ABC Daytime

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ABC Daytime (ABC-D) is a programming block on the ABC Network. The Disney-ABC Television Group named Brian Frons the president of the newly created Daytime, Disney-ABC Television Group in May 2006. The promotion elevated Frons from his position as head of ABC Daytime, a position he has served in since August 2002. MickeyNews Frons' boss is Anne Sweeney (Co-Chair, Disney Media Networks & President, Disney-ABC Television Group).

Terry Cacavio, a former long time producer of All My Children, is the Director of Programming, East Coast. After being fired by Procter & Gamble Productions from As The World Turns, Felicia Minei Behr served as Senior Vice President from 2000 to 2004. Maxine Levinson served as Vice President, Dona Coper was Senior Vice President of Character Development, Pat Fili-Krushel (1993-1998) [1], Angela Shapiro (1998 - August 2002) and Barbara Bloom served as President and Vice President, respectively, of ABC-D during the 1990s. From 1996-2000, Bloom ran the West Coast daytime programming department. During her tenure in this position, she developed and oversaw Port Charles, supervised all creative aspects of General Hospital, oversaw the production of General Hospital's 35th Anniversary Special, and was responsible for the concept and execution of the ABC Daytime Press bestseller, Robin's Diary, which spent 13 weeks on the New York Times best seller list.

Its main competitors are CBS Daytime and NBC Daytime.

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[edit] Casting

According to Soaps In Depth, over the past four years, ABC-D has approached Joshua Morrow (Nick-Y&R); Kristoff St. John, Morgan Fairchild, Todd Cahoon, Daniel Bernhardt, Bo Derek, Justin Torkildsen (ex-Rick-B&B), Paul Leyden (ex-Simon-ATWT), Grant Show (ex-Jake, Melrose Place), Jensen Buchanan (ex-Vicky-AW), Casper Van Dien (ex-Ty-OLTL), Kevin Mambo (ex-Marcus-GL) [2], Scott Reeves (ex-Ryan-Y&R), Camryn Grimes (ex-Cassie-Y&R), Victoria Rowell (ex-Drucilla-Y&R), Robert Kelker-Kelly (ex-Bo-DOOL), Roark Critchlow (ex-Dr. Mike-DOOL), Jason Brooks (ex-Peter-DOOL), Michael T. Weiss (ex-Dr. Mike-DOOL), Christie Clark (ex-Carrie-DOOL), Renee Jones (ex-Lexie-DOOL) about joining their respective shows.

[edit] Schedule

ABC Daytime Schedule (October 2003 - Present; NOTE: All times Eastern; affiliate schedules differ)

7:00 AM - 9:00 AM Good Morning America (GMA)
11:00 AM - 12:00 PM The View
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM All My Children (AMC)
2:00 PM - 3:00 PM One Life To Live (OLTL)
3:00 PM - 4:00 PM General Hospital (GH)

[edit] Criticism and controversy

  • When Megan McTavish returned as Head Writer of AMC in July 2003, she faced criticism for a story that depicted the rape of a lesbian character, Bianca Montgomery.[1] AMC also faced opposition to its recent story of a transgender character in 2006.
  • ABC Daytime scrapped a storyline on OLTL which was to depict a school shooting rampage the day the Virginia Tech massacre occurred on April 17, 2007.[2]
  • The Writers Guild of America East filed arbitration suits against ABC-D, claiming that they violated the strike-termination agreement by retaining replacement writers who filled in during the strike on All My Children instead of bringing back the writers who had been on strike.

“The strike-termination agreement does not allow the retention of replacement writers in lieu of allowing striking writers to return to their jobs. [ABC-D] are clearly violating this agreement,” said Ira Cure, senior counsel for the WGA East, in a statement. “They have left us no other option but to file arbitrations to ensure that our members will be afforded their rights outlined under this agreement.” Broadcasting & Cable: Arbitration Suit Aganinst ABC-D

[edit] Good Morning America

[edit] The View

[edit] All My Children

[edit] One Life to Live

[edit] General Hospital

[edit] Longest Running Actors

[edit] Bios

[edit] Babbin

Jacqueline Babbin (b. July 26, 1921; d. October 6, 2001 at 80 years old) was an American television/theater writer, producer, and executive. She entered high school at the age of eleven and Smith College at fifteen. She worked as an assistant to the renowned literary agent Audrey Wood in 1943, and Irene Selznick. She was briefly married to a Warner Bros. executive.

Babbin began her television career in 1954 at David Susskind’s production company Talent Associates, starting out as a script editor. She formed a successful writing partnership with Audrey Gellen. The two women collaborated on several adaptations of stage plays, including Harvey, The Browning Version, Ethan Frome, The Member of The Wedding, Our Town, and Billy Budd.

In 1961, Susskind and Babbin produced a short-lived dramatic anthology, Way Out, which was a series of macabre stories by Roald Dahl. They also continued their collaboration throughout the decade as producers on TV specials, including Hedda Gabler (with Ingrid Bergman and Michael Redgrave), and The Crucible (with George C. Scott, Colleen Dewhurst, and Fritz Weaver). Babbin produced Sybil which won an Emmy and Peabody Award, and starred Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, and was executive produced by Peter Dunne and Philip Capice. She also produced Beacon Hill, which was considered an American version of Upstairs, Downstairs.

From 1979 to 1982, Babbin served as Vice President, Novels For Television And Miniseries for ABC Entertainment. In 1982, she was hired by ABC Daytime and Agnes Nixon to be All My Children's Executive Producer. During her tenure there, she hired Elizabeth Taylor and Carol Burnett as guest stars. She left AMC in 1986, began writing novels shortly after, and became the Executive Producer of Loving in 1990.

Jane Trahey, Babbin's companion of forty years, died in April 2000.

[edit] Wells

Mary K. Wells (b. 19??, d. 2000) was an American television writer and actress. She acted on Return To Peyton Place, The Secret Storm, The Brighter Day, As The World Turns, Here Come The Waves, The Searching Wind, George Abbott's Three Men On A Horse, Any Wednesday (with Sandy Dennis), and Edward Albee's Everything In The Garden, The Edge of Night (as Louise Grimsley Capice; Ray McDonnell played her husband), Big Town (played Lorelei Kilbourne) and Love of Life. She wrote for All My Children from 1973-1993. She was nominated for 14 Daytime Emmys and won twice (1985 & 1988). [87], [88], [89], [90], [91], [92]

[edit] Pultz

Alan Pultz [93](b. late 1930s, d. 2001) was an American television director. He worked on General Hospital (1979-2000), Dark Shadows, Return To Peyton Place, The Best of Everything, A Flame In The Wind,[3] and ABC's Wide World of Sports.

Awards/Nominations: He was nominated for 10 Daytime Emmys (DE) and a single DGA Award. His first DE nomination was shared with Marlena Laird [94] and Phil Sogard [95]. Directed Luke Spencer Raping Laura Webber

[edit] Gottlieb

Linda Gottlieb is an American television and film producer. Her credits include Soldier's Girl, SoapLine (a joint production of ABC News and ABC Daytime to bring viewers storyline updates, special features and interviews during breaks in live, pre-emptive coverage of the O. J. Simpson trial), Citizen Cohn, One Life To Live (Executive Producer: 1991-1994), Dirty Dancing, The Electric Grandmother, The Gentleman Bandit, We're Fighting Back, ABC Afterschool Specials, The Mating Season, ABC Weekend Specials, NBC Special Treat, Summer of My German Soldier, The Fur Coat Club, Limbo (starring Kate Jackson), and The Immigrant Experience: The Long Long Journey.

She is close friends with Doro Bachrach. She chose Emile Ardolino to direct Dirty Dancing.

Awards & Nominations: Gottlieb has been nominated for 5 Daytime Emmy Awards and won 3 times for Outstanding Drama Series (1993 & 1994), Outstanding Children's Anthology/Dramatic Programming (1980), Outstanding Children's Entertainment Special (1977 & 1979). She's been nominated for 3 Emmy Awards (1979, 1982 & 1993) and single Independent Spirit Award (1988).

Links: [96], [97], [98], [99], [100], [101], [102], [103], [104], [105], [106], [107], [108], [109], [110], [111], [112], [113], [114], [115], [116]

[edit] Barbara Garshman

Barbara Garshman is an American television producer, writer and executive. She holds a MA in Theater Arts- TV from UCLA. She is a former NBC Director of Prime Time Development-East Coast where she helped develop the mini-series as a new dramatic form, presenting over 100 hours of on-air programming, as well as made for television movies, sitcoms and dramatic series. She received five Daytime Emmy Award nominations as Supervising Producer of CBS Daytime's Guiding Light. After leaving GL in 1993, she devoted her time to writing for Days of Our Lives, Another World, and a primetime dramatic pilot, Connections. She worked for ABC Daytime as a consultant where she developed writers for their existing serials and conceived new dramatic forms for daytime television. Garshman currently runs a successful consulting business. She is a member of The Times Square Group which is dedicated to empowering teens and pre-teens by involving them in the creation of theater, TV, film and music. Jackson Free Press: MWG, MWG 2007 P.L.A.N.S. Writers Conference, Media Bistro, The Peoples Improv Theater, New York Women In Film & Television

[edit] Williford

Steven Williford is an American television and theatre director. He currently directs episodes of ABC Daytime's All My Children.Playbill, Curtain Up, [117], NY Times, NY Teatre Guide, [118], [119], O'Neill Theater Center, [120]

[edit] Kloss

Bud Kloss (b. Longview, Texas) is an American television producer. He served in the Army in WWII and graduated from the University of Texas and Yale School of Drama. He started out directing network sports and news programs. His credits include All My Children (1976-1980), Texas (1980-1982). He has been nominated for several Daytime Emmys.

[edit] Wood

Jack Wood (b. 1924, d. 2007) was an American television writer and director. He died of heart failure on February 18, 2007 in Long Beach, CA at the age of 82. He directed episodes of One Life To Live, Guiding Light, All My Children, The Best of Everything, The Brighter Day and Search For Tomorrow. He wrote for AMC from 1975 to 1988, and was a close friend of the series creator, Agnes Nixon. Nixon chose Wood to direct AMC's series premiere. He is survived by his longtime boyfriend, James J. White.

Awards/Nominations: Wood was nominated for 10 Daytime Emmys; won twice, and had several WGA Award and Emmy noms.

[edit] Miner

Peter Miner is an American television producer, writer, and television/theatre/film director. He is the son of television pioneer Worthington Miner and Frances Fuller, the father of Peter and Rachel Miner, and the cousin of Kirk Browning. He was a child actor who made his Broadway debut at age eight and was described by Joshua Logan as "the best child actor I ever saw". A graduate of Georgetown School of Foreign Service, he has a BS in Diplomatic and Consular Practice. Having been a director (The Brighter Day, Guiding Light, and One Life To Live from 1976-1996) and writer, he took a career detour as a network executive (Director of Daytime Programming at ABC Daytime) before going back to directing, writing and producing. He produced Dark Shadows, Hey Cinderella, All My Children and wrote a mystery-romance novel, The Darkening Night (under the pseudonym Jane Elliot).

Miner has won two Daytime Emmys out of eight nominations. He teaches at Columbia University in the Graduate Film School and at T. Schreiber Studios and Weist Baron school.

Miner's thoughts on acting: "Good acting is like mountain climbing; you have to want to go where it's scary to go, where most other people want to go. And you have to get a thrill out of doing it."

[edit] Hoffman

Bobby Hoffman [121] (b. 1922, d. 1993) was a television and film Casting Director. He studied at the Actor's Lab with Joe Papp and Marilyn Monroe, and went on to become a dialogue coach for Glynis Johns and began his 13-year association with Jerry Paris, Gene Reynolds, Gary Nelson, Garry Marshall and Jerry Bolson at Paramount Studios, Disney and Fox Studios. His credits include Happy Days, General Hospital, Laverne and Shirley, and Mork and Mindy. He received an Artios Award from the Casting Society of America on October 19, 1992.

[edit] S. Hoffman

Sherrell Hoffman is an American television director. His credits include Another World (1989), All My Children (1979-1988, 1992-1994) and Guiding Light (1989-1992). He has received 8 Daytime Emmy Award nominations. His first was in 1980 was shared with Henry Kaplan [122], Jack Coffey [123] and Jørn Winther. [124]

[edit] Laundra

Linda Laundra is an American television/theatre producer and director. Her first ten years in New York were in the theatre. She worked with The Theatre Guild and the APA/Phoenix. She then became the Artistic Director of The Writers Theatre, where she began her collaboration with Tom Fontana. She received the Downtown Villager Award and the Torch of Hope Award for her contribution to the theatre. Laundra produced over 30 Off Broadway and Off-Off Broadway plays.

Most recently, she and her husband, along with Tom Fontana, produced their first film, Jean. They also teach for NYU's Tisch School of The Arts and New York Institute of Technology. Laundra has taught at O'Neill Theatre Center, Buchnell University, Connecticut College and Millbrook Studios in New Brunswick.

[edit] Hall

Norman Hall [125] is an American television and theatre director. He directed One Life To Live for 6 years, The Doctors for 8 years, Another World for 3 years, Hidden Faces, Santa Barbara, Loving and Search For Tomorrow. He has been nominated for 4 Daytime Emmys.

[edit] South

Frank South is an American television writer, producer and director. His credits include The Division, Hyperion Bay, Melrose Place, Models Inc., Going To Extremes, Equal Justice, Baywatch, Almost Grown, Fame, Maximum Security, Cagney & Lacey, Hill Street Blues, and General Hospital.

[edit] Past shows on ABC Daytime

[edit] Soap operas

[edit] Game Shows

[edit] Ratings history

Main article: List of US daytime soap opera ratings

[edit] Latest ratings

Week of April 14-18, 2008: (Last Week/Last Year)

  • 1. Y&R 5,139,000 (+52,000/-324,000)
  • 2. B&B 3,638,000 (-30,000/-222,000)
  • 3. ATWT 2,938,000 (+123,000/-72,000)
  • 4. GH 2,820,000 (-198,000/-449,000)
  • 5. DOOL 2,722,000 (+70,000/+280,000)
  • 6. GL 2,428,000 (-17,000/-198,000)
  • 7. AMC 2,408,000 (-147,000/-710,000)
  • 8. OLTL 2,342,000 (-144,000/-681,000)
    • AMC
  • Monday: 2,614,000
  • Tuesday: 2,487,000
  • Wednesday: 2,440,000
  • Thursday: 2,441,000
  • Friday: 2,058,000 (SERIES LOW)
    • GH
  • Monday: 2,959,000
  • Tuesday: 2,889,000
  • Wednesday: 2,770,000
  • Thursday: 2,874,000
  • Friday: 2,607,000
    • OLTL
  • Monday: 2,494,000
  • Tuesday: 2,472,000
  • Wednesday: 2,340,000
  • Thursday: 2,294,000
  • Friday: 2,135,000 (SERIES LOW)

[edit] References

  1. ^ The Advocate: The Rape of Bianca
  2. ^ ABC News: Daytime Drama Pulls Episodes Involving High School Hostage Situation
  3. ^ Yahoo! Search - Web Search

[edit] External links

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