HOLIDAY MIRACLE: Prospect Park Back On Track To Revive AMC and OLTL

[Errol]

60/40. Writers are writiing so they must be paid no matter what. Producers are working, but aren't producing anything yet. Actors have no scripts and no wardrobe/hairstyle/makeup team fussing over them or sets to walk around in. Each week we get closer to filming and finding out how big each cast grows to I'll update my ratio.

[allmc2008]

Exactly! Also PP is working with a clean slate so this idea of having less writers seem likely to happen. It would be impossible to fire 2/3rd's of the writing staff at B&B do to unions and what not (Besides it wouldn't be ethical) just to make the quality better. This is why I am glade none of the contracts crossed over.

[Steve]

I feel pretty much the same way. My best guess based on Errol's hints would be Culliton since he wrote the episode that won Days the writing Emmy last year.

Thanks for all the info, Errol! I'm thrilled that they're planning to announce the full writing team and can't wait to find out who's on it.

[John]

Nelson Branco said itll 100% happen but he said question is will it succeed or fail

[Khan]

I vote "fail."

And no, I'm not happy to be so damn negative.

[Vee]

Nelson Branco says a lot of things.

This may be the closest they've come, or it may not. Whatever one thinks of FV, not having his logistical know-how and ability to produce actual results involved anymore did not exactly inspire confidence from the start. The rest of the people involved (at PP) have no idea how to produce a soap opera.

[John]

NB said he wants ABC to get rights back but even though Frons is gone, I dont buy them wanting to revive the shows. NB made it sound like Cartini wanted this so they could use more OLTL & AMC characters on GH

[John]

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Congrats to Chris Lucente for being hired as a writer's assistant to iOLTL!

[LeClerc]

Hmmmm so the hints Errol has given about the AMC HW continue to point to Marlene McPherson.

MarDar may have had to deal with interference at DOOL but the boring was them. They truly believed that their first episodes with the opening of the town square were super-duper exciting, but they were completely dull.

I can't even say "Marlene may be a nice lady but..." because she showed she is not.

[John]

How did she show she is not nice

[LeClerc]

Someone else can probably flesh this out better but my understanding of it is that a blogger incorrectly stated that she and DRT were involved in the writing of the DAYSaster. She flew off the handle about it and sent the blogger a letter threatening legal action against him.

If I were her I would want to be erroneously associated with the DAYSaster because it was more exciting than anything she ever wrote.

[allmc2008]

Maybe she was so badly burned from NBC/DOOL that she became overly sensitive.

[Khan]

Nah, that's too harsh toward John.

[John]

Its cool & I dont Like NB much & find him very ego driven

[dragonflies]

+1