Category: Soapworld

Former EastEnders actress Laurie Brett, who played Jane Beale in the BBC One soap, is to join the cast of school drama Waterloo Road. Laurie Brett, EastEnders’ Jane Beale and finalist on Let’s Dance for Sport Relief, will join the cast of BBC One’s award-winning drama Waterloo Road when the eighth series relocates to Scotland to start filming next month. […]

There are reports that Katie Couric could be trying to get ABC to save its struggling soap opera General Hospital. Katie Couric is set to launch her new chat-show on ABC later this year in the time-slot currently occupied by General Hospital. To many fans, and industry insiders, the fact that ABC has handed General Hospital‘s time-slot to Couric is […]

The BBC has revealed that Waterloo Road and The Bill actor Alex Walkinshaw is to join the cast of long-running medical saga Casualty as a new nurse. Clearing out his locker at Waterloo Road, actor Alex Walkinshaw makes the move to Holby to join the Casualty ED as new nurse Adrian ‘Fletch’ Fletcher. Having pounded the beat in The Bill […]

The BBC has announced that Bryan Kirkwood is stepping down from his role as Executive Producer on its flagship soap EastEnders.

Sally Webster (Sally Dynevor) is set to discover who killed Frank Foster (Andrew Lancel, pictured) but ends up in serious danger while doing so.   The official Corrie website has posted an image of Sally laying unconscious with blood pouring from her head. Later this month Sally uncovers who killed Frank while attending his funeral. She then confronts the killer […]

Story Update: The Metropolitan Police have announced tonight that the brother of former EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie has been charged with her murder. The 35-year-old brother, who lived in the same location as his sister Pelter Street, Hackney E2, will appear in custody at Thames Magistrates’ Court on Monday March 12th over the death of the 29-year-old actress. The body […]

Ex-EastEnders actress Gemma McCluskie has been confirmed as the identity of a body found in a North London canal on Tuesday. The body of the 29-year-old was spotted in the Regent’s Canal, however was missing her limbs and head. McCluskie, who appeared in over 40 episodes of the long running BBC One soap across six months in late 2000 into […]

ABC soap General Hospital saw its ratings rise for the week of the 20th February. The rise follows two weeks of record low ratings and any rise in ratings is good but for the soap to secure its long-term future the ratings need to continue to rise each week. General Hospital looks increasingly vulnerable especially as it is the last […]

Australian media is reporting that Prisoner: Cell Block H is to be ‘re-imaged’ and remade for a new audience later this year.

Soap Classics will start streaming episodes of defunct soap As The World Turns from today. The episodes of the American daytime soap will be streamed online primarily for fans based in the Netherlands (Holland) and South Africa where the serial has just gone off-air. However, fans from across the world will be able to watch episodes from the Oakdale based […]