Is Soap Slayer David Kreizman Penning Scripts For General Hospital?!
By Jamey Giddens on September 19, 2011
What do you get for helping tank three soap operas in rapid succession? A gig helping finish off a fourth. Soap Opera Network is reporting that former Guiding Light, As The World Turns and All My Children co-head wrier David Kreizman is now writing scripts for General Hospital. I have honestly stopped trying to figure out how the people who run this industry think. Soaps are the only entertainment medium where you're only as good as your last failure.
What do you get for helping tank three soap operas in rapid succession? A gig helping finish off a fourth. Soap Opera Network is reporting that former Guiding Light, As The World Turns and All My Children co-head wrier David Kreizman is now writing scripts for General Hospital. I have honestly stopped trying to figure out how the people who run this industry think. Soaps are the only entertainment medium where you're only as good as your last failure.
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7 December 2009
1 year 25 weeks
noooooooooooooooooooo Bad move
1 July 2009
4 hours 24 min
Thank goodness, I haven't had lunch yet, I would've thrown up.
WHYYYYYY??????????
23 April 2008
2 hours 46 min
General Hospice is now in critical condition. Who EVER thought this was a good idea?! I wouldn't have Kreizman pen an instructional manual.
9 June 2009
14 weeks 4 days
Well at least he's not head writer, I guess that's the silver lining, but yeah, I don't get why they keep recycling soap killers. Can we get some new blood please? I mean they hire a guy who helped kill three shows as script writer, but they probably never pursued Sri Rao who wrote season two of GH: Night Shift, which fans loved. Makes no sense.
4 February 2009
17 min 36 sec
The other thing that I don't get is: can someone interview these people? I don't want an attack interview, but if I had to read the standardized quotes about upcoming storylines when the soap was on then I want some post-headwriting analysis and an exit interview.
10 February 2009
3 hours 54 min
Frons strikes again!
21 April 2008
2 weeks 6 days
I'm not a fan of Kreizman's at all but before he became HW of GL, he was a good breakdown and script writer for several years. As long as he has no control over the actual storylines, I don't think it's a big deal. If he's given a pre-planned storyline, he can write good scripts around it. The problem at ATWT, AMC, and his last five years at GL was that he was HW and responsible for long term planning and pacing, which he sucks at.
11 February 2008
3 days 2 hours
People, the whole idea is to kill off Soaps, so Frons is bsically making sure he speeds up the process at ABC. GH has a DNR sign hanging over the door.
6 December 2009
10 hours 37 min
@ RoseVioletDaisy, I agree with 100% about DK. But GH fans I feel for you because Ron C. is going over to GH also and if either one ends up HW that is serious because neither are outstanding HWs. They both could be better in a different position in GH's writing staff.
12 February 2010
1 day 17 hours
I seriously give up!! There are no words......
Enjoy GH while it lasts, folks.
14 June 2011
26 min 56 sec
@RoseVioletDaisy-I'm hoping you're right. Let's keep our fingers crossed
that they keep him away from the headwriter's chair...
29 July 2011
26 weeks 4 hours
WTF Killer K must have something on Frons
22 January 2011
39 sec
The soaps aren't dying a natural death. It's murder, and in some cases suicide.
13 December 2009
18 weeks 6 days
I don't care if this guy is just a scriptwriter. In all of Hollywood, NY or in the entire USA there is no other talent out there capable of writing scripts? Hell take a chance on a newbie. How else go you bring in new ideas if you keep the same people in these positions that have been there for years? Doug Marland started somewhere right? Of course PP is making the same f'd up mistakes too. Whatever. I fully expect Dena Higley to be hired on soon either at PP or at GH or most likely coheadwriting with MAB over at Y&R soon
12 December 2008
13 min 3 sec
All soaps will be dead in a few years and no one but the fans care. I say just yank them all off the air now and let the remaining few go out with a little dignity.
29 August 2010
9 weeks 21 hours
Um...
23 April 2008
2 hours 46 min
Just in case your keeping track- Guiding Light (dead) As The World Turns (dead) All My Children (in coma)
16 June 2010
20 hours 16 min
RoseVioletDaisy
I think that is a good way of putting it. I agree. I thought the dialog was better on amc months ago. I will say no more because I am a newer viewer and I know longtime viewers are happy to have their favs back. I just would not stay with show if it was like it has been the last few weeks. If a headwriter controls he will write great scenes.
(I was under impression he has been gone from amc for months unless I am wrong)
I wish RC would stay with oltl. I think he is good.
22 October 2010
23 min 16 sec
Honestly,GH has been hard for me to get thru lately. Jason has been in bed for weeks, Sam still didnt get her ring cause Maxie keeps losing it. Lucky is always hysterical crying. Whats it about?
4 May 2009
26 min 55 sec
This is why daytime dramas are dying. They recycle the same old tired hacks instead of bringing in new blood.
4 May 2009
31 min 34 sec
I don't see the point but I guess as long as he is writing scripts and not the storylines its ok.
3 June 2010
26 min 52 sec
I give up....It really seems like they want this show to die...
...And on the very same day this news about this writer is announced... you have the actors like Steve Burton, Scott Reeves and Bradford Anderson... begging you not to FF through the show. They say the show gets credit for tivo and dvrs...as long as you don't fast forward through commercials...They seem to think we can save the show if we comply with this.
14 December 2007
2 days 1 hour
Amen to that
12 February 2010
1 day 17 hours
Kreizman doesn't deserve to be employed ANYWHERE in the realm of television: daytime, primetime or ANYTIME. In most industries, they don't reward incompetence with job security and unlimited job offers. Maybe he should go into politics after all the soaps are killed off.........or become a used car salesman?
28 December 2007
1 year 33 weeks
Why does this man have a job? He should be sweeping the streets after helping to kill off multiple soaps.
14 June 2009
5 hours 25 min
Hey GH! Dena Highley is available..... Although she hasn't gotten a soap canceled yet, she certainly makes soaps unwatchable. Maybe you should hire her too! Better yet why not make her one of the co headwriters for Y&R. The more hacks the better. And atleast she likes slow stories. Well her stories make no sense and the dialog is extremely repetitious with the same scene partners all the time, but her stories are much slower. She still doesn't play the beats. Oh and she often doesn't even have stories. She just throws people at eachother until some of them stick together like glue. And every spring EVERYONE breaks up and tries on new partners. It's fun you should hire her and see. Besides, the writers room would be a great set for a new reality show, since she replaced Hogan on Days. They could cat fight over story. We could call the show " Who sux the most?
an unscripted reality show about script writing on daytimes most venerable soap that the writers are ruining"
27 December 2007
1 hour 9 min
A failure is a failure a hack is a hack period you shouldn't want this clown on your roster in any capacity but again this is a good ole' boys network they recycle the failures from one show to the other and since these are the same ones that killed the other soaps and its only four left they are circling around these like vultures..their cash cow has dwindled now. I am not impressed with seeing these names keep popping up. As for GH I feel sorry for his show its the same ole' sh...warmed over.
So they screw many fans over with hack writing and ask not to FF through commercials .. WoW that's rich...I don't watch the show that much but I'll continue to give them my rating because I record that' all they care about
my contribution to trying to trying to keep this genre alive even though my interest is fading fast especially reading this kind of nonsense
so I can FF through the show and watch commercials and its all good ... Ok, whatever...
30 March 2009
6 days 29 min
LOL @ AMC in a coma! lmao
27 July 2011
2 days 8 hours
I guess he's Frons' boy toy. There can be no other explanation. Anyone posting a comment on this thread could write a better soap opera. GH takes one step forward then three backwards. We were promised balance but we get greasy Sonny and/or the other mob lunacy at least four days per week. There is a reason why GH is in serious danger of being the least watched soap opera. How sad for a show that once attracted millions and even more sad, a show that once made viewers feel deeply, instead of feeling disgusted.