Christian McLaughlin
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Christian McLaughlin is a television writer, producer and author, and a graduate of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas. He gained notoriety in his early twenties with the publication of his novels, Glamourpuss and Sex Toys of the Gods.
[edit] Television Credits
McLaughlin worked as a script writer on The Parent 'Hood, Clueless, The Crew, Married With Children, Grown Ups, The Bold and the Beautiful, Drawn Together, The Suite Life of Zach and Cody, Desperate Housewives, Hot Properties and recently The Young and the Restless.
[edit] Career
His writing partner, Valerie Ahern, and him met at the University of Texas, and started writing sitcom spec scripts together a year later. Together, they created and executive produced MTV's Emmy-nominated steamy soap opera Spyder Games (originally called Spyder Web) after being approached by Drew Tappon at MTV Series Development, and are currently working with Maverick Television to create the first all-LGBT serial, San Rafael, for MTV Network's new homosexual channel, Logo. According to Logo, San Rafael is about "the unexpected schemes and twists in the intertwined lives of a group of LGBT friends and foes living in the same apartment complex." (The Advocate)
David Holman, then a production executive at Columbia Pictures Television, helped McLaughlin land an internship job at Y&R in 1989. His supervisor was Michael Minnis, then a Script Coordinator and writers' assistant. His internship included script synopsis of Y&R episodes and extras casting. His intense and well-known feud with Beth Maitland (she tried to get him fired) began in 1989.
He and Ahern are close friends with John Pardee, Joey Murphy, Jamie Wooten and Maxine Lapiduss. They also keep in touch with James Stanley, Sally Sussman Morina, Diane Messina Stanley, Marc Cherry, Richard Levine and Lyn Greene. His favorite daytime dramas are Search For Tomorrow and The Young and the Restless (he called Darlene Conley "the Divine of daytime TV"). He is a fan of serialized sitcoms like Soap, Cheers, Roseanne, and Friends. His favorite actors are Christine Estabrook and Lane Davies.
Y&R Main Crew
| HW | Associate/Breakdown/Script | Producers/Consultants | Directors |
|---|---|---|---|
| Josh Griffith; Maria Arena Bell [1] | LML, Lynsey DuFour, Marina Alburger, Bernard Lechowick, S. Hamner, Cherie Bennett, Darin Goldberg [2], Neil Landau, Christian McLaughlin, Sandra Weintraub, Linda Schreiber, Tammy Ader [3], Shelley Meals, D.M. Stanley [4], Barbara Bloom, Michael Montgomery, N.M. Slater, Eric Freiwald, Kathryn Pratt [5], Jeff Gottesfeld, Valerie Ahern, Linda Gase [6], James Stanley, Robin Burger [7] | J. Griffith (EP), John Fisher, Anthony Morina, Josh O'Connell, Matthew J. Olson, Steve Kent, Bill Bell Jr., S. McDonald | Susan Strickler, Phideaux Xavier, S. McDonald, Andrew Lee, John Zak, Jill Ackles, Marc Berutti, Dean LaMont, David Shaughnessy |
