• A head writer is a person who oversees the team of writers on a television or radio series. The title is common in the soap opera genre, as well as with...
    4 KB (368 words) - 19:03, 30 October 2023
  • January 4, 2024. Karen Harris served as co-head writer with Robert Guza Jr. in 1996, and remained as co-head writer with Richard Culliton in 1997. Various...
    81 KB (6,724 words) - 01:32, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Colin Jost
    Colin Jost (category 21st-century American male writers)
    also served as one of the show's co-head writers from 2012 to 2015 and later came back as one of the show's head writers in 2017 until 2022, alongside Michael...
    51 KB (3,209 words) - 08:00, 20 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Days of Our Lives
    as head writers; the magazine further confirmed that former head writer Higley would return, alongside former The Young and the Restless head writer Josh...
    138 KB (14,542 words) - 23:41, 15 November 2024
  • had multiple writers and a writers room that the head writer led, and they also used "created for television by" credits for the head writers. Explaining...
    142 KB (13,666 words) - 19:57, 18 November 2024
  • Rich headed to 'SNL'". Chicago Tribune. Retrieved November 26, 2021. Andreeva, Nellie (10 September 2014). "'Saturday Night Live' Adds Two New Writers"....
    50 KB (683 words) - 05:18, 18 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bradley Bell
    American television writer and producer. Bell is an eight-time Daytime Emmy Award winner and is executive producer and head writer for The Bold and the...
    9 KB (607 words) - 19:02, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for All My Children
    regained the rights to the show in December 2016. Agnes Nixon, then head writer for The Guiding Light, first came up with the idea for All My Children...
    141 KB (13,832 words) - 23:12, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Young and the Restless
    the sole head writer. On August 15, 2013, it was speculated and reported by several online sources that Griffith had resigned as head-writer of the serial...
    102 KB (7,737 words) - 21:57, 20 November 2024
  • returned as head writer for the second season, with series' story editor Matthew Chauncey revealed in December 2023 to be taking over as head writer for the...
    283 KB (18,089 words) - 21:50, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Guiding Light
    transferred to As the World Turns during 1958, her protégé Agnes Nixon became head writer of The Guiding Light. The first television producer of The Guiding Light...
    58 KB (6,622 words) - 19:21, 14 November 2024
  • producer. The next month, Sam Raimi signed on to direct, and Loki (2021) head writer Michael Waldron joined to rewrite the script; Raimi confirmed his involvement...
    364 KB (24,099 words) - 01:25, 19 November 2024
  • a staff writer and director at Funny or Die and Onion News Network, the latter of which won the 2009 Peabody Award. He was also Head Writer for Matt...
    13 KB (1,176 words) - 20:49, 19 October 2024
  • segment's head writer since 2014) The segment's previous head writer was Alex Baze (who wrote for the segment from 2004 to 2014, and was the head writer of the...
    209 KB (17,306 words) - 18:53, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for One Life to Live
    2013, it was confirmed that soap opera writers Thom Racina and Susan Bedsow Horgan were named as the new Head Writers of One Life to Live. On April 9, 2013...
    111 KB (10,132 words) - 01:06, 16 November 2024
  • became the host of The Daily Show he tapped former Onion writer/editor Karlin to be head writer of the newly restructured show. "He had heard about this...
    169 KB (15,295 words) - 15:16, 20 November 2024
  • hired to replace Loveness as writer, after previously serving as head writer for the first season of Loki (2021) and the writer of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse...
    100 KB (6,991 words) - 20:06, 18 November 2024
  • showrunners instead of head writers; Schaeffer was being credited as the series' showrunner by July 2024. Brad Winderbaum, the head of streaming, television...
    136 KB (9,291 words) - 17:30, 21 November 2024
  • served as head writer and Kate Herron directed the first season, with Eric Martin and the duo Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead serving as head writer and leading...
    108 KB (8,233 words) - 20:02, 18 November 2024
  • major moments from the MCU films occurred differently. Bradley served as head writer for the first two seasons, with Matthew Chauncey taking over for the...
    115 KB (8,496 words) - 20:02, 18 November 2024
  • as the new head writer. In December 2018, reports were released saying that Young had departed the show as executive producer and head writer. Young's departure...
    13 KB (1,215 words) - 13:51, 30 August 2024
  • Harper Steele (category 21st-century American women writers)
    Ferrell. She worked at Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2008, serving as head writer from 2004 through 2008. Her accolades include one Primetime Emmy Award...
    12 KB (1,121 words) - 21:41, 19 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Bruce Vilanch
    Bruce Vilanch (category American comedy writers)
    Hollywood Squares, as a celebrity participant; behind the scenes he was head writer for the show. In 2000, he performed off-Broadway in his self-penned one-man...
    27 KB (2,720 words) - 09:00, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Michael Che
    Michael Che (category 21st-century African-American writers)
    Weekend Update alongside Colin Jost since 2014. Che and Jost were co-head writers at SNL from 2017 until 2022. Che and Jost co-hosted the 70th Primetime...
    26 KB (1,662 words) - 08:36, 17 November 2024
  • Michael O'Donoghue (category American comedy writers)
    was a major contributor to National Lampoon magazine. He was the first head writer of Saturday Night Live and the first performer to deliver a line on the...
    23 KB (2,468 words) - 15:52, 3 November 2024
  • Bailey (Head writer) (March 14, 1985). General Hospital. Season 21. ABC. Gloria Monty (Executive producer); Anne Howard Bailey (Head writer) (March 15...
    199 KB (21,963 words) - 22:20, 6 November 2024
  • Millee Taggart (category American soap opera writers)
    Script writer: 1994–1995 Head writer: 1988–1991, 1992–1993 Ryan's Hope Head writer: 1985–1987 Santa Barbara Writer: 1980s Search for Tomorrow Writer: 1980–1981...
    6 KB (469 words) - 06:23, 26 July 2024
  • short stories and asked Hirst to write screenplays for him. Hirst was head writer, creator, and executive producer of the Showtime television drama series...
    10 KB (697 words) - 18:00, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for David Simon
    a writer and producer. Simon adapted the latter book into the HBO mini-series The Corner (2000). He is the creator, executive producer, head writer, and...
    86 KB (7,825 words) - 19:07, 11 November 2024
  • partnered with married soap opera writers Carolyn and Richard Culliton—the latter of whom Riche had hired as co-head writer of General Hospital in September...
    28 KB (2,773 words) - 17:01, 20 September 2024