Replacing Frank? Promote From Within? New Blood to GH?

[John]

If they replace Frank would you want to promote 

Mary Kelly Weir   https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1222066/

Mercer Barrows  https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0057896/

Michelle Henry https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1928189/?ref_=nv_sr_1?ref_=nv_sr_1

 

Or try to get Wendy Riche back

Or someone new to GH like

Ed Scott, Gary Tomlin, Ginger Smith or Jennifer Pepperman

 

Thoughts? Ideas???

 

[Marlenaphan]

It would be nice if they got Riche back but I don’t see it happening. They’d probably promote Tomlin since he’s already there as a director and has EP experience. Horrible choice, though. He’s JFP levels of bad.

[Forever8]

Harriet Crampton - Ex Producer Of NZ Hospital Based Soap Shortland Street 

Sri Rao 

Thom Racina 

Susan Bedsow Horgan 

 

[John]

I like your ideas but has Racina been an EP?

Also I liked Nightshift S2 so maybe Lisa DeCozette

[Vee]

What exactly would be the reason to promote any of the GH names you mention up front to EP? What do any of us know they have done that would suggest they should be the new EP? What is the difference between Barrows or Weir, or Henry and Barrows?

 

"They're already on staff and their names were in the credits" is not a credible answer unless this is a very binary challenge that is simply 'promote anyone from within, just because I can read IMDB.'

[Marlenaphan]

The way you talk to people is so ugly.

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[John]

Of the three i mentioned for promotion Id pick Barrows just based on GH history. He began there in 1981 as art director then joined Port Charles as Producer for its  entire run then back to GH as producer ever since. So Barrows should know history the best

[Eboneece]

I’d take JFP back. I loathed her Y&R because she didn’t understand its aesthetic, but she is a much better fit for GH. The show looks bad and doesn’t match with the quality writing.

[John]

Regardless of what we feel about FV, JFP would be worse. She would cut everyone and it would be The Sonny-Jason-Carly hour. No Thanks. Hopefully ABC wouldnt try or hopefully JFP is done with daytime in her own right

[Marlenaphan]

The bitch would fire Genie again. No thank you.

[BetterForgotten]

No one fired Genie (in 2002), she walked on her own accord when ABC wouldn’t give her the same vacation time as Tony Geary. She felt she and him were equals and deserved the same deal.

 

Also, the producer that badgered Genie about her weight was the late Carol Scott, not JFP.

 

The only soap JFP explicitly fired Genie from was Y&R and DESERVEDLY so.

[Marlenaphan]

Jill forced her out at GH. Jill orchestrated that.

Genie’s Y&R dismissal was a blessing because it allowed her to return to GH for the 50th. I wonder if JFP realized that.

[BetterForgotten]

Based on what though? No one forced Genie to walk and unfortunately for her, ABC never showed her the the same respect as Geary (predating JFP at GH).

 

I can’t speak to what was orchestrated as none of us were there and Genie has had only complementary things to say about JFP in the press. 

[dragonflies]

It was pretty obvious JFP wanted Genie out. Heck she acted like she wanted all women over 30 out

[BetterForgotten]

How much of that was Angela Shapiro, Brian Frons and Bob Guza though?

 

Under Frons, those ABC soaps were micromanaged and the EPs didn’t always make the final decisions.