2 hours ago, cassadine1991 said:

I wonder who they’ll pick for GH

Well, Gary Tomlin (current GH director and Ficore) would be the obvious choice. My other guess would be that they rehired Michael Conforti (former GH writer and ficore) who was fired from Y&R with the writer blood bath.  But we'll know soon because they probably hired writers to work beginning in May even if the striking writers left a few months of story and scripts.

1 hour ago, RavenWhitney said:

Well, Gary Tomlin (current GH director and Ficore) would be the obvious choice. My other guess would be that they rehired Michael Conforti (former GH writer and ficore) who was fired from Y&R with the writer blood bath.  But we'll know soon because they probably hired writers to work beginning in May even if the striking writers left a few months of story and scripts.

At a fan event PAS said that Frank had stockpiled to the point where he was covered unless it was going to be a 5 month strike. I believe initially everyone was naturally hoping for a 3 month strike. 

On 7/14/2023 at 1:06 PM, Donna L. Bridges said:

I posted a picture of her at the studio, balloons about, standing between Drake & Deidre, 2 weeks ago. 

That photo is not a current photo of Sheri Anderson at the studio.
That photo is from Sheri's twitter, April 3, 2018, from the party celebrating Drake's 4,000th episode.
 

 

Edited July 24, 20232 yr by janea4old

On 7/23/2023 at 12:11 AM, lucaslesann23 said:

So. He has:
 Exec producer duties
He is the Head Writer
A Breakdown writer
And now a script writer.
Has this ever been seen before? One person doing all this work.

Re: Griffith.  There are (now) no more script(dialogue) writers or breakdown writers being *credited* on Y&R, but there *might* be scab writers working under Griffith.  Scab dialogue writers were usually uncredited on most of the soaps during the prior writers strike. 

Griffith fired most of the breakdown writers in February.  Whatever the remaining breakdown writer wrote before the strike began ... has now already aired, hence that bd writer is longer credited.  It's possible that bd writer is striking.   Theoretically, there could be a new uncredited scab breakdown writer, but we wouldn't know.  Or, as you said, maybe what is now airing could be Griffith doing all the breakdowns himself.

Edited July 24, 20232 yr by janea4old

No writers listed for GH today, so it looks like they're not going to list who's writing the show.  Let's see if Gary Tomlin continues to direct or not.  If we don't see his name pop up for months as a director, then we can make a guess that he's writing for the show. 

On 1/8/2023 at 5:09 PM, Toups said:

Yeah, I think she retired.  No way DAYS would fire her after all these years. 

I just saw this. Carolyn Culliton told me back then in a tweet that Lorraine Broderick had retired. That's when she intimated that she & Richard might be thinking about it. 

Today was one of my random days to note all the full writing credits & see if there's been any change. Today Henry Newman was not listed. You probably already know that. 

Fri., 7-28 Henry Newman back, today's script writer

 

BTW, when DAYS was presented with their WGA award by Susan Lucci, Jamey & Cheryl & Lorraine were there with Ron. So, even though she had retired, she got to go to one last award presentation & party. Nice! Those people were all in pix that were tweeted. 

Edited July 28, 20232 yr by Donna L. Bridges

36 minutes ago, Donna L. Bridges said:

I just saw this. Carolyn Culliton told me back then in a tweet that Lorraine Broderick had retired. That's when she intimated that she & Richard might be thinking about it. 

Today was one of my random days to note all the full writing credits & see if there's been any change. Today Henry Newman was not listed. You probably already know that. 

The Cullitons retired in April.

https://twitter.com/oldbat53871/status/1665836585160519681?s=20

 

1 hour ago, Efulton said:

The Cullitons retired in April.

https://twitter.com/oldbat53871/status/1665836585160519681?s=20

 

Yes, there's where she tweeted to me that they had. 

On 7/26/2023 at 10:50 AM, Donna L. Bridges said:

Today was one of my random days to note all the full writing credits & see if there's been any change. Today Henry Newman was not listed. You probably already know that. 

Fri., 7-28 Henry Newman back, today's script writer

 

Henry Newman is a freelance writer. He is not a full-time writer on the show, so his name only appears in the credits when he writes the episode.

1 hour ago, JAS0N47 said:

Henry Newman is a freelance writer. He is not a full-time writer on the show, so his name only appears in the credits when he writes the episode.

Thank you, Jason for that explanation!

Gary Tomlin directed today's GH, so I think that takes him out of being the HW during this strike.

Gary could do both but is only credited for one thing

Gary is a 100 years old. He’s not doing both. 😂

We’re so removed from the Golden Age of Soaps (or even the last time soaps were decent) that a lot of the most familiar names that come up are old as Methuselah. Wendy Riche being almost 80 still sort of blows my mind on a pure visceral level, but of course she is. She was almost 50 when she landed GH and that was 30 years ago. We’re all getting old.

43 minutes ago, Faulkner said:

We’re so removed from the Golden Age of Soaps (or even the last time soaps were decent) that a lot of the most familiar names that come up are old as Methuselah. Wendy Riche being almost 80 still sort of blows my mind on a pure visceral level, but of course she is. She was almost 50 when she landed GH and that was 30 years ago. We’re all getting old.

And a direct result of the networks no longer investing in new talent not long after Riche arrived. I would say certainly by the end of the 90’s it was almost always people we have already heard of, except for Hogan Sheffer.