So many breakdown and staff writers often provide great day-to-day material even when the overall vision the terrible. Some staff writers past and present who should be head writers that come to mind are:

--Janice Ferri Esser on Y&R

--Kimberly Hamilton on GL

--David Cherrill

So many breakdown and staff writers often provide great day-to-day material even when the overall vision the terrible. Some staff writers past and present who should be head writers that come to mind are:

--Janice Ferri Esser on Y&R

--Kimberly Hamilton on GL

--David Cherrill

Courtney Simon, Marie Masters.

DAYS Richard or Carolyn Culliton

GH Michele Val Jean

Very few of them. Some shouldn't even be writers.

Frederick Johnson needs to be head writer. Instead of picking Kreizman & Swajeski, and had Lorraine chosen not to continue, he should have been AMC's next HW.

Michele Val Jean. Obvious choice.

And that's it.

Edited March 1, 201015 yr by Sylph

You mean you're not rooting for Janice Ferri Esser

You mean you're not rooting for Janice Ferri Esser

Definitely not!

I would also like to see Meg Bennet (Terror Island on Sunset Beach) do something, probably in primetime, but not HW a daily serial.

And the same goes for Karen Harris and Michelle Patrick.

I did enjoy Terror Island. I didn't know she wrote that. I'd also like to see her acting again, although I don't imagine what the Y&R of today would do with Julia.

I'm with Sylph--I think just cuz someone likes their work on scripts, or whatever, doesn't mean they're gonna be any good as a HW. Remember that Jean Passanante got tons of love and praise for her work with Malone and Griffith at OLTL as their associate or whatever--and we all know how crap she is at HW.

I'm with Sylph--I think just cuz someone likes their work on scripts, or whatever, doesn't mean they're gonna be any good as a HW. Remember that Jean Passanante got tons of love and praise for her work with Malone and Griffith at OLTL as their associate or whatever--and we all know how crap she is at HW.

Exactly.

And besides, very few of them want to be. Sure, you get payed a whole lot more, but it is a whole different animal. Once because you actually had to know how to write and how to write good stuff, now because you basically have to be a yes person. Network telling you what to do, executive producer haunting you even in your dreams, suddenly the actress you wrote an A story for decides to leave and you need to come up with something alse and quickly...

Wasn't RC was a staff writer noe he's HW. & he's not good at all over at OLTL.

Yeah RC was promoted from within (of course many do really like his work--I'm mixed but I will say anything is an improvement over Dena Higley on that show).

That's a good point Sylph--people seem to think that all writers want to be HWs, but that's not true (I can't remember who it was but I read one interview with, I think, a past AMC writer who got to briefly HW, and she seemed to think it was way more trouble than it was worth...)

I agree with the notion that, with some, even though their script writing is quite good, it doesn't mean they should be head writing.

Richard Culliton comes to mind. I dug some of his script writing during the ATWT Nuke heyday of 2007 -- but I think he was dreadful as a head writing on AMC in 2001-2002. Storylines were dropped or seemed to lack direction after the initial kick off. I also don't remember there being anything really emotionally compelling to any of his work.

Edited March 1, 201015 yr by R Sinclair

DAYS Richard or Carolyn Culliton

GH Michele Val Jean

Plus 3 especially Michele Val Jean.

I agree with what people are saying about scriptwriters. I just picked the Cullitons because Richard has a good grip at DAYS and I think Carolyn is a good writer, and I generally like their headwriting runs more than a lot of people do (at AMC or AW or ATWT or elsewhere).

I picked Michele Val Jean because I thought her GH run in 2000 had some potential that was dumped and because I would like to see some sort of making up for the really unpleasant rape revisit of the past few months.

I wonder how Frederick Johnson would work as Y&R Headwriter....

I wonder how Frederick Johnson would work as Y&R Headwriter....

I'd say he couldn't be much worse than MAB, but I said that about Maria when she replaced Lynn Marie Latham!