Or, given the line "Hey, Y&R: if you ever need an errand boy, call me up!", maybe it's a job application? He seems to enjoy spinning yarns and scenarios...maybe he'd like a chance to actually write for one of the soaps, esp. Y&R?

Because we see how well that has worked for Stephanie Sloane, Jonathan Reiner, Daniel Coleridge, and the rest.

God. Help. Us. All.

Oh come on, brimike, have a "point of view."

Because we see how well that has worked for Stephanie Sloane, Jonathan Reiner, Daniel Coleridge, and the rest.

You forgot HINSEY!

You forgot HINSEY!

Hinsey wants a job alright, but not the kind of job we can talk about without warnings and mods stepping in.

(FYI, I don't dislike her as much as I dislike Reiner and Coleridge. At least she hands GH its ass every once in awhile. Will never forget how she said on The View GH will win because they make episodes geared towards winning. That was hilarious. Frons has never asked her back.)

Oh NO, Daytime Confidential is reporting that Josh Griffith has landed a trial writing gig at GH. Looks like Guza picked up his old SB/SuBe friend...

Griffith is a decent Script Writer, but does GH need anyone else, if only for a trial? I do have a bias against him though, since I hated his time as EP of Y&R...

http://daytimeconfidential.com/2009/06/23/breaking-news-former-yr-exec-josh-griffith-lands-trial-writing-deal-with-general-hospital

BREAKING NEWS: Former Y&R Exec Josh Griffith Lands Trial Writing Deal With General Hospital!

Submitted by Jamey Giddens on June 23, 2009 - 4:53pm

Ah nothing like the taste of old blood! General Hospital has added a new scribe to its stable of writers. Word is veteran producer/scribe Josh Griffith, who co-created the late Aaron Spelling's short-lived NBC guilty pleasure soap Sunset Beach with current GH head writer Bob Guza, has been offered a trial script writing deal with the ABC sudser. When we last heard from Griffith, who also wrote for One Life to Live, As The World Turns and my beloved Santa Barbara, he was being bounced from his executive producer gig at The Young and the Restless for allegedly tangling with Auntie Ri Ri (aka Maria Arena Bell). Josh is alright and all I guess, but when is someone gonna hire Sri Rao?

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I wonder though, is Guza simply taking sympathy on an old friend, or does he plan on letting someone go soon? I know he's close to his group of writers, which is why I'm surprised he would add anyone new, also Griffith is a Fi-Core writer...

Edited June 23, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Josh Griffith = Nice guy who bit off more than he could chew and is looking to land on his feet doing anything.

At GH will have an Executive Producer replacement waiting in the wings, should JFP decide to leave or get fired.

Josh Griffith = Nice guy who bit off more than he could chew and is looking to land on his feet doing anything.

That's a problem Y&R seems to repeat with its power-hungry EP/HW over and over again. First Latham, then Griffith, and now Maria Arena Bell have bitten off more than they could chew. Say what you want about Jack Smith, but he was much more competent the EP/HW role than anyone else that came after him.

At GH will have an Executive Producer replacement waiting in the wings, should JFP decide to leave or get fired.

God, that would suck so bad, Griffith's production and apparently storyline meddling sucked ass.

Edited June 23, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

That's a problem Y&R seems to repeat with its power-hungry EP/HW over and over again. First Latham, then Griffith, and now Maria Arena Bell have bitten off more than they could chew. Say what you want about Jack Smith, but he was much more competent the EP/HW role than anyone else that came after him.

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God, that would suck so bad, Griffith's production and apparently storyline meddling sucked ass.

But it's Guza's world. He would put Griffith in his place.


I'm serious about this JFP to Y&R thing. Steve Kent needs to place a phone call to his old friend.

Wow, I'm actually surprised Guza is adding to his team. Maybe only have 4 SWs is taking a toll on them, having to write doubles every other week?

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Reiner is now a very successful reality show producer (even won an Emmy). The others you mentioned.... the less said, the better.

Totally random, but Michael Cinquemani (formerly of GH) is now a staff writer for "Brothers and Sisters". Hope it works out for him; he totally deserves it.

Thanks, GG. It's always cool to see a daytime writer move to primetime. Too bad it's not Chuck Pratt, who should be in primetime instead of daytime.

That's a problem Y&R seems to repeat with its power-hungry EP/HW over and over again. First Latham, then Griffith, and now Maria Arena Bell have bitten off more than they could chew. Say what you want about Jack Smith, but he was much more competent the EP/HW role than anyone else that came after him.

Just curious why you see Smith as the more competent EP/HW? Seems to me the show continued to lose viewers while we was EP/HW, though he did stop the free fall begun with Alden's tenure as HW. As for MAB, I think the jury is still out as to whether or not she's bitten off more than she can chew.

God, that would suck so bad, Griffith's production and apparently storyline meddling sucked ass.

SOAPSFOREVER, what's up with those quotes?

Just curious why you see Smith as the more competent EP/HW? Seems to me the show continued to lose viewers while we was EP/HW, though he did stop the free fall begun with Alden's tenure as HW. As for MAB, I think the jury is still out as to whether or not she's bitten off more than she can chew.

I didn't feel it at the time, but in retrospect, out of everyone since Bill Bell to be both HW/EP, Smith's tenure was the most successful, though it wasn't without its huge faults. At least the show still felt like Y&R under him, which is a stark contrast to the Latham regime, and even Maria Bell's regime. Maria might on the surface tell Bell-esque stories, but her execution is so un-Y&R and she doesn't like to tell some core types of storylines that were a major part in this show's success. The ratings decline was there for Smith, but it is Maria Bell that drove this show down to the mid/lower 3's. It's been over a year and a half of Maria Bell being involved there, I feel her problems have gotten worse and she seems to have no intention of addressing most of them, which I've posted about in greater detail in the Potpourri thread.

Edited June 24, 200916 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

Has there ever been a writer on DAYS named Anne Toole? I found her linked to two episodes on IMDB from 2004 and I didn't see a profile for her in The Writers and Directors thread but I wanted to double checked before I had her removed.