From Deseret News archives:
Show draws female viewers
She wants him to worry more about a family dilemma, and he wants her to worry less. Their relationship is both fond and mistrustful, fraught with passion and tension.
Eric Braeden and Melody Thomas Scott have played variations of this scene between the divorced and remarried Newmans many times before on the CBS's daytime drama "The Young and the Restless" (10 a.m., weekdays on Ch. 2).
"Melody and I have worked together over 23 years now," says Braeden, who plays the elegant but not always upright billionaire.
"We've had some great scenes. She's very vulnerable and I think that is one of the essential ingredients you need to bring with you to make it in this medium. People want to see into your inner soul," the 62-year-old actor says.
"The Young and the Restless," which premiered on March 26, 1973, has ranked No. 1 overall in daytime drama for the past 15 seasons. The show recently regained the top slot in the age 18 to 49 female demographic considered vital by advertisers.
Smith often gets story ideas "driving home listening to 'All Things Considered' on National Public Radio . . . from those interesting columns on the side of the front page of The Wall Street Journal . . . and from watching CNN," he says. "But the one constant is that we are a character-driven show."
The hourlong series is taped at CBS Television City. The actors get their scripts about a week before taping, but have to process many more pages of dialogue a day and spew out emotion much faster than on prime-time series.
"It's an inordinate pace but I'm very used to it and I love it," says Braeden. "But you need to make adjustments very quickly. Either you develop a sense of what is real or you don't."
He stresses the need for naturalism, not histrionics. "The only way we can keep this medium alive is to make it as real as possible . . . get away from soap operatic conventions."
Creator Bill Bell retired in 1998, but his legacy is carried on by writers who worked with him. Head writer Kay Alden celebrates her 30th anniversary in May and Smith has been around since 1979.
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