I found her interview to be very arrogant and off putting. It was clear she waant ready to take the YR job. She clearly was in over her head. She had no game plan whatsoever. I think its terrible what she did to her writers. Her poor writing team having to pick up her slack. Honestly this woman MAKES me sick to be honest with u. Her documentary was more important to her then YR. It sounds like all she makes is a bunch of excuses. If she couldnt do the job then just resign. She makes me want to throw up 

4 minutes ago, JONNYSBRO said:

 

 

I found her interview to be very arrogant and off putting. It was clear she waant ready to take the YR job. She clearly was in over her head. She had no game plan whatsoever. I think its terrible what she did to her writers. Her poor writing team having to pick up her slack. Honestly this woman MAKES me sick to be honest with u. Her documentary was more important to her then YR. It sounds like all she makes is a bunch of excuses. If she couldnt do the job then just resign. She makes me want to throw up 

 

Oh go worship your goddess and give it a rest.

 

 

Oh kman for once read the interview. She had no interest in YR, had no game plan and ratings tanked badly. She practically made excuses for everything she did. God is she arrogant as she bashes other people? I thought MAB waa better then her. Her relayig how viewers loved campisr YR was a Pratt nod. Pratt has higher ratings every week compared to her YR. At least i was entertained. Pratt worked much better with Mal and he was very involved. Pratt quit to go to Star on FOX. Kman what she did to Janice and Natalie and everyone on writing team was crap all ovsr them? So she has no game plan, no care for YR and now says bye i am ready to move on. This woman is a piece of garbage.

14 hours ago, KMan101 said:

 

No it's not. It's not erasing anything, that's ridiculous. You believe what you want to believe lol. I could care less about making anyone comfortable.

 

We as a society SHOULDN'T GIVE A [!@#$%^&*] who is with who. Whether it's an interacial relationship or two men or two women. Why do we even care? That's progressive. Not boxing people into labels because it makes us feel better.

 

I agree.

 

I don't agree with people saying Mariah and Tessa is not coming off as a love story. It just started and it's attraction and their enjoying each others company sure looks like a budding romance/love story to me.  It's also the beginning and it isn't tacky or anything of the sort, in any form.

 

Where was all the outrage when Adam and Rafe kissed and slept together? He also used Rafe.

8 hours ago, Cat said:

I don't understand the amount of hate this woman is getting. JFP/Pratt did not get this much. People here are talking about her like she is LML or MAB and has ruined the show irreparably. Hardly. Her stories may have been meh, but at least she kept the show on a mostly even keel. Do I think she's on a par with William J Bell, Kay Alden or Jack Smith? Lol, no way. But she is being very honest in this interview about her faults and her lack of drive as HW. She's 100% taking the blame for the show of the past year, which is more than the showkillers I mentioned above have EVER done. 

 

The show as it stands currently may not be on fire, but neither is it in the 'scorched earth' state it was at each of the times LML, MAB and Pratt were fired. Y'all acting like she left it like Pratt left AMC -- gutted.

Preach

2 hours ago, JONNYSBRO said:

 

 

Oh kman for once read the interview. She had no interest in YR, had no game plan and ratings tanked badly. She practically made excuses for everything she did. God is she arrogant as she bashes other people? I thought MAB waa better then her. Her relayig how viewers loved campisr YR was a Pratt nod. Pratt has higher ratings every week compared to her YR. At least i was entertained. Pratt worked much better with Mal and he was very involved. Pratt quit to go to Star on FOX. Kman what she did to Janice and Natalie and everyone on writing team was crap all ovsr them? So she has no game plan, no care for YR and now says bye i am ready to move on. This woman is a piece of garbage.

 

She was offered the gig and told she had a day to accept. She did. I bet YR just hired her because fans wanted her but they were never gonna let her write what she wanted to and thats what happened

Then her brother died, that would mess anyone up. She had Kay to help and CBS still interfeared, It doesnt matter who the HW/EP are, the show will always be decieded by Sony & CBS

14 hours ago, Jerry675 said:

I wonder if Annjellica will try to poach Shelly from gh

LOL!! Why would she poach Shelly when she fired her untalented butt before??? Seriously, Jonnysbro (yeah, we all know you and Jerry675 are one in the same).

3 hours ago, Vee said:

Oh, I live and work in LA and the business, I get why they do it. I'm just saying, knowing American soaps the way I do I've seen this story play out with starstuck Brits before and it's just diminishing returns because there is no longer a substantial commitment by the networks to these shows. Period. However challenged they may feel by conditions on the UK soaps, I'd argue those shows have quite solid production standards and ours are bargain basement.

 

And I don't fault the crews at our soaps, who work very very hard. But there is no time left for innovation or quality control, and no money.

 

lol I hope you didn't think I was trying to teach you lessons! It's hard to know what people's experiences are on a message board.

 

Anyhoo, I suspect we've exhausted this 'Brit producers in the US' theme so I'm going to put this in spoiler, but...

 

 

just to make your (and my) point, this was Mal Young back in 2011 when he seems to have developed short-lived (and truly dreadful) reality soap Desperate Scousewives. Here's the trailer. "Livahpooool. The GLAMMEH."

 

 

 

...And here is Mal back then:

 

 

I don't know if you watch the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, but Mal appeared briefly last season with Eileen Davidson and Erika Girardi. Looks like he went on a bit of a diet since 2011. Incidentally, I thought he might have been one of those Irish-descended, highly (and truly) fabulous, sharp-witted gay Liverpudlians in the Paul O'Grady mould, but according to Wiki, Mal is married, to a lady. Oh well. Here he is @0.31 asking Erika Girardi what archetype she considers herself: girl next door or MILF?

 

 

Edited August 10, 20178 yr by Cat

2 hours ago, JONNYSBRO said:

 

 

Oh kman for once read the interview. She had no interest in YR, had no game plan and ratings tanked badly. She practically made excuses for everything she did. God is she arrogant as she bashes other people? I thought MAB waa better then her. Her relayig how viewers loved campisr YR was a Pratt nod. Pratt has higher ratings every week compared to her YR. At least i was entertained. Pratt worked much better with Mal and he was very involved. Pratt quit to go to Star on FOX. Kman what she did to Janice and Natalie and everyone on writing team was crap all ovsr them? So she has no game plan, no care for YR and now says bye i am ready to move on. This woman is a piece of garbage.

You freaking liar! You have no idea what she "did to Janice and Natalie and everyone on the writing team..." You just make this crap up!! You may not like Sally, but for God's sake, dude, STOP LYING!!!! Also, spell check your posts! Learn some grammar!! It's like reading some four year old's post! (so offense to four year olds!)

So Victoria is perfectly ok with NOT REMEMBERING SLEEPING WITH A GUY she recently met not long after settling a lawsuit over a similar situation that BROKE UP A FAMILY AND ALMOST BANKRUPTED HER OWN BUSINESS? Whatever Y&R.

9 minutes ago, DeeeDee said:

So Victoria is perfectly ok with NOT REMEMBERING SLEEPING WITH A GUY she recently met not long after settling a lawsuit over a similar situation that BROKE UP A FAMILY AND ALMOST BANKRUPTED HER OWN BUSINESS? Whatever Y&R.

 

Mal's off to an excellent start, I see!

3 hours ago, JONNYSBRO said:

 

 

Oh kman for once read the interview. She had no interest in YR, had no game plan and ratings tanked badly. She practically made excuses for everything she did. God is she arrogant as she bashes other people? I thought MAB waa better then her. Her relayig how viewers loved campisr YR was a Pratt nod. Pratt has higher ratings every week compared to her YR. At least i was entertained. Pratt worked much better with Mal and he was very involved. Pratt quit to go to Star on FOX. Kman what she did to Janice and Natalie and everyone on writing team was crap all ovsr them? So she has no game plan, no care for YR and now says bye i am ready to move on. This woman is a piece of garbage.

I agree witth you. At least Janice and Nat have training under Jean and Shely. It should serve them well when they pitches stories fo Mal and Angellica. 

5 minutes ago, Jerry675 said:

I agree witth you. At least Janice and Nat have training under Jean and Shely. It should serve them well when they pitches stories fo Mal and Angellica. 

Jonnysbro agreeing with himself. Man, will you never quit???

This thread is hilarious.

Just read the interview and wow, if all that is true then SS was woefully unprepared to take on the headwriting job at that time. She was also in a bad place emotionally.

Writing drama is not like other jobs where you can put your head down and do mindless busy work to take your thoughts off of what's going on in your personal life- in writing, the closer your emotions are to the surface, usually the more resonance your words will have. This might explain the utter lack of pathos and deep-seated emotional scenes in many of the stories.

There were some promising stories that she put in place, like Lauren's Fenmore's struggles but they were all the more disappointing in what they failed to produce in the end.  Perhaps the timing was off for her to have taken over the headwriting position.

Don't really know what else to say.

Edited August 10, 20178 yr by DramatistDreamer

45 minutes ago, ChitHappens said:

 

Mal's off to an excellent start, I see!

It's still Sally's mess. Mel's material doesn't air until October.