Daytime Confidential

On today's episode Daytime Confidential begins the first of eight episodes focusing on The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Favorite Soaps. Join Luke, Tina and Jamey as the discuss and debate The Top 10 Ways to Improve The All My Children. This may be Daytime Confidential's longest episode ever so buckle up for an in depth discussion on All My Children. In each of The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Favorite Soaps the Daytime Confidential gang will discuss some of the common issues facing the soaps as well as some of the unique problems facing each show. This along with your comments on the blog and on the Daytime Confidential Comment Line makes for an entertaining discussion on the ills facing All My Children and its fans. Have a question or comment for the Daytime Confidential podcast? Leave us a voicemail by calling (917) 677-9757. Listen to Daytime Confidential by clicking on the Daytime Confidential Player at the bottom of this post or Download us for FREE via iTunes. Vote for us on Podcast Alley. Add us

News that Days of Our Lives supervillain Stefano DiMera wouldn't be coming out of his coma caused fans of the iconic character and his  portrayer Joseph Mascolo to quickly mobilize. Soon after came the announcement that the Phoenix would indeed rise again from the ashes and more pointedly, from the coma Marlena (Deidre Hall) put him. Recently Luke and I  had the chance to speak with Salem's most famous puppet master Joseph Mascolo, aka Stefano DiMera himself, about his history-making run on Days. We find out what led to the decision to put Stefano on ice and why Mascolo firmly believes it was the fervent outcry of his friends (he doesn't like to use the word fans) who demanded The Powers That Be thaw Stefano out. In the revealing interview Mascolo weighs in on how he feels Stefano should deal with his enemies-namely Marlena, his onetime "Queen of the Night" and John, his ultimate Pawn. We find out if he's worried about whether or not Victor Kiriakis (John Aniston) has become the new kingpin of Salem and if h

On today's Performer of the Week episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina, Mike, Jamey and Nicki choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job during the previous week and discuss their honorable mentions along with the latest soap ratings.

On today's episode Daytime Confidential begins the first of eight episodes focusing on The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Favorite Soaps.Join Luke, Mike and Jamey as the discuss and debate The Top 10 Ways to Improve The Bold and the Beautiful. In each of The Top 10 Ways to Improve Your Favorite Soaps the Daytime Confidential gang will be discussing some of the common issues facing each show as well as some of the unique problems facing each soap.This along with your comments on the blog and on the Daytime Confidential Comment Line makes for a great debate on the ills facing The Bold and the Beautiful and its fans.

On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives' Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike and Nicki discuss the latest on As the World turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless including...Lily Snyder Guns It: Has As the World Turns' Lily Snyder lost it as she guns her car's engine to run down Carly? Can the writers get away with this happening to the character since Martha Bryne isn't in the role?Blatantly Using Owen: Felicia getting her hooks into Owen Knight and she isn't the only one who wants a piece of him, so does Daytime Confidential's Nicki. Speaking of psychos, what's it going to take for Bridget to lose it and go crazy?Cat Fights: Days of our Lives' Sami, Chloe and Nicole highly anticipated cat fight happened this last week and it didn't last long enough. What has happened to knock-down-drag-out cat fights?Ava's Out: Michelle Ray Smith is out as Ava on Guiding Light and the Daytime Confidential gang discusses where the show goes from here. Mike has some

On today's ABC edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina, Belinda and Danielle are discussing the latest on All My Children, One Life to Live, and General Hospital including...Psycho Annie Lavery: Do we love this storyline or do we even care? Is there anyone out there who truly wants Rylee 3.0?Carlo Hesser's Return: What does One Life to Live's Carlo Hesser have in store for Talia, Tina, Sarah and the Vega boys? He's up to something but how many people will get hurt before he's through?Genie Francis Return: General Hospital announced it's bringing pop culture icon Genie Francis back to Port Charles for a short stint as part of Lulu's storyline. The Daytime Confidential gang discusses the pros and cons of her return and whether or not we're looking forward to it and if we want her to stay around longer.  

On today's show Luke and Jamey visit with daytime insider Michael Fairman about his work as a daytime journalist, how he got his start in the industry and his new, soon to be syndicated, radio program Soap Dish Radio that he co-hosts with The Young and the Restless' Kristoff St. John. We also talk with him about this year's Daytime Emmy Awards, where the daytime industry is headed and get his take on the future of soaps as well as learn about what it is like to cover the soaps for the international audience. Michael is a contributing feature correspondent for TV SOAP Australia, the number one entertainment publications for TV and Film “down under”. Michael just launched his new website Michael Fairman On Air, On Soaps which you can check out by visiting MichaelFairmanSoaps.com. On his website you will find many of his current and classic on-camera interviews with some of daytime's biggest names in the Media section and read recent interviews with The Bold and the Beautiful's Hunter Tylo and The Young and the

On today's Performer of the Week episode Luke, Tina, Mike and Jamey choose the actors and actresses who they believe to have done an outstanding job during the previous week.The Daytime Confidential gang discusses the latest weekly ratings and Jamey has a rant about how the soap's ratings are calculated.

On today's CBS and Days of Our Live's edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike and Jamey are all the latest on As the World Turns, Bold and Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and Young and Restless including... Emily and Casey's secret is out on As the World Turns and things are about to explode. Barbara is back and Mike is loving it. Luke and Noah can never be happy. What should ATWT do with Lily? Should they bring someone new in for her or should they bring someone back like Hunt Block's Craig Montgomery?We keep being told that this summer is going to be great on the Young and the Restless and we're really hoping it is. Is it back to basics for the No. 1 soap? Jamey believes there are some things that just need to be dropped. Should Katherine and Jill's relationship be undone? Vincent Irizarry is out at Y&R and we're discussing whether or not it would be good for him to return to Guiding Light. Maeve Kincaid on the screen breathing makes Mike's week. Jeff, Reva and Josh have viable triangle p

On today's ABC edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina, Jamey and Regan discuss all the latest on All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live including...Dorian's fashion sense on One Life to Live. Who might Talia's mother be? Luke's complaint about a current storyline. Erica and Samuel Woods kissing on All My Children. Jake, Greenlee and Beth Ehlers' new character. Would we want Vincent Irizarry back in Pine Valley as David Hayward? Could making Greenlee and Kendall Lindsey and Nora type rivals save theme form this aweful storyline loop they are in. Regan, Tina and Jamey want Annie to go psycho on Pine Valley's ass but Luke doesn't. Josh Duhan's depature from General Hospital. Jamey wants a Gotti style reality show within General Hospital for Johnny and Claudia while Luke has an idea for focusing on the Quartermaines. Rumors have it that Spinelli and Maxie will have sex and the gang discusses whether or not they want them to sleep together.Next week Daytime Confidential launches it's first summ

On today's Performer of the Week episode Luke, Tina, Mike, Jamey and Regan choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job during the previous week. There were so many good ones last week everyone has an honorable mention. We've also got the latest ratings.A bunch of you have called the Daytime Confidential Comment Line and left comments and we've got them in this episode. You can leave your comment about this Performer of the Week episode or any other episode by calling (917) 677-9757.

On this month's Daytime Confidential Girls Night Out episode Tina, Danielle, Regan and Nicki are dishing everything naughty in the world of soaps.From Nicki's idea of having Murray Bartlett walk around in black skivies on a daily basis to inflate Guiding Light ratings to the age old battle of sex vs. love the ladies are dishing about all this and more including...Squish names. Days of Our Live's Dansea. The Kelly Monaco pregnancy rumors. Betting on when Erica get's out of jail. Helena's miracle baby. Why Danielle hates Greenlee. Baby bumps and twists of fate.All this and much more on this month's Girls Night Out episode.

On today's Top 5 edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Tina and Nicki count down the Top 5 "Daughters With Daddy Issues." These are the women and girls whose fathers have influenced and manipulated their daughter's lives and helped to turn them into the divas they are today.

On today's Performer of the Week episode Luke, Tina, Nicki and Regan make their picks for the actors and actresses who they chose for Performer of the Week. They discuss the weekly ratings and Nicki has an unhonorable mention. All this and four comments from you the listeners on the Daytime Confidential comment line.

TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco drops by Daytime Confidential to dish about this year's Daytime Emmy Awards. He's got all the scoop from the red carpet, the press room, and the after parties. He talks about how it is all out war between the ABC and CBS networks and how Barbara Bloom banned him from the CBS after parties because of his coverage of the P&G soaps.This is one episode you will not want to miss as he shares all the latest industry gossip and news.

On today's 2008 Emmy edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina, Jamey, Belinda, Danielle, Regan and Nicki have their reactions to the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards. Join them as they discuss the night's big winners and losers, who won and who shouldn't have. Find out if Regan or Danielle won a prediction bet for bragging rights on one of the night's biggest awards. Hear everyone's take on this year's red carpet and Emmy fashion as they discuss the stars who they thought were hits and misses and they make their picks for best and worst dressed. They also discuss this year's biggest red carpet and award show trend, the fake tan. Tune in for Daytime Confidential reader and listener reactions to the 2008 Emmy Awards at the end of the show and be sure to tune on Monday when TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco drops by Daytime Confidential for an "insider" perspective on the week's festivities.

On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike and Nicki discuss the Max becoming a genius, Kate's illness and why Days of Our Lives shouldn't try to be General Hospital or Grey's Anatomy. Marlena is back and what will happen with this summer's teen storyline. Do Heather and Adam on Young and Restless equal one character or are they both lacking even as a couple? Why are we watching such petty stuff as Jack and Nick arguing over tattoos? Why isn't Young and Restless going back to what it does best, Jack vs. Victor?Texas Battle is making his mark on Bold and Beautiful but is his character really Donna's son? What if he isn't? The Forrester power struggle continues to make no sense and we have no idea why we should care?Do you think that Guiding Light has become the G show? Our own Nicki seems to think so. Marcy makes a great drunk and at least she didn't sleep with Remmy. Our Guiding Light challenge. How many minutes per episode are wasted on scenery, singing and doing nothing?

On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Karen from Wubs.net joins Luke and Tina to discuss the latest in General Hospital gossip, spoilers, and recaps. What would happen if Lulu is "killed?" Is a Claudia and Ric marriage in the works? Would Ingo really leave General Hospital? The latest Vanessa Marcil rumor.We discuss who Greenlee slept with and whether or not Erica could handle being a grandmother to a Greenlee/Josh child. Speaking of Erica, is it just us or do these criminals have the best hair of any inmates you've seen? Is All My Children rehashing scripts?One Life to Live is heating up and we're loving it. Tina's returned and she has the best name ever for her pet pooch. Marty is back and rumors abound about possible storylines and we're discussing them. Shouldn't John McBain have bled to death?

On this week's "Performer of the Week" show of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Tina and Nicki choose the actors and actors who they believe did an outstanding job. The Daytime Confidential gang discusses the latest weekly ratings and the highs and lows of our favorite shows. We also debut Daytime Confidential listener comments from our new comment line. You can leave your own comment by calling (917) 677-9757.

On today's show TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco joins Luke and Jamey as they make their predictions on who will take home the Emmy at the 35th Annual Daytime Emmy Awards on Friday. Making their picks for who should win and who will win from Outstanding Show, Writing, Lead Actor, Lead Actress, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Younger Actor and Younger Actress. Nelson tells which episodes the stars submitted and who had strongest episodes and who's episodes didn't even compete. All this and much more on today's Emmy predictions episode of Daytime Confidential.