On today’s Daytime Confidential podcast Luke Kerr, Jamey Giddens, Jillian Bowe, Regan Cellura and Melodie Aikels  discuss One Life to Live’s final week and episode finale.  From their favorite moments, to the prison break and the show’s shocking cliffhanger, the DC gang discusses it all. 

They then dive into ABC daytime–post One Life to Live–including OLTL stars joining General Hospital. ABC hoped it would find ratings success with The Revolution, but the new show’s ratings have tanked. Do daytime viewer’s want to be told how to live their lives?

RELATED: Listen to other OLTL viewer’s memories and thoughts on the final episode.

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On today’s Daytime Confidential podcast One Life to Live viewers share their favorite memories of Llanview and its residents from its forty-three years on air.

Listen as fellow OLTL fans react to OLTL’s cliffhanger finale and weigh in on everything from Viki  and Clint to the revelation Victor is alive.  

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We've been following him since her covered soaps for TV Guide. Now one of the magazine's senior writers, Damian Holbrook, is back to talk all things boob tube with the Pop Confidential gang!

During the zany hour, Holbrook dishes the latest dirt from the Winter TCA press tour, proving PC's Jamey Giddens, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe, Regan Cellura and Melodie Aikels with more tea than Queen Elizabeth could drink, about such shows as Once Upon a Time, GCB, Grimm and of course the gang's guiltiest pleasure — Revenge!

Who does Holbrook think died that night on the beach in the Hamptons? You'll have to download the eppy to find out!

Holbrook also breaks down what went wrong with Are You There, Chelsea? How could a series based on such a hilarious book by funny lady Chelsea Handler have turned out so badly?

Speaking of things that turned out badly, Holbrook gives insider deets on how the amount of rape jokes that made their way into the scripts of the CBS sitcom Two Broke Girls landed the sitcom in hot water!

What did Holbrook think of little Lily's cursing fit on Modern Family? How is he coping with the approaching end of his beloved One Tree Hill? Does he believe Smash can save NBC? Considering he's seen the first four episodes of the musical soap, you'll wanna hear what he has to say about it and so much more!

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He gave up a career as a lawyer to pursue his true passion for writing soap operas. Now, some 15 years after first joining One Life to Live as a writer's assistant, the soap's last head writer Ron Carlivati joins Daytime Confidential's Luke Kerr, Jamey Giddens, Jillian Bowe, Regan Cellura and Melodie Aikels to dish having completed the daunting task of wrapping the iconic sudser up on ABC Daytime.

Hear from Carlivati himself on his thoughts about how the 43-year-old sudser came to a close. Would he have done things differently had he known OLTL wouldn't be moving online immediately following the ABC finale? Carlivati shares how it felt to be able to bring back such popular veterans as Jessica Tuck (Megan), Roscoe Born (Mitch), Fiona Hutchison (Gabrielle), Susan Batten (Luna), Ty Treadway (Troy), and more during the soap's "Between Heaven and Hell" arc during its final week.

He also clears up all those rumors surrounding the exits of Robin Strasser (Dorian) and Trevor St. John (Victor), the latter of whom made a surprise appearance in the series finale. Tune in to hear how Carlivati planned to bring Dorian Lord back in a story that would have had President Barack Obama watching his back! 

Is Carlivati satisfied with the way things ended for such Llanview lovers as Clint and Viki (Jerry VerDorn and Erika Slezak), John and Natalie (Michael Easton and Melissa Archer), Todd and Blair (Roger Howarth and Kassie DePaiva), Rex and Gigi (John-Paul Lavoisier and Farah Fath)? He also shares what it meant to be able to finally reunite Cord and Tina (John Loprieno and Andrea Evans).   

Then the conversation shifts to Carlivati's next gig. He and his boss Frank Valentini are now serving as head writer and executive producer respectively of ABC's last daytime soap opera General Hospital. With Howarth, DePaiva, Easton and Kristen Alderson (Starr) all following Frank and Ron to Port Charles, should fans be worried about those rumors that GH and OLTL are merging? Hear Carlivati set things straight as only he can, revealing he's been a fan of General Hospital even longer than he was of OLTL. And of General Hospital, with the almost 50-year-old, one-time supersoap fighting for its life against Katie Couric, The Chew and The Revolution, does Carlivati feel added pressure to help keep GH on the air? This is one podcast no fan of One Life to Live or General Hospital can afford to miss, that is if you want to hear the real truth from the writer's mouth! 

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On today’s Daytime Confidential podcast Luke Kerr joins Larry Flick and Keith Price on The Morning Jolt With Larry Flick to discuss One Life to Live and General Hospital. During their visit they discuss OLTL’s final weeks, its final episode and the news Roger Howarth, Kassie DePaiva, Kristen Alderson and Michael Easton are joining the cast of General Hospital.

They then dive into what is being done to save GH, which will be competing with The Chew and The Revolution for a spot on ABC’s fall lineup.  Will the OLTL transplants help boost ratings? Is there enough time for the return of fan favorites to have a positive impact on the show’s survival?

As the segment winds down the three celebrate the return of Kirsten Storms as Maxie and debate whether-or-not Natalie should make the jump from Llanview to Port Charles. 

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On today’s Pop Confidential podcast Jamey Giddens, Luke Kerr, Jillian Bowe and Melodie Aikels dish all the latest pop culture headlines, including:

Beyonce gives birth to a baby girl. Katy Perry and Russell Brand get a divorce. Chaz Bono is saving up to for a surgery.

Donald Trump’s Celebrity Apprentice announces its new cast. Chelsea Handler gets a new studio. Kathy Griffin gets a talk show on Bravo. Tyler has a meltdown on Revenge. Damon and Elena kiss on The Vampire Diaries. Is The Secret Circle better than TVD? Teddy finds out her husband died on Grey’s Anatomy.  Shameless returns for its second season. House of Lies premieres on Showtime. Which midseason series are the PC gang looking forward to most?

The Devil Inside scares its ways to the top of the Box Office.

Selena Gomez is putting her music on hold to focus on movies. Jason Derulo cancels UK tour after fracturing his neck. 

All this and much more on today’s Pop Confidential podcast.

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