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GH Backstage News Exclusive!

By SOD • Posted: Oct 24, 2011

Digest has learned that Shelly Altman has been named co-Head Writer of GENERAL HOSPITAL, effective immediately. She will work alongside current Head Writer Garin Wolf. An Emmy winner herself, Altman has worked on ONE LIFE TO LIVE and ANOTHER WORLD, among other television projects. She's also been nominated for Best Writing by the Writer's Guild of America. Welcome aboard!

As of today, David Kreizman.

RIGHT?!

Well in all fairness he went from HW to unemployed to Scriptwriter.

With JFP in charge none of that is coming back. They actually need a HW and EP that both embody that.

I think she gets a bad rap TBH. During the strike when JFP was pretty much in control of the show, it was much better. In tone, in pace, in character. The stories were pretty much the same, but those little things that picked up during the strike were great and made the show much more interesting.

I think she gets a bad rap TBH. During the strike when JFP was pretty much in control of the show, it was much better. In tone, in pace, in character. The stories were pretty much the same, but those little things that picked up during the strike were great and made the show much more interesting.

She basically ran OLTL during her 3 years there and the show was hell in every way.

Yes and it was probably at its worse during the period she HW OLTL basically while aiting for a new HW (she then hired McTavish who it seemed basically did what she wanted anyway though i thought the show marginally improved).

quartermainefan:

Another World

• Associate Head Writer: 1995 - 1999
  

so, does that bode well for GH? Anyone remember AW from this time?

THat was the era when AW was under JFP wasn't it and she killed it for good I think.

JFP left AW in August 1996. Then Savitz was EP for 2 years and Goutman finished it off.

I think she gets a bad rap TBH. During the strike when JFP was pretty much in control of the show, it was much better. In tone, in pace, in character. The stories were pretty much the same, but those little things that picked up during the strike were great and made the show much more interesting.

I never noticed all the "great" improvements others did other than Lucky being written better for. What I do remember is a lot of people somehow thankful when the writers strike ended, which was odd as vilified as Guza has been online. Her bad decisions far outway whatever positive she might have when you look at all the decisions she's made over the years. And GH is more unwatchable and dull now that ever. Its still a highly mysogynistic show.

Well in all fairness he went from HW to unemployed to Scriptwriter.

RIGHT!!

She basically ran OLTL during her 3 years there and the show was hell in every way.

Weren't they without a head writer for like a YEAR?! JFP was dictating story until she hired McTavish.

Edited October 26, 201114 yr by R Sinclair

I think she gets a bad rap TBH. During the strike when JFP was pretty much in control of the show, it was much better. In tone, in pace, in character. The stories were pretty much the same, but those little things that picked up during the strike were great and made the show much more interesting.

I personally don't think she gets a bad enough rap. They don't call her the "soap killer" for nothing. Why does she keep getting jobs when she's clearly not good at what she does? Plus, she kills off beloved characters (Maureen, Frankie, Alan Q) every time she joins a soap and doesn't seem to care what the fans think. I personally can't wait for GH to be cancelled so she'll be out of a job!

I personally don't think she gets a bad enough rap. They don't call her the "soap killer" for nothing. Why does she keep getting jobs when she's clearly not good at what she does? Plus, she kills off beloved characters (Maureen, Frankie, Alan Q) every time she joins a soap and doesn't seem to care what the fans think. I personally can't wait for GH to be cancelled so she'll be out of a job!

The thing is people is this genre who continue to fail seem to get rehired again and again so she will probably weazle her way into B&B somehow.

What I will give her is that her shows normally look great. Her instincts in terms of story, actors, and vision for her shows sucks.

Edited October 26, 201114 yr by JaneAusten