Category: Soapworld

Anthony Cotton has signed a new contract with ITV soap Coronation Street. The new deal between the actor and the soap means he’ll continue playing Sean Tully until at least 2013. Media reports claim the actor signed the new contract to remain with the ITV soap because bosses feared he would leave after receiving ‘work offers’ elsewhere. “I have signed […]

Former Emmerdale actress Lorraine Chase has returned to Luton Airport to mark an easyJet milestone. The flight operator, which has also been the subject of an ITV docusoap, today celebrated reaching the milestone of flying its 65 millionth passenger from Luton Airport. Lorraine Chase checked in easyJet’s first ever passenger in 1995, who was heading from Luton to Glasgow. The […]

Cynthia Cidre, the executive producer of TNT’s revived Dallas, has revealed a few details about Ken Kercheval’s return to the legendary oil drama. Last week it was revealed – to the delight of original series fans – that Ken Kercheval was heading back to Dallas as Cliff Barnes. The actor joins original cast members Linda Gray, Patrick Duffy and Larry […]

The nominations for this year’s Inside Soap Awards have been announced with the likes of EastEnders, Hollyoaks, Emmerdale and Coronation Street battling it out to see which soap walks away with the most awards. The awards will be handed out to the winners of each category in a ceremony in London on 26th September. Nominated in the Best Actor category […]

Cameron Mathison and Lindsay Hartley have signed deals with new All My Children producers Prospect Park which will see them remain with the soap when it moves online. Prospect Park is in talks with the All My Children cast about remaining on the soap as it moves from ABC to an online based series – though some actors have already […]

Prospect Park has announced it’s signed a deal with Frank Valenti for him to remain as executive producer of One Life to Live when it moves online. Several months ago Prospect Park signed a deal with ABC to continue its cancelled soaps One Life to Live and All My Children online. Since then fans have been awaiting every news report […]

Melody Scott Thomas has signed a new contract with CBS daily saga The Young and the Restless. Fans of the actress and breath a sigh of relief because she’ll continue to play Nikki Newman in a new three year deal with The Young and the Restless. For a while it looked as though the actress may have made her last […]

Cheryl Fergison is being axed from the BBC One soap EastEnders due to fears her character of Heather Trott could become a bore to viewers a newspaper suggests.   Cheryl joined the misery-based soap opera in 2007 in what was initially a short-term character. Nearly five years on the character of Heather has been at the centre of some of […]

British digital channel CBS Drama is to repeat legendary 1980s super-soap Dallas from the very beginning. Dallas will be returning next year for a brand new series featuring original stars such as Linda Gray, Larry Hagman, Ken Kercheval and Patrick Duffy alongside new cast members Brenda Strong and Jessie Metcalf but before then fans will be able to see Dallas […]