2024: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Khan]

He got to come back...and Dan O'Connor didn't?

Unless O'Connor was offered the chance to return and turned him down, something about that doesn't smell right.

[Taoboi]

It really doesn't. Because O' Connor seem the better of the two.

 

[John]

GH has also Promoted Cathy LePard from BDW to Associate HW

https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-general-hospital-confirms-new-head-writing-team

[titan1978]

Must be more of a yes man to Frank.

These sloppy people have had months to tighten up the show, and instead it’s gotten worse. So disappointed.

[BetterForgotten]

Frank's pets - telling that he never made any public announcement when PM joined (or was fired), but is quick to acknowledge this new change as soon as its credited.  

[janea4old]

Dan O'Connor now at Days -- he told this to Errol at the Emmys in June.

https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2024/06/dan-oconnor-days-of-our-lives-wrtiting-team

However O'Connor was hired at DAYS to work as part of Ron's writing team.  Then Ron left DAYS a few weeks ago. No idea what O'Connor's status is now.

Edited August 7, 2024 by janea4old

[Taoboi]

Yep.

[detroitpiston]

I can’t wait to get the full info on what happened with Mulcahey behind the scenes. The fact Frank reinstated his boy and gloated to the press about it says a lot. Let’s see if they can turn the ratings around.

[Taoboi]

Yeah. I so want the tea cuz this screams 'slap on the wrist' mixed with 'sabotage from a call coming from inside the house.'

[Contessa Donatella]

I know people want to discount scuttlebutt but I promise that at the time they invited CVE back to write BD they thought Dan was in the process of bringing a wrongful termination lawsuit against them. 

He recently posted that the upcoming wedding is his first BD since back. 

They're doing great on Hulu. One day last week at #2, one day at #4. 

Edited August 7, 2024 by Contessa Donatella
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[detroitpiston]

I want to know from Patrick what stipulations were given as far as episode guarantees and why stories disappeared on screen for weeks just as they started building momentum, Pikeman being the biggest example. We got so many episodes ending on lackluster scenes instead of satisfying cliffhangers too, was that an editing room choice or were they scripted that way? I need the answers lol it’ll tell me if Frank played the troll game or Mulcahey and Korte just weren’t smart.

[Contessa Donatella]

I also would kill for this particular tea. 

[Taoboi]

I would like to know the same though I feel it's Option 1.

 

 

[Vee]

That's been Frank's way for many years. He shuffles the guarantees and throttles story with them to keep costs down so that they fade in and out for weeks at a time, that goes all the way back to OLTL. There was often story stop/start whiplash both at OLTL and in those early years at GH. He just used to be better at it, and had more overall interesting casts/stories before GH became entirely his domain post-Carlivati.

[Khan]

But DOC didn't join DAYS' writing staff immediately, right?  There was some time in between his getting the axe at one show and getting picked up at another; and in that same period of time, Chris Van Etten was also fired and then re-hired as "breakdown writer."  Yet, Frank couldn't do the same for CVE's former collaborator?  Again, unless DOC got the offer to return and said no thanks, it doesn't smell right.