BREAKING NEWS: Former Y&R Exec Josh Griffith Lands Trial Writing Deal With General Hospital!
By Jamey Giddens on June 23, 2009

Ah nothing like the taste of old blood! General Hospital has added a new scribe to its stable of writers. Word is veteran producer/scribe Josh Griffith, who co-created the late Aaron Spelling's short-lived NBC guilty pleasure soap Sunset Beach with current GH head writer Bob Guza, has been offered a trial script writing deal with the ABC sudser. When we last heard from Griffith, who also wrote for One Life to Live, As The World Turns and my beloved Santa Barbara, he was being bounced from his executive producer gig at The Young and the Restless for allegedly tangling with Auntie Ri Ri (aka Maria Arena Bell). Josh is alright and all I guess, but when is someone gonna hire Sri Rao?

Ah nothing like the taste of old blood! General Hospital has added a new scribe to its stable of writers. Word is veteran producer/scribe Josh Griffith, who co-created the late Aaron Spelling's short-lived NBC guilty pleasure soap Sunset Beach with current GH head writer Bob Guza, has been offered a trial script writing deal with the ABC sudser. When we last heard from Griffith, who also wrote for One Life to Live, As The World Turns and my beloved Santa Barbara, he was being bounced from his executive producer gig at The Young and the Restless for allegedly tangling with Auntie Ri Ri (aka Maria Arena Bell). Josh is alright and all I guess, but when is someone gonna hire Sri Rao?
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12 February 2008
2 hours 22 min
This is a step in the right direction. I don't understand why Josh has to share. Just get Guza out of there! Hopefully, this is the beginning of the creative renaissance for GH...
11 April 2009
2 hours 3 min
Is he a good writer?
BTW, what happened to Martha Byrne's writing gig at B&B? Did she finish her trial?
22 January 2008
45 min 33 sec
This is a step in the right direction. I don't understand why Josh has to share. Just get Guza out of there! Hopefully, this is the beginning of the creative renaissance for GH...
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LOL his trial is not for co-head. It's just a part of the writing team.
28 May 2009
2 years 18 weeks
Its not the scripts or the breakdowns that need work,its the long story that needs help. GUZA needs a co-headwriter to balance him out and Frons' to stop meddling would also help.
15 October 2008
4 weeks 2 days
Yeah I agree w/tori4rmtexas! I think getting Guza a coHW to balance out things would be a start. B/c after starting rewatching again w/new eyes I realize that the pieces are there, but we need ppl to put it together. I think if they do what GL did and divide the HW teams w/ppl like Karen Harris & Michele Val Jean, you know WOMEN!!!!!!!!!, along w/Guza it can go a long way.
12 February 2008
2 hours 22 min
Oh, what the hell?!
Will those idiots realize that getting people for the writing team don't mean a damn thing when the problem stems from the head writer. This is show is determined to get canceled.
23 March 2009
2 years 35 weeks
Wash, rinse, repeat. Musical chairs of soap writers goes on.
8 February 2009
3 years 2 days
Maybe he could make sense of Nikolas banging his dead fiance's twin.....that's also being recycled on All My Children. I need an asprin
2 January 2008
18 weeks 3 hours
Im such a huge fan of Josh Griffith.I loved when Josh and Michael Malone were head writers at oltl.From viki's incest did storyline to martys rape he is one of the best head writers.Hopefully frons names him co head writer
30 April 2009
2 years 37 weeks
I loved sunset beach...any rumors on Guza being fired....quick - everyone pray, meditate, do what ever you do to help that happen!
25 September 2008
2 years 5 weeks
What has happened to the GH spoilers? Haven't seen any since Thursday. Did they get pushed to the backburner like Bobbie and the Q's? lol
8 February 2009
3 years 2 days
His writing lately makes me really really miss Port Charles...does that make me a bad person?
27 March 2009
1 year 20 weeks
Josh Griffith is another recycled hack.
14 November 2007
3 years 2 weeks
Hopefully this is a step in the right direction... As for Sri, I'm assuming he's got other projects he's working on and might not want to write for a daytime soap
Whatever happened to that ABC Daytime Writers Development program they used to have (or whatever they called it)?? I would think they'd have plenty of fresh meat to pick from, just from that program alone.
24 March 2008
7 hours 18 min
If Frons is still there, will anything ever really change???
They need to start pink-slipping from the top & work their way down.
Sri Rao would be a dream come true!
27 December 2007
1 day 4 hours
Unless he is able to get his ideas to play out in story.
I don't see the point the problems are still there Guza as HW and Frons meddling with his vision
The "vision" isn't changing just how it is written. Everytime I get hopeful and its just the same ole airhogs eating the screen. Basically the same ole story....a bunch of new meaningless characters that come and go....
13 February 2008
3 years 29 weeks
This is the guy who cemented Todd Manning on OLTL- I don't think he's there to balance the misogyny out on GH.