Daytime Confidential

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 cha...

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. N...

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 categorie...

This week we discuss the great news of Hillary B Smith's renewed contract with One Life To Live and what this means for Catherine Hickland, the return of Kate Collins to All My Children as Janet Dillon, Betty White on Bold and Beautiful , love gone wrong on As the World Turns, Luke's choice for Performer of the Week, Lisa's choice for Quote of the Week, and much much more.

In this week's Top 5 countdown we discuss the Top 5 Most Missed Characters in daytime. Lisa of TV Fan Online's Stalking Salem joins Luke and Lisa and shares her list as well. Some of the great characters we discuss are All My Children's Dimitri, Stephen Nichols as General Hospital's Stefan Cassadine vs. Days of our Lives' Patch and many more great characters on your favorite daytime soaps.

TV Fan Online's Lisa aka Foxy of Stalking Salem joines Luke and Lisa to discuss the latest in the world of daytime. This week we discuss Days of Our Live's EJ and the rumors of him raping Samie, Foxy's love of Jade on As The World Turns , Luke's theory about Gloria Fisher Abbot on Young & Restless, General Hospital's hottest new "teen couple" MiLu, Guiding Light's newest love interest for Reva, Be...

TV Fan Online blogger Danielle joins Luke and Lisa as their first guest to dish anything and everything about her first time at ABC's 2006 Super Soap Weekend. With personal accounts of the Luke & Laura event to the kindness of Renee Goldsberry and every crazy soap fan in between. Also featuring discussion of All My Children's Alisha Minshew, Susan Lucci, Thorsten Kaye. General Hospital's Julie Mar...

This week we count down our Top 5 Underappreciated Characters in soaps. Tune in for another great countdown. You might be suprised at who has made our list. Next week: Top 5 Most Missed Character. Email us your Top 5 Most Missed Character lists or post them in the TV Fan Online Forums .

For the love of Zarf what is going on with AMC? Thorsten Kay weighs in on the return of Marty Saybrooke to OLTL. Danny Davito sloshed on The View. A shout out to B&B's Darlene Conley. The arrival of Betty White on B&B. AMC stars raise money for the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer. Rumors of a Lexie recast on Days. Listener emails, forum posts and much, much more.

We know you've enjoyed the first ten episodes of Daytime Confidential so we thought we'd publish a special "After the Show" we recorded after one of our regular episodes. In this podcast we debate whether or not The Young and the Restless' Gloria Fisher Abbot is a Gollum or a Gold Digger with a heart of gold. Email us your thoughts on episode #11 at dc@tvfanonline.com or drop by the TV Fan Online...

In the spirit of Thanksgiving this week we discuss our Top 5 Things We're Thankful For In Daytime . We've made our lists, what are yours?  Next Week: Top 5 Underappreciated Characters Email us your list of Top 5 Underappreciated Characters at dc@tvfanonline.com or visit the TV Fan Online Forums and post them on the Daytime Confidential board under the DC #10 thread.

This week we discuss the feud that erupted between Kelly Ripa and Clay Aiken and Rosie O'Donnell, the rumors of Hunt Block coming to One Life to Live , the firing of Renee Jones as Lexie Carver on Days of our Lives , Iris' arrival on As The World Turns, Brooke stands by her man on Bold & Beautiful, Emmy predictions for Tony Geary, Genie Francis, and Julie Marie Berman on General Hospital and much,...

This week we take a more "positive" note with our Top 5 Countdown . This week we discuss the Top 5 couples we believe need that extra bit of support to hopefully push them together. In the spirit of Thanksgiving, our countdown next week is: The Top 5 Things We're Thankful For.

We discuss the Luke & Laura's 25th anniversary wedding on General Hospital , the return of Marty Saybrooke to One Life to Live , the firing of Eileen Davidson (Ashley Abbot) and the hiring of Vincent Irrizzary by the Young and the Restless and much, much more.