On the heels of celebrating its 11,000th broadcast, CBS’ The Young and the Restless has completed a headwriter change, tapping soap vet Sally Sussman to succeed Chuck Pratt, Jr.
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In her first Y&R stint, Sussman served as story consultant and associate headwriter, helping the daytime drama’s writing staff collect three Emmy noms. During her more recent visit to Genoa City, she won both an Emmy and her second Writers’ Guild of America Award, serving as story consultant and co-headwriter.
Sussman’s credits also include creating NBC’s Generations, serving as...
RelatedJustin Hartley Confirms Young and Restless Exit
In her first Y&R stint, Sussman served as story consultant and associate headwriter, helping the daytime drama’s writing staff collect three Emmy noms. During her more recent visit to Genoa City, she won both an Emmy and her second Writers’ Guild of America Award, serving as story consultant and co-headwriter.
Sussman’s credits also include creating NBC’s Generations, serving as...
- 9/15/2016
- TVLine.com
It has been a long and pothole-ridden road to “Scream,” which premiered on MTV tonight (June 30). While the one-time music video channel has produced reality shows that have been both genre-defining and ratings-winning (including but not limited too “The Real World” and “Jersey Shore”), its history with scripted dramas makes the Philadelphia Phillies current win-loss record look impressive. MTV has been trying to break the scripted drama code for more than 20 years, with very little to show for it. Personal crises, sexual mischief, groundbreaking depictions of same-sex relationships and other elements that have worked for reality TV have rarely struck gold with the network’s audiences when an actual script supervisor involved. “Awkward” and “Teen Wolf” -- a pair of shows that premiered in 2011 -- are still on the air, and have garnered mostly positive reviews to go with small but devoted followings. (“Awkward” will begin airing its fifth and...
- 7/1/2015
- by Oliver Jones
- Hitfix
On this date in...
1967: Dark Shadows aired in color for the first time. On the episode, directed by Lela Swift, Barnabas decided that Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) must die!
1979: On The Edge Of Night, Steve and Deborah recalled happier times.
2009: Amanda Setton debuted on One Life To Live as Kimberly.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Jackée Harry (ex-Lily, Another World) - 55
Susan Olsen (ex-Liza, The Young And The Restless; ex-Cindy, The Bradys) - 50
Halle Berry (ex-Debbie, Knots Landing) - 45
Rhonda Ross Kendrick (ex-Toni, Another World) - 40
Christopher Gorham (ex-Henry, Ugly Betty) - 37
Shawn Batten (ex-Sarah, Sunset Beach; ex-Natalia, Spyder Games) - 36
Editor's Note: If you would like to submit a piece of soap opera history for this daily column, please email it to editor@welovesoaps.com.
1967: Dark Shadows aired in color for the first time. On the episode, directed by Lela Swift, Barnabas decided that Maggie Evans (Kathryn Leigh Scott) must die!
1979: On The Edge Of Night, Steve and Deborah recalled happier times.
2009: Amanda Setton debuted on One Life To Live as Kimberly.
Celebrating a birthday today are:
Jackée Harry (ex-Lily, Another World) - 55
Susan Olsen (ex-Liza, The Young And The Restless; ex-Cindy, The Bradys) - 50
Halle Berry (ex-Debbie, Knots Landing) - 45
Rhonda Ross Kendrick (ex-Toni, Another World) - 40
Christopher Gorham (ex-Henry, Ugly Betty) - 37
Shawn Batten (ex-Sarah, Sunset Beach; ex-Natalia, Spyder Games) - 36
Editor's Note: If you would like to submit a piece of soap opera history for this daily column, please email it to editor@welovesoaps.com.
- 8/15/2011
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Machinima.com, flush with cash after recently raising $3.85 million in capital, has announced the Machinima Comedy Lab, where the site is bringing on fifteen traditional TV writers, each to develop a comedy web series pilots. The series will be greenlit for up to four episodes each before they decide whether to further produce the series. Amongst the list veteran writers selected are Writers Guild of America West president Patric M. Verrone, Family Guy scribe Mike Rowe and a number of former staffers on The Simpsons. The full list: * Chris Cluess: Mad TV, The Simpsons, Cheers * Bill Freiberger: Drawn Together, The Suite Life of Zack and Cody, The Simpsons * Eric Horsted: Boondocks, Knights of Prosperity, Futurama * Ken Keeler: Futurama, The Simpsons, Wings * Stacie Lipp: King of Queens, Roseanne, Married With Children * Christina Lynch: Wildfire, The Dead Zone, Unhappily Ever After * Peggy Nicoll: WordGirl, Daria * Bill Oakley: Mission Hill,...
- 12/19/2008
- by Marc Hustvedt
- Tubefilter.com
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