Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 14 (Vol.2, Issue 4)

By Nelson Branco

INSIDE —Exclusive Interview With Sir Trevor St. John: On Joining GH; How He Kept His Epic ONE LIFE Comeback A Secret; If Victor Is “Special;” Why Llanview Was Corny; And Who Is Todd’s True Love (His Answer Will Surprise You)! Plus: Part Two of Catherine Hickland’s Bombshell Interview! Find out Why ONE LIFE was Daytime’s Most Toxic Set! Exclusive Daytime Emmy Award News: Which New Category Was Axed? B&B’s Jennifer Gareis Is Pregnant Again! Y&R Scoop: Inside Darnell Williams' New Character! Source: Which Storyline Did Ron Carlivati Go Over Frank Valentini’s Head to Green-Light? GH Casting Shocker: Kirsten Storms’ GH Comeback Delayed Again! Did B&B Really Let Zack Conroy and Brandon Beemer Go? Not Quite! DAYS: The Truth About Nadia Bjorlin’s Rumoured Comeback! Crystal Chappell on ONE LIFE’s Finale! Source: Prospect Park Has Secured $100 Million Dollars for Online Soap Ventures! DAYS’s Tanya Boyd Recast Due To Health Crisis? Y&R Goes On Location for Lane’s Wedding! Y&R Welcomes Back Ted Shackelford, Signy Coleman and Yvonne Zima! THE REVOLUTION May Be Televised — But No One’s Watching! Huge Numbers for ONE Life’s Finale Week! Cutbacks at SOAPS IN DEPTH! The AMC Ending You Never Saw! Exclusive: Why Deidre Hall Is Thrilled To Be Back On DAYS! WTF: Johnny is Claudia’s son on GH?! Plus: Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nelson Branco
• Release date: Jan 20, 2012
• ISBN: 9781465845719

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 04 (NO. FOURTEEN)

BY NELSON BRANCO

Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco

Published at Smashwords

INSIDE — Exclusive Interview With Sir Trevor St. John: On Joining GH; How He Kept His Epic ONE LIFE Comeback A Secret; If Victor Is Special; Why Llanview Was Corny; And Who Is Todd’s True Love (His Answer Will Surprise You)! Plus: Part Two of Catherine Hickland’s Bombshell Interview! Find out Why ONE LIFE was Daytime’s Most Toxic Set! Exclusive Daytime Emmy Award News: Which New Category Was Axed? B&B’s Jennifer Gareis Is Pregnant Again! Y&R Scoop: Inside Darnell Williams’ New Character! Source: Which Storyline Did Ron Carlivati Go Over Frank Valentini’s Head to Green-Light? GH Casting Shocker: Kirsten Storms’ Comeback Delayed Again! Did B&B Really Let Zack Conroy and Brandon Beemer Go? Not Quite! DAYS: The Truth About Nadia Bjorlin’s Rumoured Comeback! Crystal Chappell on ONE LIFE’s Finale! Source: Prospect Park Has Secured $100 Million Dollars for Online Soap Ventures! DAYS’s Tanya Boyd Recast Due To Health Crisis? Y&R Goes On Location for Lane’s Wedding! Y&R Welcomes Back Ted Shackelford, Signy Coleman and Yvonne Zima! THE REVOLUTION May Be Televised — But No One’s Watching! Huge Numbers for ONE LIFE’s Finale Week! Cutbacks at SOAPS IN DEPTH! The AMC Ending You Never Saw! Exclusive: Why Deidre Hall Is Thrilled To Be Back On DAYS! WTF: Johnny is Claudia’s son on GH?! Plus: Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

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