Daytime Confidential

On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Belinda and Regan discuss the latest news from All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live including...Former Guiding Light star Crystal Hunt joining One Life to Live as a stripper. Scott Clifton and One Tree Hill's Brett Claywell coming to Llanview. Tonya Walker returns as Alex Olanov and Kamar de los Reyes's plans to leave One Life to Live. Natalia Livingston returns to General Hospital as a new character. Who might she paired with and what might her storylines be? Maurice Bernard re-signs his contract, what does this mean for Sonny and the viewers? Word has it that General Hospital may flash forward in time. Can pretty much anyone get cut and it be blamed on the economy?All My Children's Jake gets harsh with Amanda but does it make sense? Does Taylor have better chemistry with Brott or Frankie? Is the show trying to force to many pairings and not letting magic happen organically? All this and more on today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential

On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Jamey and Melodie discuss all the latest news including...Janet vs. Carly and Jon Lindstrom's debut as Craig Montgomery on As the World Turns and reaction to his dating a woman he once believed to be his daughter. Pheobe's death on The Bold and the Beautiful and is it just us or has B&B been dubmed down over the past several months? Jamey comments on his interview with Sean Kanan (Deacon). Billy finds out that Chloe is pregnant with his child. Wouldn't it be awesome to have a May/December romance with Billy and Nikki? Imagine the possibilities.  More fallout from the Jabot takeover on The Young and the Restless. Ashley Abbott is taking names and we're loving it. Jeff Branson's debut as Shayne Lewis on Guiding Light but shouldn't Dinah recognized him as Shayne? Melodie isn't happy about the Marina and Mallet wedding and doesn't Guiding Light have a church as a set? Why couldn't it have been used for the wedding?  Alison Sweene

Note: This ABC episode is our post Thanksgiving episode. Due to Luke being ill there was a delay in his ability to edit and publish it. On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina and Jamey discuss the special Scrubs' Thanksgiving episode, including the Stuart Damon sighting. Sarah Brown renews her contract with General Hospital. Is Sam McCall turning into Kung Fu Barbie or is she just the best of the Brendabots? One Life to Live's ratings beat General Hospital with no help from CGI. Victor Lord's Tomb moves.Jamey suggests that we need to play the opposite game with All My Children and is loving Crazy Annie.Tina, Luke and Jamey discuss Betty White's recent appearance on a Boston Legal episode that was entirely about TV target demographics.

On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike and Jamey discuss the Thanksgiving episodes of As the World Turns, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless. What they enjoyed and what they didn't.Don Diamont has been "ousted" from The Young and the Restless and the guys share their reaction. The battle for Jabot is heating up and the guys couldn't be enjoying it more and Tuesday's episode has Jamey admitting he's enjoying Gloria while Mike grudgingly agree the character is better than she used to be.The casting department at Days of Our Lives is a head scratcher but Jamey believe he knows why. The reason may be a bit of a surprise.All this and more on this post Thanksgiving episode.

On today's Top 5 countdown as many of the Daytime Confidential gang as could get together to count down the Top 5 Things We're Thankful in Daytime. These are the actors, actresses, shows, executives and personalities who we are thankful for in 2008.

On today's Hotline edition of Daytime Confidential you the listeners are weighing in on the latest and hottest topics in daytime including the firing of Drake Hogestyn and Deidre Hall at Days of Our Lives.

The Daytime Confidential gang is still in shock over the firing of Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn as they get together to discuss the latest CBS and Days of Our Lives' news.Listen as Luke, Mike, Jillian and Melodie discuss the firings of Deidre Hall and Drake Hogestyn and what this means for Days of Our Lives. Jamey drops by to join the gang in discussing the Marge/Katherine funeral on The Young and the Restless and how this is good soap.Noah proves that gay lovers and Karma can be a bitch, much to the displeasure of Luke Snyder.Over at The Bold and the Beautiful Jillian is CHIPS and Ponche flashbacks.Melodie is thankful that Marcy Rylan renewed her contract.

Mouths around the soap world collectively dropped this weekend as the unthinkable happened. The recently-renewed Days of Our Lives, fired its biggest supercouple Deidre Hall (Dr. Marlena Evans) and Drake Hogestyn (John Black). In this special episode of the DC podcast Luke, Mike and Jamey invite veteran soap journalist Nelson Branco (TV Guide Canada's The Suds Report) and former Days writer Tom Casiello to weigh in from the perspective of industry insiders.Reactions to the shocking news are gauged from the panel, including: Branco, who reveals Days of Our Lives was the first soap he ever watched and how he first fell in love with the ravishing Hall even before discovering Andrea Evans and One Life to Live; and Casiello, who during his last few months on the soap before the Writers' Strike, was part of a team under Hogan Sheffer that was forced to script out the soap's "Big Four" (Hall, Hogestyn, Kristian Alfonso and Peter Reckell) due to their reported astronomical salaries and ultimately made th

On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina, Belinda and Regan discuss the latest in ABC soap news including...All My Children's 10,000th episode. Where has Carmen disappeared to? Adam and EricaSusan Haskell and Trevor St. John's performances on One Life to Live. Should Marty get all of her memory back at once or only a little bit over time? Who would you put Marty with now? Once her memory is entirely back could she be with Todd or someone else? Shouldn't an autopsy prove that its obvious that Bess's baby isn't her own?Regan shares some of the latest General Hospital spoilers and we discuss the burning of Kelly's. Nikolas, Nadine and Raylene. Scrubs in the mob or Robin as the next mob doctor? Jax and Kate sleep together.

On today's CBS & DAYS episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Jamey and Jillian discuss all the latest in CBS soap and Days of Our Lives news including...The saviour of Guiding Light, Grant Aleksander, returns to Springfield to shake things up and help stave off the cancellation of the oldest soap. The gang give their take on what this could mean.  Lucinda's new love Brian kisses Luke and needless to say the gang can't help but feel sorry for poor Noah. The poor boy can't get a break. What is up with Carly and Lily putting aside their rivalry so quickly? It makes no sense but Jamey believes there is a Sex and the City connection. What or what is the point of fake Jennifer?Word has it that Phoebe is being killed of The Bold and the Beautiful and Luke believes that Phoebe's funeral would provide the perfect time for Rick to sing opera, to which Jamey has a coronary. Brooke proved once again that no Logan does sex tease than her. Luke wonders how exactly Donna could confuse Eric and Stephanie. Jillian is

On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Karen from Wubs.net joins Luke, Belinda and Tina to discuss all the latest in ABC soaps including...The birth of Star and Jessica's baby on One Life to Live and how realistic both births were. Jean Randolph vs. Bess and how they compare. They discuss whether or not something can be a pale imitation while being better than we expected. David returns to Pine Valley and is hitting on Amanda and we're not sure we like it. Belinda wants the romance between Taylor and Jake killed off.  They discuss whether or not Petey is a Spinelli "light."The Scrubs baby was born and brought with it a bunch of touching scenes and they discuss what they enjoyed most. Laura and Scotty are on the run and Belinda, Karen and Tina aren't impressed while Luke plays devil's advocate. Rumors are swirling about the November Sweeps that never happened and we discuss what they supposedly were and when they might still happen.

On today's Performer of the Week Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike, Jamey and Jillian choose the actors and actresses they believe are the Performer of the Week and honorable and dishonorable mentions. They discuss CBS's decision not to air the next Daytime Emmy telecast and what this means for the daytime industry.

On today's Top 5 Daytime Confidential countdown Luke, Jamey, Nicki and Melodie count down their Top 5 Heroines in soaps. The characters who they admire and look up to.

On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Melodie and Jillian discuss all the latest rumors and news including Ashley's return to The Young and the Restless, Catherine and Marge, Lily and Billy and debate who Amber should go up against. Boozy Taylor and teaming up with ball busting broads on The Bold and the Beautiful.We're throwing a party for Cassie leaving Guiding Light and Melodie has a problem with Grady.We discuss the latest rumors of Austin Peck and Agim Kaba leaving As the World Turns and Sage following in her mother's footsteps.Sandra Ferguson returns to daytime on Days of Our Lives, Galen Gering makes his debut and EJ and Nicole.

On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina, Jamey and TV Guide Canada's Nelson discuss ABC's focus groups, PSA's and who exactly is to blame for the re-rape of One Life to Live's Marty by Todd. General Hospital's ratings plummeted and we discuss whether or not the show needs more or less mob to help it improve in its ratings. Branco shares the latest about Cameron Mathison's contract status and how the relationship of All My Children's gay couple Bianca and Reese is being written. All this and much more on today's show.

On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina and Jamey discuss Jason Cook without a beard and David Lago joining General Hospital. Bianca and Reese and why  Bianca's motives don't ring true to the character. Beth Ehlers and Ricky Paull Goldin can't escape filming in stairwells and Michael E. Knight rumors. Blowing up safe's for Dummies, mustache twirling Tess and Marty and Todd. All this and much, much more including the disconnect between online and offline soap viewers.

On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Jamey, Nicki and Melodie discuss Tricia Cast returning to The Young and the Restless, David Lago goes General Hospital, eye spy a CBS logo on The Bold and the Beautiful, Nicki's Save Lizzie campaign for Guiding Light and John Callahan goes to Days of Our Lives.

On this month's Daytime Confidential Girls Night Out episode Tina, Regan, Nicki and Melodie discuss the latest hot topics and swoon over daytime's leading men.

On today's Top 5 episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Jamey, Nicki and Melodie count down their Top 5 Heroes in daytime.

On today's show Luke, Belinda and Jamey discuss all the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news including the tornado that ate Pine Valley, Justis Bolding leaving One Life to Live, Sebastian Roche leaving General Hospital and some General Hospital November Sweeps previews.