E&B were fired today. Chuck Pratt is AMC's new headwriter, while Hogan Sheffer has been named Y&R's new co-HW (with Maria Arena Bell).

B&E should really just give it up. Then again, I'd take them back at GL compared to the SH*T David Kriezman is dishing out this year.

Hogan working with Maria is great news.

Only time will tell if Pratt works well at AMC.

BUT CAN WE PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE get a new Headwriter at GUIDING LIGHT already...its in the most need.

Where has this Chuck Pratt wrote before?

Melrose Place and General Hospital.
He also got Desperate Housewives off the ground

He was also on "Santa Barbara".

Yes, please get GL some new headwriter(s) stat. If AMC and Y&R can see the trouble and try to make amends, why can't GL? It's almost as if CBS and P&G have given up and just don't care.

You could be right about GL, Chuck. As for Hogan, I wonder if he will be a good fit for Y&R?

Sheffer at Y&R???

hmmmmmmmmmm

I need to think on this!

Ok....i thought about it...

As long as Hogan gets rid of the dead weight and MOVES the stories along, i'm all for this, though i was hoping Jack Smith will return.

You know with the crap Kriezman has been subjecting GL to in the last year makes me yearn for the glory days of Megan McTavish.Yuuuuuuuuuuuuch! Please, somebody at CBS and Televest must know how to find a better hw for the show. At this point, a COMPETENT hw would be a gift. There has to be somebody available. Dream one would be Millee Taggart but they burned so many bridges with her-they'd have to create new lakes and rivers needing bridges- to get her back. Kriezman should have been replaced months ago even before the loss of Ehlers and Goldin. What exactly is Ellen Wheeler's role in all of this anyway?
I remember last summer that she and La Zimmer got into a screaming fight over the stupid idea to have Billy and Reva sleep together and that La Zim won. Is Wheeler that stupid and incompetent, therefore responsbile for all of the crap on the year since Jan. '07?

Mark, once again we're on the same page (that could be insulting according to certain peeps — LOL!).... I LOVE JACK SMITH. But if Hogan is allowed to write what he wants, I think Y&R is set to get fierce!

HOORAY for AMC!!!!! Next in line for the pink slip should be EP Julie Hanan Carruthers. It's really time to clean this show up. It's nowhere near the disaster Megan McTavish created, but it's still loose in so many areas.

It's time to fix the character of Greenlee, fire Aiden Turner and send Kendall and Zack on a LONG vacation (OFF CAMERA!).

Also, can we please convince Sydney Penny to stay and BEG Julia Barr and Marcy Walker to return???

~Morgan

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I hope Hogan on Y&R means, as MarkPGH says, getting rid of the deadweights.

I also optimistically hope this means great stories for Jess Walton. Hogan loves to write for "older" stronger female leads (Colleen Zenk Pinter on ATWT and Lauren Koslow on DAYS) - so this could bode well for our grossly underused Ms. Walton.

I think this is good news.

I'm not happy with any more outsiders joining the Y&R writing staff, and I thought ATWT was overrated when Hogan was there. He may be trendy, but so was LML with her primetime experience and we all know where that went. I hate it when CBS rushes to grab actors or writers who were successful on other shows. It doesn't mean they'll work on Y&R. Y&R has (or did) a tone and feel to it that's different from other daytime dramas, and that should be cultivated.

PTL!!!!!

Esensten and Brown did nothing for AMC. I'm not too sure on Pratt but I'm optimistic.

I wish AMC could've landed Sheffer but I wish him luck in Genoa City.

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Originally posted by AwardMadness101:
Also, can we please convince Sydney Penny to stay and BEG Julia Barr and Marcy Walker to return???

Marcy Walker has said that she doesn't have any plans to return to daytime. She's a youth minister now.

B&E were at best lousy, while McTavish took a hacksaw to AMC, B&E took a magic marker and their doodles were boring, uninspired, and downright dreadful. But I am not optimistic about Pratt who is like B&E writes dark stories, focouses on male characters, and is very mob oriented.

I'll say it again, I really don't think the HW at AMC matters as long as Frons and JHC are there. I really haven't seen anything consistently good since JHC got there, and really not even as long as Frons has been at ABC.

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Originally posted by nbgemini:
Mark, once again we're on the same page (that could be insulting according to certain peeps — LOL!).... I LOVE JACK SMITH. But if Hogan is allowed to write what he wants, I think Y&R is set to get fierce!

I sure hope so. At this point anything should be better than whats been going on. I don't watch DAYS regularly, but I am not in the belief that what happened, or should I say didn't happen while he was there was entirely his fault. I have confidence that this could be a real good thing.

By the way Nelson, as our resident critic with access to the inside, do you think Y&R's current slump has anything to do with the return of all the strike writers. I don't know about you, but I thought the show was coming back strong when it was a team of four or five during the strike.
Y&R never had a big writing staff until LML came onboard, I'm just thinking this could be a case of too many chefs in the kitchen.

TYATR — I agree; Josh made Y&R the best soap during the strike. I think what happened was Maria, and Josh moved on to producing. Which is why they brought on Hogan. Josh should write the show!