2020: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Toups]

B&B

 

 

 

 

DAYS

- Rick Draughon last listed as Breakdown Writer on August 11

- Katherine Schock last listed as Script Writer on August 11

- Katherine Schock first listed as Breakdown Writer on August 12

- Greg Meng last listed as Co-Executive Producer & Executive In Charge of Production on September 21

- Randy Dugan last listed as Line Producer on September 21

- Janet Spellman-Drucker last listed as Producer on September 21

- Janet Spellman-Drucker first listed as Senior Producer on September 22

- Randy Dugan first listed as Producer on September 22

 

 

 

GH

- CJ Hoke first listed Breakdown Writer on January 14

- Lisa Seidman first listed Script Writer on January 14

- Donny Sheldon last listed as Script Writer on April 7

- David Rupel first listed as Script Writer on May 6

- Scott McKinsey last listed as Director on August 5

- CJ Hoke last listed as Breakdown Writer on September 21

 

 

 

Y&R

- Anne Schoettle last listed as Script Writer on January 15

- Lisa de Cazotte last listed as Supervising Producer on January 15

- Noel Maxam first listed as Supervising Producer on January 16

- Noel Maxam last listed as Supervising Producer on February 24

- Vivian Gundaker first listed as Producer on March 5

- Sara Endsley first listed as Associate Head Writer on March 19

- Tom Casiello first listed as Script Writer on March 24

- Tom Casiello last listed as Script Writer on August 11

- Brent Boyd first listed as Script Writer on August 31

- Susan Dansby first listed as Story Consultant on November 30

- James Harmon Brown last listed as Associate Head Writer on December 4

- Sara Endsley last listed as Associate Head Writer on December 24

 

 

[glfaninnyc]

Two   new writers credited on today’s GH. CJ Hoke was the breakdown writer and Lisa Seidman wrote the script.

[RavenWhitney]

Seidman has been around soaps forever. 

CJ Hoke has been GH script coordinator since 2015, guess budget requires hiring the entry level folks.  

Here's CJ's bio
https://www.cjhoke.com

She also has a linked in profile where she lists "freelance breakdown writer" since Oct 2019 and lists four episode numbers she's written to date all airing in 2020. I guess  yesterday's script was No. 14465 and her fourth script is No. 14510 which should air on March 16th.

https://www.linkedin.com/search/results/all/?keywords=ABC Daytime&lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base%3B4bI%2Bpw8jTzWhJjRDsfHOwA%3D%3D&licu=urn%3Ali%3Acontrol%3Ad_flagship3_profile_view_base-background_details_company

Edited January 15, 2020 by RavenWhitney

[Toups]

Surprised to see Seidman show up at GH instead of Y&R.  She usually follows Griffith.

[Toups]

Y&R:

- Lisa de Cazotte last listed as Supervising Producer on January 15

- Noel Maxam first listed as Supervising Producer on January 16

 

Nice to see Noel back at Y&R fulltime (I think), but he should be directing.   However, if Morina gets fired, hopefully Noel will be promoted to EP. 

[LondonScribe]

This.

 

I thought he did a pretty good job on Days Of Our Lives as Executive Producer but had the rug pulled from under him before he could make a real impact.

[BetterForgotten]

His LinkedIn says he's only interim Supervising Producer - so this may be short-term. Who knows, that's strange. 

[RavenWhitney]

Noel updated his Linkedin profile to show that he was only interim supervisory producer for three months from November to Jan

[BetterForgotten]

@Toups - someone asked Patrick Mulcahey what was it like working with JER at GL (and the person prefaced that they didn't enjoy much of JER's writing outside of that time). Mulcahey responded, I thought you'd enjoy it:

 

 

[Toups]

@BetterForgotten Thanks!  Man, what I wouldn't give to read stories about Reilly from writers who worked with him. 

[LeClerc]

Noel Maxam's name is gone from Y&R credits, and former ATWT producer Vivian Gundaker is now a producer. 

[victorlord75]

I don't recall much being said about Vivian Gundaker on the boards here.  So, what's the consensus?  Is she a good producer?

[BetterForgotten]

Vivian Gundaker has a very good reputation at ATWT - the cast and crew loved her.

 

For a while, @Soapsuds was advocating for her to replace Goutman as EP. 

[Soapsuds]

Vivian Gundaker comes from old school ATWT. She was a production assistant in the 80s during the time that Douglas Marland was head writer and Robert Calhoun was EP.  She was beloved by the cast. I don't know why she was never made EP of ATWT. She would've given the soap a better send off.

[LeClerc]

Gundaker also worked on the AMC/OLTL reboots (as did most of the ATWT production team). Putting aside Chris Goutman, ATWT had a great team of producers (Gundaker, Carole Shure, Sonia Blangiardo, etc).