Administrator Toups Posted July 29, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted July 29, 2008 If we're going by credits, no it hasn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Felix Posted July 29, 2008 Members Share Posted July 29, 2008 Here's a question: How do soap writers (and television writers in general) manage to write a script that is just long enough to take up an hour of television? Is it something that they just get through experience? I'm sure that for those of you who are writers it seems like no big deal, but I think it's pretty neat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MarkH Posted July 29, 2008 Members Share Posted July 29, 2008 Sara Bibel tried to answer that here. I'm posting an excerpted quote here below. But note the text I bolded!!! It turns out Sara weighed in on this writer scandal back on 7/21!! She scooped Nelson! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members cct Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Toups, Can you tell us if there are writers leaving on AMC? It seems an inordinate amount of scripts are being attributed to Beall and Walsh lately, the BDWs. WE've had some Hall and Cohen thrown in here and there with a Taylor or two. But I just think this is odd and don't recall this during the last transition from McT to B&E. You don't have to say who, when, or where. Just give me a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Walsh and Beall definitely did write an incredible amount during the last transition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Felix Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Thanks, MarkH! Wow, it does seem like a very precise, difficult process. I'd still love to be a part of it, though! ;b Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 - ATWT: Leslie Nipkow no longer listed in credits. - Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted July 30, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted July 30, 2008 Thanks, Ron. Davis should be gone in a couple of weeks and Rayfield should be in soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dm. Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Toups, I believe Ahern/Laughlin/Meals/Goldberg are also done. They haven't written in awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted July 30, 2008 Author Administrator Share Posted July 30, 2008 I'll give it another week so it can be a full month since they last wrote before I do a "last listed" for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members LeClerc Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Pratt said this about the AMC writing team in a SOD online interview: They've got it distilled down to a really fantastic group of writers — Addie's been here forever, some of the new young kids coming in and the ones that I'm going to bring in.... So he's keeping Addie Walsh. (But I disagree with his assessment that she's been there "forever"; she's been there for quite a while but anyone who joined AMC after 2000 like her is still a newbie in my books, and never experienced any of AMC's glory years). Strange that he would single out Walsh as having been there forever and not Beldner. Might he be leaving? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Frankly, Beldner is a crappy script editor and should be writing breakdowns (oh wait, Julie won't allow that). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Ok Alvin..tell me what the difference is between script editor and breakdown writer? I know what a breakdown writer does but not a script editor...well..nevermind I think I know now...lol....he edits the scripts written by the script writer...correct?...lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 Yes, and can also check for certain continuity errors (though there's other people in production that also check for continuity and do legal and medical research). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Khan Posted July 30, 2008 Members Share Posted July 30, 2008 I think that's part of it, Soapsuds. (Mind if I step in, Alvin, lol?) The script editor must, among other things, pay attention to continuity, history references, and whether what a character is saying is actually what he/she would say in that situation. Also, IIRC, the SE's on-hand, should they need to cut part or all of a scene, or whether they need a new scene entirely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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