Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 32

By Nelson Branco

INSIDE Super-Sized UNCENSORED — Exclusive Interview: Can Lauralee Bell Save Y&R? Bill Bell’s Daughter Sounds Off On Maria Arena Bell; Genoa City’s Ratings Spiral; Shictor; B&B’s Ascent; Her Father’s Last Moments; And More! Plus: The Y&R Episodes You Can’t Miss This Week! Part Two: B&B’s Crystal Chappell On DAYS; THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS; Her New Agenda; and Big News About THE GROVE! Confirmed: Molly Burnet Out At DAYS! Interview: Katie Couric on AFTERNOON DELIGHT! Who Shot DAYS’s Stefano (And Does Anyone Care)? Emmy Reel Information! Is GH’s Nathin Butler Out? Melissa Archer GH-bound? Stacy Haiduk’s New TV Role! Inside HLN’s Decision To Air The Emmys! Plus: Is Bob Guza Attending The Emmys? Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nelson Branco
• Release date: May 30, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476359106

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 22 (No. 32)

BY NELSON BRANCO

Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco

Published at Smashwords

INSIDE Super-Sized UNCENSORED — Exclusive Interview: Can Lauralee Bell Save Y&R? Bill Bell’s Daughter Sounds Off On Maria Arena Bell; Genoa City’s Ratings Spiral; Shictor; B&B’s Ascent; Her Father’s Last Moments; And More! Plus: The Y&R Episodes You Can’t Miss This Week! Part Two: B&B’s Crystal Chappell On DAYS; THE DAYTIME EMMY AWARDS; Her New Agenda; and Big News About THE GROVE! Confirmed: Molly Burnett Out At DAYS! Interview: Katie Couric on AFTERNOON DELIGHT! Who Shot DAYS’s Stefano (And Does Anyone Care)? Emmy Reel Information! Is GH’s Nathin Butler Out? Melissa Archer GH-bound? Stacy Haiduk’s New TV Role! Inside HLN’s Decision To Air The Emmys! Plus: Is Bob Guza Attending The Emmys? Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

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FOUNDER/EDITOR: Nelson Branco

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UNCENSORED QUOTES OF THE WEEK:

I am cool with it, but they dropped my story recently and put me on the back burner. I am not working right now. I am popping in for one show every couple of weeks. I hate when that happens. I like it for a couple of weeks, 'cause I get the break. But then after a couple of weeks, it’s like, ‘C’mon. I want to work.’ I have a feeling they won’t really have a nice story for me till the fall. You also know how soaps are. We have such an enormous cast. I think that Y&R has a knockout gangbusters cast. There is only so much air time and everybody needs to have their turn at bat. We have to pass it around.

—Genie Francis sounds off on her lack of storyline in a recent Michael Fairman ON AIR, ON SOAPS interview

Translation: These darn Y&R vets are cutting into my scene-chewing time!

What I noticed with me is; they do not play me heavily in spring and summer, but they play me really heavily in the fall and winter, which is fine. That is when the adults are home. Right now, the show just brought on a whole lot of young people for the summer, who are really good. So they are turning up the juice on the younger storylines, which is the way to do it, and it’s smart. I am a little involved in that, but not too much. But, Genevieve will be back.

—Francis in the same interview

Translation: I think they’ve been on this show longer than I have!

"I think Elizabeth Hendrickson is a really wonderful actress. I know Nancy Lee Grahn, she is also a wonderful actress. But… Becky Herbst, I would love to see her win, to be honest. She has done some wonderful work! I will tell you the year I did win; she was nominated alongside me as well. I have to say she came to me with a full heart and said, ‘I am so happy for you, Genie. It has been so many years and you deserve it.’ She came to me and put her arms around me and I hugged her and said, ‘Your time will come. Your chance is going to come.’ You are young