It’s with much sadness that we report recent soap opera news regarding ABC daytime actress Susan Lucci.
Susan Lucci’s role as Erica Kane I’m ABC’s All My Children is one of the most famously known roles in television history.
General Hospital news and spoilers reveal Susan Lucci is suffering the lose of her husband of 53 years. A representative of the family stated, “A family man, he was a loyal friend, and loved them deeply,” describing Huber (84).
Susan and her family are in our thoughts and prayers.
The General Hospital cast frequently gives reason for GH comings and goings news to keep circulating around the actors and actress that come and go. It’s not so much a revolving door, but there is definitely a lot of traffic when it comes to new roles being introduced, while other characters GH fans have grown to love say their goodbyes.
Back in early Spring, General Hospital Blog reported on GH related news regarding the latest GH comings and goings. General Hospital news reports confirmed that All My Children star, Cameron Mathison, would be joining the cast of GH.
Back in April 5th, Mathison wasn’t able to share who he would be playing with fans due to the fact that he himself didn’t know. General Hospital spoilers reveal Mathison has been let in on important yet confidential information regarding his new role.
General Hospital news and spoilers reveal Mathison disclosed he is currently in Canada working on a Hallmark movie. In a podcast episode of, That’s Awesome! with future co-stars, Steve Burton and Bradford Anderson, “I’m up in Canada,” Cameron continued, “I’m about to shoot a Hallmark movie. I’ll be back in early June.” Steve Burton asked Mathison some questions about the details of his new role. When questioned about his start date, Mathison revealed that he didn’t know much fan’s burning questions. He told Burton, “I’m trying to figure that all out,” I knew zero. I didn’t even know character name. I’m not even kidding. Zero until two days ago. Two days ago I found out some information. I can’t tell you. I’m very excited.”
It looks as though Cameron has been sworn to secrecy on the identity of his character. But we will keep fans up to date on any information that is released.
General Hospital news reports have confirmed some very exciting news for ABC soap fans!
Cameron Mathison is well k own for his iconic role on ABC’s All My Children, joining back in 1998. Mathison, played Ryan Lavery until the daytime drama’s cancellation back in 2011.
General Hospital spoilers and GH comings and goings reveal Mathison will join the cast of GH, however, there has not been any spoilers revealing the details of the character or when Mathison is set to make his debut appearance on General Hospital.
General Hospital Blog will keep fans up to date on any follow up news regarding the details of Mathison’s new deal with ABC and GH.
General Hospital news previously reported the latest soap opera news surrounding the revival of the legendary daytime drama, All My Children.
General Hospital spoilers revealed earlier this year, that GH fan favorite, Bryan Craig, wanted to return to work. He called out General Hospital on social media, making the show aware of his interest in returning. After news broke yesterday that All My Children was in the early development stages of a prime time rival, Bryan Craig replied to a tweet from Variety.
Former AMC stars, Kelly Ripa and husband, Mark Consuelos, are behind the production of this new prime time series that has been named after the AMC town, Pine Valley. Ripa and Consuelos played Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos prominently in the 90s.
General Hospital rumors have been circulating around the possibility of Craig to return to General Hospital as Morgan Corinthos, son of the all powerful and important, Sonny Corinthos (Maurice Benard). GH fans reacted to Craig’s public interest in joining the new cast of AMC.
While some fans would take Bryan on their screen any way they can, many were opposed to him joining AMC, only wanting him to return to GH as Morgan.
For decades, ABC Network was the home for three major Soap Operas that became household names in America. Now, ABC is down to one daytime drama, General Hospital. On September 2nd, 2013, ABC’s All My Children came to an end after One Life To Live left the air on January 13th, 2012.
Major news has just been announced regarding the revival of the iconic Daytime Drama, All My Children. Soap opera news reports a new development in the works that will have General Hospital, All My Children, and One Life To Live fans rejoicing. The soap opera genre has been surviving off of one lasting show, as GH is in its 57th on air.
All My Children’s Kelly Ripa and husband, Mark Consuelos are developing a prime time version of the drama and will be titled after the infamous town, “Pine Valley.” Celebrity news reports this show is in the early stages of development.
After winning back the rights to the characters names from Prospect Studios, ABC now owns the rights to both AMC as well as OLTL. Rumors of their revival have bounced around throughout the last 7 years, and some projects were developed for web series audience, however, nothing really took off.
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos head up production for this new prime time project, but there is no word on whether or not they will appear as actors in the new series. In the 1990s, Ripa and Consuelos had large roles on AMC as Hayley Vaughan and Mateo Santos.
This is extremely exciting news for AMC and soap opera fans in general. When AMC and OLTL came to an end, many fans had a difficult time adjusting to life without this staple as part of their day. Now we have the chance to experience all the drama and excitement again!
Are you happy to hear this breaking news surrounding the soap genre?
Andy Cohen is under-fire for insensitive comments made during Prime-time special on the entire Soap Opera genre. “The Story of Soaps,” aired on Tuesday night with Andy Cohen as an interviewee. Cohen recently took to Twitter to respond to backlash he is receiving from Soap Opera actors, crew, and fans alike. In response Cohen states, “I went to the interview as a soap fan prepped to talk soaps, and they asked about reality tv and I answered their questions. Sue me!”
In Tuesday night’s special, Cohen name dropped the legendary Susan Lucci, best known for her role as Erica Kane, in the iconic Daytime Drama, All My Children. Cohen says, “I know (Susan) Lucci doesn’t agree with me, but I think that the Housewives have replaced soap operas because truth is stranger than fiction. Soaps became kind of unnecessary because you could do it with real people, and they’re writing the drama themselves.” Twitter has been explosive with all the comments from soap fans, angrily tweeted about the utter disrespect for the genre. Fans are calling him the ‘biggest soap villain’ referencing the notorious daytime plots containing token bad guys. General Hosputal’s Wally Kurth, who plays Ned Ashton and Laura Wright, aka, Carly Corinthos, weighed in on Twitter in a response to Soap Journalist, Carolyn Hinsey.
So true Caroline. Too much talk about reality TV. And didn’t NBC try a Housewives of Atlanta and fail?
In September of 2003, the iconic AMC Daytime Soap, All My Children was cancelled. It was an end of an era for many, yet Soap Opera fans still clung on to their other favorite daytime shows that were still standing. The actors moved on and their characters played will live on in some way or another.
Recent General Hospital news and spoilers indicate a possible arrival for AMC star Vincent Izizarry to bring the character, David Hayward to General Hospital. The actor told Soaps In Depth, that he is open to bringing this character to a new town, that town being, Port Charles.
General Hospital‘s Finola Huges (Anna Devane) has a long history of co-starring along side Izizzary, and General Hospital spoilers and rumors from fans have been swirling, making it known that bringing Izizarry and Hughes together again is on their radar.
General Hospital Blog will keep fans posted on any new information regarding Vincent Izizarry joining the cast of GH.
DAYS OF OUR LIVES — Pictured: “Days of our Lives” color logo — NBC Photo
Yesterday, November 12th, Soap Opera Breaking News took the soap fandom by storm as the biggest announcement in recent years regarding the soap world was published. It has been confirmed that the entire cast of NBC‘s Days of Our Lives has been released from their contracts.
So you’re probably wondering, what does this mean? Well, it means that all the actors, and the entire staff (lighting, music, etc.) are free to go out and seek new work. They are no longer bound to their contracts, as now DOOL is on indefinite hiatus.
The show is taped about 8 months in advance and it has been reported, there are enough episodes to take the soap opera through Summer. Hopefully by then, the network and show executives will have come up with a solution to keep the nation’s longest running soap opera in production. Lower salaries for the cast has been mentioned as a requirement if the soap does return.
What does this mean for ABC‘s General Hospital? General Hospital is ABC‘s only surviving Daytime Drama after the cancellation of All My Children (ended 2013) and One Life to Live (ended 2012).
Thankfully, DOOL is on an entirely different television network than that of GH, which is on ABC. If it is a cost issue within the network, it doesn’t have anything to do with the status of ABC‘s, General Hospital. There is always a chance the network could follow suit and try something like this to cut costs. There has been no word of this happening to General Hospital over at ABC.
General Hospital Blog will keep fans updated on the status of DOOL. Stay tuned to General Hospital! We cannot lose our show!
This is one piece of General Hospital news that has been kept under wraps. Shocking General Hospital spoiler reveals that All My Children’s Rebecca Budig, who played Greenlee Smythe from 1999-2011. She was a fan favorite, and even in her time away from AMC, she was missed tremendously by fans, and the actress returned to Pine Valley to reprise her role.
General Hospital Executive Producer, Frank Valentini revealed via Twitter, that Rebecca Budig will be joining the cast of General Hospital.
Valentini asks fan to join him and Head Writer, Ron Carlivati, in welcoming Ms. Budig to the cast!
Are you excited to see this ABC soap vet back on screen? Let us know what you think of this casting decision.
There has been an ongoing battle between the production company that is re-launching the online soaps All My Children and One Life to Live with ABC. News reports today stated that Prospect Park is suing ABC for 25 million dollars over the licensing agreement they had with ABC regarding the actors and character names from All My Children and One Life to Live. The main issues were heated in previous months regarding the status of the three OLTL characters General Hospital “borrowed” from Prospect Park. After the announcement last week that Kristen Alderson (ex-Starr Manning), Michael Easton (ex-John McBain/Caleb Morley/Stephen Clay), and Roger Howarth (ex-Todd Manning) would be returning to GH May 10th 2013, most likely as new characters, the situation went up in flames. Prospect Park claims that the agreement stated that ABC could borrow seven OLTL characters for General Hospital to keep them employed and appear sparingly on GH.
Prospect Park has filed a breach of contract lawsuit against ABC, complaining that they have broken the licensing agreement and have been trying to sabotage the production process for the AMC and OLTL online series. Prospect Park claims that “in the ultimate act of bad faith, ABC inexplicably killed off two OLTL characters on loan to GH by having their car forced off a cliff. ABC effectively killed off another major OLTL character, who was not licensed to ABC, revealing that this long standing OLTL character is in fact another character (alter ego) on GH.”
Prospect Park accuses an ABC executive of openly wishing All My Children and One Life to Live’s relaunch to fail.
The process of the lawsuit and Prospect Park’s request to go to trial with have no baring on the launch date for these two online soaps. They remain to launch next week, April 29th, 2013.
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