GL now has 4 Head Writers

[~bl~]

Back in the old days they used to have small writing teams like this, but they weren't broken into teams. That is what is troubling.

[AddictedToSoaps]

Interesting GL news. It won't make a difference though.

[juppiter]

I agree with this too. I greatly enjoyed Harding Lemay's brief tenure and early Swajeski when SoapNet re-ran it. But by the end I was only watching for Anne Heche.

[juppiter]

Lloyd Gold was the "Where in time is Reva Shayne Lewis?" HW... And the Beth/Lorelai HW I think. So this would be 2001-ish.

[MarkH]

Why would they bring THIS back? I haven't seen anyone refer to that as the "golden age" of GL.

[juppiter]

Gold has never left the GL staff. He went from being HW to co-HW with Millee Taggart, and AHW with Weston and Kreizman.

[JackPeyton]

i loved the Beth/Lorelai story.

reva in time? umm... no.

[Sylph]

Co-sign.

[MichaelGL]

Yes he was. He was the genius that had Reva and Josh travel back in time and battle Nazis and contribute to the Civil War era. Good times, good times

I would be excited about this if the writers involved weren't all hacks, but since they are I can simply say it'll contribute to GL's uninevitable cancellation. It's like saying B&E, Bob Guza, Jean Passanante, Chris Pratt, and Dena Higley won't be destroying a soap serparately, they'll do it as a team! Each one spewing out one craptastic idea after another.

Sadly I agree. GL was my "home soap" the first soap I started watching, the show I grew up watching, and the show I stuck with through mobsters, clones, and Mary Anne Curruthers. However EW and DK were the straw to break the camel's back for me. The show as you stated is a "limping zombified corpse of what once was".

[ljacks13]

Will this be enough to help the floundering Granddaddy of all Daytime Soaps?

Christopher Dunn, Lloyd “Lucky” Gold and Jill Lorie Hurst have been appointed Headwriters of broadcast history’s longest running program, Guiding Light, as announced today by the show’s Executive Producer Ellen Wheeler. Dunn, Gold and Lorie Hurst will join current Headwriter David Kreizman to create two new headwriting teams that will work together to bring their vision to the screen.

“I am thrilled about the new roles that David, Jill, Chris and Lucky will play on the headwriting teams at Guiding Light,” said Wheeler. “Since Guiding Light adopted its revolutionary new production model at the start of the year, we have made major changes to nearly every aspect of how we produce the show. I believe that appointing collaborative headwriting teams will help to expand the show’s vision and storytelling ability in this new model. Our new headwriting teams are made up of extraordinarily talented individuals who all respect the rich history of Guiding Light and are all very dedicated to mining that history for the future success of the show.”

Kreizman joined Guiding Light in 1995 as a Production Intern and during his time with the show he has worked as a Production Coordinator, an Associate Producer and began writing scripts and breakdowns for the show in 1997. Kreizman became Headwriter in 2004.

Dunn joined Guiding Light in 1999 and was Co-Headwriter from 2001 – 2002. He began his daytime career as a breakdown writer on Santa Barbara and has also worked on the writing teams of Sunset Beach and General Hospital.

Gold began his writing career playwriting at Edward Albee’s summer workshop in Montauk. Gold’s plays have been produced at the Eugene O’Neill Foundation, the Seattle Rep and McCarter Theatre among others. He has written extensively for film and television including work on Marvin’s Room and Shakespeare in Love. Gold is co-creator of the PBS American Mystery Series, produced by Robert Redford and Rebecca Eaton. In daytime, he has written for One Life to Live, Another World and Guiding Light. He joined Guiding Light in 2001 and has been with the show ever since.

Jill Lorie Hurst joined Guiding Light in 1994 and spent her first five years as a writer’s assistant. During that time Lorie Hurst was partnered with then assistant producer David Kreizman to write a couple of sample scripts for the show. Jill decided to keep her assistant job and wrote part time, while David went on to write full-time. Shortly thereafter, Lorie Hurst was made a script editor, a job she’s held on and off depending on the needs of the writing team and executive producer. In May 2007 Lorie Hurst was named Story Producer when the writing team was reorganized.

http://daytimedial.blogspot.com/

[NYC123]

With Kreizman still writing I still do not see that many changes......

[LeClerc]

I actually think this could help GL, at least a bit. It depends on what the process is, which Wheeler is not really explaining.

So GL eliminated breakdowns....shows like AMC followed suit and fired/demoted their breakdown writers (Michelle Patrick was demoted and then fired, Chip Hayes was demoted, Stephen Demorest was fired) thinking they were going to save all this money and have the headwriters do everything....but ultimately it was GL's plan to do this 4 headwriters, 2 teams thing.

Meanwhile Chuck Pratt will be at AMC doing the work of at least 4 people. Good going Carruthers!

[UKBoi]

It's not new blood, is it? Just people who are already writing the show but now they have more power. I'm really starting to go off the fact that Wheeler tries to spin anything she does now as 'innovative' and 'fresh'...having four HWs is a recipe for disaster, and while I like that a soap is promoting from within, GL is the one show that I'd rather didnt...what's next? Having the actors improvise scenes? I shouldnt really give that woman any ideas...she's running GL into the ground. I was all for the new format, etc, and while I appreciate that she's been faced by budget cut after budget cut since the day she started, she doesnt seem to acknowledge that right now, GL is a steaming pile of crap.

I hope that at least one of this new HW team has an ounce of Carlivati in them and takes the show back to good, classic soap opera. And perhaps storylines can have a beginning, middle and end and last more than one week?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Even if someone in that team had an ounce of talent, GL wouldn't be able to recover. Too much politics and bad decision after bad decision is plaguing that show.

I'm convinced that Nancy Curlee could come out of her self-imposed retirement and GL still wouldn't be able to recover creatively.

[Toups]

I re-organized everything.

Since it's about HWs, there should a new thread.