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Bison at Blue Mounds State Park near Luverne, Minnesota. (sound up) same video on twitter, in case the youtube is blocked: https://x.com/CBSSunday/status/1891150970383474779

from B&B supervising producer Casey Kasprzyk

Awesome. Thanks.

Y&R photos for Thurs Feb 20 USA (Wed Feb 19 Canada) https://www.soapoperadigest.com/photos/young-and-restless-spoilers-gallery-for-february-20-strategy-and-surprise/ (3 pics of Billy/Sally storyline and 7 pics of Damian/Holden/Lily/Nate/Audra/Amy storyline)

Interview with Destiny Love who plays Laura Peterson https://shoutoutatlanta.com/meet-destiny-love-actress-model-photographer/

This is for today Feb. 19 (posted by Sheila Ducksworth Feb. 18) https://www.instagram.com/p/DGPZfNzOFRe/ sheiladucks Tune in Tomorrow for Episode 3: Fashion and Flair! BEYOND THE GATES: WELCOME TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD with three of the greatest to ever do it @jeresa_featherstone @symartmakeup @hairbywankaya. CBS 2pET/1PT #GlamSquad! #BeyondTheGates 022425 @beyondthegatescbs 📺📺🫧🫧🫧 .

Susan A. Banks is currently on the Y&R writing team. https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2475406/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-a-banks-65735a2/

The above promo via Tamara Tunie instagram Feb. 19th The announcer says "CBS Daytime is about to get ....... soapier" with these words flashing on the screen while he says that: "CBS Daytime is about to get sexier, feistier, spicier, dicier, messier, soapier". That phrasing and some of the graphics are like the combined BTG/B&B/Y&R promo released last week. And the other elements are taken from some of the BTG promos we've already seen.

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already discussed a couple pages back. Someone said MVJ had mentioned it and Errol replied regarding MVJ's twitter post:

Okay re-reading the paragraphs I quoted -- it's not necessarily one's first contract .... Just within one's first two years on the show, even if only recurring?

Oh and here's a copy of the same from the print edition of SOD: https://x.com/MicheleValJean/status/1436441562091642880

My father served in World War II. (yes that's accurate - I'm a senior citizen and my father was middle-aged when I was born). He was lifelong military AND lifelong Democrat/liberal with caring about world affairs and international friendship. He'd just be so upset now! He lived through McCarthyism and talked about how horrid that was, and that's similar to what Musk is doing internally in the USA right now. But what's happening now is much worse. And the international stance is just terrifying. I just cannot imagine what he'd say about this.

Thanks! This Feb.2025 SOD article quotes, in part, an SOD mini-interview from 2021. I found that here: https://www.soapoperadigest.com/photos/scene-and-heard-1707864/ It was a single block of text, as a caption to an image. (sorry but there were no paragraphs/spacing). (The image was credited as being "from twitter" but doesn't say whose twitter). This was for the SOD "Scene and Heard" feature, in September 2021: Here's the image and caption: According to Jon Lindstrom (Kevin/ Ryan), the creative evolution of his characters on GH is thanks in no small part to the contributions of one of the show’s former scribes, Michele Val Jean. He says her influence on Kevin can be felt “in every way possible. The character was created out of necessity to, at that time, replace Ryan with someone who looked like me and who didn’t need to be redeemed, since Ryan was unredeemable. [Then-Head Writer] Claire Labine threw Michele the reins and then she and I talked a lot about what ways Kevin could be differentiated from Ryan. Michele is an incredibly articulate, well-read person. I think Kevin’s syntax, the way he speaks, never would have developed clearly without her.” Pairing Kevin with Lucy was “all Michele,” he adds. “It was her idea to put them together. I think her take on it was something like, ‘What if Lucy goes to therapy, not because she thinks she needs it, but because she thinks Kevin is cute?’ She pitched it to Claire and she told Michele to run with it. And man, did she ever! The story of how Lucy chased Kevin, who didn’t trust his own heart then, was her doing. She wrote all those scenes, so she was, in a word, indispensable. She not only wrote the Kevin/Lucy stuff, but she was primary writer on all the Kevin/Ryan scenes going forward. She told me the first significant thing she wrote of Ryan was his first confession in the police station with Sean and Mac, and that she fell in love with his ‘crazy’ from those scenes and wanted to write him every chance she got. Ryan was so well-defined in a twisted sort of way, and only Michele can pull that off.” Their collaboration was constant in those days. “We talked all the time! I’d come up to her office — she was working in the building back when writers did that — and we’d throw ideas around. Things like motivation, backstory, Kevin’s thoughts and feelings about Ryan and their separate history, Kevin’s guilt, nature vs. nurture, all kinds of angles. We got to be great friends through that process, so there’s an added bonus. We still are today. She has so much more to give. She should be doing feature films.” (end quote from SOD Sept. 2021) ------ The new SOD article Feb. 16, 2025 that @Vee linked to, quotes some of that, and then adds new quotes from Lindstrom about his casting on BTG, and his continued respect for MVJ. https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/jon-lindstrom-and-cady-mcclain-join-the-cast-of-beyond-the-gates/ -------------------

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Thanks for posting. Awesome! FYI the only URL needed to sign up for the CBS-soaps-fan newsletter is https://fans.cbs.com/soaps Agree with the suggestion to select BTG as your favorite soap!

For her Emmys gown from Dec. 2023, Eden said the Emmys ceremony was originally supposed to be earlier in 2023, and her mom picked out the gown, but then the strike delayed the ceremony. Her mom had died by the time the ceremony was held. "My mom picked it out for me a million years ago when [the Emmys] was originally supposed to happen, so I figured I’d just wear it. I just wanted something really classic and timeless that felt like me, and I’m all about being simple. Simple 90s. So, we threw it on, and it still fits." ”https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2023/12/josslyn-jacks-temporarily-recast-courtney-fulk-eden-mccoy-general-hospital

random fun fact: One of the supervising producers of "BTG Welcome to the Neighborhood" is named Jessica Fletcher.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DGOdpTMSKlK/ beyondthegatescbs She said she had a conflict— and she wasn’t lying. 👀 #BeyondTheGates #newsoapalert #soapopera #drama #tea .

New (unhealth) Health Secretary RFK Jr. says SSRI antidepressants are a potential cause of school shootings and Trump is signing an executive order to follow whatever RFK Jr's plans are. Or something insane like that. This came as part of an executive order installing Kennedy’s “Make America Healthy Again” commission, which aims to end the “childhood chronic disease crisis” and the “over-reliance on medication and treatments.” https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/health-wellness/2025/02/18/trump-executive-order-antidepressants-ssris/79066753007/ https://katiecouric.com/news/opinion/what-did-rfk-say-about-antidepressants/

re: Stephanie Erb temping for Nancy Lee Grahn in 2022 -- GH knew about that in advance. NLG had planned back surgery and she had cleared the time off in advance with Frank. They rearranged NLG's taping schedule so as to minimize any noticing of Alexis being offscreen. But they ended up needing Ms. Erb for a short time. With everything planned in advance, you'd think they'd delay the reveal. Oh well, they did a decent job matching Ms.Erb's hair to NLG so she (sort of) had a similar look.

I intentionally watched every episode of "Good Sam" while it was on, just to support Victoria Rowell's presence - to support CBS hiring her.

Victoria Rowell recurred on the CBS primetime show "Good Sam" in 2022. (The show was cancelled after the first season). I don't know if you'd call that "long term" or not, but I think it would have been, if the show had continued airing. VR was at the Y&R 50th anniversary party in March 2023.