2005: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Britney]

http://www.wchl1360.com/specialhour.jsp

Radio interview with Stephen Demorest from April 2004. You have to scroll down the page to find it.

Interesting perspective on writing daytime from him. And some cool tidbits - like he used to commute to New York on Monday Mornings and then commuted back to North Carolina on Tuesday nights. Yikes, that's a lot of commuting. lol

[Toups]

Thanks for the link, Brit!

LOL at the HW who gave the ad-libbing actor laryngitis for 2 weeks. I wonder who he was talking about.

Also, I've been mis-pronouncing his name all this time. I've been saying it like "duh-more-rest." LOL

[ClassicsSoapFan]

Thanks for the link.It was interesting. Demorest and his wife were two of my favorite GL writers.

I'd like to know who that HW and star was too!

[Britney]

So, Courtney Bugler gone from AMC I guess? Hasn't written a script in a month and it looks like Beall is doing scripts full-time now that Michelle Patrick is back.

Toups your recap from the first post needs updating

[Toups]

I'll edit it at the end of the year.

[Manon]

So basically the show sucks because Paula, Hogan, Meg, Lynn, and Frederick are gone and replaced with THEM?

GARH, I want to old writing team back , bring back Hogan first!!!

[Britney]

Well, Paula and Hogan are back.

Lynn Martin leaving was great.

But yeah, ATWT really lost some great writers with Johnson, Jones, Kelly, and Gibson.

[Toups]

Hogan and Paula are back.

ATWT's current staff:

Passanante

Chris Whitesell

Leah Laiman

Hogan Sheffer

Lisa Connor

Paula Cwikly

Susan Dansby

Judith Donato

Josh Griffith

Elizabeth Page

Melissa Salmons

Judy Tate

I'm I missing anyone?

[Britney]

+Anna Cascio.

[Manon]

Hogan needs to be headwriter again then . He had bad moments sure, but I LOVED the show when he was writing, now I can give or take it.

[Toups]

grrr.....my ATWT year list wasn't updated....but I think it is now....I'm I missing anything?

- Paula Cwikly last listed as associate head writer on May 2

- Leah Laiman and Lisa Connor first listed as associate head writer on May 3

- Meg Kelly’s last listed as script writer on April 6

- Josh Griffith’s listed as script writer on April 12

- Trent Jones listed as associate head writer on April 26

- Hogan Sheffer last listed as Co-Head Writer on May 24

- Lynn Martin last listed as script writer on June 1

- Frederick Johnson last listed as associate head writer on June 7

- Paula Cwikly listed as associate head writer on August 5

- Trent Jones last listed as associate head writer on September 26

- Charlotte Gibson last listed as associate head writer on October 17

- Hogan Sheffer listed as associate head writer on October 25

- Anna Theresa Cascio listed as associate head writer on November 1

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OH SHIT! HUGE development at Y&R.....and very unexecpted.

Lynn Marie Latham is listed as "Executive Consultant"

[Britney]

The first two dates should be March not May.

Latham at Y&R? Wow. Is Morina still listed as a consultant? Why is Jack Smith hiring all these consultants? Latham was decent at PC, but I don't think she fits at Y&R.

[Toups]

Thanks.

Yeah, SSM is still listed as Story Consultant. Who knows what Latham could be consulting on....if she's helping with the storylines why not list her as a story consultant....and if she's helping with the production, does this mean Ed Scott couldn't handle things (that's kinda a slap in the face LOL).....maybe we should ask Logan. LOL

And yeah, Latham is an odd choice. Y&R usually brings people who have worked on the show before which I don't think Latham has.

[Britney]

Who wrote today's AMC script?

[Toups]

November 14- BDW: Michelle Patrick; SW: Karen Lewis; D: Conal O’Brien