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INSIDE: Crystal Chappell Exclusive – Life After DAYS! Also: Why Venice is recasting Gina Tognoni and Wes Ramsey! Plus: Molly Burnett and Christian LeBlanc join Gina and Company! Exclusive: Major Daytime Emmy Award changes! Melody Thomas Scott VS. Sony: What really happened! Is James Scott leaving DAYS? Alleged Stalker Shocker Involving — Wait For It — John Driscoll! Andrea Evans’s Cancer Victory! Inside Dirty Soap! Is Eden Riegel AMC-bound? The truth behind Megan Ward’s GH firing! Drama at THE CHEW! Y&R’s Christel Khalil divorce drama! More turmoil at THE TALK? Four Decades Later: DAYS Chief Ken Corday finally gets a clue! Last week’s Soap Reviews; Next Week’s Preview Cheat Sheet! And every week: Blind Items!
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 - Nelson Branco
SOAP OPERA: UNCENSORED
Volume 1, Issue 1
BY NELSON BRANCO
Copyright 2011 Nelson Branco
Published at Smashwords
INSIDE: Crystal Chappell Exclusive – Life After DAYS! Also: Why Venice is recasting Gina Tognoni and Wes Ramsey! Plus: Molly Burnett and Christian LeBlanc join Gina and Company! Exclusive: Major Daytime Emmy Award changes! Melody Thomas Scott VS. Sony: What really happened! Is James Scott leaving DAYS? Alleged Stalker Shocker Involving — Wait For It — John Driscoll! Andrea Evans’s Cancer Victory! Inside Dirty Soap! Is Eden Riegel AMC-bound? The truth behind Megan Ward’s GH firing! Drama at THE CHEW! Y&R’s Christel Khalil divorce drama! More turmoil at THE TALK? Four Decades Later: DAYS Chief Ken Corday finally gets a clue! Last week’s Soap Reviews; Next Week’s Preview Cheat Sheet! And every week: Blind Items!
LETTER FROM THE FOUNDER/EDITOR
Uncensored, Soap-style!
Lock up your soap stars, head writers, and producers! Welcome to the first edition of Soap Opera: Uncensored! Due to overwhelming demand, every column I essentially wrote for TVguide.ca (Soapgeist, a feature interview/inside report, and Suds Report) will be found here all in one big, sudsy book each Friday for more than half price you pay for the soap opera magazines. And, of course, all of it uncensored, Nelson Branco-style. You can read, sample and buy this e-zine on smashwords.com or on your personal computer: download it to your Kindle, iPhone/iPod Touch, Barnes & Nobel Nook, Sony Reader, and Kobo Reader. For more information, surf to smashwords.com and click on Frequently Asked Questions for more information and instructions.
Follow Soap Opera Uncensored at: @nelliebranco or @SoapUncensored
UNCENSORED QUOTES OF THE WEEK:
Watching @TheChew right now on ABC. Looking good...and yummy. I'm glad the soaps are over.
—(Now former) Live With Regis and Kelly publicist Brittany Forgione on Twitter
Translation: OMFG: Brian Frons hacked my Twitter account!
Well you know, people come back from the dead in soaps all the time, I don't see why soaps can't come back from the dead!
--Emmy winner Sarah Brown to Welovesoaps.net
Translation: Bring back GH’s Claudia, damn it! Or fire Laura Wright!
With a few exceptions, there have been no successors matching the stature of great soap opera writers.
—DAYS executive producer Ken Corday in his updated memoir The Days of our Lives: The Untold Story Of One Family’s Dream And The True History of Days of Our Lives
(whew; take a breath here!) via Soap Opera Digest
Translation: And you can blame me for recycling talent and not investing in a writers’ development program!
The fans are pissed.
—Alicia Minshew on her fans, who are angry she may not sign a contract but opt for recurring in Prospect Park’s online version of AMC in Soap Opera Digest
Translation: I want to star in Ringer, damn it!
INSIDE SUDS: Golden Showers — NATAS Finally Commits To Best in Show!
Did hell freeze over? Well soapers, get your skates out because you’ll more than likely ice-skating it to the Emmys next year. According to several National Academy of Television Arts and Science sources, it looks like next year’s Daytime Emmy