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<blockquote data-quote="Daniel Avery" data-source="post: 439770" data-attributes="member: 27">Sally McDonald, who had been acting as Co-Executive Producer of the show, has been named the show&#039;s sole Executive Producer as of last week, chipping away at Josh Griffith&#039;s unchecked power (he had been hired as both EP and Head Writer).&nbsp; On paper, she now has the authority to fire Griffith if she wants (since the EP has power over writing as well as all other aspects of the show), though I&#039;d be surprised if she did it this soon.&nbsp; You may recall they were paired on GH when she played Nina and he played Franco.&nbsp; They seemed to be chugging along just fine when all of a sudden they were broken up and sent into separate storylines, never to share a scene again (much less acknowledge all that screen time they&#039;d had together).&nbsp; At the time I believed that the speed and finality of their break-up had to be some kind of backstage thing, given both actors&#039; reputation for being kind of difficult.&nbsp; I don&#039;t recall any substantive gossip, but like I said it was just an assumption I made.&nbsp; Seeing Y&amp;R pair Howarth and Stafford again gives me hope that their &quot;GH breakup&quot; was purely story-dictated and not some kind of falling-out IRL.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Daniel Avery, post: 439770, member: 27"] Sally McDonald, who had been acting as Co-Executive Producer of the show, has been named the show's sole Executive Producer as of last week, chipping away at Josh Griffith's unchecked power (he had been hired as both EP and Head Writer). On paper, she now has the authority to fire Griffith if she wants (since the EP has power over writing as well as all other aspects of the show), though I'd be surprised if she did it this soon. You may recall they were paired on GH when she played Nina and he played Franco. They seemed to be chugging along just fine when all of a sudden they were broken up and sent into separate storylines, never to share a scene again (much less acknowledge all that screen time they'd had together). At the time I believed that the speed and finality of their break-up had to be some kind of backstage thing, given both actors' reputation for being kind of difficult. I don't recall any substantive gossip, but like I said it was just an assumption I made. Seeing Y&R pair Howarth and Stafford again gives me hope that their "GH breakup" was purely story-dictated and not some kind of falling-out IRL. [/QUOTE]

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