Replacing Latham with Josh Griffith I don't really think would get us anywhere personally... Alden or nothing if you ask me. As Khan says, it takes a certain someone to understand Y&R and I truly believe Alden is the only person around that fits that bill. Griffith will be a Latham lite if you ask me.

Alden's influence kept Y&R reputable during those initial months of Latham's tenure, but it became painfully clear thats who was holding it together. The minute Latham had total control, the show became a total disaster and lumped it in with the rest of daytime, in a total rut creatively.

This might sound crazy, but...what are the odds that Josh Griffith agreed to FiCore in exchange for an eventual promotion to an executive position, either at CBS Daytime, or at Sony? No working writer, IMO, would opt to leave the WGA, unless they know for certain that 1) they are leaving the industry as a writer, and 2) their future employment is somehow secured.

This might sound crazy, but...what are the odds that Josh Griffith agreed to FiCore in exchange for an eventual promotion to an executive position, either at CBS Daytime, or at Sony? No working writer, IMO, would opt to leave the WGA, unless they know for certain that 1) they are leaving the industry as a writer, and 2) their future employment is somehow secured.

Barbara Bloom is stupid enough to push him on one of the P&G soaps...

Then again, maybe he would be a better fit, say at ATWT again?

More writers have signed the "will not cross picket lines" list.

Tita Bell

Stephanie Braxton

Susan Dansby

Barbara Esensten

Robert Guza Jr.

Chip Hayes

Jill Lorie Hurst

Elizabeth Korte

Mimi Leahey

Karen Lewis

Lynda Myles

David Smilow

Sally Sussman Morina

So, this is who's left who hasn't signed it yet.

AMC

James Harmon Brown

ATWT

Cheryl Davis

B&B

Bradley Bell

Michael Minnis

Kay Alden

Elizabeth Snyder

DAYS

Dena Higley

Renee Godelia

Meg Kelly

Gordon Rayfield

GH

Michael Conforti

Garin Wolf

GL

Christopher Dunn

Lloyd Gold

OLTL

Fran Myers

Michelle Poteeet Lisanti

Jeanne Marie Ford

Gary Tomlin (Fi-Core)

PSNS

James E. Reilly

Marlene Clark Poulter

Darrell Ray Thomas, Jr.

Shawn Morrison

Clem Egan

Pete T. Rich

Y&R

James Stanley

Valerie Ahern

Darin Goldberg

Shelley Meals

Michael Montgomery

Josh Griffith (Fi-Core)

Interesting his writing partner has signed it but James has not....

Barbara Bloom is stupid enough to push him on one of the P&G soaps...

Then again, maybe he would be a better fit, say at ATWT again?

If he DID make a deal, I bet it would have to be with SONY and not with PGP or Barbara Bloom. Maybe it is a deal to either be Y&R's new EP and/or develop a soap.

With SONY naming Steve Kent as an Overseeing Executive/Prexy of the daytime soaps they own, if DAYS is axed and they are unable to keep it going on another network, cable outlet, or platform, SONY may still be interested in owning another soap property, especially one they can sell overseas as well as in the US. CBS may need something when they finally get rid of ATWT and/or GL.

Edited November 27, 200718 yr by bellcurve

With Griffith possibly becoming head writer at Y&R would Michael Malone join him? They worked together at OLTL. You think Y&R has enough silly murder mysteries, just wait till Malone is on the staff.

Edited November 27, 200718 yr by AMCer

Interesting his writing partner has signed it but James has not....

I'm still wondering the same thing about Miss Valerie Ahern, whose writing partner, Christian McLaughlin, has signed on the dotted line.

Why am I completely unsurprised that JER, a legend in his own mind, would not strike?

With Griffith possibly becoming head writer at Y&R would Michael Malone join him? They worked together at OLTL. You think Y&R has enough silly murder mysteries, just wait till Malone is on the staff.

There is no way Griffith will be named the new HW for Y&R. The fact that he's FiCore already hurts him tremendously. The WGA will not have their writer's on Y&R's writing staff, if it's indeed headed by someone who chose to leave the guild. That would also further hurt Y&R's reputation within the industry and it wouldn't be eligible for any WGA Awards.

He's already co-EP, but then again, there was word awhile back that he had other upcoming projects, including a play he's written. Maybe he'll soon retire or leave Y&R for good?

Griffith has worked before without Malone--the real danger is when Malone works without Griffith (even the last era they were at OLTL was WAY better when Griffith was listed as headwriter with Malone as his consultant or whatever, briefly) It is ironic that so many fo the murder mysteries on OLTL under Malone have kinda sucked--seeing as he honestly is an ACE mystery novelist.

JG was the "control" for Malone at OLTL, curbing his excesses. They worked so well together because of that. When he was out at OLTL last time things got worse. That said, while I love Griffith's past work it seems no one is happy with what he's done with Latham at Y&R. I don't think it's his type of show, though he did do any number of years on SB and some others, I think.

Yep Malone even said in many of those early 90s interviews how he'd never do a soap without Griffith, he was the one who taught him how to balance and pace his stories--all that truly important stuff.

Did he actually do much on SB? I know he helped creat eit but was he ever actually listed as HW? I wish they had just picked up his and Malone's apparantly awesome 30 minute supernatural late nigth soap pilot 13 Bourbon Street

Did he actually do much on SB? I know he helped creat eit but was he ever actually listed as HW? I wish they had just picked up his and Malone's apparantly awesome 30 minute supernatural late nigth soap pilot 13 Bourbon Street

I think Vee was speaking about Santa Barbara, not Sunset Beach. He worked as a script writer for a number of years on Santa Barbara, during its creative golden era.

I don't think he was ever listed as anything but a creator for Sunset Beach...

I was speaking of Santa Barbara.

Griffith did the darkier, seamier work at OLTL in the '90s; he was apparently the big force behind Todd's prison therapy scenes, the relationship with Rebecca (Reiko Aylesworth), etc. I am almost positive he had a hand in the infamous Troy/Lindsay sex scene in 2003. It doesn't really tailor him to Y&R to me.

Edited November 27, 200718 yr by Vee