2024: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Contessa Donatella]

@Toups Does it make sense that D&C would still be credited as a legality even though the script was actually written by PM/Korte? 

[Contessa Donatella]

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[Toups]

@Contessa Donatella You don't need to post those screencaps every day.  BTW, Monday's breakdown writer was Suzanne Flynn. 

[Contessa Donatella]

Yeah, just was pasting them for today & yesterday. Wasn't gonna keep on. So, right, boss! I gotcha. 

[Contessa Donatella]

@Toups I was told by someone credible on most things that the WGA rule is that the outgoing HWs have to be credited as long as the show being aired is from their outline. Is that a thing? Thanks. This is nothing but curiosity. 

[Toups]

I don't know how contracts work for being credited, but if they wrote the outlines/thrusts that the BDWs use, why wouldn't they be credited?  It makes sense that they would. 

[Contessa Donatella]

Yes, I could definitely see the sense of it. I'd never heard it before, but it certainly rang true. Thanks for the reply. 

[Toups]

Y&R:

- Lynn Martin last listed as Script Writer on January 26

 

 

[John]

Y & R did their writers dirty following the strike. LM said they returned to work and then all got fired. 

Edited March 9, 2024 by John

[cassadine1991]

Where did she say that??

[janea4old]

it starts around the 16-minute mark of this Feb. 9 zoom:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiCyBd2YQeA

She didn't say they all got fired but a lot of them were, technically they were let go after their 13-week cycles.

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[janea4old]

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[Contessa Donatella]

After hearing this I spoke to a writer about it & they said that off & on this has been happening ever since Fi-Core status was established. They also noted that largely other writers (and other PTB) knew about it but it wasn't generally known. The way they explained it to me is that before Fi-Core if a show hired a scab writer for regular non-strike time the union would punish them for it by fining them, as it was clear cut that they were taking jobs from dues-paying members. Now if they dismiss an old writer & replace them with a Fi-Core scab that person is also a dues-paying member, so there is not that clear-cut non-member taking a job from a member. 

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[John]

James Lott Jr Interviewed her

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[cassadine1991]

Elizabeth Korte and Patrick Mulcahey are credited as HWs as of today’s GH