Category: Soapworld

TNT’s reboot of Dallas has added two more original stars to its line up as Charlene Tilton and Steve Kanaly both sign up to reprise their respective roles. Dallas fans will be delighted by the news that two more original cast members will be joining the revived oil drama. Charlene Tilton will reprise her role of Lucy Ewing – memorably […]

Veteran soap writer Agnes Nixon has pledged to do everything possible’ to keep All My Children and One Life to Live alive following their cancellation by ABC earlier this week. The two struggling soaps had been rumoured to have been on the verge of cancellation for some time now but no one expected ABC to axe them both – most […]

Actress Katherine Kelly has quit ITV soap Coronation Street after playing Becky McDonald for five years. The actress has decided to quit the soap to try new projects and spend more time with her family and friends. Bosses at the soap have promised the actress a series of explosive storylines in the run up to her exit and are reportedly […]

Stars from prime-time, soap veterans and current cast members have given their reactions to the news that ABC is axing All My Children and One Life to Live. The broadcaster announced – in a big shock – earlier this week that it was dropping the axe on both soaps and replacing them with cheaper programming. While both have been the […]

Channel Four has denied it has any plans to axe its teen soap Hollyoaks but reports reveal the broadcaster is receiving pitches from producers on a possible replacement soap. For most of its existence Hollyoaks has always been under threat of cancellation – that’s if you read the tabloids. The soap was launched in 1995 and was created by Phil […]

Irish actor, Emmett Scanlan – Brendan Brady in Channel 4’s teen-saga Hollyoaks – has won the ‘Best Film Actor Award’ at the prestigious ECU European Independent Film Festival for his performance in Irish film Charlie Casanova. Written, produced and directed by Terry McMahon, Charlie Casanova had its European Premiere in Paris where it was the only Irish film selected for […]

Desperate Housewives actress Brenda Strong has been cast in TNT’s revived Dallas. The actress will play the role of Ann, the new wife of Bobby Ewing (Patrick Duffy) reports TVLINE. Ann will be the third wife of the Ewing heart-throb. When Dallas started, with its mini-series in 1978, Bobby had just married Pamela Barnes (Victoria Principle). The Barnes and Ewing […]

Roger Howarth is to return to ABC soap One Life to Live but will he be reprising his role of Todd Manning? Soap Opera Digest has confirmed that actor Roger Howarth is returning to the soap after much speculation and debate by fans over the past year or so. The actor played Todd Manning on the soap from 1992 to […]

He starred in ATV productions over three decades from The Adventures of Robin Hood to award-winning daytime serial Crossroads for which he is most fondly remembered. In later years he became a regular in the press when commenting about his stepdaughter Heather Mills.   He starred in ATV productions over three decades from The Adventures of Robin Hood to award-winning […]

Coronation Street’s Rula Lenska has spoken on television about her hearing loss, which she only revealed publicly a few days ago to the press. Lenska, who plays hairdresser Claudia Colby in ITV Granada’s flagship serial, spoke on The Alan Titchmarsh Show about her hearing difficulty as part of promoting The Sound Barrier Star Awards that are overseen by Specsavers who […]