Category: Soapworld

According to tabloid newspaper The Mirror filming for the final episodes of rural cop-drama Heartbeat has begun. Tabloid newspaper The Mirror is reporting that filming for the final episodes of 60’s based cop-drama Heartbeat is underway. The paper claims that scenes for the final episode have begun shooting on location in the Yorkshire village of Goathland which stands in for […]

EastEnders star Nina Wadia has revealed that her character was intended to be the new Pauline Fowler. Wadia who plays the matriarch of the Masood family, Zainab, in the Walford soap explained how her character was earmarked as the soap’s new matiarch from the outset. “That was in my brief on my first day: Zainab is the Pauline Fowler of […]

Sue Jenkins and Tom Watt, two well-known faces from the world of soap, join the cast of BBC One Daytime award-winning drama Doctors to guest star in an episode to be shown this July. Sue Jenkins and Tom Watt, no strangers to the world of soap, are to guest-star in an episode of BBC One’s daytime soap Doctors this summer. […]

EastEnders has come top in three lists in a recent poll conducted by MSN entertainment. The show’s Stacey and Jack Branning both topped the list for characters we were mostly likely to switch on the TV to see, while Danielle Jones’s recent controversial death earlier this month was voted the best soap death. Celebrity editor Colleen Last said “Despite the […]

Actress Ayesha Dharker has finished filming with ITV soap Coronation Street after six months in her role of Tara Mandal – girlfriend of schemer Dev Alahan. After just six months with Coronation Street actress Ayesha Dharker will make her final appearance in the ITV soap next month as her character of Tara Mandal, girlfriend of scheming Dev Alahan [Jimmi Harkishin]. […]

EastEnders‘ actress Charlie Brooks who recently returned to the BBC1 soap has signed up to star as her character Janine for another year. Brooks left EastEnders in 2004 to “pursue other projects” and announced she was pregnant shortly afterwards. She was initially tempted back to to the show in early 2008 for a special week’s worth of episodes dubbed Frank […]

Former Emmerdale actor Ben Freeman is still keen to reprise his role with the ITV1 soap. The star who played Scott Windsor between 1998 and 2007 was dropped from the soap in December 2007 following a rape charge in Barbados. He was eventually cleared of rape in October last year and has reportedly since met with Emmerdale bosses to discuss […]

Ashes to Ashes star Marshall Lancaster is set to make a return to Coronation Street this summer. The actor will reprise his role as Becky Granger’s wayward ex-boyfriend slug and will return to filming at the soap’s studios in Manchester in a few weeks time. “I’m going back for a bit longer this time. The opportunity for him to come […]

Fans of axed American soap opera Guiding Light have started an on-line petition to save the world’s longest running soap opera. Fans of axed CBS soap Guiding Light have joined forces and started a petition to save the soap. Earlier this month it was announced that CBS had decided to cancel the series due to declining ratings, which have been […]

Comedian Tim Vine has filmed a cameo appearance in Aussie soap Neighbours. Currently in Australia for the Melbourne International Comedy Festival, Vine stopped by the Neighbours studios on Monday to film the brief cameo role and described it as a “dream come true.” “Mum and dad are absolutely huge fans of the show, so I’m hoping they’ll just be watching […]