AMC will be 2 associates short now with Chris Dunn leaving and now LB being promoted. I wonder who they will expand the team with, if at all

I hope they promote Addie Walsh--she was a really good headwriter on Loving.

I don't agree that she was hired to write AMC's swan song. That's just wishful spin from people with agendas. If they wanted the show gone, they could care less about having it go out with dignity and would not hire a writer to effect that.

Exactly.

Here we've gone from two headwriters who tried to write character-driven stories and failed, to one who can be true to character but who cannot come up with a juicy plot to save her neck. So I'll remain calm about this news.

I think it's a valid point--in the history of soaps have they EVER hired a new writer, or past great, to usher out the show? If this is what they're doing for AMC... Again. I'll take it.

No, I'm pretty sanguine though sad if they both go at the same time. What would have always offended me, at least in the last three or four years - but not surprised me, I've often expected it - is OLTL getting tossed to cover AMC's failure. Which, again, I expected, but which stings even more now than it would have two or three years ago. Not because OLTL is much better than AMC these days, but because it is simply a pride move. They hyped up this LA thing, it failed, and no one involved will take responsibility, nor will AMC be expected to take the hit.

I don't hate All My Children, and I don't want it cancelled. If or when it is, I will grieve with its fans as a fan. That show is a proud institution, and frankly it had a much longer and more consistent run of quality and continuity with its history and core families than OLTL. It deserves so much better than it has, it should be saved, and I am glad it is getting Lorraine Broderick in some capacity. But what I abhor is the idea that after several years of preferential treatment, any soap would continue to be prioritized over a soap that has not only made its margins and, on average in my opinion, been a better show overall in the last half of the decade. Not by much in the last couple years, but enough.

But it hasn't happened. I think I'm in the position where I feel the same with OLTL as you do with AMC.

ABC SID tweeted this a few minutes ago:

Great news kids: #AMC is NOT being canceled. Even better news: Lorraine Broderick is bring named headwriter. It's official.

I hope LB does what she did last time and ends the horrid JR and Marissa crap.

I see the justifications DeeeDee was talking about I don't care how someone acts, it doesn't justify killing off a core character

Frons prefers AMC over OLTL, I am sure OLTL will be canceled to pay for AMC going over budget, can't wait to see how that jerk justifies it

No actually he doesn't, I remember it being said he admitted he never watched AMC and didn't care much for it, but watched OLTL and GH

Of her three stints as headwriter which did you prefer the most?

Probably her first, if anything for the whole Ross/Natalie/Palmer story and she started the Cindy AIDS story. Things got kinda wonky and out of balance around the time of the writer strike, though. I noticed that both times she did an addiction story -- first with Mark in the 80's then with Erica in the 90's.

Classic Broderick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7H9Wy8NAd2Q&feature=related

Sigh. Before BRIAN FRONS. I'm afraid this will not change AMC until he leaves.

Wow! Awesome news for AMC! I guess D&D's cycle finished at the end of March instead of early March like some of us thought. So this is definitely a great surprise. If/when AMC ends, at least it will go out with the right HW.

Well, I am glad I never bought into AMC being cancelled before OLTL. I had been waiting for AMC's "new headwriter" announcement for weeks, not because I watch AMC but because I knew that this would proceed OLTL's cancellation. It still stings. Oh well. I fully expect OLTL's cancellation announcement within the next two weeks. Now I can move on!

Well, I am glad I never bought into AMC being cancelled before OLTL. I had been waiting for AMC's "new headwriter" announcement for weeks, not because I watch AMC but because I knew that this would proceed OLTL's cancellation. It still stings. Oh well. I fully expect OLTL's cancellation announcement within the next two weeks. Now I can move on!

Hate to burst your bubble, but I don't think this news means anything is etched in stone, but I hope all is good with AMC. I'm betting OLTL is not going anywhere.

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But it hasn't happened. I think I'm in the position where I feel the same with OLTL as you do with AMC.

The difference is, Eric, and you know I love you - AMC's bottom line has been less profitable than OLTL's, and more costly for the network. They gave it a huge investment to try and save it, but Julie Carruthers couldn't cope. I'd love to see Lorraine Broderick's work help to recoup the show's losses, but what sticks is my craw is that nothing like that would ever have even been attempted with OLTL - nor would the network have brought back, say, Linda Gottlieb should such a move fail. This is like AMC's third or fourth last chance. I don't want to see it go. I'm glad it appears to be alive. But the preferential treatment is clear, unless, of course, OLTL is not cancelled shortly - and I think it will be, so AMC Starring Rebecca Budig can limp along some more.

Since D&D's contract weren't renewed, I honestly think ABC chose Lorraine to usher the show out Aside from Agnes, Lorriane is the perfect choice to do it. I don't think because they changed HWs it means AMC is any safer.

I'm ready to hear RavenBeauty's "inside" info on this.

Since D&D's contract weren't renewed, I honestly think ABC chose Lorraine to usher the show out Aside from Agnes, Lorriane is the perfect choice to do it. I don't think because they changed HWs it means AMC is any safer.

I don't think AMC is any safer either. Nothing tells me that by hiring this headwriter would give the show a lot more time.

I still maintain that sooner than we might think, both AMC and OLTL won't be around anymore.