2010: The Directors and Writers Thread

[R Sinclair]

Ugh, my god! You're bringing me back to those rumors three years ago when everyone just knew Jeff Beldner and Amanda L. Beall were going to be co-head writing, replacing McTavish.

[Llantano Incorporated]

Courtney Simon and Melissa Salmons on OLTL is fantastic. Two excellent writers.

Its a shame that OLTL will probably not be around that much longer to utilize their talents.

[skiman12082004]

I am happy that the Culliton's have reunited @ DAYS. Courtney Simon at OLTL is a great move too. I think OLTL has at least a year before anything is done to ABC's schedule. If anything I see 2011 has the year to get nervous but even then hopefully the ratings have increased and ABC can't cancel it. Let's try and be optimistic people :-)

[jfung79]

Courtney Simon may be a good writer, but it seems like she fell down on the job towards the last couple years as script editor at ATWT. There were many inconsistencies from episode to episode.

Neat that Tomlin - Culliton - Culliton, and other writers from AW in the mid-80s, are all reunited at Days.

As I've mentioned elsewhere, I'm quite pleased with the Kreizman/Swajeski news. Chris B keeps saying Kreizman dumped the multigenerational Hughes story, but it was off the air already a full month before he was credited. There's no evidence that Kreizman made the call on that. I think Kreizman would really take advice from Agnes Nixon, as his interest in the soap pioneers was shown with the Irna Phillips episode he wrote (as well as mentioning Irna Phillips in his Emmy acceptance speech).

I am really excited by this Wendy Riche at AMC rumor I have seen a couple times, too. Please let it be true! Wendy Riche is badly needed back in daytime.

[R Sinclair]

AMC needs to shore up their script writers.

[bellcurve]

So who will replace Swajeski at B&B? Heaven forbid they get Shannon Bradley to double-up her script efforts! One script every once in awhile from her should be enough.

[DaytimeFan]

Amen to that. Shannon Bradley's scripts can only be taken in very light doses. I actually liked Swajeski's B&B scripts, I Brad hires someone good. Martha Byrne's scripts were quite good.

[bellcurve]

Not a huge fan of the hype that surrounds her.

Knowing B&B, they will probably promote from within. Unless Bloom pushes another PGP writer onto B&B.

Or maybe Tom Casiello kissed enough ass to do double duty at both shows.

[bellcurve]

Jill Ackles is listed as director for today's AMC. Is this her first time at AMC? Is she going to be a permanent member of the AMC team when they move to L.A.?

[AllMyDaysatGH]

She's directed for AMC before. She was a director from 1996-1997. And she also occasionally directed episodes in 2007, 2008, and 2009.

[sheilaforever]

Actually the staff is quite bloated for B&B standards. The group used to be much tighter so I don't think anyone needs to be hired. Tracey Kelly and Jack Smith used to write double the amount ten years ago than they do these days...

[bellcurve]

Thank you.

[bellcurve]

It's not exactly what you think should be happening. LOL.

I think the eight shows every four work days is why they have more people on staff. I think Tracey and Jack Smith already write two episodes every eight shows as it is. Maybe it really compromises the work for them to write three out of every eight shows. Also, with the show cutting costs and corners, it may be cheaper to keep Jack and Tracey writing two shows every eight episodes and hire an extra person who might be cheaper and new. It can't be saving them that much more, but it's probably another reason(in addition to nepotism and hiring from within) why Adam Dusevoir and Shannon Bradley were hired. Their pricetag per script is probably lower than theirs.

And Jack Smith's scripts aren't really anything to smile home about, IMO.

[Sylph]

B&B team calls for thorough cleansing and disinfection.

Bellcurve...

How would you re-assemble the team?

[Sylph]

Marnie Saitta has a cute website :

http://web.mac.com/marniesaitta/iWeb/Site/Home.html