Daytime Confidential

One Life to Live gets a new Co-Headwriter. Brooke returns to All My Children. Former Young and Restless star jailed. Marisa Ramirez returns to Young and Restless. Chad's revelation on Passions. Allison Sweeny on Biggest Loser. Reader emails

Yes we did it, we finally did it. You may have not thought that we could get to the point where we are superficial enough to do a Top 5 Most Beautiful Stars countdown but we have. That's right folks we're counting them down. Join us as Luke counts down the Top 5 most beautiful women and Lisa counts down the Top 5 most handsome men. Oh and just so you know this isn't the Top 5 Hottest stars, this is beauty but  we're going to be recording a Top 5 Hottest Stars episode in the future so email us your lists for the Top 5 Hottest Men and Women in daytime or drop by the forums and post your list on the EP #36 thread.

We're very excited to have some special guests with us today as we make a special announcement only on Daytime Confidential. We also dive in cast reaction to Stuart Damon's firing and rumors of him going to Guiding Light, General Hospital: Night Shift on SoapNet, Dixie and Babe's funeral on All My Children, Nick's secret is out on Days of Our Lives, Janna, Collen and Korbel on Young & Restless, the decline of As the World Turns, and what is going on with One Life to Live?Oh and did we mention we have more listener emails and forum posts? Yep thats right, so tune in. And then there's Lisa's singing...

Its one of those weeks, when a whole lot of nothing happened and yet there is a lot to talk about so we decided to let loose and be a bit informal as we dive into everything from your favorite soaps. Oh, and whats up with the duct tape on General Hospital? Boy that's going to hurt when they take that bandage off.

It is finally here! Just in time for Valentines we are counting down our Top 5 All Time Favorite Couples and reading through your lists. Long time listeners may have their guesses of who we've chosen but there are going to be some surprises as well. We're giving away t-shirts and autographed pictures to the winners of our Top 5 All Time Favorite Couples drawings. So tune in...

The Daytime Emmy Pre-Nominations are out and we've got them covered from a-z. We've got all our favorite picks along with the pre-nominations we don't think have a chance of actually getting an Emmy nomination.

Jam packed with all the latest news for you from all your favorite soaps we're diving into it all this week. From Victoria Rowell's leaving the Young and the Restless to Jack's return to Days of Our Lives and Tyra's weight "problems" we take a look at it all. We also take a look at what Stuart Damon's departure from General Hospital and the continued indignities imposed on this veteran actor's character Alan Quartermaine.

In this week's Top 5 Countdown we countdown the Top 5 Characters We Want to Be.

ABC Soaps and Days of Our Lives Super Sized! That's right folks, February sweeps are upon us so we've expanded Daytime Confidential this week as we go in depth covering everything All My Children including Cady McClain's firing, Spencer's Death on One Life to Live, General Hospital Sweeps stunts, and Days of Our Lives on fire.

CBS Soaps Super Sized! That's right folks, February sweeps are upon us so we've expanded Daytime Confidential this week as we go in depth covering Guiding Light's 70th anniversary and Tammy's death, the decline of As the World Turn's writing, Rick's return and Nick's house of cards on Bold & Beautiful, and "Letting the bitch die" on Young and Restless.

The topic just came to us and within three minutes we were recording. Needless to say it made for a riot of an episode as we went through our Top 5 Imaginary Couples. Arguably our funniest episode looking back we can't quite decide if we were a bit unhinged or uncensored.

Forget New Years resolutions, special guest Mike joins Luke and Lisa to count down our Top 5 Wish lists for 2007. We know we have no control over the soap industry so we said "forget it", lets count down our wishes.

Scandals and Controversies: We discuss the Grey's Anatomy scandal that spilled over into daytime this past week on Ellen. We have an update on the Cady McClain firing controversy. We read listeners comments about the podcast and the topics they suggested including the Shelia, Paul, Michael and Lauren on the Young and Restless as well as the devil child on Bold and Beautiful and much, much more.

Breaking News! When it rains it pours. Discussing the the news that is sad, the news that makes you go huh? and the news that makes you go Oh Crap! Darlene Conley dies, Cady McClain is fired, and Passions is canceled!We take a hard look at what Passions' cancellation means for the soap industry and what impact it will have on Guiding Light, All My Children, and One Life to Live as rumors swirl. Not to mention Jeff Zucker's comment that Days of our Lives will not be on NBC past 2009.

Lisa and Luke discuss the brewing battle between Young and the Restless' Dru Winters and David Chow, NAACP Award Nominations renews the Davetta vs. Christel controversy, Rosie O'Donnell vs. Donald Trump round 100, General Hospital's Sonny and Carly, the '24 filming style, Best Week Ever vs. Zarf, Alisha Minshew celebrates 5 years on All My Children, and much much more.

This episode TV Fan Online's As the World Turns writer Mike joins Luke and Lisa to dish the soaps. Covering all the latest gossip and news we discuss the state of As the World Turns, Guiding Light's 70th anniversary, the Wubs.net rumor about Gina Tognoni, the University of California Zarf study results, shout outs to soap stars celebrating birthdays, and much much more.

Daytime Confidential listener Trish suggested a great topic for this week's countdown and who are we to pass up a great suggestion like the best and worst most improbable storylines so this week we count down our Top 5 Most Improbable Storylines.

BREAKING NEWS....Hogestyn's real life Salem Stalker, Barbara backpedals, Stuart Damon gets the ax, Liason vs. Jasam, listener shoutouts, Kate Linder poll at TV Guide and much much more...Oh and did we mention an "after the show"? 

In this podcast we cover our more unusual categories like Most in Need of a Roll in the Hay, Biggest HO HO HO, Well Duh and many more including our picks for Best and Worst daytime dramas.

Counting down the Best and Worst of 2006 Part I in daytime. We debate, discuss our picks for more "normal" categories including Most Improved Characters, Biggest Waste of Talent, Most Tortured Couple, Best & Worst Storyline, Best Family, Best & Worst Couple, Worst Family, Best Stunt Casting and Most Improved Show. Coming up in Best and Worst of 2006 Part II we'll be covering more unusual categories like Most in Need of a Roll in the Hay, Biggest HO HO HO, Well Duh and many more including our picks for Best and Worst daytime dramas.