Soap Opera Uncensored: Issue 11

by Nelson Branco

Overview

INSIDE NEW YEAR'S SPECIAL ISSUE — "Exclusive" Exit Interview with The Iron Douche, Brian Frons: On Dismantling, Cancelling ABC Daytime! Plus: My Real 2007 Interview With Frons Himself Reprinted — "The Soap-Opera Form Will Be Around For A Long Time!" Exclusive: The Future of Soap Opera Weekly! Is It Folding? Find out! 2012 Fearless Predictions and Previews — Including All My Children! Victoria Rowell back on Y&R! Trevor St. John's One Life Surprise! AMC's ABC Special! DAYS Cancelled? Sean Kanan to B&B! Genie Francis re-joins GH! Crystal Chappell joins GH! 2012 Star to Watch: Exclusive Molly Burnett Interview! Burnett Sounds Off On DAYS's Reboot, Venice, A Chill Triangle, Shawn Christian's departure, and Losing Crystal Chappell! Also: Is She Leaving DAYS? Which Superstar is Retiring? Find out! Next Week's Preview Cheat Sheet! And every week: Unbelievable Blind Items!

Product Details

BN ID:	2940032964346
Publisher:	Nelson Branco
Publication date:	12/30/2011
Sold by:	Smashwords
Format:	eBook
File size:	53 KB

About the Author

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.