Meg Bennett also has a history as a writer with B&B (in addition to her other soaps), but I wouldn't be willing to give her a chance if it meant Guza joining her. Who would be the true visionary, her or him? I'm not willing to risk it being him. Considering her lack of history as a HW, I'd say chances are he'd be the true headwriter and they'd use her as a front so people wouldn't be so afraid.

How was Guza's Loving and Sunset Beach??/

How was Guza's Loving and Sunset Beach??/

He wasn't the sole headwriter for Sunset Beach. It was Guza, Pratt and Griffith

Id rather CBS pull the plug now then have any of those mention walk the Bill Bell hall ways

Id rather CBS pull the plug now then have any of those mention walk the Bill Bell hall ways

I don't want Guza anywhere near the show but like mentioned Bill Bell trained Meg Bennett and had her write for both Y&R and B&B so she's already walked the Bill Bell hall ways.

You know, one ABC writer who would be GREAT headwriting Y&R would be Michele Val Jean. She has mentioned several times how difficult it was writing for B&B because they actually expect you to learn the history of the show and the tone. You don't just come in and do whatever you want, you do what works for that show. I don't understand why more people don't believe in this. DAYS, in my opinion, is having great success because they're also following a familiar formula and writing Days of Our Lives the way it needs to be written, which allows them freedom to craft the type of stories they want. Same for various others as well.

I don't understand why Y&R has been met with such contempt when it had a formula that has always worked. It's never even come close to losing it's lead, yet people still want to keep messing with what has always worked. Even crazier is that they're trying to rebrand it like other soaps that are either being canceled or that haven't even come close to Y&R's writings in almost 20 years.

I felt the same in the early 90s when GH decided that action stories were no good anymore and everyone needed to be a drug addict, have cancer, or dead. If I had wanted to watch that crap all those years I would have been watching a different soap in the first place. I think Y&R sucks and always has but there is no arguing with success and they need to fire JFP, fire everyone who thinks they need to be more like GH and go back to whatever it was that worked for them all along. If I were running Y&R I wouldn't even hire anyone who wrote or produced any soap under the Frons regime since that sensibility is so alien to traditional Y&R and I wouldn't want these people infecting my show.

How hard is it to write B&B though? Its pretty much the same triangle over and over and over again with campy undertones.

And what exactly is DAYS familiar formula? That show has changed identities so many times.

No disrespect to this suggestion but h*ll f*ckin no to this.

I refuse for YR to go from the boardroom to shoot outs. And Guza's writing style doesn't even mix with YR. Only material I've seen of Guza in his entire career that was reasonable was his time at Santa Barbara and that's because he was practically fresh and new to being in a power position.

Only writers I'll accept for YR would be Bill's proteges, John, Kay, or Sally. I'd be for Claire Labine or Nancy Curlee because I know they'd study the show's history and respect its vision.

Or I'd go for younger, estranged writers of the show. Sara Bibel or Tom Casiello getting the position when I know they'd respect the show too and have history with it.

No to Guza.

soapsnstuds in exactly right imo.

Fu## its happening the invasion of ABC failures has begun! What a nightmare