29 minutes ago, GSGfan2017 said:

Well, cassadine1991, do you think that Guiding Light would still be on the air today if Maureen Bauer hadn't been killed off back in the early '90s?

It's hard to say

 

 

 

This was vintage JFP 1999 when Dorian confessed to killing Jessicas unborn baby. The music and production. God JFP knows how to produce tv and make it look like expensive primetime.

JFP  had goodOLTL stuff but mostly 50% Good, 50% bad

38 minutes ago, JONNYSBRO said:

 

 

 

This was vintage JFP 1999 when Dorian confessed to killing Jessicas unborn baby. The music and production. God JFP knows how to produce tv and make it look like expensive primetime.

The lighting is too dark.  The music is kind of annoying. I hated when they killed Jessica's Megan baby. But that's typical JFP. She loves dark & depressing tales. There was such built up to Jess's teen pregnancy. Only to have an 8 month pregnant Jess get hit by a car driven by Dorian. The only thing i liked was Jessica gaslighting Dorian. Under JFP OLTL was a dark & Depressing. The only story that was fun was Vicki's may/december romance with hunky Ben.

I also didnt like JFP killing off Mel I never got why they did that

10 minutes ago, John said:

I also didnt like JFP killing off Mel I never got why they did that

That was a huge mistake killing off Mel. As well as killing off Drew.

3 minutes ago, victoria foxton said:

That was a huge mistake killing off Mel. As well as killing off Drew.

yes and Samuel Ball was great in the role

I hated Mel and often didn't like the way he treated/spoke to Dorian, so I didn't mind when he was killed off.

 

Herb Callison remains Dorian's great love, if you ask me...

It wasn't just Maureen that ended Guiding Light.  But I think a chain of events that JFP set in motion contributed greatly.

 

By the time she left that show, her normal tricks were all present.  It's like she formed the producer she was going to be for the rest of her career during the last year or so at GL.

 

  Letting male actors dictate story, and sidelining female actors.  Killing off beloved characters.  Killing off kids.  Focusing on younger characters to the exclusion of vets.  Dictating the writing.  Losing Beverlee McKinsey.  Killing Maureen.  The Buzz invasion.  Lucy.  Pretty much what she did on every show after, just change the names.

 

On Santa Barbara and most of her Guiding Light run, she had very strong writers that had some power.  She executed their vision with her input.  I think she has terrible instincts about what these shows need, but it looks expensive so...

Well, she never really worked with a poetic/strong writer again after Nancy Curlee left GL, so it makes you wonder...

 

Though, I do know Curlee has had nice things to say about JFP, but it did come with the tone of her simply being polite...

23 minutes ago, BetterForgotten said:

Well, she never really worked with a poetic/strong writer again after Nancy Curlee left GL, so it makes you wonder...

 

Though, I do know Curlee has had nice things to say about JFP, but it did come with the tone of her simply being polite...

What did she say?

This thread reminds me of the time JFP was interrupted by Kathy Griffin at the Daytime Emmys

2 hours ago, cassadine1991 said:

What did she say?

This thread reminds me of the time JFP was interrupted by Kathy Griffin at the Daytime Emmys

Read here

 

Curlee: For all that has been written, slamming Jill, no one should ever question how much she loved GL. She loved good writing and good actors, and was one of the best technical directors I ever worked with. There was a time when she and I finished each others’ sentences, and I’ll always remember that fondly.

1 hour ago, BetterForgotten said:

Read here

 

Curlee: For all that has been written, slamming Jill, no one should ever question how much she loved GL. She loved good writing and good actors, and was one of the best technical directors I ever worked with. There was a time when she and I finished each others’ sentences, and I’ll always remember that fondly.

What a lovely interview. I miss her and her excellent writing 

Nope. Jill has had 30 years of producing almost every soap out there. It's always been a mess. She guts the show of beloved vets and many females over 45. There are a ton of recasts with her FOJs. The quality of the writing dips as we get some sub-GH dark pretentious crap. As for her so-called production values -- what production values?? She came on Y&R -- a show famous for its lush and filmic production -- and made the sets look like Ally McBeal circa 1997. Slate-grey walls are not aesthetic! And on screen they look drab af! How can someone praised as the soap world's most accomplished technical producer not realise this after 30 effing years? 

 

Jill's ego is such that when she is hired somewhere, she imposes HER signature all over the show. She is so wrapped up in her own ossified brand that she doesn't bother researching the show, its history, tone, unique voice or color (it's like a fashion designer coming to Christian Dior, thinking he's the best designer the fashion world ever burped up, and setting fire to the Dior archives). Her main trick is generifying the show to make it look like every other mediocre show out there. A few years after she leaves, the show usually ends up being cancelled. These two events are intrinsically linked. She is usually fired because, duh, viewers leave in droves. As we all know, when viewers leave a soap, they rarely come back. JFP leaves every soap a wreck.

Edited July 3, 20178 yr by Cat

 

 

Actually not true at all she brings ratings galore. At AW she actually surpassed GL and ratings went up 34 percent 18 to 49. At OLTL she hit number 1 demos during week of Jessica losing her baby. She got the show its first emmy nod in 2000 best show in years. Her ratings were so good at OLTL they promoted hrr to GH. At GH she had fab demos it wasnt until last 2 years she faltered. She won four emmys best show for GH.at YR she had the highest ratings in like 8 years ago. One week of the Pratt disaster she hit 5.5 million and then week of Billy/Adam showdowm she got 5.7 million. She also won back to back emmys best show at YR. Jill is wild how she shakes up a show its nuts.