Administrator Toups Posted November 23, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted November 23, 2009 If I kept your team, I'd move some people around. I'd move Karen Lewis to SW because she's always been a SW and I'd move Courtney Simon to SW too because you'd want her to write scripts. Then I'd move Beldner to BDW. Then you would add one more to the BDW team because having 3 isn't enough. So here's a better version of your team. Head Writer Lorraine Broderick Co-Head Writer Frederick Johnson (who will also write breakdowns) Associate Head Writers Jeff Beldner Hal Corley [open slot] Script Editor Michelle Patrick Script Writers Karen Lewis Courtney Simon Judith Donato Kate Hall Joanna Cohen Total = 11 writers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Toups, where is Carolyn Culliton going to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Karen Lewis was Broderick's Script Editor at ATWT, did she serve in the same capacity on AMC in the 90's under Broderick? Also, I believe Hal Corley was Broderick's unofficial Co-HW at both AMC (after the Millee Taggart fiasco) and ATWT, so they have to have had a very good rapport. As for the vacant AHW in Toups's list, how about a newly unemployed Carolyn Culliton? But I think Addie Walsh will get remain under Broderick, so there really won't be a vacant spot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 23, 2009 Members Share Posted November 23, 2009 Sure, I'm OK with that. It might indeed be better. Y&RWorldTurner, there is a reason why I shuffled these. I.e. I demoted Beldner, but now I see that he might be better suited for breakdowns given the cr?p that passes daily onto the TV screen. I believe Frederick to be a better choice than Corley, and I hope that once his OLTL contract expires he will be invited to join AMC. Or... He might join sooner if they at ABC organize an exchange, swap of writers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Y&RWorldTurner Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 I wonder what's going to happen to Tracey Thompson. Will Lorraine keep her? And if she's fired, will Guza take her back? Maybe she'll be demoted to scripts only. How has her work generally been on AMC? I thought she was decent at GH. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Jonathan Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 Her work on AMC? How can you tell? I haven't noticed any change from when she came on board. She wrote a few scripts that were mediocre. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted November 24, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted November 24, 2009 It's hard to tell sometimes due to the way the credits were in the 90's. Sometimes there was a name below the BDWs and above the SW and sometimes there were not. So if we go by the single names: Elizabeth Smith (1995), Millee Taggart (1996), Christina Covino (1997); and her SE's at ATWT: David Cherrill (1998), Karen Lewis (1999) Yeah, it looks like in 1995 and 1996, Corly was her Co-HW; and again in 1998/1999 at ATWT - with Addie Walsh too. Oh I'm sure Addie will stay too, I was just going by Sylph's pool of writers. I'm sure Fred's going to be smart and wait until ABC names a permanent HW. What if he joins AMC under Broderick, and then ABC names, oh say, Megan McTavish as the permanent HW - if the rumours are true about Fred and Megan not getting along. Maybe not if TT was a Friend of Pratt's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 I have a pool? That's great! Addie was taken down following advice of my executive creative consultant R Sinclair. Remember that dreadful episode he always talks about? Pandemonium! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 Thank you! And just in case I haven't drilled it into people's braincells, the episode that made me puke was that July 4, 2007 episode she and Beall wrote. What did people want to check out on their day off while getting ready for their cookouts? Well, certainly not a bunch of women who hated each other trapped in Fusion of all places... with nothing but bitchy dialogue masked as comedy that wouldn't even make it past a high school theatre arts program. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted November 24, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted November 24, 2009 Every single writer has had bad episodes. Tell me a writer who's been perfect, who hasn't written any bad episodes before. Do you even watch AMC? I never see you talk about it - episode discussion or historical discussion (past storylines, past HWs/EPs, etc). It seems like you're going by RSinclair's word: not liking Addie; including Joanna Cohen and Kate Hall on your list. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 Meow! There goes the fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Sylph Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 I don't talk about a lot of soaps, but I watch. E.g. DOOL. It sure went to sh!t... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator Toups Posted November 24, 2009 Author Administrator Share Posted November 24, 2009 Suuuure. You're like the guy who reads the box scores instead of watching the game - you know the final score but you don't know what really happened within the game. If we were watching a baseball game, say Phillies vs Yankees, it would like this: Toups: Why the hell did Manuel leave Pedro in to go up against Matsui? Matsui homered off him earlier in the game! WTF! Sylph: Phillies lost - fire Manuel now. Toups: He made a mistake. Manuel and the Phillies won last year. Sylph: Doesn't matter. Fire him. Don't like him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members R Sinclair Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 Wait, wait, HOOOOOOOLD UP! If I'm going to sit here and watch this juicy keyboard fight unfold, the least you could do is not use sports analogies. They're lost on me. Carry on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Soapsuds Posted November 24, 2009 Members Share Posted November 24, 2009 Haha..way to go Toups! Any news on Carolyn Culliton?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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