Who'd you want to work in Daytime as EPs, HWs from other genres?
I'm thinking Darren Star would be a good fit as EP or HW. He launched classic 90s soaps MP and 90210, CPW flopped but I liked it. He can do edgy since he launched SATC, til those gay guys Michael Patrick King and John Melfi ruined it.
Alan Ball should write and produce GH so Sonny and Jason can finally consummate the subjugated sexual tension they've had for over a decade now.
Greg Berlanti ("Dawson's Creek," "Everwood," "Eli Stone") should write and produce AMC, to bring heart and character-driven stories back to it.
And when all the soaps are cancelled, David Simon ("The Wire," "Generation Kill") should write a hard-hitting, 10-hour docudrama about how the soap operas were mismanaged and killed. He could use the cast Nelson suggested.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert, from the introduction to "Awake in the Dark" (2006)
hmmm after the debacle that was Lynn Marie Latham at Y&R i'm not sure that someone coming from primetime to daytime will work just because they worked in primetime. Latham had a lot of expierance in primetime soaps including 80's icon "Knot's Landing" but her expierance didn't translate into quality work at Y&R, so just because a talented person had success in primetime doesn't mean they'd work well in daytime.
we need people with vision and heart and integrity running the soaps, not to mention people with intellect.
With that said:
Aaron Spelling's former producing partner E. Duke Vincent has been totally absent since Spelling's death and his talents could surely turn daytime around---let's give him "AMC" and see what happens.
Also another quality choice would be Charles Rosin, also an alumni of "90210" he helped produce and write the first five seasons of the show and has also worked in various capacities on shows like "Dawson's Creek", "St. Elsewhere" and "Northern Exposure".
There's also Christopher Kesyer and Amy Lippman who created "Party Of Five" as well as produced and wrote shows like "In Treatment" and "Sisters". They could serve daytime very well; i could see them taking "General Hospital" into a new direction and reinstating some core famalies into the show and making it a bit more reality based than it is now.
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He could probably write a single dialogue passage that starts on Monday and ends on Friday.
"A movie is not good because it arrives at conclusions you share, or bad because it does not. A movie is not about what it is about. It is about how it is about it: about the way it considers its subject matter, and about how its real subject may be quite different from the one it seems to provide." - Roger Ebert, from the introduction to "Awake in the Dark" (2006)
i don't know what ever happened to them, if they are even still alive but Dynasty writers Esther and Richard Shapiro could do wonders with any daytime soap.
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