Sylph must be happy!

I knew she was coming and now I couldn't care less. As a matter of fact, I'm this close to wishing these people destroy the show beyond belief just so that I can have some sort of "closure" (not an appropriate word, but the right one keeps evaporating from my mind). At least then I'll know where I/the show stand(s).

I knew she was coming and now I couldn't care less. As a matter of fact, I'm this close to wishing these people destroy the show beyond belief just so that I can have some sort of "closure" (not an appropriate word, but the right one keeps evaporating from my mind). At least then I'll know where I/the show stand(s).

I can't comment on Esser's quality.

But this show needs a historian BADLY. Beyond badly!

So, if Esser can play that role...I'm happy to have her back.

No one wants to believe me that Brad Bell is the EP of Y&R...

first deveney kelly directing, now esser's back....

ashley will be back too..

I think Brad will do a great job as ep of Y&R as long as he's not writing it too.

I can't comment on Esser's quality.

But this show needs a historian BADLY. Beyond badly!

So, if Esser can play that role...I'm happy to have her back.

Well... Your wish has been fulfilled. Because she is very, very much preoccupied with history and has the habit of calling the studio if she spots a line or something that isn't in accordance with history. So there you go.

Not that that will help the show, but hey...

Edited August 22, 200817 yr by Sylph

I think Brad will do a great job as ep of Y&R as long as he's not writing it too.

I don't know if it's Brad, but I definetly think someone else is handling the production aspect of Y&R these days. I saw a promo earlier for yet another Y&R "stunt" and Nikki was on an ACTUAL BEACH. Meaning, we're getting a location shoot, something Y&R probably hasn't really done since 2005. I refuse to give Griffith any credit for this, as he's shown how bad he can be with production.

ETA: Here's the promo, it's pretty bad quality though: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmgoWnAm0Ck

Edited August 22, 200817 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

No one wants to believe me that Brad Bell is the EP of Y&R...

first deveney kelly directing, now esser's back....

ashley will be back too..

I think Brad will do a great job as ep of Y&R as long as he's not writing it too.

Oh, I'll believe you :-). I'm not encouraged by this, but I'll believe you :-).

Well... Your wish has been fulfilled. Because she is very, very much preoccupied with history and has the habit of calling the studio if she spots a line or something that isn't in accordance with history. So there you go.

Not that that will help the show, but hey...

I really do think it will help the show Sylph. Right now, the show has only a superficial sense of itself. As has been discussed here, there is an extra layer to the Daniel and Colleen relationship that is not being plumbed (the fact that their parents were once married; the fact that they were both sent away to grow up far from a parent). This is true for most of the relationships on the show these days.

Thus, I think giving the show a better sense of where it came from can help the show have deeper emotional roots going forward. That matters! Esser, for example, could have helped the show avoid that awful vasectomy debacle.

Someone fed me the info, I thought they got it wrong too. He listed all three of them, but Janice is also a scriptwriter.

I can say for certain Esser is back in the Y&R credits though.

It was:

James Stanley

Janice Ferri Esser

Sandra Weintraub

That's a pretty weird combination. Both Janice and Sandra are scriptwriters, why would it take two scriptwriters to write one script?

Edited August 22, 200817 yr by Y&RWorldTurner

That's a pretty weird combination. Both Janice and Sandra are scriptwriters, why would it take two scriptwriters to write one script?

There's lots of Nikki/Victor history, so that's my guess.

Thus, I think giving the show a better sense of where it came from can help the show have deeper emotional roots going forward. That matters!

While it may matter to the fans, it certainly doesn't matter to TPTB. From my understanding, the only show remotely in tune with its history is OLTL. I think that Y&R is just going through this now because of the relative stability it's seen in its staff over the years. I don't know, maybe the Bells think differently, but the rest of the industry seems to view their history as a burden.

Anyway, to make a real difference, wouldn't this "historian" have to be in the headwriter position. Look at ATWT (because that's the show I know best ): Susan Dansby has been with the show a relatively long time, but she still has to write the stupid crap that's given to her.

Anyway, to make a real difference, wouldn't this "historian" have to be in the headwriter position. Look at ATWT (because that's the show I know best ): Susan Dansby has been with the show a relatively long time, but she still has to write the stupid crap that's given to her.

She's not a writer she used to be...

Doesn't she still write scripts?

Doesn't she still write scripts?

She does, but after she was demoted from writing outlines to writing scripts, her writing deteriorated. Once her scripts were very good.

I am delighted that JFE is returning to Y&R. Always enjoyed her writing and if her role is as historian, wonderful, the show needs it.

I will not be surprised, or all that disappointed, if Brad Bell is named EP. If someone has to kill his father's legacy it might as well be his son.

I am delighted that JFE is returning to Y&R. Always enjoyed her writing and if her role is as historian, wonderful, the show needs it.

The last couple of scenes are good - the ending is classic Y&R (at least I thought it was). They even played an old(?) score at the end.......it was music I haven't heard in a while.

I will not be surprised, or all that disappointed, if Brad Bell is named EP. If someone has to kill his father's legacy it might as well be his son.

If he is the new EP, he better no implement B&B's new production style.