Category: Soapworld

Several dozen soap fans protested outside ABC’s upfront presentations over the network’s decision to cancel All My Children and One Life to Live. The disgruntled viewers were there to protest at ABC’s double whammy cancellation of two daily soap operas. According to The Hollywood Reporter around 30 fans took part in the protest outside the presentations – possibly meaning ABC […]

Former Hollyoaks actress Gemma Atkinson is to join BBC One’s medical drama Casualty as a new paramedic. The actress played Lisa Hunter in Hollyoaks and spin-offs such as Hollyoaks: In The City. Also joining the cast of the medical drama will be Spooks actor Dhafer L’Abidine. Actress Gemma Atkinson is pulling on a high visibility jacket and packing her medical […]

A third volume of episodes of Emmerdale Farm is to be released on DVD. The third volume, released once more by Network DVD, will contain 32 episodes from 1973 – the second year that Emmerdale Farm was on air. The Yorkshire soap launched in 1972 as a daytime drama revolving around the farming Sugden family and the residents of the […]

Rula Lenska is to leave Coronation Street according to tabloid reports. The Sun claims the actress has already filmed her final scenes as the glamorous Claudia Colby; a friend of Audrey Roberts (Sue Nicholls) and rival salon owner. Her departure from the soap is being lined up to allow Audrey and Marc Selby (Andrew Hall) to become a couple. Currently […]

Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar has said she is “very upset” by the axing of daytime soap All My Children. While the actress is probably still best known for her role on Buffy the Vampire Slayer she had a two year stint in AMC in the 1990s. Sarah Michelle Gellar has said she’s “very upset” at the cancellation of daytime soap […]

All My Children star Susan Lucci, the last remaining original cast member, is to take on another role in the ABC soap in the coming months before its finale following its cancellation. The actress plays diva Erica Kane, a long-term Pine Valley resident, but in a new twist before the soap finishes in September the actress will take on another […]

Fan favourite Thorsten Kaye will return to ABC’s cancelled soap All My Children for its final months to reprise his role of Zach Slater. The actor exited the ABC soap only last year when  his character was seemingly killed off in a plane crash. Thorsten had been part of the All My Children cast for six years but his exit […]

Its that time of the year again when The British (TV) Soap Awards gives the worthy of the world of saga a gong for their achievements. Let’s take a look at the 2011 nominations. ITV state that “Entries from the five biggest soaps are eligible – Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks”. Although Corrie, and William Roache, regularly, state […]