2008: The Directors and Writers Thread

[rain1]

Hope H. Smith out at AMC.

[Adam]

Darn, I thought she was good for someone who had no experience in writing.

[MarkH]

This is juicy. Can't wait to hear if this is a true demotion and, if yes, why it happened.

Does anyone know a contract anniversary date for Hamner, adding in the WGA-strike-extension as a possibility?

Since Hamner was identified as "Mr. Mystery" by LML ("General Homicide!!"), and since the show experienced a crime spike after he joined (Nazis, Carmen Messta, Plum/Carson, JiMin, and lots more I'm sure I'm blocking on), well, I've mentally pointed my finger at him as the biggest source of ruination of Y&R.

Note my picture and my opinion of the crime spree in GC :-).

I'd be happy if this demotion was part of encouraging him to leave early, or at least signalling the non-renewal of his contract.

[DaytimeFan]

I hope so too. Hamner may speak highly of Joan Collins (which could put anyone in my good books)...but he's a truly atrocious daytime writer. It is clear that he was demoted to make rom for Hogan...hopefully he'll demoted further (ie the unemployment line along with LML's other primetime hacks!)

[Toups]

Check the top of the page, where I list everything.

[Sylph]

Toups, I seriously hope you will anounce some good Y&R news in June. That is, Maria running with scissors and trimming the team.

[Toups]

Thanks, Rain! Wow, you are fast. Maybe a little too fast. If you continue to out scoop me, I'll have nothing to tease the regulars of this thread. LOL

[Sylph]

I think you and rain1 make a fantastic team! It's great to see two (and possibly more!) people posting scoops, it's somehow more dynamic then when one person does it.

[Toups]

Yeah, true.

Rain1, next time you have scoops, post a tease first, so we can get people guessing.

Teases like this:

2 Writers OUT at CBS

1 Writer IN at CBS

[Sylph]

Oh, you are meeeeaaaan, Toups! Mean!!

[AddictedToSoaps]

rain1, don't listen to Toups!! LOL

UGH at HHS leaving AMC. She's barely been there! Could that have been Pratt's doing?

[NYC123]

HHS is not a huge to AMC.

Shes only been there for 4 months.

Heres to hoping Michelle Patrick and Karen Lewis comes back to AMC. PLEASE! PELASE! PLEASE!

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Seeing as Patrick left GH when Pratt was there, I don't see it as being likely that she'd come back to AMC, even if her alleged problems were with Guza.

The Karen Lewis shipped sailed a long time ago. Didn't someone mention she was ready to leave the business?

[Sylph]

And was independently wealthy. Thus probably with no incentives to come back. I think it was Megan who lured her to stay this long, since she wanted to retire a while ago.

[rain1]

Interesting, since Karen was instrumental in getting Megan fired in '95.