The only people that should create new soaps is all of us on here!  

Well, we certainly couldn't do any worse!

3 hours ago, YRfan23 said:

The only people that should create new soaps is all of us on here!  

I'm working on one myself!  

Josh Griffith and JFP adapted Hollywood Heights. Sally Sussman was one of the script writers

26 minutes ago, cassadine1991 said:

Josh Griffith and JFP adapted Hollywood Heights. Sally Sussman was one of the script writers

 

And it was a horrible show.

 

I remember when news came out that Josh Griffith and JFP were coming to Y & R... my mom asked me if I knew much about them... I pulled up Ondemand and had her watch two weeks worth of episodes of Hollywood Heights.  After she watched them she said 'Y & R is screwed'

I would easily watch anything that @DramatistDreamer or @Nothin'ButAttitude wrote, among others here on the Board. @beebs  has done some great things in his Days blog.

 

2 hours ago, slick jones said:

I would easily watch anything that @DramatistDreamer or @Nothin'ButAttitude wrote, among others here on the Board. @beebs  has done some great things in his Days blog.

 

 

awww, you're too kind to me. Thank you!

I second that re: @DramatistDreamer and @Nothin'ButAttitude. I've read some of their stuff and it's GREAT!

Thank you, @slick jones & @beebs. 

 

I (too) think that some of the most talented people that could potentially write a soap (or be a consultant) are on this forum. 

 

I'd like to see the likes of @Vee @DRW50 @vetsoapfan @Khan in positions like that given their great knowledge in the genre. 

2 hours ago, Nothin'ButAttitude said:

I'd like to see the likes of @Khan in positions like that given their great knowledge in the genre. 

 

Trust me, NBA, it wouldn't be pretty.  Actually, it'd be like when Niles on "Frasier" got fed up with his brother's "directing" of the radio drama they were all appearing on and started killing off all the characters.  ("Could the McAllister sisters stand back to back, I'm short on bullets!")

Thanks for the compliments, all, they are greatly appreciated.

 

Yeah, the soaps could have plumbed the wealth of knowledge and talent of a lot of this messageboards members for not just writers, but story consultants and continuity experts, LOL-- of which today's shows are in sore need!

 

I think I once mentioned how I attempted to contact ATWT's production arm (as ATWT had always been my fave and I was living/studying/working in NYC already) for an internship when I was in grad school in the early '00s (they were still on the air) but encountered a web of confusion and dysfunction.  I opted to pursue an internship with a small theater company instead, especially seeing as  playwrighting was likely to be my thesis anyway.

 

The only element that we lack on this board seems to be a producer.  Any producers in the house?

If Ron created a new soap I think it would be boring. He usually only has success when mining the history of a show and doing crazy things with it. Unless he remade a soap I don’t think it would be interesting. I’d be down for him to remake Passions though. 

Now do you think the creator of a soap should always head-write it, or do you think sometimes it would be better to just have someone else carry out the showrunner/head-writing duties?  Not everyone is a Bill Bell/Agnes Nixon after all.

After that Trainwreck Passions, that's a tough call.

8 hours ago, SteelCity said:

After that Trainwreck Passions, that's a tough call.

 

Sally Sussman created Generations.. which on paper looked like a good show.. but perhaps she shouldn't have been head-writer of it since it didn't really hook viewers right away.

GENERATIONS did improve slightly, though, once Jorn Winther joined the show as EP.  So, maybe all it needed at the beginning was a stronger EP at the helm?