PICTURE OF THE WEEK:
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THE NELSON RATINGS
Can’t watch all the soaps this week? No worries — here’s a cheat sheet!
Top 3 Soaps to Watch:
1. Days of our Lives, NBC/Global
2. One Life To Live, ABC
3. As The World Turns, CBS
Top Show to Boycott:
1. All My Children, ABC/A
Top 3 Storylines to Watch:
1. Carly’s hopeful return to Salem, DAYS
2. Stefano's re-awakening, DAYS
3. Katie gives birth, World Turns
Top 5 Actresses to Watch:
1. Crystal Chappell (Carly, DAYS)
2. Arianne Zucker (Nicole, DAYS)
3. Florencia Lozano (Téa, One Life)
4. Beth Maitland (Traci, Y&R)
5. Colleen Zenk Pinter (Babs, World Turns)
Top 5 Actors to Watch:
1. James Scott (EJ, DAYS)
2. Billy Miller (Billy, Y&R)
3. Michael Sabatino (Lawrence, DAYS)
4. John Brotherton (Jared, One Life)
5. Stuart Damon (Ralph, World Turns)
Top 3 Comic Geniuses to Watch:
1. Robin Strasser (Dorian, One Life)
—tie —Tuc Watkins (David, One Life)
3. Amanda Setton (Kim, One Life)
Top 3 Duos to Watch:
1. Carly and Lawrence, DAYS
2. Brad and Katie, World Turns
3. Todd and Téa, One Life
Top 3 Rivals:
1. Barbara and Audrey, World Turns
2. Nikki and Ashley, Y&R
3. Viki and Dorian, One Life
Top 3 Triangles to Watch:
1. Téa /Todd/Blair, One Life
2. Nikki/Victor/Ashley, Y&R
3. Vienna/Henry/Babs, World Turns
Top 3 Guilty Pleasures:
1. Not having to watch AMC!
2. Chuck Pratt’s sexual lust for AMC’s Rebecca Budig
3. Nicole trying to seduce Chad, DAYS
Top 3 Families To Watch:
1. The Cramers, One Life
2. The DiMeras, DAYS
3. The Abbotts, Y&R
Top 3 New Duos To Watch:
1. Fish and Kyle, One Life
2. Layla and Cristian, One Life
3. Kate and Stefano, DAYS
Top 3 Duos To Avoid Like the Plague:
1. Steffy and anyone, B&B
2. Greg and Rachel, One Life
3. Marcus and anyone, B&B
Top 3 Recasts To Watch:
1. Eric Martsolf (Brady, DAYS)
2. Michael Lowry (Ross, One Life)
3. Lindsay Hartley (Ari, DAYS)
Top 3 Young Actors:
1. Eddie Alderson (Matthew, One Life)
2. Drew Garrett (Michael, GH)
3. Carmen LePorto (Jack, One Life)
Top 3 Biggest Wastes of Talent:
1. Carolyn Hennesy (Diane, GH)
2. Greg Rikaart (Kevin, Y&R)
3. Forbes March (Mason, World Turns)
Top 3 Most Improved Actors:
1. Lauren Koslow (Kate, DAYS)
2. Marie Wilson (Meg, World Turns)
3. Molly Burnett (Melanie, DAYS)
Top 3 Hair Models:
1. Denise Vasi (Randi, AMC)
2. Jackie MacInnes Wood (Steffy, B&B)
3. Stephanie Gatschet (Madison, AMC)
Top 3 Soap Magazine Covers (based on art direction):
1. Soaps In Depth — GH’s Sam/Jason/Claudia
2. Soap Opera Digest — Who Killed AMC’s Stuart?
3. Soap Opera Weekly — November Sweeps on Crack!
Top 3 Best Reads/Buys at the Newsstand:
1. Soap Opera Weekly
2. Soap Opera Digest
3. ABC Soaps In Depth
Top 3 Soap Moments To Watch:
1. Monday: Evangeline rolls over in her coma when Cristian and Layla finally swap spit on One Life.
2. Friday: World Turns’s Ralph and Jack face off with gunfire and someone dies.
3. Thursday: Y&R’s Sharon thinks she hears her dead baby, Faith, crying. “Or, maybe that’s just Eric Braeden,” she ponders.
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Nelson Branco is a Toronto freelance entertainment journalist, who regularly contributes to Hello! Canada, The National Post, The Los Angeles Times' theenvelope.com, TV Guide USA, tvguide.com, Inside Entertainment, OUT, and fab magazine, along with spearheading the soap coverage for TVGuide.ca's popular daytime TV hub. After graduating from Ryerson University in 1997, 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, Branco continued to freelance occasionally for its sister publication, Soaps In Depth. Most recently, he helped create and launch Canada's first celebrity magazine, Weekly Scoop in 2005 as its news and entertainment director. Branco is also a contributor to a new TV show titled Planet Soap to air in Canada and America.
