Whatever happened to the daytime talk shows?

What has happened to the daytime talk show genre that started when Phil Donahue first hit the national airwaves out of a Chicago studio?I am not referring to the cutesy,trendy and hip programs like Oprah,Tyra or Ellen-but the junk food of daytime TV,good ole fashioned trashy ones like Jerry Springer or Maury Povich.Donahue was not trashy but he WAS interesting and never steered away from controversy and therefore always thought provoking.Alas,he is TV history.
But it it seems like that format has faded into obscurity.I have been watching a new show occasionally,"The Steve Wilkos Show".Wilkos,for those of you unfamiliar,is a former Chicago PD officer and was the head of security for The Jerry Springer Show for many years.He often served as a bouncer onscreen when the shoes came off and guests got to brawling onstage.Women in the Springer studio audience often asked to come onstage and either hug steve or kiss his bald head-LOL.He is a handsome man with an air of authority and I honestly like him and his values but I do not enjoy his show.He does confrontational shows with pretty vile guests like child molsesters or a guy who deliberately spreads AIDS.The better part of the show is Steve berating the creeps onstage and there is no studio audience Q&A,just Steve reading emails during the credits.No offense,but if I wanted to watch a big bald dude scream at people,I would go to boot camp LOL.
Also,I adore Steve Wilkos but seeing pedophiles on TV everyday is nauseating....how about something like the old reliable DNA test shows?By watching old Maury shows,you would think some chicks gave more thought to deciding what to get on a pizza than as to who fathered their children.Scandalous,but it made for good trash-tv!Alot of that stuff was staged or exaggerated wildly for ratings but it held your attention.Todays current "hot" daytime talk shows put me to sleep!

An insult to the loyal viewers of Y&R

I have been a fan of "The Young & the Restless" for many years now,in fact it is the ONLY soap opera I bother to watch and I usually watch it in the evenings on Soapnet.Throughout the years there have been various plot twists,including Sheila Carter,the psycho bitch/nurse/kidnapper/master of disguise who couldn't be killed-but when Sheila went undercover,she was incognito and it was a believable and workable disguise.I only wish I could say the same for their current storyline with the starstruck Amber,a lovely blonde who disguised herself as a chick named "Marina" to get entered into a modeling contest being held by her ex-husbands familys cosmetics company.

Ambers "transformation" is so transparent,you would have to be a complete and total idiot not to see its the same person.All she does is adopt a snooty European accent,and throw a horrific red wig on her head and VIOLA!Viewers are supposed to believe that even her former husband,who has spoken to her in disguise,is too ignorant not to see right through it all!I know alot of you probably don't watch soaps of any kind and thats cool-I just had to get this off my chest and hope that if there are any fans out there who feel the same way as I do,that they know its not just them.I honestly do not know how the cast keeps from cracking up everytime they have to pretend they cannot tell who this mystery woman Marina is.I am almost insulted enough to email CBS and probably will!