#BoldAndBeautiful new and improved? You be the judge as we lay out the major changes the show is making in the months ahead: As We Head Toward a New Year, We’re Getting a Whole New Bold & Beautiful — Here’s the Lowdown On the Changes

Since The Bold and the Beautiful moved into a new studio — see photos from the CBS soap’s arrival here — we’ve been finding out about one change after another. In the end, we could be starting the new year with a whole new show. Here’s the lowdown on all the shakeups.

Thomas was brought back to L.A. not to make another play for Hope but to forcibly if necessary see that his parents remarried. Since dad Ridge utterly thwarted that plan, watch for Paris’ now-ex-fiancé to take out his rage on one person and one person only: Brooke!

Thomas’ stepmother will, as per usual, insist that she and Ridge are one another’s “destiny.” But that’s only going to fuel Thomas’ fire. We can just hear him saying, “So help me, if you call it ‘destiny’ on more [bleeping] time!”

The writing is on the wall where Carter is concerned. He may love Hope with his whole heart, but when she is drawn back toward Liam, the beefy wedding officiant is sure to step aside with all the grace that he can muster. Maybe Daphne can console him? Or maybe not.

Co-headwriter Michael Minnis told TV Insider that someone from the perfumer’s past might burst into the present and have an “interesting impact on a number of our characters.” Like who, for instance?

Taylor took Ridge’s latest rejection remarkably well. (We’d have gone scorched-earth on his ass!) Perhaps that’s because a new love is on the horizon for her — and maybe it’s the same man who’ll be dropping into Daphne’s story.