6 minutes ago, VelekaCarruthers said:

The key question is why did they add a non soap veteran as supervising producer, Kevin Hamburger, as of the September script photo posted in another thread. Waiting for the reporting on that.  Hamburger has tons of execution production experience. He gets separate billing on the script page above Phelps and the other producers.

Kevin Hamburger has been there a while and has been receiving onscreen credit as a supervising producer for quite some time now (since May-ish).

1 minute ago, Liberty City said:

Kevin Hamburger has been there a while and has been receiving onscreen credit as a supervising producer for quite some time now (since May-ish).

Yes but everyone's freaking about Phelps when I think Hamburger's addition may be the bigger long term story. I don't watch the show so the first time I saw his name was on the script photo but I did see on IMDB that he's been credited started May 6 episode. His linked in shows she started in March. It's just odd. They brought in Mal Young this way. Six or more months as a consultant or other title..

4 minutes ago, VelekaCarruthers said:

Yes but everyone's freaking about Phelps when I think Hamburger's addition may be the bigger long term story. I don't watch the show so the first time I saw his name was on the script photo but I did see on IMDB that he's been credited started May 6 episode. His linked in shows she started in March. It's just odd. They brought in Mal Young this way. Six or more months as a consultant or other title..

I just think it's bringing in someone who is capable of handling the role, and he is someone who can and does. Nothing more, despite everyone wanting to read more into it (and the same with Phelps). Demos and ratings are up, and that's what the suits care about. Unless those slip, Griffith is not going anywhere.

Edited August 5Aug 5 by Liberty City

Seems like the last thing Ed Scott oversaw was Nikki's birthday party right before the France storyline began?   The Genoa City sets that Ed Scott introduced were lovely.   But the "France" sets with the hedges were absolutely hideous.  Who was responsible for thinking the hedges were a good idea?

On 8/5/2025 at 3:56 PM, Liberty City said:

Kevin Hamburger has been there a while and has been receiving onscreen credit as a supervising producer for quite some time now (since May-ish).

Hamburger was a coordinating producer on Santa Barbara when JFP was the executive producer.

I ain't mad at it. Congratualtions Jill!

On 8/6/2025 at 7:43 PM, watson71 said:

Hamburger was a coordinating producer on Santa Barbara when JFP was the executive producer.

I thought he was with SB under Rauch. Even so, it's odd to bring in someone above Jill and bypass the other twenty (kidding) producers who could have been elevated to Supervising Producer i.e. Vivian Gundaker....Hamburger has zero recent soap experience and 99.9% of his experience is outside of soaps and episodic tv. As someone who's watched soaps for fifty years and has followed behind the scenes changes, this hire seems odd.

Edited August 12Aug 12 by VelekaCarruthers

15 hours ago, VelekaCarruthers said:

I thought he was with SB under Rauch. Even so, it's odd to bring in someone above Jill and bypass the other twenty (kidding) producers who could have been elevated to Supervising Producer i.e. Vivian Gundaker....Hamburger has zero recent soap experience and 99.9% of his experience is outside of soaps and episodic tv. As someone who's watched soaps for fifty years and has followed behind the scenes changes, this hire seems odd.

My understanding is that Hamburger’s role (like John Fisher before him) handles bill paying and the business/budget side of the production, which is something he has a long history of. He is not involved with story at all.