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b"The second season of SOAPnet's General Hospital: Night Shift accomplished the \\nunimaginable. For 13 weeks, GH's cable spin off told powerful, \\nmulti-generational tales of love, hope and mortality, all primarily set in the \\nsoap's historic hospital. The series was truly a Valentine to long term fans of \\nGH and beautifully explained to newer fans why iconic veterans like Tristan \\nRogers (Robert), Finola Hughes (Anna) and Antonio Sabato Jr. (Jagger) are so \\nbeloved. While making GH: Night Shift a success was a collaborative effort, it \\nwas one novice soap opera writing's vision of telling stories featuring the \\ncharacters he grew up loving, as well as introducing an Indian doctor and \\ntelling a gay love story, that set Night Shift apart. That writer was Sri \\nRao.

On today's episode of the Daytime Confidential podcast Luke and \\nJamey have a conversation with Rao, A Wharton Business School graduate who gave \\nup his high-powered career in Manhattan, to follow his true passion for being a \\nwriter and director. Rao offers a refreshingly unjaded perspective about \\neverything from the use of veterans in daytime to the politics behind gay \\nstorytelling.

Rao shares the process he and his writing team embarked \\nupon in giving larger-than-life superhero Robert Scorpio an all-too-real \\nAchilles Heel in the form of cancer. He reveals how supportive ABC \\nDaytime/SOAPnet head honcho Brian Frons was in allowing him the freedom to tell \\nhis stories and talks about the other projects his Sri Rao and Company are \\nworking on, including a teen drama series inspired by his boyhood love for My So \\nCalled Life called What Goes On and the Bollywood thriller New York. Rao also answers the question fans of \\nNight Shift are dying to know: Would he ever consider bringing his passion and \\nprowess over to daytime?"