

Roni Dengel

Craig Heller

Michael Minnis

Amanda Robb

Candace Kirby

Jerry Birn

Elizabeth Snyder

Rex M. Best

Jim Houghton

Patrick Mulcahey

Barred From Studio

Bradley Bell

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Days Of Our Lives

Created by

Ted & Betty Corday

Executive Producer

Edward Scott

Co-Executive Producer

Janet Spellman-Rider

Consulting Producer

Beth Milstein

Written by

Hogan Sheffer (head writer)

Beth Milstein (head writer)

Michael Slade (story/script editor)

Dorothy Ann Purser (creative consultant)

Ryan Quan (writer’s assistant)

Bruce Neckles

Barbara Esensten

Mike Cohen

Sofia Landon Geier

Anne M. Schoettle

James Harmon Brown

Randy Holland

Renee Godelia

Bettina F. Bradbury

Cydney Kelley

Jodie Scholz

Meg Kelly

Dorothy Ann Purser

Barred From Studio

Ken Corday

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The Young & The Restless

Executive Producer

David Shaughnessy

Writers

Kay Alden (Head Writer)

Trent Jones (Co-Head Writer)

Jim Houghton

Janice Ferri Esser

Natalie Minardi Slater

Joshua S. McCaffrey

Sandra Weintraub

Sara A. Bibel

Coordinating Producer

John Fisher

Associate Producer

Josh O'Connell

Y&RWorldTurner: This is the PERFECT team. I applaud your choices. I love all of them. And you just KNOW that it would be cheaper to employ this talented group that the scores of hacks LML has under her leadership.

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Days of our Lives

Executive Producer

Edward Scott

Co-Executive Producer

Shelley Curtis

Written by

Sheri Anderson

Richard J. Allen

Beth Milstein

Peter Brash

Paula Cwickly

Jeanne Ford

Sofia Landon Geier

Patrick Mulcahey

Gillian Spencer

Dena Higley

Bettina Bradbury

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My perfect Y&R team is the team that was in charge from 1998-2002. And I mean from casting director to EP.

Kay Alden is desperately, DESPERATELY, needed back to Y&R. She is the best soap writer out there and she is the only one who can make Y&R what it once was.

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I'd bring the following writers to AMC:

Lisa Connor (breakdowns)

Thomas Nelson (breakdowns)*

David Cherrill (scripts)

Susan Dansby (scripts)

Patrick Mulcahey (scripts)

Judith Pinsker (scripts)

Courtney Simon (scripts)

And, of course, yours truly as HW.

* Tommy, who runs glbuzz.com, wrote a continuing "alternative" GL that absolutely blew me away. I just have to have him come work with me.

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All My Children

Created by

Agnes Nixon

Executive Producer

Kay Alden

Co-Executive Producer

Ginger Smith

Consulting Producer

Burton Armus

Casting Director

Judy Blye Wilson

Written by

Karen Lewis (head writer)

Lorraine Broderick (head writer)

Kay Alden (head writer)

Susan Kirshenbaum (story editor)

Christina Covino (script editor)

Francesca James (creative consultant)

Tara Walsh (writer’s assistant)

Anna Cascio

Gordon Rayfield

Stephen Demorest

John PiRoman

Frederick Johnson

Susan-Sojourna Collier

Jeff Beldner

Michelle Patrick

Addie Walsh

Louise Shaffer

Joanna Cohen

Neal Bell

Kate Hall

Barred From Studio

Julie Hanan Carruthers

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