Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 13

By Nelson Branco

INSIDE — Love, Loss, and Llanview! Source: Hillary B. Smith B&B-Bound! ONE LIFE/GH GOSSIP: Is Roger Howarth’s and Kassie DePaiva’s Port Charles Visit a Short-Term Stint? Find Out Who’s Next? Prospect Park Eyeing GH and ONE LIFE? Is Agnes Nixon Close to Securing The Rights to AMC? Exclusive Interview With Soap Hero Catherine Hickland on Brian Frons’s Tyranny (“He Was Silently Abusive”); Why Frons Wanted To Fire Michael E. Knight; Her Beef With Ron Carlivati; Finding Peace With Her ONE LIFE Firing; And Why She’s Offering Her New Production Facility to ONE LIFE/AMC/GH Reboots! Daytime Emmy Award Dream Ballot: Who Deserves a Nod? Plus: Will The Emmy Ceremony Air? Did You Know Brian Frons’s Contract Expires At The End Of This Month! Former ONE LIFE Scribe Josh Griffith Speaks: Why ONE LIFE Is So Special, and Old SANTA BARBARA Memories Relived! Also: Will He Return to Y&R? GH’s Sonny shot! Was Jeff Branson Fired or Did He Quit? Is Nadia Bjorlin back on DAYS? Murder Mystery Headed to Salem? GH’s Carly and Johnny Make Out! Faux Shocker: Y&R’s Nikki Killed Diane! Plus: Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nelson Branco
• Release date: Jan 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465716347

Nelson Branco

Nelson Branco is the Senior Producer of STRAIGHT TALK WITH ADRIENNE BATRA (airing 1-3 PM EST) at Canada's 24-hour news network, SUN NEWS NETWORK. He's also a Toronto freelance entertainment journalist, who regularly contributes to Hello! Canada, CTV National News Channel, The National Post, The Los Angeles Times' theenvelope.com, TV Guide USA, tvguide.com, Inside Entertainment, OUT, OK!, IN Magazine, Zoomer, Entertainment Tonight, etalk Daily, and fab magazine. For over five years, he spearheaded the soap coverage for TVGuide.ca's popular and controversial daytime-TV hub. In 2009, he appeared on the CW's Daytime Emmy Awards during the red carpet show as an expert.After graduating from Ryerson University in 1997 with a Radio and Television Arts BA degree, he moved from Toronto to New York in 1998 to take on the roles as senior news editor at Soap Opera Update. Branco first freelanced for Soap Opera Weekly as an intern in 1994, and after leaving Soap Update to help create and launch Bauer Publishing's In Touch Weekly in 2003, the Winnipeg native continued to freelance occasionally for its sister publication, Soaps In Depth. In addition, Branco has successfully helped create and launch various magazines In Touch Weekly, Hello! Canada and Canada's first celebrity magazine, Weekly Scoop, where he served as its news and entertainment director. Branco was also a producer and an on-air expert on TVTropolis series, Planet Soap. Most recently, he helped launch The Marilyn Denis Show on CTV as its managing show writer.

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SOAP OPERA: UNCENSORED

Volume 02, Issue 02

BY NELSON BRANCO

Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco

Published at Smashwords

INSIDE — Love, Loss, and Llanview! Trevor St. John Headed to GH? Source: Hillary B. Smith B&B-Bound! ONE LIFE/GH GOSSIP: Is Roger Howarth’s and Kassie DePaiva’s Port Charles Visit a Short-Term Stint? Find Out Who’s Next? Prospect Park Eyeing GH and ONE LIFE? Is Agnes Nixon Close to Securing The Rights to AMC? Casting Notice: Is DAYS recasting Celeste? Exclusive Interview With Soap Hero Catherine Hickland on Brian Frons’s Tyranny (He Was Silently Abusive); Why Frons Wanted To Fire Michael E. Knight; Her Beef With Ron Carlivati; Finding Peace With Her ONE LIFE Firing; And Why She’s Offering Her New Production Facility to ONE LIFE/AMC/GH Reboots! Daytime Emmy Award Dream Ballot: Who Deserves a Nod? Plus: Will The Emmy Ceremony Air? Did You Know Brian Frons’s Contract Expires At The End Of This Month! Former ONE LIFE Scribe Josh Griffith Speaks: Why ONE LIFE Is So Special, and Old SANTA BARBARA Memories Relived! Also: Will He Return to Y&R? GH’s Sonny shot! Was Jeff Branson Fired or Did He Quit? Is Nadia Bjorlin back on DAYS? Murder Mystery Headed to Salem? GH’s Carly and Johnny Make Out! Faux Shocker: Y&R’s Nikki Killed Diane! Plus: Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

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UNCENSORED QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

Maybe it's the sad state of the soap world, but it’s in and out like a day player who has no history. Just odd and not very gratifying aside from the great actors/friends on the show — Doug, Sean, Eileen and others who I get to catch up with.

—Y&R’s Corbin Bernsen on his Facebook page regarding his comeback

Translation: Maria Arena Bell fired my fluffer! I was on L.A. LAW, damn it!

[Maurice Benard] and I have agreed to share a dressing room to make room for the delicious cast increase of oldies...

—GH’s Nancy Lee Grahn on Facebook

Translation: The glory days are over.

Y&R is really gunning for those disenfranchised AMC viewers.

—A show source on the latest AMC hire, Darnell Williams

Translation: Now if we only cared about our disenfranchised Y&R viewers!

The snake was a total diva.

—B&B producer Rhonda