2024: The Directors and Writers Thread

[Contessa Donatella]

Not everyone at the studio knows everyone else at the studio & as we know often the writers aren't physically at the studio, anyway. I wasn't asking him as a source on the writing team. Just talking to a person about something totally & completely foreign to his expertise. Just casual conversation. I had no pressing need to know. It was going to be told here. 

[VelekaCarruthers]

Thanks, Toups! Charlotte Gibson Bauer is a well known and accomplished Black soap writer who started on AMC in 1996 and worked on Days, GL and ATWT.  My secret but totally reliable source is as follows: I had a seance with Angelique Dupres of Martinique and James E. Reilly appeared to me to show me her linkedin profile!  

https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlottegibsonbauer/details/experience/

Edited March 22, 2024 by VelekaCarruthers

[John]

Is Shannon Peace still writing at GH?

[VelekaCarruthers]

We don't know yet. First five KorMulc episodes had no breakdown writers. Today's breakdown was written by Ash Cooke. 

Edited March 22, 2024 by VelekaCarruthers

[Contessa Donatella]

Today Ashley D. Cook wrote the breakdown. 

Cathy Lepard SW again today. 

[Contessa Donatella]

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Above from her IG 

Shannon Peace was fired.

Edited March 26, 2024 by Contessa Donatella
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[cassadine1991]

The first one of the old writing team gone. I hope we see her again on another soap like The Gates

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[dragonflies]

Looks like she was let go

From her IG story

 

https://www.instagram.com/stories/shannonpeacetv/3332444131589880060/

Edited March 26, 2024 by dragonflies

[Toups]

So another writer fired once their cycle is up after coming back from the strike?  Probably to make way for someone who wrote during the strike?  We'll see. 

[Contessa Donatella]

What I heard was that it happened right after Dan & Chris were notified of their firing with the strong implication that it had to do with New Team & nothing at all to do with the strike. So, timing, they got back from the strike, wasn't it in Sept? And, the D&C happened the week of Jan. 15th.

[Khan]

What if Elizabeth Korte and Patrick Mulcahey are about to pull a Josh Griffith and handle all the breakdown/outline-writing duties themselves?

[Toups]

Donna, you've been posting about soaps since at last the 90's on those old newsgroups and you have not ever been considered an "insider" anywhere, so please chill with the "what I heard stuff" because you don't have any credibility when it comes to insider info. 

[Contessa Donatella]

I'm pretty sure they have far too much work to attempt such a thing. I think Korte is still doing her old job as well as her new. 

[BetterForgotten]

Possible that EK/PM plan to eliminate one breakdown role (or two) and write some themselves. When PM was on a HW-ing team with Curlee and Demorest at GL, occasionally they’d all take turns in writing some breakdowns. 

Edited March 26, 2024 by BetterForgotten

[Toups]

Josh has Beall and Beldner to help with the outlines.  You'll need at least a couple of writers to help you out because it's just too much work, especially if Korte is still the script editor.   Maybe GH isn't replacing Peace, maybe they're just trimming down the breakdown team, which it seems like all the soaps are doing now as a cost cutting measure.