Nelson Branco's Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 37

By Nelson Branco

INSIDE — SPECIAL ISSUE: EMMY RED CARPET DIARIES — Exclusive Interview With GH’s Jen Lilley On Her Accidental Soap Career! Exclusive Interview With Rebecca Herbst On Her Wacky Soap Year... And How Long She’s Sticking Around Port Chuck! GH’s Kristen Alderson On Why ONE LIFE’s Trevor St. John Isn’t Coming Back to Daytime! DAYS: CHILL VS EJILL — Exclusive Interview With DAYS’s Casey Deidrick! Plus: Are Casey and Chandler Working Together More or Less? Find Out! DAYS Writer: Why We Won’t Tell EJill’s Love Story! Is Katherine Kelly Lang Joining THE GROVE? Which Actress Had To Be Escorted Out Of The Emmys? DAYS’s Kate Mansi On Being The New Molly Burnett! Galen Gering on PASSIONS, Rafe’s New Story! Inside Scoop: Judith Chapman Reveals Her New Leading Man And Whether Or Not The Shackinator Is Leaving Y&R for DALLAS! New Investigative Book on ABC’s Soap-Killing Machine! Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nelson Branco
• Release date: Jul 3, 2012
• ISBN: 9781476403823

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 27 (No. 37)

BY NELSON BRANCO

Copyright 2012 Nelson Branco

Published at Smashwords

INSIDE — SPECIAL ISSUE: EMMY RED CARPET DIARIES — Exclusive Interview With GH’s Jen Lilley On Her Accidental Soap Career! Exclusive Interview With Rebecca Herbst On Her Wacky Soap Year… And How Long She’s Sticking Around Port Chuck! GH’s Kristen Alderson On Why ONE LIFE’s Trevor St. John Isn’t Coming Back to Daytime! DAYS: CHILL VS. EJILL — Exclusive Interview With DAYS’s Casey Deidrick! Plus: Are Casey and Chandler Working Together More or Less? Find Out! DAYS Writer: Why We Won’t Tell EJill’s Love Story! Is Katherine Kelly Lang Joining THE GROVE? Which Actress Had To Be Escorted Out Of The Emmys? DAYS’s Kate Mansi On Being The New Molly Burnett! Galen Gering on PASSIONS, Rafe’s New Story! Inside Scoop: Judith Chapman Reveals Her New Leading Man And Whether Or Not The Shackinator Is Leaving Y&R for DALLAS! New Investigative Book on ABC’s Soap-Killing Machine! Last Week's Reviews, Unbelievable Blind Items, and Next Week's Cheat Sheet!

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