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Danielle Unger is the person in charge of Y&R (at CBS) July 2023 interview with Peter Bergman via Michael Maloney, about Jack and DIane https://soaphub.com/young-restless/news-yr/peter-bergman-reveals-why-yrs-smilin-jack-abbott-is-all-smiles/ In November 2021, Bergman was recuperating from an eye injury but any discomfort he was feeling was soon alleviated after receiving a phone call from head writer/co-executive producer Josh Griffith and Danielle Unger, Director Current, CBS. “They wanted to talk to me about this person they wanted to bring back,” Bergman says, referring to the decision to resurrect the role of Diane who would once again be played by Walters. ---- December 2023 interview with Brad Sanders ("Clarence updates") https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-brad-sanders-on-bringing-clarence-back-to-the-young-and-the-restless/ According to comedian/actor/writer Brad Sanders, it was his idea to bring his alter ego, Clarence — his street-talking persona, who offered a daily rundown of Y&R starting in 1986 — back to the soap, which celebrated its milestone 50th anniversary earlier this year. He explains, “One of the radio stations said, ‘Look, man, you need to be a part of the 50th anniversary. You should be there!’ And I said, ‘Yeah, let me call!’ So I called [Vice President, Daytime Programs, CBS] Margot Wain and she called [Director at CBS] Danielle Unger and they were like, ‘Yeah, it sounds great!’ And they set it all up.” ------- Linked-in profile of Danielle Unger: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-unger-87130626a/ Quoting her Linked-in: Danielle Unger Director in Current Programming for CBS May 2022 – Present As a Director in Current Programming for CBS, I oversee The Young and the Restless. I cover all aspects of the show including reading and giving notes on all scripts, outlines and long story documents. Watching the production feed and giving notes and feedback. I maintain relationships with the Executive Producer and Head Writer, Producers, Writing Staff, Publicists and other key Creatives. I also collaborate with various divisions on the show, at CBS and at Sony including PR and Marketing, Casting, Program Practices, Research, Scheduling, Legal and Business Affairs to ensure communication is maintained across all divisions.As a Director in Current Programming for CBS, I oversee The Young and the Restless. I cover all aspects of the show including reading and giving notes on all scripts, outlines and long story documents. Watching the production feed and giving notes and feedback. I maintain relationships with the Executive Producer and Head Writer, Producers, Writing Staff, Publicists and other key Creatives. I also collaborate with various divisions on the show, at CBS and at Sony including PR and Marketing, Casting, Program Practices, Research, Scheduling, Legal and Business Affairs to ensure communication is maintained across all divisions. _ _ _ _ _ Danielle Unger Manager in Current Programming for CBS May 2020 - May 2022 As a Manager in Current Programming for CBS, I oversee The Young and the Restless. I cover all aspects of the show including reading and giving notes on all scripts, outlines and long story documents. Watching the production feed and giving notes and feedback. I maintain relationships with the Executive Producer and Head Writer, Producers, Writing Staff, Publicists and other key Creatives. I also collaborate with various divisions on the show, at CBS and at Sony including PR and Marketing, Casting, Program Practices, Research, Scheduling, Legal and Business Affairs to ensure communication is maintained across all divisions.As a Manager in Current Programming for CBS, I oversee The Young and the Restless. I cover all aspects of the show including reading and giving notes on all scripts, outlines and long story documents. Watching the production feed and giving notes and feedback. I maintain relationships with the Executive Producer and Head Writer, Producers, Writing Staff, Publicists and other key Creatives. I also collaborate with various divisions on the show, at CBS and at Sony including PR and Marketing, Casting, Program Practices, Research, Scheduling, Legal and Business Affairs to ensure communication is maintained across all divisions. ____________________________________________________

You meant https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Boyce not https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameron_Bryce

Hannah Scott, played by Lisa Vultaggio. The actress is married to Jonathan Jackson. Hey maybe they could get JJ back if they brought her back too? Kidding, sort of, but I do want JJ.

Same!

More random casting from Valentini: Game show contestant appears as a waitress. The way this is worded, it's apparently for only one episode.

from soaps.sheknows Feb. 2nd episode recap

Interesting.

Oh I understand. He's using that same IMDB picture as his instagram profile pic. Here are some more photos of him, with various haircolors and hairstyles https://www.instagram.com/adamjharrington/

^ screencap from his first episode. At least he doesn't look as yellow-blond as the IMDB photo in the opening pic of this thread.

Cameron visiting for Spencer's memorial service. I wonder if it's just a few days or longer?

LOL

Ron's writing ideas aired only into second week of December. None of his ideas have aired since then. The shift in focus was likely from the firedguy who was giving supervision to the nonunion writers. That was implied by Deadline here: "writers strike, which has shifted some of [firedguy]’s attention to keeping scripts being generated" https://deadline.com/2023/07/days-of-our-lives-misconduct-investigation-albert-alarr-1235417732/ From the way Deadline worded that, it seems that firedguy was unofficially headwriting. We will have another two months of stuff the firedguy oversaw in writing, that was written before he was fired and taped after he left. The only hope for changes in that would be if Janet nixed prewritten scripts.

Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me" Republicans: No.

Fairman got that from the first few minutes of the Jan. 31st episode of Burton&Anderson's podcast/youtube show. Link (ignore/cancel any dailydrama popup suggesting that you subscribe to their podcast)

yes November 2022!

This was filmed in 2022! NBC simply never got around to airing it.

I love Audra. She's been the best soap character in a long time. Free her from the annoying Tucker!

ROFL

Agree.

Griffith has revisited a lot of old storylines in the past 10 months for the 50th anniversary and beyond. For example: Mamie/Jill, Victor/Eve, Victoria/Cole, Devon/Harmony/Tucker, Cameron Kirsten, Daniel/Lily, the horrid Christine/Danny/Phyllis triangle, etc. and now Ashley feeling gaslit. And one-or-two-day tributes of the Winters remembering Neil and the Abbotts remembering John. Some of these storyline revisits worked, and some were bad, and some were merely checking off boxes. As I mentioned in an above post: "I wonder who got Griffith to pivot Sharon to be out on her own? And to actually put some of Sharon's individual character personality jnto her company - by making it give donations to underage drinking education, and showing her warmth at her company's launch. And in today's (Jan. 30th) episode when she tells her employees over Zoom that they need to focus on service. I was like wow, Sharon is being written as a person and not the usual Y&R interchangeable executive." They keep showing Nick admiring Sharon for what she's doing with her company. First at her Jan. 15 launch party. And now today Jan. 30 Nick stands in the background observing her doing her Zoom meeting with her employees. Well, upon pondering this further, my random speculation is that Griffith feels he has to revisit Shick and is checking off that box. But it doesn't feel that organic to me.

No problem! I totally understand! You wouldn't have known if the tweet didn't credit SON.

Ashley seems to be being gaslit by Tucker. Or is she? Does this explain why the two recent New Year's classic reruns were about Kevin setting Gina's on fire? Because those episodes included Ashley's mental breakdown after the death of her stillborn son Robert Carlton. Are they revisiting Adam gaslighting Ashley, only this time with Tucker? Or is Tucker telling the truth, and Ashley is having a mental breakdown for an unexplained reason? I don't like Tucker at all. TSJ's portrayal is so smug. I hope they write Ashley as strong and intelligent here. I'm glad Traci is supportive.

Josh Griffith interview, March 2023, about how he's writing the 50th anniv of Y&R and beyond. https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-josh-griffith-interview-1723920/ Griffith: "We’ve created three arenas of storytelling on the show, the Newman arena, the Abbott arena and the Chancellor-Winters arena. Everything falls within those three and there’s some crossover, but it falls within those three." <snip> Digest: "What are your feelings about how you’ve positioned Y&R for 2023?" Griffith: "I’m feeling excited and really energized. I feel I’ve gotten all of the pieces in place for an explosion of story going into the summer and then into the fall. I think we’re really in a strong place with the cast and with the character dynamics and having really solidified these three arenas that I previously mentioned. I hope that we’re using the 50th in a way to get back to the core of what makes Y&R work." -------- Also, in parts of the interview that I didn't quote, about the returning characters, he mentions how they fit into the framework of "these three arenas" that he focuses on. Mamie with corporation stuff, etc. Really he still writes everything about the families doing corporate businesses. The only non-business storylines for the year: Several months of Phyllis faking her death to frame Diane. But the only fallout from that was the Kyle/Summer split. Shortterm storyline of a few weeks: Cameron Kirsten being creepy, killing Faith's cat, and tying a bomb to Faith's body, and Sharon knifing him to save the day. The Jordan/Claire/Eve stuff. And then somehow Griffith put the Cameron Kirsten stuff into his "three families and their corporations" framework, by having Kristen's will bequeath Sharon his corporation. and then the Y&R writing was trying to rope Sharon into a media conglomerate with the Newmans. I wonder who got Griffith to pivot Sharon to be out on her own? And to actually put some of Sharon's individual character personality jnto her company - by making it give donations to underage drinking education, and showing her warmth at her company's launch. And in today's (Jan. 30th) episode when she tells her employees over Zoom that they need to focus on service. I was like wow, Sharon is being written as a person and not the usual Y&R interchangeable executive.

Sharon announced at her launch party on Jan. 15 that a good portion of the profits of her Cassidy First Technology company would go to that nonprofit and other foundations that educate on that very theme.

How did she obtain it? Cameron Kirsten left it to her in his will. It's a tech company. She renamed it from Kirsten Incorporated to Cassidy First Technology (after Cassie). How is she able to run it? There were scenes of her looking at corporate reports and such with paperwork on Crimson Lights tables, as she was learning about the company after inheriting it. She first consulted with Adam, with Nick, and with Victor for business advice and there were the usual Y&R endless convos of potential mergers with Newman subsidiaries, and who would be CEO and CFO etc etc. Finally Sharon said *NO* to all of that, and walked away from Newman and any possible mergers, and walked away from Adam and Victor. She kept Nick on as an advisor for a short while. But then Sharon decided to do it all on her own, as by this time she had apparently been working with a staff we've never seen. And all along she has had Mariah as her righthand person but I'm not sure what Mariah's title is.