The premise is pretty straightforward: pretend you are a head-writing a soap opera.  (It can be one that is still on the air, it can be one that is no longer on the air, it even can be one you've made up).  If you could choose your staff writers, who would you choose?  And yes, they can be dead or alive.  (I'm sure even a dead person could do a better job writing some of these shows than the live ones who are writing them!)

Edited January 7, 20241 yr by Khan

My dream team: Bill Bell, Douglas Marland, Nancy Curlee.

5 hours ago, kalbir said:

My dream team: Bill Bell, Douglas Marland, Nancy Curlee.

With you as HW?

My team: Victor Miller, Patrick Mulcahey, Frank Salisbury and Wisner Washam

Edited January 8, 20241 yr by Khan

19 minutes ago, Khan said:

With you as HW?

Hahaha, probably not. I'd delegate co-HW to each of the dream team.

 

Edited January 7, 20241 yr by kalbir

Bill Bell and Irna Phillips

I'm going to choose chaos, because I believe that I am good at managing creatives.  Henry Slesar (for interwoven plotting), Harding Lemay (two-handers and mid-week slower episodes),  Patrik-Ian Polk (let's get some new LGBT voices in daytime) and Bridget Dobson and her mother Doris Hursley just to watch that interaction, and inspire the rest of the writer's room.

Edited January 8, 20241 yr by j swift

As the World Turns

co Head writers (and breakdowns)

Millee Taggart

Nancy Curlee

Stephen Demorest

script writers

Janice Ferri Esser

Susan Dansby

Nancy Ford

Patrick Mulcahey

Frank Salisbury

Script Editor

Courtney Sherman

 

Story Consultants

Robert Soderberg

Edith Somer

Consulting Producers

Allen Potter

Robert Calhoun

I would have to have a big budget to handle this talent.

GH: Bring back Guza, Monty and Bell Senior. Could u imagine the depth and the complexity with some action? This show would be number 1 again lol

For Dool: Bill Bell and Sherri Anderson with Sally Sussman Morina, Peter Brash, and Paula Cwikly as support.

Creative consultant: Harding Lemay...just because he would remind us to value the characters and focus on motivation.

Co-headwriters: Pam Long and Nancy Curlee.... Long would provide the energy & warmth while Curlee would provide a Tennessee williams southern gothic element

Script writers:

Melissa Salmons 

Patrick Mulcahey

Susan Dansby

 

 

 

Maybe a combo of Guza and Sally Sussman. She's good at character and building a story and I feel like his style of writing would bring the action that her stories lack. It could be a fun team with some great scripts.

All My Children: Co Executive Producers Wendy Riche & Linda Gottleib,  head writer Claire Labine to capture the emotional warmth of 90s era GH.

Y&R: Executive Producer ? , Head writer Michael Malone -90s writing style-(for that mystical novelistic work)

Current GH: Headwriter Douglas Marland to manage the large cast, Executove Producer Wendy Riche. Good emotional depth right there. 

B&B: Executive Producer Aaron Spelling

DAYS: Executive Proucer Paul Rauch, head writer Bob Guza for over the top action with an 80s OLTL 90s GH tone.

Edited January 14, 20241 yr by Planet Soap

All My Children: Agnes Nixon, Wisner Washam, Lorraine Broderick

All My Children 

•Executive Producer•

Ginger Smith

▪︎Written by•

Lorraine Broderick  

Hal Corley 

Jeff Beldner

•Story Consultant•

Wisner Washam 

•Set Janitor•

Megan McTavish

 

Edited February 1, 20241 yr by Janet Marlowe

DAYS

Head writers: Ron Carlivati and Beth Milstein 

Script editor: Sheri Anderson 

Story consultant: Ryan Quan

Breakdown and script writers: Marlene McPherson, Darrell Thomas Jr., Jamey Giddens, Kirk Doering, Jeanne Marie Ford, Paula Cwikly, Peter Brash, Sally Sussman, Dorell Anthony, and [S.W.S.N.B.N.] (because why not? She has fun ideas)

Executive producer: Stephen Wyman and Tom Langan 

I chose living people only, otherwise James Reilly would be head writer