Category: Soapworld

Back in Feburary Sir Robin Wales, local mayor of Newham, suggested the BBC should spend some licence fee on updating the EastEnders titles – despite the current ones only launching in late 2009. Sir Robin wanted to see some of the London 2012 Olympic landmarks placed on the “iconic” opening titles. EastEnders have according to the Sunday Express come up […]

Actress Cady McClain is likely to reprise her role of Dixie Cooney on ABC soap All My Children before its finale in September. Reports from America claim the actress is likely to head back to Pine Valley once more in the coming months. If the reports are true it’ll be the first returned to the soap to be announced since […]

CBS’s daytime soap The Bold and the Beautiful has won an award for a cancer storyline. The storyline featured the soaps domineering matriarch Stephanie Forrester (Susan Flannery) discover she had stage 4 lung cancer. The storyline started to play out last year on The Bold and the Beautiful and continued across the year into 2011 and followed the character’s initial […]

The hot weather on Sunday evening seriously damaged ratings for Coronation Street as the ITV soap dropped below 6 million viewers. There was a time when Coronation Street aired on Sundays but those days are long over and the soap only very occasionally now airs at the weekend. Yesterday’s ‘special edition’ of the soap for Easter saw the brief return […]

Fans of classic ITV ‘medical soaps’ produced by ATV are in for a treat as the adventures of the Oxbridge General Hospital and The Midland General are aired by the BFI in London next month.   Britain’s first medical serial, Emergency Ward Ten – famous for giving Richard Thorp, now Alan Turner in Emmerdale, his earliest television role – forms part […]

Susan Lucci has said she’s “very sad, very disappointed” at the cancellation of All My Children by ABC. Lucci has played diva Erica Kane on the ABC daytime soap since its launch in 1970 and is the only original cast member remaining on the serial. The soap along with One Life to Live (the two soaps were both created by […]

Oprah Winfrey, who recently launched her own network, has told fans of cancelled ABC soaps All My Children and One Life to Live that she can’t and won’t save them. Last week ABC sent shockwaves through soap fandom in America by axing not one but two soaps in one go – just weeks after denying it had plans to axe […]

Hoover has reportedly pulled its adverts from ABC in reaction to the broadcasters cancellation of All My Children and One Life to Live. When advertisers decide to pull their products from a broadcaster its usually the result of intense lobbying by unhappy conservatives over some controversy. It’s fairly rare that an advertiser should make such a move over a cancellation […]