2008: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Toups]

I don't believe this writer has written DAYS before. He/she is a long time daytime writer whose credits go back to at least the early 80's. Let's see how good your writers-knowledge is and how well you can connect-the-writers.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Hmmm, you also said this pick is surprising. Could Meg Bennett be coming back from her imposed hiatus? Though, of course, she wouldn't be a HW this time around.

I know Meg's writing career stretches back to the early 80's and she knows Tomlin and Whitesell from SuBe.

But, has this person been actively involved in daytime over the past 3 years?

[Toups]

It's not Mrs. Guza. Though I'd wish she come back to daytime, or join GH and kick some sense into her husband.

Nope.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Can you say how long it's been since this person has written for a soap?

Is this a FOG that's written for SuBe?

Also, is this person male or female? LOL!

This one has me stumped, I must admit. Then again, I'm the only one playing this game. LOL!

[MarkH]

Ah....part of me agrees with you...but I don't want us stuck in the past. I'm trying to have a little faith in the hoices this team makes. They do want to keep the pacing more dramatic, and the writing lighter/faster/defter/more comedic. (I know the "faster" is controversial...but that has clearly been the CBS/Sony mandate since LML was hired).

Other writers were reviled before they showed up on Y&R (e.g., Amanda Beall), but they've done fine under this regime.

Others are playing, but some of us haven't a clue.

[brimike]

I'm scared by another FOG. I mean, how many more people from TWO canceled shows (SuBe and Passions) can end up working on a show that needs to clean up its act in eighteen months?!

Not saying the third time can't be the charm... but I'm not holding my breath.

[sheilaforever]

I must say that Beall's scripts start annoying me; as long as she's writing for the younger set it's pretty good and solid but when her episodes contain maturer characters like Jack et al. (like on Monday...) the youth-style hipness writing is waying thin on me...

[Khan]

By any chance, Toups, could the "FOG" who's coming to DAYS be...David Cherrill?

[Toups]

That's an interesting choice. What made you think of him?

[dm.]

I'm a bit clueless at the moment and don't have the time to think of it..... what's FOG?

[Toups]

Friend of Gary's.

Here are the clues again:

- never written for daytime

- experience tv writer

- ties to the Y&R writing staff

The Y&R arrival is so easy.....and by saying it's easy makes it obvious. LOL

[MarkH]

Och...nothing obvious to me. I just awful at these things. Did you like pinning butterflies as a child, Toups?

[DaytimeFan]

Dianne Messina Stanley?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Toups, just spill the beans. No one cares to think this out much further. LOL!

[Toups]

DaytimeFan and Khan are the winners!

Cherrill's in at DAYS replacing Linda Pointdexter-Brown, and DMS is in at Y&R.

I really like the Cherrill addition. For some reason I have mental note that he's good. I guess I must've liked his OLTL scripts, but I don't remember it. LOL