Category: Soapworld

ABC has yet to decide the future of its last remaining daytime soap General Hospital. The long-running medical saga, based in the fictional city of Port Charles, faces an uncertain future following the cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live – which finishes its television run this week. Ratings for General Hospital have been lower than OLTL […]

The Dukes of Hazzard actress Catherine Bach is to join the cast of The Young and the Restless. Entertainment Weekly reports the actress will join the cast as Anita, the scheming mother of Chelsea (Melissa Claire Egan). Bach begins filming on The Young and the Restless next week though, as yet, no date has been given for her first on-screen […]

He’s one of the UK’s longest serving soap actors but after 28-years in Pobol y Cwm Gwyn Elfyn is saying farewell to his character of Denzil Rees. The programme launched on BBC Wales in 1974, with a switch to S4C in 1982. Shopkeeper and former farmer Denzil Rees has featured in the programme since 1984. Pobol y Cwm – People […]

The cast of Coronation Street are reportedly up in arms over plans by ITV to move the omnibus edition of the Manchester soap to ITV2 meaning a reduction in their repeat fee’s. The Sun reports that the broadcaster informed the cast of Corrie just before Christmas that it was moving the weekend omnibus edition of the soap from ITV1 which […]

Former All My Children actor Darnwell Williams has signed up for a role on CBS soap The Young and the Restless. TVLine reports the actor has signed up to appear on the CBS soap. The actor’s long-term working partner Debbi Morgan, who he has starred opposite in All My Children, Loving and The City, is currently a cast member on […]

Pat Evans’ death is not going to end with the regular EastEnders sad tune entitled ‘Julia’s theme’ and instead an awful tinkling half-version of the regular tune will air as the episode closes. Wendy Richard was known to ‘tell it like it is’ and give bosses a hard time if she felt her character of Pauline wasn’t going in the […]

The EastEnders opening titles have been updated to feature the Olympic Park in Stratford, East London. The opening titles of EastEnders will feature the Olympic Park from the 1st January in the soaps New Year’s Day episode. The updating of the titles reflects the huge changes that have taken place in Stratford for the 2012 Olympics which London will host […]

Former CBS soap opera Guiding Light is set to be released on DVD with a box-set of 20 episodes available from January. The American soap was the longest running in the world when it came to an end in 2009; it was a staggering 72 years old! Originally launched as The Guiding Light on NBC Radio in 1937 it moved […]

The Cast of Channel 4 teen-soap Hollyoaks peform their own take on the classic Christmas song, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree. The Hollyoaks cast rendition of the song will appear in tomorrow’s Hollyoaks Christmas Music Show which airs at 8.55am on Channel 4’s T4 programming. If you can’t wait you can see it now on the ATV Today player below. […]

Roache, who has played Coronation Street’s Ken Barlow since 1960, has spoken about his spiritual beliefs and how humans will shortly be communicating telepathically. The 79-year-old, currently one of the worlds longest running television actors, gave his predictions in an interview for Sky Television. These glimpses into the future include a host of earthquakes, ­hurricanes, floods and tsunamis to cleanse […]