GH: July 2024 Discussion Thread

[detroitpiston]

Carly acting a fool in the Metro Court lobby is the greatest way to give respect to Laura Wright for her 3000th episode.

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Shout out to the writing team for that one

Edited July 26, 2024 by detroitpiston

[Contessa Donatella]

Hooray, they managed to get something right! 

[VelekaCarruthers]

 

If you read what I posted above I mentioned the possibility of Gaza and Phelps coming back. Phelps would replace Frank.

[Contessa Donatella]

You actually think someone at this point is going to hire Jill Farren Phelps? 

[John]

Yeah I dont see them replacing Frank. In the interview with Locher-room, Jill seemed semi retired

[Planet Soap]

I am totally out of the loop, but is Frank leaving finally!? His is one of the longest EP tenures I can recall in recent history. JFP and Guza were a terribly destructive regime. I shudder to think what they would do with so many veterans back on the canvas, but even they put on a better show than what we are dealing with today. If we had to have Guza back I'd take him with Riche.

Why was Wendy Riche supposedly fired again?

[Contessa Donatella]

Angela Shapiro fired her. I'm not sure anyone knows why. I know WR very graciously talked about it being time to move on, etc. Possibly it had been a mistake to try to EP the main show & PC at the same time. Stuff like that. Riche rocks!!!! Shapiro herself found the door pretty soon after. 

[VelekaCarruthers]

 

So was 70 something Mulcahey who moved up to WA state and was living in a trailer with his husband on wooded property for the last several years.

[Planet Soap]

Yeah it's so confusing, because why get rid of the person who earned your show multiple Emmy wins and oversaw One of the greatest quality eras on a daytime soap in history?

[Liberty City]

In a July 2010 interview with We Love Soaps, she had this to say of her exit:

❝ I was fired.  But it was time for me to leave.  I knew it, and ABC knew it.  I knew personally it was time to move on.  But I would have stayed there forever, I loved it so much. I guess I needed a push in another direction. ❞

She also stated this in her thoughts of ABC buying the soap in 1995 (which I do believe has changed):

❝ No, I don’t think so.  Maybe there were more budgetary issues that we would deal with.  But the team at GENERAL HOSPITAL could address anything.  If I said we had to cut the budget, then everyone would roll up their sleeves, and you wouldn’t know it by watching the show.  They had to cut some costs but they did not interfere in any creative way.  We had Pat Fili Krushel and Angela Shapiro and they were very supportive creatively. ❞

[John]

You can write from anywhere. PM didnt have to move back to LA to Co-HW GH

Disney moved Shapiro over to ABC Family (Freeform) in fall 2002

Edited July 26, 2024 by John

[Contessa Donatella]

Yabbut you also had Shapiro's Folly, and that was putting Linda Dano on all 4 shows. The HWs all hated it. And, the fans, well, some liked Myrtle being her mom. Some liked her with Eve. Some liked her with Skye. Some didn't like her at all. It is my surmise that if she'd put her on one damned show & left her there, she'd be there today. So, since this is that same woman, I am not surprised that she stupidly fired the golden Wendy Riche. 

Sorry then, I must be thinking of Anne Sweeney, Frons's boss. 

[carolineg]

I think the most common theory was that WR was burning the candle at both ends with the two shows.  To me at the time it was very clear Wendy was putting more time into PC at the expense of the main show.  GH was fairly messy her last few years in charge, although fantastic compared to today.

PC was pretty much DOA and I think GH was suffering ratings rise and creatively so I can understand the need to let her go or at least demote her to just one show.   To be fair, though, GH lost a lot of young talent from 1998-2000 and the show didn't do a very good job bringing in 'replacements' for those characters.  GH had moved past the grounded 90's Labine heyday and was moving into the more modern Y2K era and I think the show really needed someone who could give 100% attention.

I am really not sure why anyone though Wendy helming both shows would work to be honest.

[John]

Once ABC Disney came on it all got confusing

I thought I read they cut the Rae crossovers short once she got to PC and GH. Rae wasnt on those shows as long as she was on AMC. I think ABC saw it not working. Once they made Skye, Rae's daughter, the GH visits worked. But then unmaking Skye Alan's daughter did not. 

[Aragorn]

On Sunday I will be attending a Coastal Entertainment Zoom meeting with Jeff Kober and Roger Howarth. Are there any questions that the people in this forum want to ask Jeff or Roger?