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Ed Scott is 80 years old. Great that he's still working but my guess is he's not being brought in to replace JG as EP in the next months. Perhaps, he's being brought in to support a non Bell employee who will be appointed EP to replace JG (my Christmas wish).  Steve Kent must be in his late 60s or 70s as well?  Clearly, Sony and CBS are not invested in shoring up this show to support and strengthen Beyond The Gates.  They are making changes around the edges but the show still sucks. Sharon's plot is just a redux of Ash's DID which is kind of a redux of Chelsea's breakdown.  They do these medical arcs and these biz arcs and the show is still unwatchable under JG.

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CBS.com and Paramount+ wiped out Season 51 episodes, per their contract with Sony. Only Season 52 episodes are available, effective October 3, 2024. Only someone who DVRs the show could verify at this point.

Point of reference, I was working on something regarding B&B credits the other day and as of the 9/6 episode (last time I paid attention), Casey and Ed were both listed as Supervising Producers at B&B. As of the 9/10 episode (didn't see the credits for 9/9), only Casey was listed as Supervising Producer at B&B. So it looks like early to mid-September Ed left B&B/re-joined Y&R (credit wise). Therefore, he likely made the switch formally in August.

 

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- Celena Cipriaso first listed as Breakdown Writer on November 1

 

Wow, surprised they gave this big episode as her first one at GH.  Celena wrote 4 scripts for AMC in 2010. 

 

From https://www.roadmapwriters.com/executive-bio/celena-cipriaso#bio_testimonials

"Celena Cipriaso is a first-generation Filipina/American, who worked on Seasons 1-3 of THE CLEANING LADY for Fox and was most recently an Executive Story Editor. Previously a Staff Writer on CBS/Secret Hideout’s CLARICE, she worked her way up as a writer’s assistant on shows like STAR TREK: DISCOVERY. She was a fellow of the 2017-2018 NBC Writer’s on The Verge Program and was named as one of the up-and-coming TV writers for 2023-2024 Next List by Coverfly and Tracking Board. She got her start in TV helping her grandma learn English by watching All My Children (which she also eventually became a writer for). In another life, she was a pop culture and beer journalist for outlets such as CNN, Slate, and the Root."

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They keep making all these changes around the margins instead of firing Josh Griffith.  But...I'm feeling cautiously optimistic that he's finished at the end of the year which would mean his soiled toilet paper material would air into March. Of course, it's pure speculation but since Kent joined there have been a lot of changes and none of them have worked. Kent should go too

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