LSV: I think the fact that The Bold and the Beautiful takes place in a real city [Los Angeles]– it’s not a fictional city. It’s within a real place. So because of that, we show LA. A lot of the homes on The Bold and the Beautiful are homes modeled after our executive producers’ home or their parents or siblings. All this stuff is based on some sort of reality. And because of that, we’ll do remote [shoots], we’ll shoot in Paris, we’ll shoot in Dubai, we’ll shoot in Italy. So I think our show brings a lot of the real world within it., whereas other soaps are usually a fictional city that kind of reminds you of a real one.

Also, I would say we really lean into the romantic parts. The other shows are amazing. And I love General Hospital for that whole mafia kind of action-packed thing. And I love that Days of Our Lives [kind of] still goes wherever they want to go, and they’ll do like a The Exorcist storyline, and it’s brilliant. What I love about us is that we’re romancing in the afternoon. We lean into romance hard. That’s our driving factor is the characters falling in and out of love. So I think that’s what also separates us from the other ones.

Lawrence Saint-Victor