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Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

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If Ron takes over might as well cancel yr. I won't be watching his garbage.

The only positive would be him luring his pets away from Days.

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3 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:
If Ron takes over might as well cancel yr. I won't be watching his garbage.

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3 minutes ago, Soapsuds said:
If Ron takes over might as well cancel yr. I won't be watching his garbage.
The only positive would be him luring his pets away from Days.

Well, it is time for Kevin to go back to Genoa City, don't you think? 😉😂

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3 minutes ago, Khan said:
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Ha!

Ron hated CM aka Will Horton.

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7 minutes ago, Khan said:
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Please no.

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56 minutes ago, BoldRestless said:
Eh. I actually don't expect anything to change. He sucks, but there are other endemic issues.

I agree, this show is the most micromanaged out of all them, and while JG leaving is definitely an improvement and needed to happen , who knows how much control the next person will really have.

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12 minutes ago, Khan said:
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He will get Robin Strasser to come on as Mari Jo Mason 😂😂

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I don’t expect an amazing successor (expectations are low for daytime these days, lol), but I’ll just let Judy and Barbra take it away for just this small moment in time:

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I'm surprised there's not more elation from this change.

Griffith is AWFUL, and he's brought Y&R to its worst storytelling period in its existence. It is so bad that I have no words.

I don't care if it's Carlivati, I don't care if it's Giddens, I don't care if it's Bill Bell's grandson.

NO ONE can be worse than this Griffith shlt we've been getting.

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Ron is the reason Chandler was brought back and Will back from the dead.

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12 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:
He will get Robin Strasser to come on as Mari Jo Mason 😂😂

Kassie DePaiva as Grace Turner.

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FINALLY!!!🥳

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1 minute ago, Liberty City said:
Kassie DePaiva as Grace Turner.

Erika Slezak as a recast Doris Collins?? lol

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So many of the garden variety of hacks are either long retired or dead - so the succession question is real. Who the hell is left to that can fit into the grind and budget constraint of daytime?

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4 minutes ago, YRfan23 said:
Erika Slezak as a recast Doris Collins?? lol

He'd put her in as a back-from-the-dead Katherine Chancellor/Marge two for one.

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Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

I'd like to think Griffith was forced out and allowed to announce he was "leaving."
We just got interviews earlier this weeks about how "delicious" he found it to pair Howarth and Stafford, among other story topics. I find it hard to believe he gave those interviews knowing he'd be "leaving" in a couple days.

By ranger1rg · Just now1 min
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

Given what a hack Brad Bell is and what a hack his daughter in law was, I question any involvement from that family.

By BetterForgotten · 4 minutes ago4 min
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@Soapsuds There was good mention of the CBS primetime soaps so its not a total write off.

By kalbir · 4 minutes ago4 min
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

I'd can Adam and Chelsea -they add nothing to the show.
Daniel can go. Bye Siena.
Most of the other vets are not going anywhere.
But bringing in Reed/Faith and a recast Allie would give the core families a new focus,

By Paul Raven · 4 minutes ago4 min
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

Bill Bell's grandchildren are all grown AFAIK. I wonder if any of them inherited his talent.

By kalbir · 6 minutes ago6 min
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That's what I was thinking of - if they may have curtailed that story because of Noelle handing in her notice.
Thanks for answering me about Heather. I can buy Clay not caring, but I think Gwyn by that point in her life would have cared - a little too much.
I wonder if new viewers just thought they were both Jack's kids. Sadly, any layers they could have mined never happened due to the show ending.

By DRW50 · 8 minutes ago8 min
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

And SONY & the Bells need to stop taking so much $$ from it. Obviously, the show's budget is the same as (or more than) other daytime shows, but it APPEARS far cheaper, which can only mean that excessive distributions are made to the owners, at the expense of the show itself. That needs to stop. And if it means cutting out a few of the higher paid veteran performers, then do it. They can't continue operating the show on a $2.10 per episode budget with unimaginative writing.

By Broderick · 8 minutes ago8 min
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I don't envy the new headwriter having to try and clean up JG's 6 years of slop. And having to work on a budget of $1.98. Plus a mindset that insists Victor be the lead and Phyllis the loveable troublemaker.
Hopefully no more psychos, kidnappings and corporate takeovers. That would be the first positive steps.

By Paul Raven · 11 minutes ago11 min
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I've been crossing my fingers that the musical episode will turn up on that channel eventually.
In late 1993, when the show is toying with a Clay/Gwyneth/Buck/Stacey quad, there's an episode where Stacey hosts a birthday party for Heather that Clay and Gwyneth both attend - and Clay spends most of it openly wondering to Gwyn why they even have to be there. In general Gwyn and Clay are pretty hands off grandparents, even with Christopher, who you'd think they'd be obsessed with given how obsessed they were with Trisha.
They sort of did do a Stacey/Trucker/Trisha triangle in 1992, with Stacey confessing to Trisha that she had fallen in love with Trucker and Trucker briefly having amnesia and thinking that he and Stacey were together.

By Kane · 11 minutes ago11 min
Y&R: Josh Griffith steps down as head writer

And Katherine would be back with a f**king drink in her hand.

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