I pray to the soap gods that it's Valentini. That man has been weighing the show down for years now.

It also ignores two strong women in charge of PRODUCTION (JHC and JFP). One should argue those women serve as counter-balance.

But it IS striking that, in a female oriented genre, EVERY creative leader on EVERY soap on ABC, and at the network, is a white male. That is strangely disturbing. No diversity at the top at ALL. (Should we make anything of the fact that 2/3 of the HW are also Italian?)

The Italians love their melodrama.

I have no interest in talking about the Tarty garbage anymore. But I will say that both AMC and OLTL have strong currents of misogyny to them. I don't watch GH but from what I've read about the mob stories, that show isn't exactly a star of storytelling in a post-Buffy world. As for Carlivati, yes he worked his way up, and he's been well rewarded by one of the biggest bigots in the genre regardless of what he smokes.

It's one of the things I find fundamentally wrong with ABCD and was one of the things that started driving me away from ABC and soaps in general years ago. We do agree on one thing, I don't consider JFP a good example of a woman in management. I barely consider her an example of human

Even the stars tell the story: AMC is all about Ryan and/or Zach, OLTL is about John, Todd or now Rex, and GH is primarily about Sonny and Jason.

Don't forget the fixation on pregnancy stories. Women on ABC soaps are most valued for their ability to reproduce.

Now THESE are all great examples of the misogyny on daytime. I never said Frons didn't encourage a "women are second-class citizens" proponent on his shows. I whole-heartedly agree ABC has turned what is supposed to be a female-driven genre into an entirely male-centric one. My only disagreement was that Carlivati's promotion wasn't a direct result of that. Otherwise, I could not agree more.

Oh jeez, let the OLTL Marty/Todd storyline "due to the misogynist men at ABC" bashing begin anew.

Well let it be known that Carlivati and Valentini are not exactly the cigar smoking, football watching types. Ahem.

That doesn't mean they like or understand women.

That doesn't mean they like or understand women.

HAH! Touche!

We miss you, exwriter.

Perfect solution to end ABC's "boys club!"

Fire Chuck Pratt and Ron Carlivati and bring back Dena Higley and Megan McTavish!

Perfect solution to end ABC's "boys club!"

Fire Chuck Pratt and Ron Carlivati and bring back Dena Higley and Megan McTavish!

OMG! NO!

Perfect solution to end ABC's "boys club!"

Fire Chuck Pratt and Ron Carlivati and bring back Dena Higley and Megan McTavish!

HAHA exactly.

OMG! NO!

Why not? There would be no misogyny anywhere on AMC and OLTL if Higley and McTavish were hired again. Women wouldn't lose their babies, men wouldn't be pimped out to the viewers and placed on a pedestal, and they would return the shows being female driven shows. It would be a new golden age for these two soaps!

Nelson Branco talks today about a "higher up" at AMC getting fired.

Combine this with this blind item, and it seems JHC is about to be fired for Lisa Hesser Guerrero (I'm sorry, I'm forgetting her married name).

Is any of this related to Richard Mensing at CBS Daytime reportedly being fired by Barbara Bloom? Any idea what that's about?

Daytime Confidential is reporting that Lisa DeCazotte is being primed to take over AMC either as second in command or as the new AMC executive producer. IMO they should just bring Lisa over to AMC and move Julie back to GH. Julie was under Wendy Riche during the golden years. Have Julie replace JFP, IMO that would be a great move for the soap. I know Frons loves Julie and ABC loves Julie, move her back to GH and have Lisa take over AMC. Lisa used to work over at AMC from 1994 to 1996 under Felicia Minei Behr.

Again, I don't understand why Frons would do this? I mean will it really make much of a difference? Unless god forbid Lisa has invented some new production model to try and out do Ellen......

I think this is a good move. Will we be seeing more Passions alum on AMC? First MW and now LD.

Maybe JHC didn't want to take a pay cut along with her actors and LD is much cheaper.

Edited December 21, 200816 yr by Jonathan

if Julie is really nice to her cast, then she should go to GH and take out the trash. They deserve a reprieve from Adolf Farron Phelps

Lisa did a fabulous job on Night Shift 2, as good as Sri was. Lisa was very instrumental in the success of the show. Frons was very impressed. Also Lisa has a long history with ABC daytime. She started as Paul Rauch's assistant in the mid 80's and rose through the ranks at OLTL. She was there for many many years and the moved over to AMC for 2 years in the mid 90's under Felicia Behr. She left AMC in 1996 to move over to NBC daytime. She was hired on the new Sunset Beach and then rose through the ranks at that show before NBC gave her Passions. Lisa was beloved by James E Reilly, the cast and the crew of the show. She was the show's only executive producer. After Passions was done, Lisa was a free agent and then went to NS but NS 2 was great. She executed the show very well. Frons wants to find her something. AMC has had alot of budget cuts this year. The ABC cast/crew love Julie but she has not executed Pratt's vision in the best way. They want more of someone who can execute on that level. Lisa is a smart producer and she was very good at the budget on Passions. The show still looked great while operating on a tight budget. Everyone keeps punching poor Ellen Wheeler LMAO. Michael Bruno in SOD said despite GL's ratings being lower, the show has saved a massivly tremendous amount of money and actually turns a profit. GL turned a profit this year and has money in it's bank account. Last year at this time it was double negative in it's account. It was not only broke but it's account was in the negative range.

Oh how I would love for ABC to fire JFP after over 11 years of her reign of terror at OLTL/GH. GH though is not JFP's vision, it is Guza's. Guza absolutely loves JFP and he detested Wendy Riche. So JFP stays because Guza supports his twisted/sadistic vision.

Edited December 21, 200816 yr by JONNYSBRO