Less than a year since returning to “The Young and the Restless” after a 14-year run at “The Bold and the Beautiful,” veteran producer Edward J. Scott has retired, Soap Opera Network has learned.
Scott’s last credited episode in daytime was as senior producer on the long-running daytime drama series, which aired on Wednesday, June 4, marking the end of an illustrious career that began in 1976 when he joined “The Young and the Restless” as an associate producer.
Quickly moving up the ranks, including a brief run as a producer from 1978-1986, Scott became executive producer of the Genoa City-set soap opera in 1987, replacing H. Wesley Kenney. Scott would remain with the show in the same position until 2001.
By 2003, Scott returned to the series, this time as a supervising producer. He remained with the show until 2007. He later joined the team at “Days of our Lives,” first as an executive consultant and then as co-executive producer.
After his time in Salem concluded in September 2008, Scott returned to the world of daytime drama when he joined “The Bold and the Beautiful” as a producer in 2010. By 2011, he was named supervising producer of the half-hour series, a position he held until September 2024.
In October 2024, it was reported Scott would once again return to “The Young and the Restless,” this time as senior producer, with his first credited episode airing November 4, 2024.
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The 80-year-old received the Lifetime Achievement Award at “The 51st Annual Daytime Emmy Awards,” which he shared with his wife, Melody Thomas Scott (Nikki Newman, “The Young and the Restless”).
“We are honored and humbled to receive this recognition from NATAS. Throughout our decades-long careers in front of and behind the cameras, we have had the opportunity to work not only with each other, but also with an incredibly talented pool of people who excel in their crafts and are passionate about the art we create in daytime television. We are grateful to have worked side by side with them and to be included with such esteemed recipients who have made their mark in our industry,” the Scotts said shortly after their recognition by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the governing body behind the Daytime Emmy Awards.
In addition to the Lifetime Achievement Award, Scott has also taken home six other Daytime Emmy Awards, including five for Outstanding Daytime Drama Series for “The Young and the Restless” (1983, 1985, 1986, 1993 and 2007) and one other in the same category for “The Bold and the Beautiful” (2011).
