No problem Toups, and Happy Birthday to you and your baby

Of course, now I'm wondering if Seidman and Racina were Griffith additions, since it was alleged that Griffith was rewriting Maria's stuff and controlling the writing team. Remember when Rain1 said Griffith had his likes and dislikes of writers when Y&R was hiring new writers? Most of those hired happened to be repped by his agent as well, though Racina wasn't one of them.

Maria of course has much more power now.

Edited October 9, 200817 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

No problem Toups, and Happy Birthday to you and your baby

Wow, I totally forgot about SON's birthday until I read your post. Thanks for the reminder.

With Kelly and Stich both directing for Y&R (albeit just a bit)...I find this all quite intriguing. Why director-sharing? How does this make sense? Is it that by adding Shaughnessy to the B&B team, the B&B directors need more work and $$...so the Y&R gig is a gift? I just find it all very unusual.

Or maybe the B&B directors just want a few minutes on a GOOD show .

I don't think it's a loss of work, since Shaughnessy only directs intermittently. For the most part, it's Stich, Kelly and Popp doing the lion's share of the directing according to the credits. and the amount of work being done by the B&B directors on Y&R - Kelly directing a handful of episodes, Stich so far only directing the remote shoots - is pretty small as well. If Tonya Lee Williams' statement mentioned earlier about both Bell brothers having a hand in Y&R is true, maybe Bill Jr. and Brad are trying to inject a small amount of experience with the "Bell Style" since Y&R has very little of that these days?

Well, now there's more "old school" (Eric Friewald & Linda Schreiber, Sandra Weintraub Janice Ferri Esser) script writers than newbies (Amanda L. Beall, Melissa Salmons).

I do hope that Maria finally finds "her staff" because there's been way too many changes over the past 2 years. There needs to be stability once again on the writing staff.

Wow...more "old school" than "new". I get confused because there are SO MANY other writers besides the SWs there. But I totally agree about the stability part.

Bradley should give back some of those scriptwriters he has to Y&R. They're clearly doing nothing over at B&B...

Jack Smith should come back to Y&R, and Rex M. Best should've come back too.

Honestly, the Jack Smith episodes at B&B have been as awful as the Patrick Mulcahey ones some days. Not "old school Bell" but eye rolling florid melodrama.

I don't think it's a loss of work, since Shaughnessy only directs intermittently. For the most part, it's Stich, Kelly and Popp doing the lion's share of the directing according to the credits. and the amount of work being done by the B&B directors on Y&R - Kelly directing a handful of episodes, Stich so far only directing the remote shoots - is pretty small as well. If Tonya Lee Williams' statement mentioned earlier about both Bell brothers having a hand in Y&R is true, maybe Bill Jr. and Brad are trying to inject a small amount of experience with the "Bell Style" since Y&R has very little of that these days?

Interesting idea...Brad lets his directors go over to Y&R to "show 'em how it is done". Very intriguing idea....

Oh MarkH, I just HATED LML's dialog. I am absolutely committed to the theatrical, OTT, Queen's English grammar that Bill Bell and Kay Alden carried throughout their respective reigns.

Frankly, the attempts to 'update' the dialog just come off as lame. I prefer the 'dated' dialog that some really dislike to the silly attempts at sounding 'hip'...so sue me.

Beall's script demonstrates that she strives to be 'cute' in her writing. Pity.

Seidman out, yipee, she was dreadful. Again, pity about Racina, I thought his work was sharp and just OTT enough for my liking.

I have to admit... I enjoy it, too. There's just something about it, like when I read old plays (one of my favorite one act plays is "Fourteen" by Alice Gerstenberg from 1920), I love that dialogue!

I mean, there's nothing wrong with updating dialogue, making it more realistic or what have you, but (and I promise not to go on yet another tirade) it's just filling each and every single scene to the brim with slang and cutesy turns of phrase and sarcasm that I have a huge problem with. It's akin to patting yourself on the back for being just so dang clever.

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I mean, there's nothing wrong with updating dialogue, making it more realistic or what have you, but (and I promise not to go on yet another tirade)

But the thing is: your posts are not tirades. They are genuine, honest, passionate, detailed, well written, with a sane logic to them. A joy to read.

Edited October 9, 200817 yr by Sylph

And another things: why was Thom Racina fired?

But the thing is: your posts are not tirades. They are genuine, honest, passionate, detailed, well written, with a sane logic to them. A joy to read.

Um... wow! Thanks!

GH:

- Michael Conforti last listed as Associate Head Writer on October 8

I guess he's permanantly moved to scripts.

I know it's a very untrustworthy site, but someone on Wikipedia is reporting that Mike Denney returned to Y&R. Is it true or just pure speculation?

UPDATE:

Ahhh, so they say he directed Monday's US episode. Hmmm, interesting. This is good news. I hope Foster and Maxam come too. Or either one of them.

Edited October 10, 200817 yr by dmarex

I know it's a very untrustworthy site, but someone on Wikipedia is reporting that Mike Denney returned to Y&R. Is it true or just pure speculation?

UPDATE:

Ahhh, so they say he directed Monday's US episode. Hmmm, interesting. This is good news. I hope Foster and Maxam come too. Or either one of them.

Yep, he directed Monday's episode.

So glad to see his name back on the Y&R credits.

Mike Denney back at Y&R!!!! Yay!

It really is a happy report for all Y&R fans. Hopefully Kathryn Foster isn't far behind.

Y&R:

- Mike Denney back listed as Director on October 13

Yipppee!!! First Janice, now Mike? Foster's gotta be next....I hope. It's so good seeing these Y&R names again.