Daytime Confidential

On today's edition of Daytime Confidential Tina, Mike, Jay, and Luke choose the actors and actresses who they think did an outstanding job the week before and discuss the latest weekly ratings.

On today's show Luke and Tina visit with One Life to Live's David Chisum about his role as Miles Lawrence. What is the connection between Miles Lawrence and Addie Cramer? What does he think of Roxie's crush on Miles and how he'd like to see Miles grow as a character.We discuss his work in primetime TV and his work on the upcoming movie "The Clique" and his role in the soon to be released on DVD "The Onion Movie". We discuss his role as a celebrity spokesman for the charity Vision Walk, his participation in the 2008 ABC Salutes Broadway Cares Equity Fights Aids gala, and his support of The Gabriel Project. Jeania his fan club president joins us and we talk about the importance of fan support for actors who portray minor characters.

On today's show Mike, Jay, and Luke discuss Mandy Bruno's great performance on Guiding Light, Harley's mid life crisis, and whether or not we believe that Harley and Cyrus are more than a passing fad. We're loving Alley Mills on Bold and the Beautiful and her going after Donna. Taylor and Nick's kiss and Jay makes a prediction.As the World Turns' seems to be rubbing Mike the wrong way as he goes into a rant about his favorite show and Luke wants to know why in the world the show is recasting the most boring male character in daytime, Mike Kasnoff? Is this the real or fake Allison Stewart and why we're enjoying the character of Matt and not Ameera as a storyline plot point.Daniel and Amber as a couple has caught our attention, Adam (aka Victor Jr.) is horny, and the Lynn Marie Latham housecleaning going on at the Young and Restless.When was the last time that Lexie took a refresher on medical disclosure laws and do we like Chelsea with this new doctor? Is Days of Our Lives rewriting its history with this Patch

On today's edition of Daytime Confidential Jay, Tina, Mike, and Luke make their picks for Performer of the Week and discuss the latest ratings.

Three time Emmy winning writer Victor Miller visits with Luke and Danielle about his career of over twenty years in daytime including what it was like to work with Megan McTavish, how Robin Strasser almost got him fired when he first started at One Life to Live, what it was like to work at Guiding Light and Another World, what inspired him to pen the horror hit "Friday the 13th", and much, much more.

On today's ABC WUBS edition of Daytime Confidential Karen from Wubs.net joins Luke and Belinda to discuss Tuc Watkins' return to One Life to Live and the amazing scenes with Todd, Blair, and Starr last week.  We discuss Ricky Paull Goldin's jump to All My Children and the Frankie and Colby dynamic.Karen has the latest General Hospital spoilers including Sam and Ian being called "Sin", Who exactly is the Olivia Kate mentioned, Karen's thoughts on Claudia, and what did Ric Hearst do to deserve this Marianna storyline?

On today's Performer of the Week edition of Daytime Confidential Mike, Jay, Tina, and Luke make their picks for Performer of the Week and discuss the latest ratings and what helped Days of Our Lives improve.

On this special Daytime Emmy Pre-Nominations episode Mike, Tina, Jay, and Luke discuss all the major acting categories, who is missing, who shouldn't be in certain categories, and which two actors in each category the Daytime Confidential gang thinks has a lock on an actual nomination.

On today's show Mike, Jay, and Luke discuss the Days of Our Lives' plane crash, Tamara Braun's arrival, will Grandpa Shawn's death be used as well as Asa's on OLTL, Chelsea's upcoming storyline, and Phillip's leg. Over on Young and Restless we discuss Victor Jr aka Adam vs. Nick and whether or not he may have the hots for Phyliss and Nikki or both. Nick's memory and why hasn't he gotten it back?We're looking forward to Guiding Light's production changes and we discuss whether or not it will have a positive impact on the show and if it doesn't, what then?On Bold & Beautiful we discuss Brooke vs. Taylor and what happens to the show when Susan Flannery retires?Meanwhile over at As the World Turns we discuss Vienna and Henry, Luke, Noah, and Ameera, and what is Matt's connection to Oakdale?Oh and did we mention that Daytime Confidential is good for your marriage?

On today's show Daytime Confidential Regan joins Tina and Luke to discuss the latest on All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital. Including JR vs. Richie, Angie and Jessie vs. Luke and Laura's return, Reaction to Van Peebles' Samuel Woods on All My Children.Rex's background of Charlie, Christian and Flash, the Jared and Matthew dynamic, Bo fired, Hunt Block's Ramsey, and yet another Todd redemption storyline. Scrubs, Claudia the two bit tramp, What happened to Monica's storyline, When will Liason be out to the world, Good news for Sam fans, and who is Ian and what are his possible connection to the Cassadines.

On this week's Performer of the Week edition of Daytime Confidential Mike, Tina, Jay and Luke choose the actor or actress who we consider to have done an outstanding job during the previous week. We also discuss the ratings for February 11 - February 15, 2008 and how compared to a year ago ABC has lost over three million viewers, CBS has lost over a million viewers and NBC has pretty much held steady.

On today's show Luke and Tina visit with General Hospital's Tristan Rogers about his years as Robert Scorpio. What it was like to be apart of the cast of General Hospital during the early 80's and the Luke & Laura years and more recently his brief return in 2006. The fact that his character will soon be a grandfather onscreen and the ongoing Holly vs. Anna debate.  We visit about his thoughts on the survival of the daytime genre and how a web based soap could be created. We talk about his critically acclaimed his short film "Opportunity Knocks". We now you will enjoy this special edition of Daytime Confidential!

Riddle us this. How many women on Guiding Light can Josh and Reva's love drive crazy? This and other questions are what Mike, Jay, and Luke are discussing on the CBS and Days edition of Daytime Confidential. On today's show we discuss Eric in his skivvies on Bold and Beautiful. The Jack and Sharon crossover to Bold and Beautiful from Young and Restless along with Hope's passing, Victor Jr., and Gloria vs. Jeff and Gloria vs. Jack. We've got the latest on the Nuke Kiss Controversy on As the World Turns and how Jay is enjoying Katie and Brad's slow build. Oh and is that an addition to the Carly Snyder home set?Also from Guiding Light we're discussing Crazy Cassie and Ava being preggers. Over on Days of Our Lives this is the most we've enjoyed John Black in Ages, Grandpa Shawn's death, Victor and Caroline, and is Chloe a diva or just plain evil?All this and more on today's show!

On today's ABC edition of Daytime Confidential Luke, Jay, and Tina discuss the Victoria Rowell One Life to Live rumors, Mary J. Blige's performance at Starr's Sweet 16 birthday party, and is the character of Starr being destroyed? Who had the best "Go Red" episodes All My Children or One Life to Live? Is the Martin Family making a resurgence and the arrival of Rob Gardner on All My Children. Bob Guza is renegotiating his contract, WUBS spoilers, and TMK General Hospital spoilers.

On today's show Tina from Primetime Pulse joins Jay and Luke to count their Top 5 Returns to Daytime. These are the actors and characters who whose returns we've enjoyed the most.

On this week's edition of the Daytime Confidential podcast Tina, Jay, and Luke are making their picks for Performer of the Week. Also discussed are the latest ratings for all eight soaps and the fact that Days of Our Lives was the only soap not to lose viewers and that As the World Turns seems to be able to keep edging out General Hospital for third.

On today's show ABC soap super fan Jeania from FanFare Inc returns to Daytime Confidential to talk about what she and her stars have been up to including Kamar de los Reyes, Mfundo Morrison, BethAnn Bonner, Tobias Truvillion, Sean Ringgold, Chase Coleman, David Chisum, Tika Sumpter

We're back with our first Top 5 countdown of 2008! On today's show Tina from the Primetime Pulse podcast, and Foxy join Luke to count down their Top 5 Post Writers Strike Wishes. These are the things we want to improve our favorite soaps. Foxy makes a suggestion that has Luke searching for brain bleach and has Tina reconsidering one of her picks.

On today's show Mike and Luke discuss Shirley Jones first scenes on Days of Our Lives, who Tony and Anna's child could be, the firing of the entire writing staff, and John's fascination with his knife. Also discussed is a listeners theory on Gloria's downfall on the Young and Restless and what is Jill and Victor's history. On As the World Turns we discuss Casey's return and what impact it may have on Luke and Noah and Barbara's battle with cancer. Mike continues his love affair with Bold and Beautiful's Taylor. And why we're frustrated with the lack of payoff from Lizzie finding out that Jonathon and Sarah were alive.

On today's show Tina from the Primetime Pulse podcast and Belinda from Eye on Soaps join Luke to discuss Sarah Brown's return to General Hospital and Shell Kepler's death. Tad sees Jesse on All My Children and Ryan loses the past four years of his memory. Antonio and Talia on One Life to Live. We are also pleased to announce the official launch of our "Save the Quartermaines, Save Port Charles" campaign to save the Quatermaine family from extinction on General Hospital.