A longtime friend of Brandon's Buzz, the incredible Laura Bonarrigo --- best known for her role as Cassie Callison Carpenter Buchanan on ABC's classic soap One Life to Live --- has put show business on the back burner and transitioned into a new role as a life coach. Inspiried in part by the dissolution of her own relationship, Bonarrigo has recent…

Welcome to the first episode of the All-New Buzzed Out. Today, Brandon talks about Double Dare Live!, Child Support and takes you through Ant & Dec's Push the Button!

A soap sensation in the early 1990s with her starring role as Darlene 'Luna' Moody Holden on ABC's One Life to Live, the incredible SUSAN BATTEN left the suds grind far behind two decades ago in search of fulfilling other facets of her creative spirit. Now a burgeoning mover-and-shaker behind the scenes, Batten's latest project --- a charming Lifet…

Welcome to another episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2008 ABC summer series "Wanna Bet?". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin Mac…

Welcome to the 31st episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2007 CBS game show "Power of 10". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLe…

Welcome to the 30th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at thePenn Jillette-hosted "Identity". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod…

Welcome to the 29th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2006 William Shatner-hosted program "Show Me The Money". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Alon…

Welcome to the 28th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2004 PAX show "Balderdash". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod (in…

Welcome to the 27th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2002 show "Taboo". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech…

Welcome to the 26th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the show "Smush". Watch an episode here: www.dailymotion.com/video/x4z1n1v Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing the…

Welcome to the 25th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2001 ABC show "You Don't Know Jack". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin Ma…

Welcome to the 24th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look at the 2000s syndicated show "Sex Wars". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod (i…

Welcome to the 23rd episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2000 FOX flop "It's Your Chance of A Lifetime". Watch an episode of the show here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGlhzukW5TQ Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License…

Welcome to the 22nd episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 2000 Fox Family game show "Paranoia". Check ou episodes of Paranoia here: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAA4E551AA33D7E46 Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 Lic…

Welcome to the 21st episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the CBS' Dick Clark-hosted show "Winning Lines". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" …

Welcome to the season 1 finale bonus episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the first season of Buzzed Out. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" …

Welcome to the 20th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the show "Peer Pressure". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod (incompet…

Welcome to the 19th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the confusing "Go for It! TV". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod (inc…

Welcome to the 18th episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at Disney Channel's Teen Win, Lose or Draw. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin Ma…

Welcome to the seventeenth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at 2014's "Disney's Win, Lose or Draw" hosted by Justin Willman. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "S…

Welcome to the sixteenth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the Canadian kids' Wipeout knockoff "Splatalot!". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with…

Welcome to the fifteenth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the Hub Network game show "Scrabble Showdown". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Ji…

Welcome to the fourthteenth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the Hub Network game show "The Game of Life". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with …

Welcome to the thirteenth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the Hub Network game show Pictureka! Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin …

Welcome to the twelfth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the Hub Network show Family Game Night. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin …

Welcome to the eleventh episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 90s animal-themed game show "Animal Planet Zooventure". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing A…

Welcome to the tenth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 90s PBS game show "Where in Time is Carmen Sandiego?". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along…

Welcome to the ninth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 90s PBS game show "Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego?". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing …

Welcome to the eighth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 90s Merv Griffin created, Ryan Seacrest-hosted game show "Click". Watch an episode here. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses…

Welcome to the seventh episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 90s Family Channel game show "Wild Animal Games" hosted by a young Ryan Seacrest. Watch the episode I watched here. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://…

Welcome to the sixth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the Canadian talent variety show "Zoink'd". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevi…

Welcome to the fifth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the late 90s Disney Channel game show "Off the Wall". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with…

Welcome to the fourth episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the late 90s Disney Channel game show "Mad Libs". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Ji…

Welcome to the third episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the short-lived 90s kids' version of Wheel of Fortune, Wheel 2000. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Si…

Welcome to the second episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 90s Family Channel show "Masters of the Maze". Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with J…

Welcome to the first episode of Buzzed Out. In this episode, Brandon takes a look back at the 80s kids game show Fun House. Opening theme: "Happy Happy Game Show" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Closing theme: "Sing Along with Jim" Kevin MacLeod …

On the occasion of Guiding Light's heart-wrenching series finale in 2009, the show's fiercely brilliant former headwriter PAMELA K. LONG --- who sent the soap's ratings into the ionosphere throughout the 1980s with her incredible, inspired characters and couplings --- stopped by the Buzz for a rollicking two-hour gabfest which continues to rank amo…

In 1980, partly spurred on by the advice of his pal Dabney Coleman, who urged him not to dismiss acting on a soap opera as beneath him, the great ERIC BRAEDEN --- who had already made quite a name for himself throughout the 1970s playing featured roles in films and guesting on the prime-time series of the day --- accepted what was originally intend…

With six Daytime Emmy wins for Outstanding Lead Actress, she is easily the most decorated and most respected performer in the history of American soap opera, and her four decades spent standing in Victoria Lord Riley Burke Buchanan Carpenter Davidson Banks Buchanan's regal shoes have made her a television icon. Now, in part two of her first-ever lo…

With six Daytime Emmy wins for Outstanding Lead Actress, she is easily the most decorated and most respected performer in the history of American soap opera, and her four decades spent standing in Victoria Lord Riley Burke Buchanan Carpenter Davidson Banks Buchanan's regal shoes have made her a television icon. Now, in part one of her first-ever lo…

Brandon's Buzz hits the century mark in high style with a two-part blowout spectacular, as TV Guide Magazine's vaunted soaps guru MICHAEL LOGAN stops by for a rare in-depth conversation about the just-celebrated twenty-fifth anniversary of his employment at one of America's premier publications. In the second half of our conversation, Logan reminis…

Brandon's Buzz hits the century mark in high style with a two-part blowout spectacular, as TV Guide Magazine's vaunted soaps guru MICHAEL LOGAN stops by for a rare in-depth conversation about the just-celebrated twenty-fifth anniversary of his employment at one of America's premier publications. In tonight's first installment, Logan discusses how h…

A balls-to-the-wall suds sensation in the late-'70s and early-'80s for her role as hell-on-wheels schemer Raven Alexander Whitney on ABC's legendary soap The Edge of Night, Emmy-nominated icon SHARON GABET bounced around the daytime landscape for another half-decade after Edge came to an end, before heading out to California to heal her wounded sou…

The 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards are being handed out this coming weekend --- in a ceremony that, for the first time in over three decades, will not be televised --- and in honor of the big event, Brandon's Buzz offers this exclusive presentation: a loving look back at a time when the Emmys were a respected celebration of television excellence. Exactly…

Twenty-five years beyond the chart-topping success of his breakthrough smash Cristofori's Dream, the brilliant DAVID LANZ is still going strong, with a terrific new record --- the lush Movements of the Heart --- on tap, and he is coming by the Buzz to discuss the staggering breadth of his career, as well as his thoughts on the current music scene. …

You may or may not recognize JEFF GILES' name on sight, but if you're a die-hard fan of ABC's late, great classic soap opera One Life to Live, get ready to wonder how the hell you ever lived without his electric, earth-shattering new book for so damn long. The tome is called Llanview in the Afternoon, and it is an oral history of the soap's extraor…

Early in his career, he seemed bound for the life of the typical dime-a-dozen character actor, but fate clearly had other plans for the dashing, magnificent A MARTINEZ. And when his destiny finally revealed itself --- in the form of a true-blue good guy cop called Cruz Castillo on NBC's singularly offbeat soap opera Santa Barbara --- Martinez sudde…

An entire generation of us crazy soap fans will forever adore her for her work as the original Lorna Devon --- the badass chick with the tough exterior above and the tender heart below --- on NBC's late, lamented daytime classic Another World, but a great many of us never understood the full extent of the pain that has driven her rich, riveting wor…

Slip this one in the "better late than never" slot: earlier in the spring, the glorious actress JOAN VAN ARK returned to the proverbial scene of the crime when she briefly reprised her most iconic and most beloved television role: that of ever-agitated Valene Ewing on TNT's vaunted reboot of the classic prime-time soap Dallas. Van Ark was my sevent…

It's always a blast whenever the glorious LINDA DANO pays a visit to the Buzz, and in honor of her long-awaited return to QVC --- with whom she begins celebrating her 20th anniversary of dazzling us with her innovative designs this week --- we have managed to wrangle her back here as well for her sixth appearance, whereupon she shall regale us tale…