Celebrating 1200 Episodes With Jamey Giddens
From Daytime Confidential by Daytime Confidential
April 20, 2026 · 1h 37m · Season 20 · Episode 1200
About this episode
Daytime Confidential celebrates its 1200th episode with Jamey Giddens discussing his career, personal challenges, and the state of daytime television.
Daytime Confidential celebrates its 1200 th episode with the return of Jamey Giddens to the podcast. Join Luke Kerr and Jamey Giddens as they reminisce over the show's 1200 episodes, dive into Jamey's award-winning writing career, the great news of Beyond the Gates' two year renewal and reveals publicly for the first time the cancer diagnosis and treatment he underwent over the past year. The duo discusses Jamey's evolution from soap opera journalist to daytime and primetime soap opera writer on shows like The Rich and the Ruthless, Tyler Perry's Sistas, Days of Our Lives and Beyond the Gates . Jamey recounts the impact of Will Packer's mentorship through their show Ambitions and acknowledges the karma in going from a podcast journalist critiquing TV writing to being on the receiving end of fan critiques. The two celebrate the two-year renewal of Beyond the Gates , what it means for the show and for the soap opera genre as an industry. Jamey credits Michelle Val Jean for the show's success and gives a shout out to the show's amazing cast, crew, writing team and production assistant. Luke and Jamey observe how daytime talk shows are being slaughtered by video podcasts and which…
People in this episode
Hosts: Luke Kerr, Josh Baldwin, Melodie Aikels
Guest: Jamey Giddens
Topics covered
- podcast milestones
- writing career
- soap operas
- cancer diagnosis
- daytime talk shows
Keywords
- Beyond the Gates
- The Rich and the Ruthless
- Tyler Perry's Sistas
- Days of Our Lives
- Ambitions
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Beyond the Gates
Books & works: Daytime Confidential, The Rich and the Ruthless, Sistas, Days of Our Lives, Beyond the Gates, Ambitions, The Chat
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