I was disappointed seeing three more LML writers back. I have to hope that this is for budget purposes, if only because t he amount of writers listed on CBS.com is just too big. Not to mention filled with mediocre writers.

Megan McTavish was never this bad on the writing team..

She kept Jeff Beldner, Michelle Patrick, and Karen Lewis. Her writing and her writing team was so much better under her...................

@$%! U B&E. Karma is a bitch and I hope it comes back and bite both of your asses!!!

WORD Kyle

What we're seeing is the hiring of the scab writers to the post strike staffs. This happened in 1981 and 1988. Isn't is convenient that Milstein and Kanalos (two friends of babs bloom who also wrote for her when she was co-headwriter of The city) turn up on Y&R which Bloom was occassionally writing before the strike.

On AMC, we have Demorest and Patrick gone and Hope Smith and M. Cinquemani aboard....hmmmm. Demorest is the writer ousted and the subject of teh WGA arbitration...we know the other 8 writers are from Dool.

No one has any proof but we all know that many soap writers were working during the strike. None of the shows was written by interns. Even GL has been passable.

I'm glad there were writers willing to write, but they should have taken core status which was legally available to them.

So who else will show up on the writer's credits?......stay tuned

I am just disapointed in B&E.

They said that they wanted to keep and revitlize the history of AMC and yet they get rid of TWO of the most talented writers that had the MOST history with the show.

B&E I guess did not like Michelle Patrick because they bumped her down to just writing scripts. I guess B&E knew that Michelle Patrick was a better writer then them two combined...............

Michelle Patrick, Karen Lewis and Jeff Beldner were the only writers that had history with the show and to get rid of 2 of them is like loosing Susan Lucci if she even left. The show is going to be different because B&E got rid of Michelle Patrick!!!!

I really hope Michelle Patrick gets picked up by another soap or she can come back to AMC if B&E are gone.

What the hell is wrong with B&E? Not only are they destroying the show with every episode, but they fire the few remaining talented writers!! Ugh I am so fed up with these hacks. THEY NEED TO GO.

Michelle Patrick -- gone? GONE?! WHAT?!?

La dee dah! La dee dah! I can't hear you! La la la! La dee dah! Nope, don't hear you!

How can a writer, who has been a part of writing most of the show's history over the last twenty years... just leave? Especially with fake writers like Brown & Esensten at the helm?

I'm intrigued by Cinquemani, because I know he wrote a lot of the Dillon Quartermaine-heavy episodes on GH several years ago (if I'm not mistaken, wasn't he the one who wrote the episode where Dillon was in the drug store buying condoms?). He seems to know how to turn a phrase, so I'm curious to see what he'll write for AMC... but damn! Michelle Patrick's scripts made me so nostalgic for the Real All My Children. Characters had real conversations and expressed honest emotions.

Moving on...

I'm sorry, but Jeff Beldner -- in my opinion -- is way overrated and is a horrible script editor. Way too much garbage gets through. I know I keep bringing this up, but come on... the Bugler-penned "Beach Speech" -- which made absolutely no sense -- should NEVER have made it to the final edit, let alone come out of Cameron Mathison's limited mouth. THAT SPEECH MADE ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE! If I were in his position and read that dialog, I would've pushed for my head writers to either have Bugler rewrite it or have another script writer take a pass at that speech. It's totally beyond me how a script editor can read a speech -- written for a character who is supposed to be a romantic lead -- that makes no sense at all, let alone be totally unromantic, and just let it go. It sounded awkward coming out of Cam's mouth and it looks just as horrible in print.

In regard to Michelle Patrick and Guza, the only thing I remember reading was that when Patrick came back to AMC, it took her a little while to readjust to writing one breakdown a week rather than writing two under Guza at GH.

I just want sitcom writer-wannabe Beall GONE. Mandy, sweetie, this ain't Friends. Could you be any more obvious?

Amanda L. Beall must go.........

What we're seeing is the hiring of the scab writers to the post strike staffs. This happened in 1981 and 1988. Isn't is convenient that Milstein and Kanalos (two friends of babs bloom who also wrote for her when she was co-headwriter of The city) turn up on Y&R which Bloom was occassionally writing before the strike.

Well, it doesn't necessarily mean they scabbed just because they joined a new soap after the strike ended. For instance, Marla Kanelos supported the guild and she voiced her opinions publicly and Rick Draughon was strike captain.

Bloom wrote for PC, no The City.

What, exactly, is the point of AMC eliminating the breakdown position if they aren't going to DOWNSIZE the writing staff? They have Walsh, Beall, Beldner, Taylor, Bugler, Hayes, Hall, Cinquemani, and Cohen, plus B&E which makes for a bigger team. It would make more sense if they had five or six staff writers, PERIOD. But they have eight writers working on scripts?? Makes no sense.

Oh I forgot Hope Harmel Smith. That makes it nine script writers + a script editor + B&E.

I agree with those who think Jeff Beldner should be given a shot as HW. He started as a Writers Assistant in '89 and worked his way up. Instead of hiring B&E, Frons should've promoted from within, the way he did with Ron Carlivati.

What, exactly, is the point of AMC eliminating the breakdown position if they aren't going to DOWNSIZE the writing staff? They have Walsh, Beall, Beldner, Taylor, Bugler, Hayes, Hall, Cinquemani, and Cohen, plus B&E which makes for a bigger team. It would make more sense if they had five or six staff writers, PERIOD. But they have eight writers working on scripts?? Makes no sense.

If AMC is going to keep the elimination of breakdown position, I think there's going to be more cuts.

GL and DAYS both have 8 writers, so that seems to be the magic number for non-breakdown writing teams.

Ryan, Korte is good, she just needs to be demoted. Someone else should be SE.

Korte's better than Beldner, I'll give her that -- but I agree with the opinion that she needs to be demoted.

Now, again, did AMC eliminate breakdowns in particular, or just the need for a breakdown writer separate from a script writer? Like in primetime, one writer will write an outline and the script.