Category: Soapworld

Emmerdale producer Stuart Blackburn has dismissed media reports claiming the soap is planning a live episode to mark its 40th anniversary. The Yorkshire soap will mark its 40th birthday next year and media reports claim the soap was planning to air a special live episode – possibly with big stunts – to mark the occasion. The move, reports claimed, was […]

Actress Leslie Charleson is heading back to ABC’s daytime soap General Hospital. The news comes just weeks after Garin Wolf appointment as the daily saga’s new head-writer and signals that the Quartermaines may be about to regain their central position in Port Charles. Soapcentral.com are reporting that Charleson is to return to General Hospital as Monica Quartermaine – six months […]

Dallas actors Larry Hagman and Linda Gray – who have recently reprised their roles on Dallas for a new TNT pilot – have reunited once more for an advert for the airline Qantas. The Sun reports the two – who played husband and wife J.R Ewing and Sue Ellen – are fronting the adverts for the new route between Sydney […]

This week is National Carers Week and so we thought it was a good time to look at the Crossroads Care charity which was founded by ITV and ATV in 1973 after a storyline in the Midland serial, Crossroads. Crossroads Care (caring for carers) is now the biggest respite charity in the world. Barbara Rudge of the Birmingham branch tells […]

It’s been confirmed that Nicola Stapleton is to reprise her role of Mandy Salter on EastEnders. The actress originally appeared in the BBC soap between 1992 and 1994 but after an absence of 17 years will return to Albert Square. Mandy was never popular with the resident of Walford and her return will sure cause plenty of drama as doubtless […]

As expected ABC has signed a deal with Katie Couric which would give her a new chat-show that would launch in 2012 in General Hospital’s time-slot. That news has left fans of the medical soap fearing for its future but is it necessarily the end for the daily saga? For its part ABC has said it continues to “support” General […]

Larry Hagman has said its ‘amazing’ to be working back on Dallas. The actor has reprised his role of scheming J.R Ewing for the new TNT pilot. The pilot is a continuation of the original 1980s super-soap focusing on the next generation of the Ewing family but original stars Patrick Duffy, Linda Gray and Hagman have all returned to reprise […]

Actress Crystal Chappell has confirmed she is leave NBC soap Days of our Lives. The actress confirmed, via Twitter, that she was being written out of the daily saga. Chappell plays fan favourite Carly Manning reprising the role in 2009. The actress also confirmed the decision to write her out of Days of our Lives was not taken by the […]

Actress Brenda Strong has stressed TNT’s new Dallas pilot is a continuation of the original series and not a remake. The Desperate Housewives actress plays Ann, the new wife of Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) in the pilot. The revived Dallas focuses on the next ‘generation’ of the Ewing family and Ewing Oil; John Ross and Christopher – the sons of […]