BTG

- Michele Val Jean first listed as Head Writer on February 24

- Michele Val Jean first listed as Executive Producer on February 24

- Sheila Ducksworth first listed as Executive Producer on February 24

- Robert Guza Jr. first listed as Executive Producer on February 24

- Kimberly Doebereiner & Anna Saalfeld first listed as Executive Producers on February 24

- Leon W. Russell & Derrick Johnson first listed as Executive Producers on February 24

- Julie Hanan Carruthers first listed as Executive Producer on February 24

- Albert T. Dickerson III first listed as Producer on February 24

- Nadine Aronson first listed as Producer on February 24

- Sonia Blangiardo-Goins first listed as Producer on February 24

- Daniel Linge first listed as Co-Producer on February 24

- Alicia Hailey Daniels first listed as Coordinating Producer on February 24

- Steven Williford first listed as Director on February 24

- Phideaux Xavier first listed as Director on February 25

- Anthony Pascarelli first listed as Director on February 27

- Robert Guza Jr. first listed as Co-Head Writer on March 3

- Susan Dansby first listed as Script Editor on March 3

- Ron Carlivati first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 3

- Lynn Martin first listed as Script Writer on March 3

- Sara A. Bibel first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 4

- Judy Tate first listed as Script Writer on March 4

- Teresa Zimmerman first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 5

- Jazmen Darnell Brown first listed as Script Writer on March 5

- Gregori J. Martin first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 6

- Cheryl L. Davis first listed as Script Writer on March 6

- Christopher Dunn first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 7

- Danielle Paige first listed as Script Writer on March 7

- Michael V. Pomarico first listed as Director on March 14

- Shelley Curtis first listed as Director on May 19 

- Sonia Blangiardo-Goins first listed as Director on May 23

 

B&B

- Catherine Sedwick first listed as Director on January 23

 

 

DAYS

- Lynn Martin last listed as Script Writer on January 9

- Joanna Cohen first listed as Script Writer on January 14

- Simone Hawthorne last listed as Script Writer on January 17

- Dan O’Connor first listed as Script Writer on January 22

- Isaac Francis Tackman first listed as Script Writer on January 24

- Christopher Dunn last listed as Script Writer on February 24

- Dan O’Connor first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 18

- Ron Carlivati last listed as Head Writer on April 23

- Jeanne Marie Ford last listed as Breakdown Writer on April 23

- Jeanne Marie Ford first listed as Co-Head Writer on April 24

- Paula Cwikly first listed as Co-Head Writer on April 24

- Tyler Topits first listed as Breakdown Writer on May 8

- Dan O’Connor last listed as Breakdown Writer on May 16

- Skyy Sandifer first listed as Script Writer on May 21

- Rick Draughon first listed as Breakdown Writer on May 29

- Christian Streaty first listed as Script Writer on June 3

 

GH

- Will Gavett first listed as Breakdown Writer on January 31

- Cathy Lepard first listed as Script Editor on February 7

- Celena Cipriaso last listed as Breakdown Writer on February 19

- Ryan Quan first listed as Breakdown Writer on March 25

 

Y&R

- Kai Kim first listed as Director on January 7

- Marin Gazzaniga last listed as Script Editor on January 15

- Amanda L. Beall first listed as Script Editor on January 16

- Amanda L. Beall last listed as Script Editor on January 23

- Marin Gazzaniga returns as Script Editor on January 24

- John Fisher last listed as Supervising Producer on May 5

- Kevin Hamburger first listed as Supervising Producer on May 6

- Edward J. Scott last listed as Senior Producer on June 3

Thank you, Vee, for the scream I let out in public at the INSIDIOUS shoutout.

Unfortunately, @Vee will never achieve the success of JFP. She’s got 11 Emmys. Remind me how many Emmys you have? 

50 minutes ago, TEdgeofNight said:

Unfortunately, @Vee will never achieve the success of JFP. She’s got 11 Emmys. Remind me how many Emmys you have? 

And every show she leaves is so unstable it takes years to recover, if it recovers at all.

Objectively I can say she has a good eye for the look of the shows she is producing, and she knows how to film drama and strive for good acting. I don’t really fault her casting when it comes to new talent, her FOJ’s sometimes fit and sometimes don't though. She also interferes with writers to the detriment of her shows, favors problematic men’s egos on set and gives way less respect to women performers. Her work is often thematically very dark, and misogynistic.

Something happened to her a year or so into Guiding Light. The show starts to come unraveled, she basically forced out the writing team that had been bringing the show success. She starts manipulating things like focus groups to get what she wants, and starts building the shows around the men (Buzz as example) and weak women (Lucy). She took over OLTL and tried to fully direct the writing while producing the show. On GH her instincts were so disastrous that they forced Guza/Pratt on her and gave them Associate Producer titles for more money and some agency in the story. And even then, it took until the Brenda return to fully save her ass. And on top of that she is majorly responsible for the show losing Sarah Brown, Amber Tamblyn, Genie Francis, and not securing Vanessa for a longer stay. And now that we know Guza didn’t want to kill Alan off, her fingerprints are all over that one IMO.

The only thing I respect about her outside some casting that Mark Teschner brought to her is that she recognized Erika Slezak was too important at OLTL and still too vital to put out to pasture as only the mother of Joey, Jessica, and Kevin, and hand wringing sister of Todd.

Emmy’s aren’t everything. Y&R had been number one for decades and truthfully should have been dethroned multiple times but habit and name recogniztion count for something.

@titan1978 About 80% of what you said is untrue. But believe what you want. 

37 minutes ago, TEdgeofNight said:

@titan1978 About 80% of what you said is untrue. But believe what you want. 

I believe she is talented and maligned for a reason. I fundamentally disagree with what she thinks soaps should be. And I am far from a traditionalist when it comes to the genre. There are many direct sources of her behavior and bad decisions, and my own eyes watching ratings decline after sweeps bumps on her her shows, it’s pretty clear she survived in power, especially at GH, specifically because the genre was declining.

I will not further derail this thread with JFP unless it is pertinent. But I finish with this. She was asked directly over the years if she regretted killing Maureen off from Guiding Light. And for years she said she did. But someone pinned her down when she was at Y&R the first time, Michael Logan perhaps, and she admitted what she regretted and would never do again is making the audience care so much about a character right before killing then off. The tragic nature of the story leading into killing Maureen is what she regrets, not that she misjudged the audience, or that she didn’t have the foresight to see how destabilizing that was going to be for that particular show.  

 

Engaging for a moment with the topic with titan, Jill is a skilled line producer who maneuvered herself well and leveraged key veterans at various shows for maximized award potential even with lousy stories or taste. But she's never been the creative she fancied herself to be without talented writers behind her, and as an OLTL fan it was fitting to see her knocked down in power and influence after she nearly destroyed GH, the ABC flagship, in under a year when left to her own devices. (Megan McTavish may be insane but her comments about Jill and having to grudgingly write in Kale Browne three days a week at her behest were funny.)

Like a lot of the industry she's got certain skills, but she also has a faded bag of tricks that has been mouldering since 1992. Which is a part of why it was such a hoot to see Jill appear out of the shadows like a leviathan in that video. Of course she's at it again. Who will be the next blonde white chick named Courtney in 2026? Riveting stuff for Gen Z.

Edited Thursday at 12:18 AM2 days by Vee

You know what's crazy? Even though JFP ultimately has been a disaster at many soaps, and even though all the negatives about her are true, I'd still prefer her over Josh Griffith at Y&R.

She can take over for him anytime, and I will applaud.

I did feel like JFP's Y&R was decent. Of all the recent HW/EP swaps, her period was very safe but watchable. Nothing spectacular but better than what we have now.

11 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I did feel like JFP's Y&R was decent. Of all the recent HW/EP swaps, her period was very safe but watchable. Nothing spectacular but better than what we have now.

I'm inclined to agree with you and I loved her at Santa Barbara.

40 minutes ago, Chris B said:

I did feel like JFP's Y&R was decent. Of all the recent HW/EP swaps, her period was very safe but watchable. Nothing spectacular but better than what we have now.

I would take her back as executive producer immediately (although, I do feel like Sally McDonald is doing well as co-executive producer). Josh Griffith as head writer is the most troublesome, but demos and ratings are solid, and that is what the suits look at for this soap, so unless a major slump happens, no changes will come.

Plus, under Phelps, we did win Outstanding Drama Series twice (2014/2015) after a seven-year spell of not winning. But right now, I do believe where she is is right where she belongs, and I feel like she's happy being where she is.

4 hours ago, ranger1rg said:

You know what's crazy? Even though JFP ultimately has been a disaster at many soaps, and even though all the negatives about her are true, I'd still prefer her over Josh Griffith at Y&R.

She can take over for him anytime, and I will applaud.

At this point, I feel the same.

11 hours ago, Liberty City said:

Plus, under Phelps, we did win Outstanding Drama Series twice (2014/2015) after a seven-year spell of not winning. But right now, I do believe where she is is right where she belongs, and I feel like she's happy being where she is.

That is a very good point. Despite the issue with the Chancellor Mansion revamp, I thought the show looked expensive under her and she would never allow a show to be as boring as what JG is giving us. I will also have endless respect for her immediately getting Jess Walton back after the previous regime ran her off.

6 minutes ago, Chris B said:

That is a very good point. Despite the issue with the Chancellor Mansion revamp, I thought the show looked expensive under her and she would never allow a show to be as boring as what JG is giving us. I will also have endless respect for her immediately getting Jess Walton back after the previous regime ran her off.

I agree; plus, even if for a short period of time, Tracey Bregman was on contract for the first time in several years. The issue is what she was asked to do (and I fully believe she was) in updating Y&R. But yes, the show still looked like how it should have looked. Thankfully, we're getting back [visually] to what it was, but it is still lacking some richness from my POV. Phelps definitely operates from more of a business perspective (in comparison to a creative perspective), and her use of music/sense of direction is solid (I will give her that). Truthfully, she is a woman in a business where I am sure the men would prefer her not exist.

LOL, having a lot of Emmys doesn't make someone immune to criticism... it just means they've been recognized by a specific group of people. These awards are subjective. And no, you don't need to have 11 Emmys yourself to express your opinion about someone or something.

I've seen this discussion about JFP repeated every few months in the forum and it always ends with the same defense - but she won 11 Emmys. So what? I know people that have won the Nobel prize that are despicable. I'm not saying that JFP is... Not at all... But I think you get my point.

On 11/19/2025 at 5:47 PM, titan1978 said:

I will not further derail this thread with JFP unless it is pertinent. But I finish with this. She was asked directly over the years if she regretted killing Maureen off from Guiding Light. And for years she said she did. But someone pinned her down when she was at Y&R the first time, Michael Logan perhaps, and she admitted what she regretted and would never do again is making the audience care so much about a character right before killing then off. The tragic nature of the story leading into killing Maureen is what she regrets, not that she misjudged the audience, or that she didn’t have the foresight to see how destabilizing that was going to be for that particular show.  

She's played this tune for decades. I think the line is that for the six months before Maureen died, she made viewers care about her, and that was her mistake. That's very dubious, as I cared about Maureen before this incredible six-month period, but it tells you her view of the audience (and apparently of Ellen Parker).