2012: The Directors and Writers Thread

[DRW50]

"Traveled widely on the film festival circuit" is kind of like always the bridesmaid.

[frequentsoapfan]

Is he a breakdown writer or a script writer?

[frequentsoapfan]

It depends on how sucessful the novela is too. Country wide phenoms like Rebelde Way and it's Mexican remake Rebelde both last over a year.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Michael Muhney posted a pic of Griffith's first script on Twitter yesterday.

Looks like Sheffer either remains Co-HW, or was demoted to a standard AHW (for now or until his contract is up in November). Noel Maxam is directing Griffith's first episode, Janice Ferri Esser is the SW, and Paula Cwikly is the breakdown writer.

Looks like Brent Boyd replaced Marla Kanelos, as a standard AHW.

http://twitter.com/#...2Fs%2F242025916

[dm.]

Beth Milstein isn't featured, so she was either fired or demoted.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Or was Natalie Minardi Slater or Boyd given editor position? It's not clear to me.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

As we've not heard anything about Josh having a Co-HW, I'm going to assume Sheffer was demoted to an AHW position, Natalie Minardi Slater keeps her position as the other AHW, and Brent Boyd was given the Script Editor position.

I assume Milstein was fired outright.

And Jill hasn't brought Mary O'Leary over, at least not yet...

[frequentsoapfan]

Mary O Leary was fired from GH awhile back wasn't she?

[Y&RWorldTurner]

Yes, and worked with Jill recently again on Hollywood Heights.

I assume she'll eventually make her way to Y&R, as Jill only very recently started producing episodes.

[Toups]

Wow, that's pretty surprising that a newcomer to daytime was given the script editor position, if Boyd is indeed the SE. Maybe Paula was promoted to AHW and Janice was given the script editor position? That would make more sense since Janice knows the history of the show and edited the show before.

[Y&RWorldTurner]

I think Boyd was Griffith's Script Editor at Hollywood Heights as well. He's credited on every episode, which is not the case for other writers:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hollywood_Heights_episodes

[SFK]

I never understood how some fans always rooted for Natalie vs. Jess, because they felt that Viki favored Jess. Natalie pulled some nasty stunts in her day, and Viki did raise Jess and had a stronger connection and history with her, which of course sucked for Natalie, but it was what it was.

Erica and Dorian could do no wrong in my book.

[Khan]

First, me; and now, SFK. What the crap is going on, SON? Why are posts showing up in the wrong threads?

[SFK]

Oof, I thought I was trippin'. I was sure I responded in the correct thread.

[Wales2004]

I looked Brent Boyd up and noticed he tweeted last Monday a promise that Y&R would get better in response to a viewer's tweet that "Hope Burns Eternal." I don't know what better means to him but he did say that this week's episodes of Hollywood Heights are really good and I haven't seen what's really good so far. He says Thursday is his favorite episode of all 80 so I will have to wait and see tomorrow whether his favorite is any good.