Y&R/DAYS: Steve Kent is repordedly OUT from Sony Pictures Television

[DaytimeFan]

Wow, just when you thought things couldn't get worse for Y&R, Steve Kent will now be solely focused on the show. 

This is so typical of Hollywood. Everyone fails upwards. 

[DramatistDreamer]

When I asked this question, somehow I suspected that Kent wouldn’t be fully relieved of his duties where Y&R is concerned. I would only have allowed myself to believe if had there been an official press release.

[Errol]

Looks like Victoria Rowell will never return to Y&R at this point. That's my take.

[dragonflies]

and we'll never be rid of Josh Griffith unless CBS intervene's 

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[BoldRestless]

It's so funny that the photo accompanying the Deadline article is Christine doing a trial in a rather nice courtroom set that we'd never see today. And a big reason why they can't afford sets like that is because they are top heavy with salaries for pointless executives like Steve Kent, which will now have to be 100% absorbed by Y&R and probably with a nice raise!

Edited May 3, 2024 by BoldRestless

[DaytimeFan]

That's my view - Sony appears to have shifted an accounting line item off of Sony's books and onto the production budget for Y&R. All for an executive who is filling a role that has never existed at Y&R before. Just what a budget strapped show needs.

[allmc2008]

He has since played a key role in the oversight of The Young And The Restless and Days of Our Lives. Created by William J. Bell and Lee Phillip Bell, the former has been airing since 1973 and focuses on two core families, the wealthy Brooks family and the working class Foster family.

 

Made famous globally by its representation in Friends, Days of Our Lives moved from NBC to Peacock two years ago and is one of the longest-running scripted TV shows in the world.

 

I know I'm fantasizing when I say this. But, maybe with those fun little errors, Deadline might have made a mistake? It meant to read "Steve Kent has been fired, stripped of all his assets, and now lives in a shelter. He is being replaced by Windy Riche and it's being rumored her focus will be on repairing Days of our Lives."

[Liberty City]

They also don't have over-night set crews, and have not since COVID.

[Toups]

Damn.  Now Josh Griffith will be at Y&R forever. 

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[Contessa Donatella]

But in the LGBTQ+ version it is the older woman she falls for! 

But about the desirability of one demo group over another, I always said that the ad agencies were selling a bill of goods. It never made any common sense at all! 

[Liberty City]

Unfortunate.

[Khan]

Not necessarily!  After all, friends have been known to fall out.   

[BetterForgotten]

It will be interesting with Kent now having more direct oversight on Y&R and being Sony’s plant on the production team. Will this lead to a power struggle between him and his old friend Griffith? 
 

 

[Faulkner]

I just saw on Reddit that people are receiving Y&R surveys again. Usually a sign of something:

https://www.reddit.com/r/youngandtherestless/s/fOUzFjmhL8

[BetterForgotten]

Every time one has gone out previously, the EP/HW was fired shortly after. Let's hope history repeats itself again, lol.