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Ed Fry played a minor role in the early 2001 story where Hayley had DID and took on Arlene's identity after she (Hayley) believed she had killed Arlene during the Libidozone yacht party. He was some guy "Arlene" (Hayley) flirted with at the Roadside bar (later the Comeback when it was owned by Krystal).

It never made sense to me that JFP was back at Y&R in a non-producer role. And now a script cover for an episode airing in September shows JFP listed as...a producer. Wonder if she will eventually have an on-screen credit or if she's trying to keep a low profile...

I don't know if it's him or not, but he has "won multiple Emmys across several shows over the last 30 years", so he meets the criteria.

My first thought was Beldner but the others fit the bill as well. If it's Gibson or Minnis, I could see MVJ hiring them.

I know she and MVJ became good friends during the 2007 writers strike and that friendship is why she's at BTG. I was simply noting that Pratt was her biggest soap writing mentor and Frons considered her a rising star back in the day -- two facts I don't find encouraging given the men in question.

Thomson is a protege of Chuck Pratt and someone Brian Frons singled out back during the late 2000s as one of the greatest talents ABC Daytime had in its stable of writers. Not exactly reassuring people to have endorsements from.

Not even in the full end credits?

Tracey Thomson and MVJ are good friends. But TT's professional mentor was/is Chuck Pratt -- and that's concerning.

Ed Scott has not been credited the last two Y&R episodes... Update: Not listed in the June 5 (CDN)/June 6 (US) episode either...

So is Guza gone? He's not listed with the executive producers, and a Tracey Thompson is listed. Is that former GH/AMC/Y&R writer Tracey Thomson (no "p")?

Not a director or writer, but Kevin Hamburger is now listed as supervising producer at Y&R, replacing longtime supervising producer John Fisher. Hamburger is a buddy of Steve Kent, going back to when they were both producers at Santa Barbara

Was Kyle in any other scenes in the episode or did he just show up in the last 10 minutes for Summer's exit? This whole thing screams last minute. Super quick last scenes with Nick and Phyllis, nothing with Daniel... I wonder if AL was taken off contract and, unlike Conner Floyd, Melissa Ordway and others, said "No thanks. Bye!"... Regardless, what a stupid exit.

Thanks. Is it publicly available?

Man McTavish is vile. But interesting to get more insight into what went down with Edmund's demise. Although this reminds me, I could have sworn ELR revealed after she left in 2005 that Edmund was originally going to be killed off in Feb 2004 (after he was shot at the end of 2003 shielding Maria from some bad guys after Carlos and Juan Pablo...or whatever that story was) and that she went to Brian Frons and asked him to keep JC for one more year because she was planning on leaving in 2005, and Frons granted her request. So did their marriage only fall apart later in 2004? What is this from? McTavish wrote a memoir?

For me, the opening is strike two for Julie Carruthers (strike one being the lighting). She is the EP most responsible for the actual production, so I'm putting it on her. I also have a feeling Ben Gavin won't last long. In the (albeit limited) clips I have seen with him, including his shot in the opening, I get nothing.

I see Shelley Curtis. And Michael Pomarico, longtime AMC technical director who became a full-time director under Carruthers. I guess they are both directing.

With this addition, and Melissa Ordway being bumped to recurring, I wonder if Bryton James has been taken off contract as well...or is slated to be.

She also, inexplicably, was a co-head writer at Y&R for a period in 2018.

Griffith sure hasn't been subtle about getting the strike writing team back together ...

This is the part of the interview where LM talks about the post-strike firings/being replaced by strike writers

Lynn Martin is no longer at Y&R. In the interview linked below from a few days ago she says a bunch of writers came back from the strike and were then fired when their contracts came up and replaced with people who wrote during the strike (I don't know if she is referring just to Y&R or other shows as well). It seemed sketchy to me that Fi-Core James Harmon Brown replaced Brent Boyd shortly after the strike. And Lindsay Harrison probably wrote during the strike. Makes me wonder if Janice Ferri Esser really left of her own choice. Lynn also says that on a show she worked at recently (i.e. Y&R), the writers were given a note to not be funny or clever, and she talks about the elimination of the breakdown writers, the lack of writers of colour.. I know Lynn Martin's scripts are not generally well-regarded, but I was impressed with her in this interview. https://youtu.be/kiCyBd2YQeA?si=EMwmC47kk49bTiNT

Nikki is supposed to get some unexpected help from some friends as she deals with her drinking. I can't think of any friends except Jack, and with JG's "three columns of story" approach to the canvas, I don't see Jack crossing over from the Abbott column to the Newman column. So are the friends Neil and Katherine? The name Seth means "appointed" or "placed". That would be the kind of simplistic/cutesy resolution to Nikki's ordeal I would expect from Griffith and Beall.

Could Aunt Jordan be a Nikki doppelganger, who returns to GC with Claire and takes over her life

Am I missing something? Aren't the only Fi-Core writers working on soaps right now Josh Griffith, Michael Minnis (and someone else?) at Bold, and possibly Sheri Anderson at Days? So everyone else writing these shows -- i.e. the majority, as I assume each show has at least 5 people writing -- are non-WGA members (production staff, network execs, etc) or union members who have not gone Fi-Core and who are writing scripts in the shadows. I remember during the 07-08 strike, Michelle Patrick (who was working at AMC at the time of the strike) was quoted in an article as saying she had been contacted by another show to write for them anonymously. She said no, but I'm sure there were other writers contacted who said yes. And same thing this time.

Amanda Beall and Jeff Beldner no longer listed as writers as of Monday's (US) Y&R. Beall is still listed as a producer. So I guess she can discuss story with JG, she just can't put pen to paper?