Lynn Marie Latham

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Lynn Marie Latham is an American television writer, producer, and showrunner. [1] Her initial foray into writing for television was as a story editor for the series Berrenger's in 1985. That same year, Latham became a writer for the nighttime serial Knots Landing .

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Career

In 1991, she and husband Bernard Lechowick created the prime-time drama Homefront , based in the post-World War II era. Latham co-created the television dramas Wild Card , Hotel Malibu , and Second Chances . In addition to serving as Executive Producer on those series, Latham also executive-produced The District and That's Life . She was a creative consultant on both Savannah and Pacific Palisades , a writer and producer on Knots Landing, and head writer for the ABC Daytime soap opera Port Charles . Latham served as both Head Writer and Executive Producer of The Young and the Restless from 2006 to 2007. Her first episode as Y&R's head writer garnered 5,304,000 viewers while All My Children and Days of Our Lives received 3,235,000 and 3,972,000 viewers respectively.[ citation needed ]

Latham's father, John H. Latham, was a Western writer who published seven novels and over a thousand short stories. Her cousin, Aaron Latham, wrote the article that inspired the movie Urban Cowboy .[ citation needed ]

Positions held

Mama Malone

Berrenger's

Knots Landing (head writer from September 1986 - May 1991)

Homefront

Hotel Malibu

Live Through This

Pacific Palisades

Port Charles

Savannah

Second Chances

That's Life

The District

Wild Card

The Young and the Restless

Knots Landing Credits

The following episodes were written by Latham

Lynn Marie Latham & Bernard Lechowick

Lynn Marie Latham & Dianne Messina Stanley

Lynn Marie Latham & James Stanley

Bernard Lechowick & Lynn Marie Latham

Lynn Marie Latham Solo Credits:

Head Writing Tenure

Preceded by Head Writer of Port Charles
October 14, 1997 – May 6, 1999
Succeeded by
Preceded by Head Writer of The Young and the Restless
(with Kay Alden: 2/16/06-12/22/06)
(with John F. Smith: 2/16/06-11/10/06)
(with Scott Hamner: 10/26/06-12/22/07)

February 16, 2006 – December 22, 2007
Succeeded by

Executive Producing Tenure

Preceded by
John F. Smith (no EP listed before she joined)
Executive Producer of The Young and the Restless
October 25, 2006 – December 24, 2007
Succeeded by

Awards

References

  1. "The 2007 Daytime Emmy Award Winners". Archived from the original on 2013-12-22. Retrieved 2013-06-02.