Yeah cause that’s a good idea

There are plenty of more than qualified writers out there to tackle the vacant head writer position at Y&R. But instead of recycling our great daytime writers, let’s see if Sony will let Mal Young can bring in someone from over the pond. AMC had one once and he was magnificent!!

Great news all around!

Now I will check this out!

I’m so happy he’s gone from Y&R!

But it seems to me he was looking for a way out of Y&R! – He probability knew that Sony wasn’t going to renew his contract, so he begin to shop around and now he’s the showrunner of a new primetime soap by Lee Daniels!

To me, his storytelling has always been more for primetime, than daytime.
So I wish him good luck and hopefully Y&R can get back on track, I hear that Sally Sussman Morina maybe returning as Head Writer! 🙂

Thank you, Lord. How about bringing back Maria Arena Bell? Y&R needs a woman’s touch (i.e. less hostility and violence).

Now let’s keep him away from soaps, please.

Hopefully this means more coherent storytelling on Y&R

Hope he leaves Y&R!!!

Chuck contract was not renewed, that’s wonderful that he is gone. Good riddance.

Y&R got rid of the rat finally, Jill Phelps fired and now Pratt gone. Thank you soap gods.

Yay! I pray this means that his writing days for Y&R are over!!!!!!!

Now it is time, to bring back Traci Abbott full time. Beth Maitland can act, give her a juicy storyline. Also bring back Sheila Carter and Gloria. Judith Chapman and Kimberlin Brown are well missed and need to come back to Y&R.

I sense Mr. Pratt will be better suited to the EMPIRE/STAR universe of over-the-top, shock shenanigans, the like of which he gave is in previous series. I appreciate the work at Y&R but I do not think it will be remembered as the best tenure for a head writer.

I expect we will see a shakeup in Genoa City, and I hope it result in restoring some characters to their true selves and dispensing with stories that have lost their way and relevance.

Pratt out at Y&R!!! Color me shocked. I thought the fans were happy with his erratic storytelling.

Great news for Y&R and even better news for Y&R fans.

GOOD RIDDANCE, YOU HACK!!!

BRING SALLY SUSSMAN MORINA BACK!!!

The news that Charles Pratt will be helming STAR means I won’t be bothering to sample that show.

As for the new headwriter of Y&R, I’m thinking Mal Young might create a new head writing team — one from Britain and one from America to create a new style that blends the most successful aspects of British and American soap operas.

Fox Network…ya’ll have NO IDEA as to what ya’ll are in for…or what ya’ll have gotten yourselves into!!!!! Y-i-k-e-s.

Get on your knees and beg Kay Alden to come back offer her the moon she was Bill Bell’s protege please give that woman anything she wants.

I like Pratt–
He has talent, a good writer.

this; Pratt’s first foray into primetime, having helmed or written, The Lying Game, Desperate Housewives, Melrose Place and Ugly Betty, as well as daytime’s All My Children, General Hospital and Santa Barbara.

that ^^^^^^ primetime resume speaks volumes as to his qualities..
I don’t believe any of the writers/EP has a resume as Pratt’s ..

I would cheer for Pratt coming back to GH and kick J&S back to Y&R ..
but- that won’t be happening 🙁

YES, I am so excited…Kay Alden and Sally Sussman Morina for they both know what Y&R is all about…let’s get this show back to it’s glory days…AMEN

Pamela Long

Have not watched the show in many months hope they get someone to bring back the heart of the show. They need well rounded storytelling with characters that extend stories. They need Tracy and Gloria. They need to flesh out Phyllis more, they have almost ruined the character in the last few months. Bring back her mother Lydia to give her someone to play off. Cast a great actress like Robin Strasser in the role. Bring back Michael Knight he was one of the few bright spots of the last year. Bring back multi generatioal storytelling which was the hallmark of the best years of great shows like AMC,As the World Turns, and Guiding Light.

thank god he’s gone from Y&R. Pratt clearly didn’t care about the history of the show. Y&R needs a competent head writer like Sally Sussman Morina to get the show back on track

Glad Chuck Pratt and Jill Farren Phelps are off soaps, hopefully for good!

daytimeconfidential says that Sally Sussman Morina is the likely replacement.

Sources of mine have indicated that there will be a British invasion of sorts. Many of the writers will be from England. I didn’t think Y&R could be any more snobby…

Although I was not a fan of his work on Y&R, I think he will be better suited for prime time and I might give the new show a shot.

However it is never a good thing for soaps to be constantly changing HW and producers– this is what ? fourth or fifth writer change in the last six years or less I think– so unless they really are prepared to back up the next team and give them time, for all soaps need time to stabilize after a change in direction– if CBS doesn’t give them five or six years instead two to fix things, the revolving door will never end, and the soap will continue to suffer

Hey suooo I’m surprise you are not calling for Ron C to come on over to Y&R- LOL

i want Maria Arena Bell back permanetly as head writer and at least as co exec producer !

I had stopped watching Y&R years ago. When Jill Farren Phelps’ Hollywood Heights ended and she joined Y&R, I started watching again (2012) – I’ve been watching since. Several of my favorite actors from HH joined Y&R and I’ve watched them become some of my favorite characters – Noah, Abby and Summer. I think she also brought Gina Tognoni on to play Phyllis and very successfully. I’m sad to see her go I hope the show doesn’t suffer from losing Phelps-Pratt.

I’m personally glad I’m sorry to say this but Chuck Pratt destroyed along with Jill Farren Phelps I show that I have watched literally since I probably was born. I watch The Young and the Restless definitely since 1990 and fell in love with it it was on in my house all the time but I stopped watching the show this past year because I just couldn’t take it anymore none of the characters that felt like almost family watching them every single day of your life for year after year did not feel recognizable anymore! Chuck Pratt rewrote history of the stories and characteristics of the character’s lives especially the ones that Bill Bell clearly had a vision for long-term. This whole stuff about making sharing all the sudden have bipolar was so heartbreaking to her Die Hard fans. Sharon and Nick were meant to be they are the next Nikki and Victor who take over the core of the show. The Chuck Pratt destroyed that like sharing matters like nothing to the show she’s The Young and the Restless doormat. All of that history of Adam and Sharon that took my breath away good and bad days but definitely exciting was completely erased like Sharon and Adam have never met that was such a smack in the face to all the #Shadam fans. It’s bad enough we can have Victoria Rowell back as Drucilla but did Chuck Pratt have to take meal who was always honest Neil that had to do the right thing all the time and go and make him a kidnapping drunk. He took mrs. Chandler’s iconic mansion and redecorated it and fans were outraged and hurt. Sorry not sorry but I’m happy to see Chuck Pratt leave my soap

Kay Allen would be great if she came back because she wrote the show when this show was on top.Chuck Pratt absolutely ruined and destroyed this show! He didn’t care what the fans wanted he tried to rewrite the entire history everybody knows that everybody kept saying I don’t remember that I don’t remember that I don’t remember that. We all begged and pleaded please do not make our Sharon crazy we love her and she would not ever be evil ever and she deserves to be happy like everybody else but for some reason he had it out for her which absolutely made no sense an Adam with Chelsea was so boring but none of us could understand why they brought Adam back in the first place because they must have took his memory away is because he didn’t even remember Sharon the girl he was married to all those years he was so in love with her and he would never be able to stop being around her help Sharon but the show acted like they never had a romance and this enjoyable deep connection an understanding of what it’s like to be alone and trying to win back love and hurt they endured. I could go on to all the characters that completely we did not even recognize it was such a shame people were outraged and screaming everyday that’s why the show unfortunately one no Awards. He needs to of been gone a long time ago I feel sorry for whoever is the next victim show of Chuck Pratt because he’s a show killer

I don’t think he could do both. An announcement would be nice. I am not sorry to see him go.

Remember this, even when Chuckie Pratt was at the helm, Y&R STILL was #1. The show is on cruise control. HOWEVER, we the fans are dissatisfied the way some of our favorite characters were written under Chuck and Jill and dissatisfied at their choices on who is on the show and who is not. Here is my wishes for the new head writer.

#1 I want Gloria and Jeff back.

#2 I want Lauren and Michael front and center.

#3 Cut Stitch from the show. He cannot act and in what world would he EVER have a chance with a doll like Abby. And give Abby a great story. She can handle it!

#4 Find Jack a beautiful women inside and out!

#5 Remember Ashley?

#6 Enough of Glummer and HELLsea!

#7 More Mariah and Kevin. Make Chloe a little more sane and have a triangle with her, Cane and Lilly.

#8 Back to Port Charles Steve and Jason!

#9 Phyllis? Who is this Phyllis? Recast!

#10 And last but not least, BRING BACK OUR ADAM! [Preferably Michael Muhney!]

FINALLY! This has been a long time coming. While the last couple of months on Y&R have been good, in my opinion, and the 11,000th episode celebration over the last few weeks was great, Chuck Pratt was never a good choice to take over as head writer. He didn’t destroy Y&R the way he did AMC during its final years, but his erratic, event-driven writing is better suited for primetime, where he doesn’t have to bend characters and history to suit his stories.

As for the future of Y&R, PLEASE do not even think about bringing back Josh Griffith, Shelly Altman or Jean Passanante. The years of their writing regimes produced very boring stories, and Y&R’s rating dipped under Jean and Shelly. As for Josh, looking at the job he did on DAYS most recently, I don’t want half of Y&R’s cast killed off before Christmas.

If the rumors are true that Sally Sussman Morina is in talks to join the show, that would be fantastic news. Equally good options are Kay Alden and John F. Smith, who co-wrote the show back in 2002-2005.

Okay lets get our facts straight people– it was MAB that started making Sharon crazy by having her want to take over Newman and marry Victor– Josh Griffith was the one who decided as a way to explain all the odd things the character did under MAB he would make her bi polar, but instead of writing a thoughtful story on the challenges of mental illness– they kept using her “going off her med” as an excuse to keep Sharon doing crazy things,– Pratt just continue the trend and expanded on it.

And as much as I would love the old days of soap telling to come back, I don’t think even if Mr. Bell himself were alive, the way the networks are today, the way everything is micromanaged and focused group to death- the way ratings are the only thing that matters and budgets get cut daily– the way viewers have changed, and their attention spans shorten due the Internet speed of things–I don’t even Mr. Bell could recreate what he created back in the day when the world and business was different.

But I would settle for a Head writer that would at least pay attention to the history of the show– if they would do that, even if they did plot driven stories maybe it they were more organic instead of twisting characters to fit the plots, it might be more like the show we once knew

Side note– is anyone else disliking the new camera work on the show as much as me? . If the camera gets any closer to the actor’s faces with HD I will be able to count their nose hair— and what’s with all the above shots– it is a soap not film noir — on soaps the story is the star, camera work like they are doing now is just distracting and isn’t help– imho

Also what happened to Nikki having MS– if you are going give someone a disease like that be realistic, she had more bouts with bottle than any recurrence of symptoms—