There’s good news for anyone who suffered through the abysmal Satin Slayer storyline on ALL MY CHILDREN – not to mention the dreadful Dixie debacle, the ghastly Greg Madden gorefest and pretty much every other story to unfold on the ABC sudser over the past 18 months: Headwriter Megan McTavish has been fired. And while there is not yet any word on who’ll be replacing her in the top scribe slot, one thing is certain: The show would be hard-pressed to do worse. Rumor has it that the slot will be filled by either Jack Smith or Kay Alden, both of whom served as headwriters for THE YOUNG & THE RESTLESS before that soap foolishly named Lynn Marie Latham as not only the top scribe but executive producer, ensuring that no one would step in and say, “Hey, wait a minute… maybe we shouldn’t turn the top-rated soap into a ridiculous mess about a stolen reliquary, twin cousins and senate candidates with a history so scandal-ridden they’d make Gary Hart look like a feasible candidate. Meanwhile, buzz is building that the next major change to be made at ABC will involve a new writer taking over at ONE LIFE TO LIVE, where Dena Higley’s tenure has been a mixed bag, giving viewers both highs (the Tess/Jess saga) and lows (the interminable reign of all-purpose bad guy Spencer Truman). 
