Report: Christopher Goutman Hired to Direct Episodes of New All My Children
By Jamey Giddens on February 25, 2013
Soap Opera Uncensored is reporting controversial ex-daytime executive Christopher Goutman has been hired by Prospect Park to direct episodes of All My Children. I swear, this genre takes two steps forward, then three backwards.
Soap Opera Uncensored is reporting controversial ex-daytime executive Christopher Goutman has been hired by Prospect Park to direct episodes of All My Children. I swear, this genre takes two steps forward, then three backwards.
While I don't begrudge anyone a job, is it really a smart move to hire the dude who brought a time-traveling, 200-year-old man to the final season of Another World, before going on to run As The World Turns into the ground? This is the same cat who didn't realize what a national treasure he had in Martha Byrne (ex-Lily).
Okay, so he'll reportedly only be directing, my fear is Goutman will somehow figure out how to claw his way to the top of these reboots. He's done it before, and to a bad end for the Procter and Gamble soaps.
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10 February 2013
15 weeks 3 days
ROTFLMGAO!!!!!!! I love what you said ronklopfan! That was brilliant!
28 June 2012
2 hours 10 min
We all panic when show killers are hired on our soaps...Jill FP came to Y and R!
8 June 2012
4 hours 27 min
Goutman's taking a job as a director is a major step down in having authority over anything other than the individual script that is being shot that day. I think the panic on here is an overreaction, especially since it's something of a come-down for Goutman.
Directors on soaps don't have the sort of power that film directors do--that's why we criticize the writers and producers but rarely have any beef with the directors, or even know them beyond the name in the credits. They're handed a script to film that is very restrictive as to what can be done with it. Other than some choices in camera angles in a scene, I don't see him having a lot of autonomy to do anything.
4 May 2009
13 hours 50 min
Directors on soaps don't have the sort of power that film directors do--that's why we criticize the writers and producers but rarely have any beef with the directors, or even know them beyond the name in the credits. They're handed a script to film that is very restrictive as to what can be done with it. Other than some choices in camera angles in a scene, I don't see him having a lot of autonomy to do anything.
Yeah, but he worked his way up from Director to EP once, he could do it again
24 January 2012
5 days 13 hours
Sorry. But as a matter of principle, I won't watch anything he's associated with.