Peter Bergman opens up about his iconic daytime roles on All My Children and The Young and the Restless on the Soapy podcast.
Bergman shares what it was like coming onto Y&R to take over the role of Jack Abbott and says there was "real conflict" with Eric Braeden (Victor Newman) in the beginning.
I’m a lifelong Guiding Light fan, former NYC news writer/producer, and reality TV contestant writing a memoir about Guiding Light’s final years and the end of the New York City-produced soap opera era.
I’ve worked in broadcast news for CNN, MSNBC, WABC, and WCBS inside the CBS Broadcast Center in New York, just steps away from the Guiding Light soundstage during its final years.
What began as a childhood obsession eventually became something I never expected: I found myself working in the same building where Guiding Light was produced, watching an era of television come to an end from just outside the studio doors.
Over the years, I witnessed the dismantling of sets, the quiet end of production, and the disappearance of a world I grew up watching. I also kept small pieces of that history; old set photos, that would otherwise have been thrown away.
Today, I’m documenting those experiences through memoir writing and through Soap Opera Reviews, a project dedicated to Guiding Light, daytime television history, and broadcast-era storytelling.
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