This is the second MAB Wurlitzer article from this dude I have read in as many days.

I don't know how they can bash JFP for things they allege she'll be doing to the show, when it's already been done by Maria and defended to death by her.

I seriously think this guy is on the Bell's payroll...

I don't know how they can bash JFP for things they allege she'll be doing to the show, when it's already been done by Maria and defended to death by her.

I seriously think this guy is on the Bell's payroll...

That's what I keep laughnig at. I keep reading that JFP will [ insert something MAB already did to the show]

Who's this insider? MAB?

Jill was willing to play ball. She wasn’t really happy after being fired by [ABC/Disney] from ‘General Hospital,’ and she wanted to go back to daytime. She has an agenda, she wants to prove she’s not poison to a show. She was not pleased just being relegated to ‘Hollywood Heights’, a super-cheap soap, and lobbied hard to get Maria’s job,” said the insider.

Edited July 31, 201213 yr by frequentsoapfan

I don't see the problem in moving forward and making the younger characters come to the forefront. Isn't that what is supposed to happen in soaps? Their biggest problem (especially DAYS) is that they are clinging on to the past. I'm not saying throw Victor in the closet, but this man has been in the forefront for the better part of 30 years.

And I love how they put canceled next to every soap she produced save for GH like she was the EP at all of those shows when they were canceled. Lol MAB is pathetic, I know she is involved in this. Nobody would ever go this hard for her.

I don't see the problem in moving forward and making the younger characters come to the forefront. Isn't that what is supposed to happen in soaps? Their biggest problem (especially DAYS) is that they are clinging on to the past. I'm not saying throw Victor in the closet, but this man has been in the forefront for the better part of 30 years.

Neither do I especially on a show that has the word young in it's title. We need some young people at the forefront but the young people have to be better written and played by stronger actors.

If it does. I can honestly say. I cannot wait until it's no longer #1.

I'm in their precious 18-35 demo...and honestly, I think Hollywood Heights blows. I think that newbies and teen storylines blow on any soap. And, I'm attached to the vets. Who I grew up watching.

The target demo of Hollywood Heights is 12-17 so I'd be surprised if many outside of that demo enjoy it. That's why it's so stupid for them to try to have an established soap like Y&R emulate it. The vast majority of Y&R's audience is over 18, so why try to make it more like a show targeted at tweens? Teens aren't gonna flock to a daytime soap just because teen characters are on it.

Edited July 31, 201213 yr by RoseVioletDaisy

The main problem with Y&R now is that there are zero viable younger characters. Bill Bell had many viable younger characters while writing for vets. If you watch episodes from 1992, you see Dru, Victoria, Neil, Olivia, etc. in major story at the same time as Nikki, Victor, Katherine. They weren't as young as Sony may want now, but it was still a good generational balance.

Every time Y&R has tried to cast younger characters in recent years, they cast a) bad actors b ) boring actors c) actors who look WAY TOO OLD d) write extremely unpleasant, nasty younger characters. The only one I have cared about is Noah, and

if they really do the rumored gay story, he will be destroyed.

MAB can't write for young or old characters. She destroyed all of the older characters. And only a handful of them even have story.

The target demo of Hollywood Heights is 12-17 so I'd be surprised if many outside of that demo enjoy it. That's why it's so stupid for them to try to have an established soap like Y&R emulate it. The vast majority of Y&R's audience is over 18, so why try to make it more like a show targeted at tweens? Teens aren't gonna flock to a daytime soap just because teen characters are on it.

Not one person said they are trying to emulate Hollywood Heights but that MAB lover. No one said anything about all teen characters either, We've already established that teens don't want to watch real teens on soaps. However they do need to bring a few strong 20/30 something year old characters to the forefront.

And MAB has already done the whole musical producer story and Abby has that lame ongoing reality show.

Edited July 31, 201213 yr by frequentsoapfan

I must be losing it, because I could swear the author of this article said MAB's biggest flaw as a producer was that she fought too hard for the veteran characters. Really? THAT's the biggest flaw? Oooooohkay.

Ironically, Bill and Lee Phillip Bell created Y&R as a show with special emphasis on the youth; so, if SONY is actively seeking younger viewers (which isn't exactly out of the question, given the current climate w/in the entertainment industry), it's not as if doing so goes against everything Y&R has ever stood for. As Carl has said, though, Papa Bell and his team did a better job casting and writing for younger characters than MAB.

Did Maria write this?

Edited July 31, 201213 yr by detroitpiston

That article was completely fabricated. What a crock of [!@#$%^&*]....The internet has spawned so much garbage...OMG

Did Maria write this?

I asked that as soon as I read Jill was pining for her job.

The main problem with Y&R now is that there are zero viable younger characters. Bill Bell had many viable younger characters while writing for vets. If you watch episodes from 1992, you see Dru, Victoria, Neil, Olivia, etc. in major story at the same time as Nikki, Victor, Katherine. They weren't as young as Sony may want now, but it was still a good generational balance.

Every time Y&R has tried to cast younger characters in recent years, they cast a) bad actors b ) boring actors c) actors who look WAY TOO OLD d) write extremely unpleasant, nasty younger characters. The only one I have cared about is Noah, and

if they really do the rumored gay story, he will be destroyed.

MAB can't write for young or old characters. She destroyed all of the older characters. And only a handful of them even have story.

in all fairness who has? Other than B&B no other soap realiy has done a good job of fostering viable younger characters in years and are therefore pushing the same tired played out characters and stories on the audience that they have for years.

Maybe Jill has a magic touch and can do this. She had moderate success at GH for a while, although none of the younger characters there today are really that likable or viable, but they did have story at one time.

in all fairness who has?

I think GH did a decent job of this up to a few years ago; I often didn't like many of the younger characters, but they did have something of a following, up to the time of the first Michael and Kristina recasts.