Lorraine Broderick as AMC head writer

[Sylph]

Oh, god, I so hope this happens.

Even though I'm skeptical as to how many A-list writers she can bring on (like Johnson and Patrick). Then again, she might fire the abysmal ones and compensate.

[Kubla Khan]

Lorraine has been gone from daytime for five years, yes, but taking a break doesn't mean you have to be done for good, LOL. Five years away is ample time for her to recharge her batteries and miss daytime and want to come back to it. We once thought that Michael Malone would never return to daytime, either...

Lorraine worked for JHC during the Karen Harris era (she was a breakdown writer). I'm thinking they must have a good rapport.

I don't think JHC is going anywhere. They wouldn't have her move back to LA and then fire her. The show is going through enough of a transition with the move; doing an EP change would really send things into a spin at this point, IMO.

[Kubla Khan]

I think LB will bring some of her writers to the show. She tends to like to surround herself with people she knows, and people tend to follow her. She brought nearly the entire AMC team with her when she went to ATWT.

[Sylph]

Here she is with Courtney Simon during the strike:

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[Y&RWorldTurner]

She worked with Courtney at both GL and AMC, so surely Courtney now has a better chance at landing at AMC too, as she still hasn't found a job since being ousted at ATWT.

[DRW50]

I loved Max/Roxy, and I liked Natalie, and Bo/Gabrielle (at least in theory -- Gabrielle as hiding secret debts, or whatever, I didn't care for). I just wish they hadn't had that truly horrible sequence of Mitch drugging and raping Viki on the Llanfair living room sofa. And then Niki's return, which was, for many reasons, a huge disaster.

It's funny that the three who were a bit of a mess, to say the least, at OLTL at that time, may now be seen as saving soaps (hyperbole alert).

[SOAPSFOREVER]

Inside sources at ABC say it is indeed true. Borderick is already at work.

[Kylie]

Now this might finally be a step in the right direction. I'm sorry if it's been mentioned, I haven't read the whole thread and I was to young to pay attention to the credits back then...but didn't LB write Erica at Betty Ford? The time line seems like she did. That was the first time I remember seeing Erica, and I instantly saw how strong, how stubborn, how powerful she was. Though, she did that Maddie swap too, didn't she? Not one of Erica's better storyline's, but I thought Susan's acting after Erica's miscarriage was fantastic.

This is definitely someone who could put AMC back on the right path.

[Sylph]

I see she worked with Melissa Salmons, too.

[EricMontreal22]

Ah if only... I still can't believe she almost got the job of head of ABC daytime over Frons :*(

[DRW50]

Yay Courtney Simon!!

I still want her to go around and counsel various mentally ill soap characters.

[Sylph]

What's Felicia Minei Behr doing anyway? Enjoying retirement?

[EricMontreal22]

Agreed with your first point--plus AMC is HER show in many ways--she grew up on it. Maybe it was an opportunity she couldn't pass by (can all us fans chuipin and get a big bouquet of flowers sent to her? )

You're probably right aboutJHCthough she is the next one I want out (unless her and Broderick or whoever she's with prove to be magic). She's been the connom denominator IMHO amongst all the suckage AMC has had the past--5? 6? years?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

She's still very close with Lorraine, I recall her working closely with Lorraine's screenwriting students at Drexel last year about producing their projects for an assignment she gave.

I'm sure she's retired though, but does occasional work here and there.

[Toups]

Awesome news! Let hope Frons lets her write and I hope for AMC that LB doesn't bomb.