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Per @JAS0N47 https://www.jason47.com/days/staffdatabase.html When Ron Carlivati came on as headwriter, the show brought in story consultants to work with him. Ron became headwriter with episodes of airdates beginning July 19, 2017. Sheri Anderson and Ryan Quan both credited as story consultants for airdates beginning July 19, 2017. Sheri Anderson served as story consultant, credited for airdates July 19, 2017 - January 7, 2019. Ryan Quan began serving as story consutant, credited for airdates July 19, 2017 through the present - he's still there. Ron and Ryan are still credited for what is airing this week, but that will change later in December when the strike episodes begin airing.

CORRECTION -- I thought Jamey didn't mention Sistas, but he *did*. I missed it the first time I listened. Jamey does mention Sistas for one minute near the end. Jamey said he wrote 6 episodes of Season 7 of Sistas, which will air in 2024. He says this from 1:01:35 to 1:02:40 of the LocherRoom interview. He says Ron Carlivati allowed him to do both. As you may know, Sal Stowers (DAYS' Lani Price) is currently airing on Season 6B of Sistas right now. Jamey says she's also in Season 7.

In the promo video where Leo says to Nicole, what if your baby was alive? -- nothing actually happens. Leo starts to blab, then changes his mind, turns his comment into a random ramble, and leaves without actually revealing anything at all. Per this item from SOD: https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/exclusive-days-of-our-lives-preview-will-leo-spill-the-baby-beans/

Spoilers: detailed dailies via Link These are pretty detailed, don't read unless you want to know ... ___ Monday, December 11, 2023 Episode #14745 (Season 59, Episode 76) ________________ Tuesday, December 12, 2023 Episode #14746 (Season 59, Episode 77) ________________ Wednesday, December 13, 2023 Episode #14747 (Season 59, Episode 78) ________________ Thursday, December 14, 2023 Episode #14748 (Season 59, Episode 79) ________________ Friday, December 15, 2023 Episode #14749 (Season 59, Episode 80) ________________

A great deal of the interview was Alan asking Jamey about what soaps he watched as a child and as an adult. Jamey talked a lot about that. Between that discussion, Jamey's journalism career, DaytimeConfidential, and a little about Ambitions, that was most of of the Locher Room interview. (except for the part that @j swift graciously cued to about working at DAYS.) In all of that, there was no mention of Sistas. CORRECTION, I found it, Jamey does mention Sistas for one minute near the end. Jamey said he wrote 6 episodes of Season 7 of Sistas, which will air in 2024. I missed this the first time I listened. He says this from 1:01:35 – 1:02:40 of the LocherRoom interview. He says Ron Carlivati allowed him to do both.

Listening to the whole thing, I was fascinated by him trying to keep the balance of working decent paid jobs to support himself, and doing DaytimeConfidential which probably paid very little but was his true interest -- doing all that for so many years while actually wanting to write for soaps. Really a tale of perseverance! He also said that all his training in journalism in school, as a reporter, and as a publicist, taught him how to write the pieces of a story, which helped him to learn storytelling in general and helped him to write soaps. (I find that interesting regardless of whether I like his soap writing or not).

These are some of the things Jamey tells Alan Locher about his life: Jamey said at the beginning of the Locher Room interview that he grew up in the small town of De Kalb, Texas which is near Texarkana on the Texas/Arkansas border. He went to Southern Arkansas University and double-majored in print and broadcast journalism. (He said Southern Arkansas Univ was a small school). Then he was a news reporter. He covered the regular news and local news for Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana newspapers. At one point he was a city editor but it paid very little. Then he got a federal job as an intern for two years at the local army depot doing non-journalism tasks which wasn't great but it was a federal job that paid a livable wage. Then he worked for Pulitzer Inc (the news company, not the Pulitzer Prize), working as an editorial assistant. (Jamey talks about Luke Kerr starting Daytime Confidential. Kerr finally convinced Jamey to join the podcast, and Kerr taught him about blogging.) Jamey was living in Illinois but moved back to Texas and got a new job as the publicist for the army depot in Corpus Christi, where he worked for a few years. Then Jamey got a new paid federal job - he began working for many years at the CDC (Centers for Disease Control) as a publicist -- he wrote for the CDC newsletter the "MMWR" (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morbidity_and_Mortality_Weekly_Report (I assume working for the CDC was how or why Jamey came to live in Atlanta?). What Jamey tells Alan Locher about that CDC job is really interesting. He said he had already left the CDC to work on "Ambitions" before COVID. He didn't write about COVID, but he did write for the CDC about other diseases and epidemics.

-- ooh EDIT -- I posted some info in this space but I see that it's not needed. Deleting because... I see that all of it was written more clearly by @Errol back in August here: https://www.soapoperanetwork.com/2023/08/jamey-giddens-joins-season-7-writing-team-tyler-perrys-sistas

LOL yes

Victoria Grace wasn't intentionally cheating. The Emmys changed the rules for the cutoff age from 26 to 21 for younger actor, but the Emmys botched publicizing the rules change, so VG didn't know. (She was 23). Once VG learned of the change, she immediately voluntarily dropped out. Regarding Eden McCoy - there was the lack of clarity in the rules as to the month and day of the cutoff. If you calculate it one way, she got too old before the cutoff and shouldn't be eligible; but another way to interpret it is that you just had to be age 21 within a vague time frame to be considered young enough to qualify as younger actor. It ended up that the second interpretation was not challenged, so Eden remained eligible. Heck if you read the rules as they were written, the child actors were too young. It was really botched! N'Neka Garland was the longtime producer at GH who really ran GH from behind the scenes. She also helped with organizing the Daytime Emmys. She died suddenly earlier this year, before the Emmys nominations were announced. I bet if Ms. Garland were still alive, she would have prevented these snafus.

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Errol's obituary of Ellen Holly https://boards.soapoperanetwork.com/topic/65581-article-rip-ellen-holly-—-first-black-person-to-star-in-a-daytime-soap-opera-dies-at-92/

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We're supposed to pretend (or supposed to forget?) that Jill and Tucker are the same age, as Jill was believed to be Katherine's child, and then they discovered it was Tucker and not Jill. LOL.

New spoiler article uploaded to SOD website Dec. 7. Some of this airs Thurs. Dec. 7. Not sure when the rest airs. "Will Eric's party end in tragedy?" https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/bold-and-beautiful-preview-will-erics-party-end-in-tragedy/

This is the third Jackie Cox interview from SOD: https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/scene-and-heard-jackie-cox-on-her-days-of-our-lives-transformation/

In the past several months, I've noticed Michael Mealor's Kyle acting like a clone of Peter Bergman in mannerisms, speech style, expressions. It's uncanny. But then when Kyle started having the affair with Audra, he started calling himself "Smilin' Kyle". I coudn't believe they put that in the dialogue! ROFL, Mealor is not a young Terry Lester at all, despite the actions of his character. He's responsible Cliff Warner. Can you imagine if Terry Lester had been in the same age group as Zuleyka Silver airing at the same time? That would have been amazing.

Colleen did a CBS media blitz on the morning of Dec. 6. In addition to the above-posted interview with CBS New York, there are also these: Dec. 6: Colleen Zenk interviewed by Marybel Rodriguez of Channel 4 (CBS Miami) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YUWwBOIwqI --------------- Dec. 6: Colleen Zenk interviewed by Gianna Franco of KPIX (CBS San Francisco) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bparjGqn3WA --------------- Dec. 6: Colleen Zenk interviewed by Cody Stark, Courtney Dempsey, and John Dabkovich of "Good Day Sacramento" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3yS8Brtxgc

For me, Bryant Jones was the only compelling version of Nate. (I don't know whether to blame acting or writing for those who followed.) I loved this guy:

Colleen Zenk on Dec. 6, interviewed remotely by John Elliott and Cindy Hsu of CBS New York. They show a preview clip of Jordan visiting Claire in jail. Jordan contemptuously calls Claire weak.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C0h7Y_vPeut/ katherinekellylang The Bold And The Beautiful Logan women. Behind the scenes during a party scene. 💃Ain’t no stopping us now🎵🎶#bts #boldandbeautiful @boldandbeautifulcbs @bbheathertom @jennifergareis @ashleyaubra https://www.instagram.com/p/C0iabjQLSVE/

Josh Griffith interview March 2022 on his vision for the 50th anniv of Y&R: https://www.soapoperadigest.com/content/icymi-josh-griffith-interview-1723920/ Digest: How did you track all of this? Do you have a storyboard? Griffith: I just keep it all in my head [laughs]. I actually have a white board in my office where I’ve got it down. 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. So it was pretty easy to have three columns of story and then time it out so that this would happen and that would happen. - - - JG is still writing the show the way he described in March. It's ridiculous. But but we can see that everyone is being written as he described.

Nah.

yes. Jennifer was living in Laura's house there, settling the estate (while Missy and Cady were unavailable to film). Jack went to be with her. It evolved that instead of J&J living in Salem and visiting Boston, it became J&J living in Boston and visiting Salem. It started off that there was a small or midsized newspaper in the Boston region that they were helping a little, and then then it eventually became their fulltime commitment.