Daytime Confidential

On episode 1215 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Mel...

On episode 1214 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and T he Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.    All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Melodie Aikels...

On episode 1213 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr and Joshua Baldwin dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Melodie Aikels . Facebook:  Dayti...

On Daytime Confidential episode 1212 Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines, including:  Is Beyond the Gates dumbing down Dani Dupree? How is it that no red lights are going off for Dani, Nicole or Vanessa about Heather? Especially when Joey...

On episode 1211 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dive into the latest All My Children, Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines, including: Kelly Rip and Mark Consuelos are developing two All My Children movies for Lifetime and one of the movies is being written by Jam...

On episode 1210 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr and Melodie Aikels celebrate the announcement that Jamey Giddens and Dan O'Connor have been named the co-head writers of The Young and the Restless , replacing Josh Griffith.  In this supersized episode Luke and Melodie reflect on Jamey's 20 year arc, first appearing on the podcast as the "soap historian" and how his Wishful Castings on the podcas...

On episode 1209 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dish Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines, including:  Joey's sister returns on Beyond the Gates . Bill collapses. Kial's son Noah debuts.  Eric gets KAPOWED on The Bold and the Beautiful . Brooke a...

On episode 1208 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr , Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels react to the 53rd Annual Daytime Emmy Award Nominations .  The DC trio dive into all the biggest soap opera categories. They applaud some nominees, scratch their heads at others and identify which actors they think are nomination oversights.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Blues...

On episode 1207 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr and Joshua Baldwin are joined by Regan Cellura to dive into General Hospital and The Bold and the Beautiful. The trio dive into the two shows before Luke and Joshua tackle Beyond the Gates, Days of Our Lives and The Young and the Restless.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  Ji...

On episode 1206 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.  The DC crew remember J Bernard Jones , who passed away this past week. A Daytime Confidential writer and podcast regular during the early years...

On episode 1205 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Joshua Baldwin dive into the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Melodie Aikel...

On episode 1204 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Melodie Aikels take a deep dive into the Beyond the Gates' disaster spectacular that brought The Young and the Restless' Newmans, Abbotts and Winters to Fairmont Crest.  The DC trio shares what stood out to them, before digging into the meaty drama of the past week.  From Victor Newman's ( Eric Braeden ) arrival by helicopter to...

On episode 1203 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dive into the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , an...

On episode #1202 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dive into the biggest headlines and storylines that stood out for them on Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless .  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  J...

On episode 1201 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Melodie Aikels and Joshua Baldwin count down the Top 5 Current Soap Actors Who Have Leveled Up.  These are the soap opera actors from your favorite soaps who started out their runs not knowing how to act or made questionable acting decisions but who have since improved.  Some of these actor's left soaps and returned better actors. Others were "le...

Daytime Confidential celebrates its 1200 th episode with the return of Jamey Giddens to the podcast. Join Luke Kerr and Jamey Giddens as they reminisce over the show's 1200 episodes, dive into Jamey's award-winning writing career, the great news of Beyond the Gates' two year renewal and reveals publicly for the first time the cancer diagnosis and treatment he underwent over the past year. The duo...

On episode 1199 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Melodie Aikels dive into the latest Daytime Emmy Award Nomination changes and juicy storylines from Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBow...

On episode #1198 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Melodie Aikels ....

On episode 1197 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels look back at the first year of the new CBS soap opera Beyond the Gates.  Find out what stood out about Beyond the Gates year one for each of the DC co-hosts. They then dive into BTG's biggest strengths and biggest opportunities for improvement after the first year.  What were the best storylines BTG told, must-se...

On episode #1196 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Melodie Aikels . Facebook:  Dayt...

On episode 1195 of Daytime Confidential, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines. BEYOND THE GATES Anita's cancer story is must-see, and Tamara Tunie is doing the work. Nicole leans into single life with Carlton and Kyle back-t...

On episode 1194 of Daytime Confidential , Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Joshua Baldwin dish the latest Beyond the Gates , The Bold and the Beautiful , Days of Our Lives , General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines. BEYOND THE GATES Beyond the Gates and The Young and the Restless announce a June crossover. What are Victor and Vernon's ties? Should Beyond the Gates charac...

On episode 1193 of  Daytime Confidential Luke Kerr, Joshua Baldwin and Melodie Aikels dish the latest Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines.  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfidential ,  LukeKerr ,  JillianBowe ,  Josh Baldwin , and  Melodie Aikels ....

On episode 1192, it's the first episode of 2026 and that mean's Daytime Confidential's Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Joshua Baldwin are back from hiatus and have a lot of thoughts on Beyond the Gates, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital and The Young and the Restless. Get comfy and enjoy!  All this and more on the latest  Daytime Confidential  podcast! Bluesky:   @DCConfi...

On episode 1191, Daytime Confidential looks back at 2025 with the Best and Worst of 2025 in Soap Operas, Part 2. Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Joshua Baldwin  and  Melodie Aikels dive into the Best and Worst of Beyond the Gates ,  T he Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, General Hospital  and  The Young and the Restless headlines and storylines, including all your favorite long-running categorie...