11.   Rivera has vowed to clean up his daytime show by September.

12.   She used to watch daytime shows with her grandmother, munching on a bucket of popcorn.

13.   She is engaging, witty, at times irreverent, and resists the sycophantic manner that turns so many daytime shows into sugar-coated donuts.

14.   That means regularly scheduled daytime shows will be slightly abridged but will run in their normal time slots.

15.   --The strong work ethic in Middle America and small towns held down grosses for midnight and daytime shows.

16.   The scariest comment, however, comes from a smug Rivera, who used to brawl once a week on his daytime show.

17.   Tuesday was the day OJTV went into overdrive, as the main networks threw out their daytime shows and parts of their prime-time schedules.

18.   Watching the daytime shows during sweeps is akin to pepper spray torture.

19.   What can you say about a week of television that includes the daytime shows?

20.   Yet somehow daytime shows have a different reputation, Ramirez says.