Lorraine Broderick as AMC head writer

[DRW50]

I thought McTavish made him a terrorist. The material about him being Laura's child pornographer and killing the boy who had shot the films with her happened while Broderick was still there, I think.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Broderick's AMC was a pretty diverse show, and I think she'll love writing for the Hubbards.

Robin Mattson's Janet was always my favourite interpretation of that character. Broderick did some amazing work with that character and with Mattson in the role. That was one of the few succcessful redemption arcs in daytime over the past 15 years or so that I can recall at the top of my head, too bad it's all gone to hell since (I'm NOT a Kate Collins fan).

[ClassicsSoapFan]

I liked her work at ATWT.

A lot of people don't,they say that period was too dark.

She wrote David Stenbeck. She did the baby switch of Lily's baby and Denise's baby.

She featured the vets a lot.

When Chris Goutman took over he fired her and replaced her with Leah Laiman

[DRW50]

I think she was good at some parts of ATWT. I liked that Andy returned and had some decent story. I liked that Lily had matured. I liked some of the other moments. I liked the idea of the Tom/Margo breakup, although they completely destroyed Emily's character in the process. I don't know if she got ATWT. Or FMB didn't. There were so many new characters, they fired Daniel Markel for no reason and brought David back as an all-seeing, all-knowing sociopath, Reid, whose abs were more interesting than his personality (the Spencer Trueman of his day), and there were other odd decisions, like having Kirk and Sam vanish, having Denise come in as a bitter shrew who had sold her baby (which meant fans never really liked her when the show tried to redeem her later on). Too much Molly. Too much Julia. Too much Eddie. Trashing Lyla and making her into a bad mother who only cared about putting Katie in kiddie pageants. Some of the stories did work, but I think Penny Hughes summed it up best when she came back for Nancy's birthday and said, "Who are these people?"

[Adam]

For many of the reasons mentioned, she is a step in the right direction. I never enjoyed AMC more than her time with the show in the mid 90's. It was the last great time period for the show. Since 1998, there have been stretches of goodness few and far between. I am very excited at the prospect of her coming back... I've wanted her to come back ever since she left. Didn't Frons offer her the job in 2003, and she declined? I wonder what has changed?

[All My Shadows]

I'm excited. Apprehensive, but excited. I've never watched a Broderick show (running to YouTube to start, though), so this is interesting.

And yes, I take my crow well done, please.

[DRW50]

That's why I wonder if this is just a short-term gig.

Perhaps if people like her work, as I'm sure they will, Frons might keep her around. If he doesn't have another hack like Pratt who needs a job.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Now, if only they could get rid of Julie "the audience is rewriting it" Hanan Caruthers...

[Soapsuds]

You pretty much sum up my thoughts and don't forget they canned Allison Rice Taylor for Susan Batten.....sigh

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Behr canned Alison a few months before Broderick arrived.

[DRW50]

Yes, although that was FMB, and MADD. Lorraine was still at AMC then. She came along about a year later.

I get very picky with ATWT because when I started with the show it was close to perfect, but I just never felt like they really understood ATWT. And the Liz Hubbard fiasco also suggested FMB or MADD did not know PR.

[Soapsuds]

Her AMC was good but she started running out of gas and AMC dropped to #5 in the ratings and was close to dropping even further to #6 and that's why she was fired.

[miss wolf]

I'm not going to get excited. This is not the same AMC as before. Broderick is good and all but she still has to write with what she has now, and that's not a whole lot.

[DRW50]

I guess we should also talk about her DAYS run, which some said had good potential before Corday had another Corday moment and fired her.

[Soapsuds]

I agree I dont think they understood ATWT. I had forgotten about the Elizabeth Hubbard fiasco. She had a stroke and was written out. Goutman came in and brought her back. Hubbard and Taylor were treated badly by FMB and Lorraine Broderick.