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Soaps in hot water as fresh scripts run out

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The daytime soap operas might be losing their bubbles in the weeks ahead as networks resort to episodes not penned by striking writers.

The Writers Guild of America, which has been on strike since November 5, has picketed for several days in front of ABC headquarters in New York, primarily to protest its airing of "All My Children" episodes written by non-union members. ABC is the only network to produce all of its soap operas, while "Days of Our Lives" on NBC is produced by Corday Prods. and all of the CBS soaps are produced outside the network, including two by Procter & Gamble and one by Sony.

The networks and soap production companies have gone radio silent about how many scripts they still have from WGA writing staffs, and the writers themselves say it varies from soap to soap.


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Comments (3)

If you want to call that dr... (Below threshold)
langtry:

If you want to call that drivel scripted. Frankly, how hard would it be for soap actors to improvise? It's not as if the storylines vary much.

You gotta be kidding. They'... (Below threshold)
mojo:

You gotta be kidding. They've been using the same set of scripts for 20 years.

Just skip the middleman and... (Below threshold)
ijosha:

Just skip the middleman and do what the writers had been doing already... steal ideas from the telenovelas.


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