From NewinPV/Betty at SOC:

Chuck Pratt’s Plan to Save AMC –

[insert picture of Kendall, Greenlee, Erica] – Pratt says strengthening the stories of Kendall, Erica, and Greenlee is at the top of his to-do list.

Pratt says he was approached by Frons to shake things up. He's met with Agnes Nixon several times, and plans to start with an umbrella story like they use in primetime and Guza excels at on GH.

About Ehlers: She’s a war vet, and Pratt wanted a character that audiences can relate to since the country is right now at war (similar to what Agnes did with the Vietnam war). The story will reach out and include other characters, namely Jake, and only get bigger.

On current characters: Adam should be less of an “aside character.” Y&R does that with Victor, so why doesn’t AMC with Adam? Above all he feels the show should revolve around Erica Kane. She is the Scarlett Ohara, and challenging that character and keeping her strong is where the story should be.

On the formal couples on the show: Pratt wants to beef up the men w/o beefcake, and make them stronger men that are not as reactive as they have been. He wants to get Zach “off the couch”, and notes they’ve had Ryan remember he loves Greenlee for a start. He feels one of the most important things is to bring Ryan/Greenlee/Aidan/Zach/Kendall front and center, and turn it into the big questions of relationship and marriage instead of who slept with whom. He says they are all very different marriages, but [“hint-hint”] that all ARE married, or will be. He promises that the bonds of marriage will be tested.

Beth Ehlers/RPG Interview

They just filmed their first scenes together where there is very little dialogue between them.

Ehlers isn’t nervous about recreating the chemistry with RPG because she knows it’s there. Goldin agrees that re-creating that was a piece of cake as long as they are on screen together. BE explains it’s important to her that the audience enjoy them, but she isn’t trying to win an award for making them seem like different people - she only wants the relationship to be viable. They both agree that they’d also probably click with other men/women on the show, and RPG jokes that right now he has a “bromance” going on with Aidan Turner. They aren’t trying to sell the pairing because they don’t feel it needs to be sold. They both agree that Gus and Harley is over and that’s not who they want to do. This is a new chapter.

Record This:

Monday, July 28th – Zach lectures Kendall about meddling in other people’s love lives.

Tuesday, July 29th – Krystal confronts Colby with the truth about Richie.

What will Happen:

JR wants to form an alliance with Zach

Annie sets a trap for Colby and Cassandra

Erica and Sam get caught in a kiss.

Comings and Goings:

-Beth Ehlers checks in on July 24th in a very brief appearance, when her character jogs past Jake.

-AMC is casting an elderly couple that will encounter a PV duo in Vegas inspiring them to elope.

He said her eyes lit up when he told her about the Taylor McBride/Iraq story. Of course, I assume she was injected with the same drugs they gave her when she gave her approval to the (un)aborted fetus story, heh.

HANDS DOWN, FUNNIEST DAMN QUOTE OF THE WEEK! I literally had to get up and walk out of the room, I was laughing so hard!

And haven't we heard this before. Every head writer comes in and the first two things they say are that the spoke with Agnes and that Adam and Erica were going back on the frontburner. And then what happens?

I've had my theories on this, but in the words of Amanda L. Beall, people "shut me down."

Sorry Nini, you're in the minority. We want more Erica!

Yes, it seems I am in the minority on THIS board but I know, overall, fans don't like Erica.

LMFAO, I don't know what boards you go to but majority of the boards I go to like erica there are people that hate-hate her, love the actress, love her, and love to hate her. But the overall general consenus is that she is liked. For most fans to hate erica she sure has the longest lines at SWW and I don't understand how a soap character that is disliked has lasted almost 40 years in the soap industry. Its fine if you don't like the character, but I don't agree with your overall fan assesment on her likeability. Do you post at SOC you sound just like a poster named MsTOH?

Courtney will turn up alive in Pine Valley - we all know Pratt wants to write for her.

Hey Toups. I think that Sonny I mean Nico should come back to All My Children. Jody