he IS Y&R


Veteran soap star Eric Braeden preps for exit
Soap fans are all lathered up about Eric Braeden's upcoming departure from The Young and the Restless.

Victor Newman, his character, will exit the show on Nov. 2. And it's all about money, of course. Braeden's current three-year deal with Sony, the production company, wasn’t due to elapse until November 2010. But Sony took advantage of a sneaky, yet standard, clause in soap contracts that leaves a star’s salary prone to renegotiation every 26 weeks. And Braden, 68, refused to take a paycut.

"There is no appreciation of the fact that I’ve been an important part of the show for 27 years that has been no. 1 in the ratings," he tells EW.

Now, he says, he taped his last episode on Sept. 23 and probably won't ever do another daytime drama. "I doubt that. Never say never in this business or in life, but I doubt that."

When asked if he thinks soaps are dying, he says no. "How many reality shows can you watch? They’re so obviously phony. Our show deals with adult problems in a long continuous manner, and very much like the way things are dealt with in real life. In that sense I think there will always be a need for (soaps).

I know. After he's been there for 30 years!! That show will never be the same and I don't give a hoot about those new young actors and theyre dumb story plots. I WILL NEVER WATCH THAN SHOW AGAIN, NEVER !

he's fucked everybody in genoa city
male and female

I've watched that show off and on for 32 years. My grandmother had to watch it every day when I was little,so I pretty much had no choice. My wife and I dvr it every day and watch it every night. It's gonna take some getting used to watching it without him on there. But I will get used to his same old shtick was getting kinda old to me anyway. It seems to me like they've been setting Nick and Sharon up to be the new Victor and Nicki anyway.

It's gotten SO stupid, They gave dumb ass Ashley Sharon's baby, I couldn't believe that crap. Lord ham mercy, they might as well just cancel that show right now!!
[Edited 10/12/09 19:14pm]

Temporary?
[Edited 10/8/09 15:22pm]

OH HELL NO!!!!
I've been watching that show since I was a kid!

I guess Victor's body is going to reject Colleen's heart.

"Now, you listen to me and you listen good.
I don't know who you are or who you think you
are. But, I'm Victor Newman! How dare you!
How dare you try to write me off of this show!
I built this show! How deh yeeeeewwww!"

WTF is this?!
Victor IS Y&R!!!

I just read that. I was a CBS soap kid growing up. My grandma and mom both watched Y&R, As The World Turns, and Guiding Light. I don't think soaps will be around much longer. Our CBS channel here is scrambling to fill time, as is the ABC and NBC one, for daytime TV slots with shows being canceled and moved around.

ernestsewell said:

Mine, too. As I got older, the only one I continued was Y&R.
The Bold & Beautiful makes me angry.

chocolate1 said:

that seems like the only way he'll end up leaving
The Mustache IS The Young and the Restless, I knew that shit from in the womb!

ernestsewell said:

My Grandmom did the same thing, we used to play cards and watch the soaps, lol!!! I still watch Y&R and B&B, I stopped watching Guiding Light once Roger Thorpe(played by Michael Zanslow) left and As The World turns always bored me for some reason. I figured Eric Braden wouldn't except what the suits over at Y&R were trying to make him do, he probably said:

"I don't give a damn what you say, u got that?" lol!
[Edited 10/8/09 21:06pm]

ThreadBare said:

said exactly like Victor would say

im a days fan and it is crazy that they fired john and deidre

chocolate1 said:

Once I went into the Navy in early 1987, I gave up on them all. I watched the last 2 or 3 episodes of Guiding Light before it went off the air, but I have no interest in the others at this point. Remember when Capital was on? It was a 1/2 hour show about a political family. Jordy was the spoiled playboy son.

http://en.wikipedia.org/w..._series%29

Abdul said:

years of watching that show. He and Jack were my favorite characters. Shucks, I'm wearing a black t-shirt right now, in part, because of "the dark knight."

I was shocked when I read the news. The writers started fucking up his character though, in recent months. Maybe it's for the best.

It's over for Y&R unless they work it out-Victor was the damn show for years.

nurseV said:

for real. I'll never watch this show again if they actually let him go. Victor IS THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS!!!!! You take him away and then you might as well cancel the damn thing. Not like there's nothing else interesting going on in the story line anyway.

Y&R's Braeden Tells All To Digest
As we reported last week, Eric Braeden (Victor) has been written off of Y&R, after he balked at taking a pay cut mid-contract. But it wasn't the idea of a cut that has him riled. Braeden tells Digest, "I am outraged that after 29 years of devoted service to this company and show, which I'm very proud of, to then be dealt with in such a cold fashion ... is so confrontational and so insulting one really has serious thoughts about wanting to continue it." While acknowledging that the current financial crunch makes cuts necessary, Braeden is unhappy with the manner in which the show's offer was delivered. "It's not that one hadn't agreed to a reduction, but they hit you with a sledgehammer," he says. "It's done in such an insulting fashion. It could have been dealt with in a far more gracious way. It is cold and hard-nosed....The whole thing was so calculated it was unbelievable.... It's not even about the money." For more from Braeden, see the next issue of Digest.


They are going to regret this!!!!!

missfee said:

They aren't going to regret it. All soaps are going through a transition period. All the studios and executives care about is the amount of revenue they make from these shows. It costs a lot to maintain a soap per year. If they can kill of a principal character and keep the soap afloat, then so be it. I love the soaps and hate this is happening, but we live in a different society now. Our new soaps are reality shows (the housewives series are a perfect example). They cost nothing to produce and they don't work as hard.

My brother's been missin out on Y&R lately so he has no idea of wats happenin...
so on his way to the shower I told him wats goin on wit Victor in Y&R now and wats happenin in real life...
and how they're linked...
my bro was like "Victor's dying?!" He didn't even want to go take a bath anymore
so I had to fully explain everything (exhausting) lol
But i'm still crackin up at how my bro almost had a heart attack lol
We both grew up on Y&R.

Funny story...my mom used to watch Guiding Light everyday while breast-feedin my lil bro (he's 21 now).
She said that whenever the intro music comes on my bro would jus let go of her nipple and focus all his attention to the TV...
Wat was it about Guiding Light that had him so hooked as a child...
I would never know!

ThreadBare said:

you forgot...

Yougotthat?! Now get the hell out!

JayJai said:

My grandmother would watch All My Children and Y&R when I was little so I was hooked since

Its just another sign of the times, Soaps are slowly dying one by one. When they put the grand dame(Guiding Light) into the grave last month the writing was on the wall.

ATWT and OLTL will be the next to go, the only reason AMC is staying around is cause they are moving to LA.

It just cost too much $ to produce the shows and with the women now in the work force and busy doing other things Soaps are just loosing too much viewership to continue.

Hell I remember coming home from kindergarten and sitting with my mom and watching guiding light, hell I grew up watching that show. I talked to mom the day it went off the air n she felt like she had lost a close friend.

daPrettyman said:

I'm sorry but I disagree. If they plan to keep Y&R afloat without Victor Newman, then they got another thing coming. They will lose a lot of viewers because of this and viewers=ratings. A lost ratings=lost of money. Lost of money=show being cancelled.

lazycrockett said:

Thats how its going to feel when for my grandmother when they take Y&R off.

Who can I email about this shit???
[Edited 10/11/09 15:49pm]

bboy87 said: