YES. That is the winning writing team combination: Kay Alden and Sally Sussman Morina. Sony just needs to get its act together and get it sorted.

Both women did present a story projections of their own for the show after Josh Griffith left, but JFP pulled strings and got Nina Tassler to bring on Chuck Pratt instead. 

 I don't think Sony has been building a case to fire JFP for some time now as the BI states, sounds like FV

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I think the EP is JFP.  Her contract cycle should be coming up in the summer.  And I think the new EP will be Mal Young, now that they've given him time to get accustom to how the production works. 

 

Y&R hired Mal Young?! THE Mal Young of BBC/Eastenders/Doctors/Family Affairs/Brookside?

 

You'd almost think CBS/Sony cared about the show hiring someone like him...you don't hire someone like Mal Young to have him play #2 to JFP for very long. 

They sure did

Yes it is that Mal Young. There are certain things that actually work on Y&R IMO so I wonder how much of it is him. That said, I can see him not wanting the top position until he learned how that show worked. He's been there long enough that maybe he'll take over, we shall see.

With Pratt still around I wonder how much can change...

Y&R hired Mal Young?! THE Mal Young of BBC/Eastenders/Doctors/Family Affairs/Brookside?

 

You'd almost think CBS/Sony cared about the show hiring someone like him...you don't hire someone like Mal Young to have him play #2 to JFP for very long. 

He's been a Supervising Producer since the beginning of January.  That's plenty of time for him to learn how the production works on American soaps. 

I think the unstable soap writer is Higley and I think they will bring in Sally Sussman to finish out Days final few months on the air.  Frank is the one going. Sony loves Jill; when she leaves and it could also be at the end of this year, it will be voluntary retirement and Mal Young will be named EP.  I thin that's why he was hired anyway.  The shape up or ship out writers are Shelly/Jean, of course.  Brad Bell isn't going anywhere and Pratt's ratings have been good.

I think the unstable soap writer is Higley and I think they will bring in Sally Sussman to finish out Days final few months on the air.  Frank is the one going. Sony loves Jill; when she leaves and it could also be at the end of this year, it will be voluntary retirement and Mal Young will be named EP.  I thin that's why he was hired anyway.  The shape up or ship out writers are Shelly/Jean, of course.  Brad Bell isn't going anywhere and Pratt's ratings have been good.

Again DAYS has been renewed

I think the unstable soap writer is Higley and I think they will bring in Sally Sussman to finish out Days final few months on the air.  Frank is the one going. Sony loves Jill; when she leaves and it could also be at the end of this year, it will be voluntary retirement and Mal Young will be named EP.  I thin that's why he was hired anyway.  The shape up or ship out writers are Shelly/Jean, of course.  Brad Bell isn't going anywhere and Pratt's ratings have been good.

Again DAYS has been renewed

Only for one year and they are writing story 8 months in advance.  The show will be off the air after Sept 2017.  If they fire Higley, just means they need a headwriter for about six months 

I think the unstable soap writer is Higley and I think they will bring in Sally Sussman to finish out Days final few months on the air.  Frank is the one going. Sony loves Jill; when she leaves and it could also be at the end of this year, it will be voluntary retirement and Mal Young will be named EP.  I thin that's why he was hired anyway.  The shape up or ship out writers are Shelly/Jean, of course.  Brad Bell isn't going anywhere and Pratt's ratings have been good.

Again DAYS has been renewed

Only for one year and they are writing story 8 months in advance.  The show will be off the air after Sept 2017.  If they fire Higley, just means they need a headwriter for about six months 

you are saying this like they won't get another renewal

Days has a one year renewal with a 2nd year option

I think the unstable soap writer is Higley and I think they will bring in Sally Sussman to finish out Days final few months on the air.  Frank is the one going. Sony loves Jill; when she leaves and it could also be at the end of this year, it will be voluntary retirement and Mal Young will be named EP.  I thin that's why he was hired anyway.  The shape up or ship out writers are Shelly/Jean, of course.  Brad Bell isn't going anywhere and Pratt's ratings have been good.

Again DAYS has been renewed

Only for one year and they are writing story 8 months in advance.  The show will be off the air after Sept 2017.  If they fire Higley, just means they need a headwriter for about six months 

If Days is canned they will film til Sept 2017 so it will air tii early 2018

I think the unstable soap writer is Higley and I think they will bring in Sally Sussman to finish out Days final few months on the air.  Frank is the one going. Sony loves Jill; when she leaves and it could also be at the end of this year, it will be voluntary retirement and Mal Young will be named EP.  I thin that's why he was hired anyway.  The shape up or ship out writers are Shelly/Jean, of course.  Brad Bell isn't going anywhere and Pratt's ratings have been good.

Again DAYS has been renewed

Only for one year and they are writing story 8 months in advance.  The show will be off the air after Sept 2017.  If they fire Higley, just means they need a headwriter for about six months 

you are saying this like they won't get another renewal

yes I am.  When they brought Dena and appointed Ryan after receiving a one year renewal, it's a very reasonable assumption.  They are riding out one more year with Ken getting control of the writer's room which he didn't have with Griffith or Tomsell.  Those were NBC/Sony picks.  

I think Charles Pratt, Jr. is the HW & EP that will be leaving. He's been at Y&R for almost 2 years and I think he's leaving IMO

Does it matter anymore who's about to be fired (or who isn't)?  Networks will micro-manage these shows into the ground no matter WHO is in charge.

 

Also, why are DC and others still putting out blind items in a four-soap universe?  

If Jean and Shelly are the ones on their way out, my dream scenario would be to just promote Liz Korte and have her (realistically) be the one to finish up the show. There are still people who would be upset by her "Carly rules, Liz drools" approach to writing, but the show would have a much better chance of looking like its old self as it prepares to end, whenever that actually is. It's not like they have much more to lose now.

But I know this probably won't happen.