2008: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Where is Y&R getting all this money from to keep all of these writers employed? Damn...

It's usually the bad head-writers with the big writing teams anyway.

[dm.]

Maybe they'll have a massive firing later in the year... Yeah, right... Maybe in a dream world.

[Dr. Jay S.W.]

Taaaa Daa

[Khan]

Looking at the list once more - especially, the writers no one has heard of before now - I'm starting to wonder...

Is there any chance that RuAsRuAnAu and MAB are one and the same, lol?

[Kubla Khan]

LMAO, Khan! I'm crying here!

Now I actually like Amanda Beall, and I wish her luck at Y&R, but really, I don't think the show will fit her.

Yeah, 22 writers is beyond ridiculous.

As the other shows downsize their writing teams, Y&R expands...I guess to keep the daytime writer pool in tact.

[Toups]

Cinquemani was on trial basis and AMC didn't pick him up.

I believe Amanda left on her own to join Y&R. I can't see JHC firing Amanda.

[LeClerc]

It's funny, AMC fans (or most of them) here used to love Beall. Then all of a sudden ragging on her became the thing to do for some reason. What caused the shift?

All the AMC scriptwriters/breakdown have written very pro-Mama and Baby Doll.

All the AMC scriptwriters/breakdown writers have written Ryan as God.

All the AMC scriptwriters/breakdown writers contributed to the cluster*uck of hypocrites that was "Crash".

Beall was involved with some of (in fact most of) the better episodes from the past few years: Bianca finding out her baby had died, the 9/11-oriented episode in 2006 (remember those fantastic Erica & Kendall scenes?), the Valentine's Day episode of 2007, Jesse telling Little Jenny about Jenny, and others.

I don't know, I just don't get the absolute joy surrounding her departure, but I guess I'm the only one. All the writers have clunkers. I could find episodes Michelle Patrick wrote that sucked bad too.

[detroitpiston]

Good news for AMC, horrible news for Y&R. Why the frack do they need 22 writers? I mean seriously, come on MAB.

[Toups]

Nice to see a different perspective - with back up too. I guess people tend to forget her good episodes.

[Kubla Khan]

This reminds me of a RuAsRu 'proposed AMC writing team' post from last September, lol.

Toups then goes on to reply:

LOL! Oh Toups, if only we knew then that Maria Arena Bell would duplicate that ridiculousness!

[Toups]

LMAO!!!!

I think we'll soon find out who's leaving Y&R. The team can't stay this big.

[Khan]

I'll never forget, either, how Toups posted a mock 'proposed DAYS writing staff' that included even the ghosts of Bell, Palumbo and Falken Smith. Boy howdy, that was comedy, lol!

[LeClerc]

If Jeff Beldner leaves AMC, or Pratt fires him, AMC is so screwed. There's nobody left from the 80s, and Jeff is the only one who was around during the 90s.

[Kubla Khan]

LMAO!

September 10, 2007

[brimike]

Well, this is just craziness. Two insiders posting away, and poor Toups is out in the cold, forced to do things right so his sources don't stop talking to him.

I guess that's the nature of the (journalist's) beast.