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H. Wes Kenney also replaced Conboy in 1982, and by all accounts, he was very instrumental in helping Bell work out the kinks of the hour-long format. He later said he regretted leaving Y&R for GH and said the best experience of his daytime career was at Y&R. It seemed like he and Bell had a bit of a falling out as well, but I can't recall what that was about.

I know Hubbard wasn’t happy with how Lucinda’s origin story unfolded. I wish someone had pressed her for more details on why she didn’t think it quite worked.

I believe Tammy and Lisa Brown actually worked very closely together when Brown became an acting coach on GL after leaving.

Paul Wesley is giving me some good Zaddy vibes with the stubble.

Now Alan and Kim Zimmer have nothing to talk about! I didn’t see his work on Ozark, but part of me is glad he was snubbed as he always turned me off on GL and the hype machine around him at the time was too much and not warranted, IMO.

Since Buzz has been mentioned a lot lately, someone asked Patrick Mulcahey about the character and his creation on Twitter. Seems like Mulchaey had a lot of personal connection to the character and used him to work out some of his own father issues. He also said that at SB and GL, there wasn't a big firewall between the actors and the writers like there was at other shows, so he got to work with actors and the production staff to really hone-in on characters better.

Allyson Taylor Rice still looks AMAZING.

Sometimes I forget that most of this set went on to primetime/film success. It's nice that most didn't forget "where the came from."

I mean, what was his excuse for having no career before supporting Trump?

It's probably a passion project for her and something she's probably wanted to do for a while. At her heart, she's a singer-songwriter, and I think she knows that's her strength more so than contemporary pop.

😢 Hopefully, he will resurrect it in some other form...

Nancy Curlee has been very honest about how "forced" and "shoehorned" the Tangie character was, but also said MW had a lot of talent and deserved a better constructed character. I think JFP just considered MW a big "get" and tried too hard to make the character work and fit in, but none of it ever worked.

Sally and Sheila didn't share that many scenes from what I remember, but these ones are great. God, I miss Darlene Conley/Sally so much - she was really the jolt this show always needed. "You know Sheila, I never thought of myself as any kind of an angel before, but standing here next to you like this, I'm beginning to feel like St. Francis of Assisi, Joan of Arc, and Mahatma Gandhi all rolled into one!"

MW was a breath of fresh air to AMC when she returned, it’s too bad they also later turned their back on her and wrote so terribly for her in the end.

I wonder how things would have turned out had the Dobson's stayed a few more written and gotten to write Roger's exit. I also don't think they would have struggled writing for Holly like Marland seemed to. I think it was @vetsoapfan that said the Dobson's seemed to write Ed/Holly as more of the endgame, and with the hope that they'd probably find their way back to one another. I wonder if that's what they would have ultimately done.

Jenna wasn't even supposed to stick around - JFP offered the role to Hutchison without an audition and with the understanding that it was for a limited run. Hutchison had no intention of sticking around either and wanted to try her hand in LA (and after her first run on OLTL had ended very badly). But I know she said she fell in love with Jenna and playing her earlier on was a "fun relief" as by time she left OLTL, all Gabrielle did was cry according to Hutchison.

I wish it was Buzz who died instead of Jenna.. Apparently, it was MADD/Rauch's retaliation against Hutchison after she publicly spoke out about Zaslow's firing. So stupid - she didn't say anything the entire audience wasn't thinking.

Oddly enough, I think by the time he left in 2002, Rauch had started to tone down the Walmart lighting and the show was starting to look good enough again.

I don't either, but maybe just maybe they would have given ATWT some much-needed excitement at that time (albeit very short term). Or Rauch would have needed a much stronger HW, which he never really got at GL anyway.

Yeah, P&G's fault was that they hired hack after hack after JFP left. I wonder if they would have seen better longterm results in 1997/1998 if MADD had hired Behr/Broderick for GL, and Rauch/B&E for ATWT as opposed to vice versa.

This guy is such a crock, and I roll my eyes at his intro about “growing up watching ATWT and GL.” More like he only paid attention to them and can only recall history for those shows for the years he worked there...

1994 was a bizarre year with the worst of JFP's tendencies on showcase. The show also had like a million HW's after Curlee departed - at one point there were like 6 people being credited as a part of a HW-ing team. Way too many cooks in the kitchen for anything to work.

The only Shayne I liked to be honest. He should have lasted longer in the role, he was kind of quirky, but looked like he could be Zimmer and Newman's son.

P&G is a huge bureaucratic conglomerate. I will say that they do actually have their brand marketing more streamlined and organized than a lot of other companies I've had to work on behalf of. Their priority is on selling their products, their daytime dramas were never that high on their priority list or at least haven't been in decades. They're a CPG company first and foremost, and when the daytime dramas were no longer a financially stimulating prospect for them, they had no issue cutting it out completely. Their massive content library won't push sales of their product, so they're more than happy to just it on it. It sucks as a soap opera fan, but that's their perspective.