On Apil 1, 2009 CBS canceled Television's longest running drama, Guiding Light, after 72 years on air. This special Daytime Confidential episode contains the reactions, thoughts and memories of just a few of the millions of Guiding Light fans.
Today is a sad day for the soap industry and Daytime Confidential. Daytime's longest running soap, Guiding Light, has been canceled. Join Luke, Jamey, Mike, Melodie and J. Bernard as they discuss the sad news, where various cast members might end up, was it too little too late, what CBS is talking about replacing Guiding Light with, what led to GL's cancellation and where the industry - including As the World Turns - go from here. So many listeners called in to the Daytime Confidential Hot Line ...
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Jamey and Jillian discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news and storylines, including: Damian Grimaldi's return to As the World Turns as Luke's father. Chauntee Schuler decides to stay in Oakdale. Jack versus the world. Could Sean Kanan be returning to The Bold and the Beautiful? Jamey has an update on the possibility. J...
On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina and Belinda discuss the latest in All My Children, One Life to Live and General Hospital storylines and news, including: All My Children's Adam Chandler in the hospital, offscreen. Dastardly David Hayward isn't how we remember him. Is he being written in character and is there anything else left to enjoy about him? All My Children and One Life to Live beat General Hospital in the ratings. What are the causes for General Hospital's decline...
The ladies at The View have nothing on Daytime Confidential's Performer of the Week episode this week. Luke and Jamey have to team up ala The Young and the Restless' Jack and Brad to defend an actress against the wrath of Jillian on a Victor Newman styled warpath. Join us as Luke, Mike, Jamey, Tina, Belinda and Jillian choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job during the previous week. Hear who they choose for their honorable mentions and find out which star caused ...
On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Tina and Regan discuss the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news and storylines, including: Jamie Luner joins All My Children as Liza Colby. Is this the right choice for Liza on a show already in trouble? Kendall and Ryan sleep together, be careful what you wish for. Sebastian Roche returns to General Hospital as Jerry Jacks. Might Rick Hearst be headed for The Young and the Restless? Would he be enough to get T...
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike and Jamey discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news including: Luke becoming the victim of an attack, yet again. Carly and Parker's relationship and how Parker is treating Carly how he's seen Jack treat her. The Forrester Four on The Bold and the Beautiful. What did fans do to deserve this. Drew Tyler Bell's performance a...
Jamey has a secret. He's been cheating on Daytime Confidential. Lately, whenever he wants a hilarious, juicy, balls-to-the-walls podcast about the goings on in All My Children's fictional Pine Valley, he downloads an episode of the Pine Valley Podcast. On today's episode of Daytime Confidential, for the first time ever, Luke and Jamey sit down with the crazy, sexy Boricua pair behind PVP, Ashley Mendoza and Jordan Hudson! Poor Luke has to hang on to his seat as Ashley and Jamey match each other,...
On today's Performer of the Week episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Tina, Jamey and Regan choose the actors and actresses they believe did an outstanding job. They then discuss their honorable mentions and dishonorable mentions.
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike, Jamey and Jillian discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news including: As the World Turns' Parker and Liberty try to get married. Chauntee Shulder is out as Bonnie McKechnie, but should the show recast the role? The Bold and the Beautiful's Pam gets arrested. Where would we like to see Rick Hearst end up if he leaves Genera...
On today's Performer of the Week episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Jamey, Regan and Jillian choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job during the previous week. The DC gang also give their honorable mentions and talk about those who they believe deserve dishonorable mentions.
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike, Jamey and Melodie discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news including... Cady McClain's return to As the World Turns. Zac and Zoe, twins have been cast and Zac may be a love interest in the Luke and Noah storyline. Don Diamont wasn't employed long. The Bold and the Beautiful snapped him up. He will play Bill Spencer Jr. An ...
On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke and Tina are joined by Eye on Soap's Belinda and Karen from Wubs.net to discuss the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news including... Greenlee's funeral on All My Children at the Fusion bar. Ricky Paull Goldin's Jake Martin. Is this David Hayward the real David Hayward? Rumors that the Cortlandt mansion is burning down. General Hospital's possible casting bloodbath. What this means for Leslie Charleson, Megan Wa...
Seamus Dever knows a thing or two about playing bad guys. After all, it was his character Dr. Ian Devlin who accidentally shot young Michael Corinthos on General Hospital. On ABC primetime's Castle, premiering tonight at 10/9C, Dever finally gets a chance to play one the good guys. He plays Irish cop Kevin Ryan, sharing screentime with Stana Katic, Jon Huerta and fellow ABC daytime grad Nathan Fillion (ex-Joey, One Life to Live), who portrays the title character, Richard Castle, a best-selling c...
On today’s episode of Daytime Confidential Luke and Jamey visit with soap journalist Mary Montanari. Montanari write the Soap Opera Examiner column for Examiner.com and previously covered the industry for Zap2it.com Montanari tells her unique story of how she got her start in soap opera journalism. Luke and Jamey ask for her thoughts on the state of the industry, Guiding Light’s Otalia, As the World Turns’ Nuke and whether or not more shows will have to use the Guiding Light production model to ...
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Mike, Jamey and Jillian discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news including. The return of As the World Turn's Lucy to Oakdale. Elwood is out, but Mark is back. Who is daytime's biggest octomom? Johanna Johnson is in talks to return to The Bold and the Beautiful. What could this mean for the show and why should new fans care? ...
Daytime Confidential's Luke, Mike, Jamey and Tina are joined by TV Guide Canada's Nelson Branco to discuss the Daytime Emmy Pre-Nominations. Find out who they think deserve to be pre-nominated, who doesn't deserve pre-nominations and who the glaring omissions are. Branco talks about how this year's nominations will be determined and shares how past year's nominees have influenced how pre-nominations are given out today. Tune in to hear reactions of Daytime Confidential readers and listeners on t...
On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Regan and Eye on Soap's Belinda discuss the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news including... All My Children's Walt Willey paid the price for speaking out against the Lily and Jonathon pairing, during McTavish's reign as head writer. Would Belinda and Regan buy New York and Company clothing based on what All My Children stars are wearing? The "What if Maxie died" episode was supposed to be really good. Did it ...
On today's Performer of the Week Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Jamey, Mike, Belinda and Melodie choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job. They discuss their honorable and dishonorable mentions and then get sidetracked discussing Max and Diane's heart healthy storyline on General Hospital.
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike, Jamey and Melodie discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news including... The special As the World Turns Valentine's episode. Which fairy tales we enjoyed and which ones we didn't. Shouldn't have Luke (Van Hansis) and Noah (Jake Silbermann) been the Cinderfella or the Fairy Godfather? Jackie ripped into Katie on The Bold and...
On today's ABC episode of Daytime Confidential Luke, Jamey, Tina and Belinda discuss the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news including... Could Thorsten Kaye be leaving All My Children? If so what would it mean for Pine Valley? Should he pop up on One Life to Live right away or should there be a hiatus of time between shows? They discuss Jamey's Rianca Wedding Wrap-Up for CurveMag.com and the fallout of Reese and Zach's kiss. Belinda gives her take on Rebecca Bu...
On today's Performer of the Week Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Jamey, Regan, Melodie and Jillian choose the actors and actresses who they believe did an outstanding job during the previous week. They also choose the actors and actresses who they believe deserve honorable and dishonorable mentions.
On today's special super-sized Guiding Light "Phillip Spaulding Happens Here" Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike, Jamey, Melodie and Nicki discuss the return of Grant Aleksander to Springfield. They share their initial reactions to Phillip's return and choose the things they liked and disliked about the highly promoted event. They go in depth with their thoughts on Buzz (Justin Deas) locking Coop (John Driscoll) up, Jenna's (Fiona Hutchison) Ghostly return, Phillip's rescue of Coop after th...
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Jamey, Melodie and Jillian discuss the latest in As the World Turns, The Bold and the Beautiful, Days of Our Lives, Guiding Light and The Young and the Restless news including... Josie is out at As the World Turns while Lucy Montgomery is back in. Rachel Melvin quit Days of Our Lives and we discuss whether or not she'd make the perfect Lucy Montgomery. The great car chase of 2009 took place on the Bold and the Beautiful this...
On today's ABC Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Regan and Belinda discuss the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news including... The holes in General Hospital's toxic balls event. Trevor died, is Johnny's paternity now in question? If so what does this mean for Claudia and Johnny's inappropriate chemistry? Has Kate been ruined in order to white-wash Claudia? Matt and Nadine have shown sparks, could they be just what we need to keep Matt out of Maxie's orbit? The...
On today's Performer of the Week Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Jamey, Tina, Regan and Melodie choose the actors and actresses who they believe were the Performer of the Week. The gang also talks about the actors and actresses who the believe honorable and dishonorable mentions for their performances.
On today's ABC Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Jamey, Tina and Regan take some time to look back on One Life to Live's Buchanan family and specifically the impact of Phil Carey's Asa Buchanan and Clint Ritchie's Clint Buchanan. They share their their favorite Buchanan family memories and discuss the impact of both actor's death would have had if both were still on the show. Regan shares some of the latest General Hospital spoilers and the conversation gets side sidetracked by a discussion abo...
On today's ABC Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Regan and Nicki discuss the latest in All My Children, General Hospital and One Life to Live news including... Kendall wakes up on All My Children. What will she do when she finds out about Bianca and Zach's baby, having Josh's heart and the threat of Reese? Tony Geary has re-signed his contract with General Hospital, but is he being wasted? The hospital in General Hospital is getting a new nurses station and Regan gives her take on the news. Nic...
Passions bombshell Kelli McCarty (ex-Beth) shocked the entertainment industry when she announced she was making the transition from soap star to porn star. McCarty's new Direct-to-DVD adult film Flawless: From Beauty Queen to Porn Queen is on sale now from Vivid Entertainment. From TMZ, to Perez Hilton, to Entertaiment Tonight, everyone in Hollywood was talking about McCarty. On today's episode of the Daytime Confidential podcast, McCarty reveals all about her controversial career move to Luke a...
On today's CBS and Days of Our Lives Daytime Confidential episode Luke, Mike, Jamey and Jillian discuss the latest in CBS and Days of Our Lives news including... Jamey's twelve step program for soapaholics. Was it a surprise that Craig actually received custody of Johnny on As the World Turns? The group reacts to John and Marlena's leaving Salem. Did the show give fans what they deserve or did they cop out. Should Hope Brady get a new love interest to help spice up their storyline? It's do or di...
